Biography & Memoir Book Summaries - Page 2

Lady Sings the Blues

Billie Holiday with William Dufty

Lady Sings the Blues

The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography

Letters to a Young Athlete

Chris Bosh

Letters to a Young Athlete

An NBA Champion's Hard-Earned Wisdom on the Road to Self-Mastery

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Haruki Murakami

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

A memoir about running and writing

Man’s Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl

Man’s Search for Meaning

The harrowing experiences of the author in a concentration camp

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild

An unflinching account of the extraordinary life and death of Christopher McCandless

Becoming Beauvoir

Kate Kirkpatrick

Becoming Beauvoir

A Life

House of Gucci

Sara Gay Forden

House of Gucci

A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Alex Haley, Malcolm X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

As told to Alex Haley

Warren Buffett's Ground Rules

Jeremy C. Miller

Warren Buffett's Ground Rules

Words of Wisdom from the Partnership Letters of the World’s Greatest Investor

The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

The Year of Magical Thinking

Lessons of loss

For Small Creatures Such as We

Sasha Sagan

For Small Creatures Such as We

Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World

Uncanny Valley

Anna Wiener

Uncanny Valley

A Memoir

Be Where Your Feet Are

Scott O'Neil

Be Where Your Feet Are

Seven Principles to Keep You Present, Grounded, and Thriving

IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD

Russ

IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD

Get out of your way

Faith, Hope and Carnage

Nick Cave, Seán O'Hagan

Faith, Hope and Carnage

A Meditation on Faith, Art, Music, Freedom, Grief, and Love

Empire of Pain

Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain

The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

The Warmth of Other Suns

Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns

The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

We Are Displaced

Malala Yousafzai

We Are Displaced

My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

The 2015 National Book Award Winner is a deep look at being black in America today

Wuhan Diary

Fang Fang

Wuhan Diary

Dispatches from a Quarantined City

Can’t Hurt Me

David Goggins

Can’t Hurt Me

Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

Things No One Else Can Teach Us

Humble the Poet

Things No One Else Can Teach Us

Turning Losses Into Lessons

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

How one woman's cells changed scientific thinking forever.

Genius

James Gleick

Genius

The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

The Man Who Solved the Market

Gregory Zuckerman

The Man Who Solved the Market

How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

In Order to Live

Yeonmi Park

In Order to Live

A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

American Lion

Jon Meacham

American Lion

Andrew Jackson in the White House

Reagan

H. W. Brands

Reagan

The Life