Best Biography and Memoir Recommendations

Settle in for serious sagas.

Powerful stories from those who have been there.

Add some nonfiction to your TBR list.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

There’s no arguing with the NYT list. 

“By writing to Richard and addressing him in the second person present, I felt close to him again. Through those words he is once again alive.”

Celebrities are just like us…sort of. 

Everything comes with a price.

“I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none.” —Shakespeare

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.” —Roald Dahl 

Meet the men and women behind the curtain.

From catty, low-class writers to the dirty dogs of the elite, society is a zoo. 

Read an excerpt from Iris Apfel’s memoir that is just as authentic and vivacious as she was.

"I have no intention of being a footnote in someone else’s life.” —Martha Gellhorn, on her relationship with Ernest Hemingway

These directors are excellent storytellers, in any medium.

Stoic philosophy is not just for ancient philosophers. 

These picks are definitely “read by the fireplace” worthy. 

Introduce your kids to real heroes.

The controversial Christian author defied categorization.

Go beyond the headlines.