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The most-recommended biographies & memoirs titles in our index, ranked by how many people recommend each.
- 24 people
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman · 2018
24 recommenders
- 19 people
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Bill Browder · 2015
19 recommenders
- 15 people
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre · 2018
15 recommenders
- 11 people
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Gregory Zuckerman · 2019
11 recommenders
- 9 people
Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
Brent Schlender · 2015
9 recommenders
- 9 people
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road
Nick Bilton · 2017
9 recommenders
- 8 people
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed · 2012
8 recommenders
- 7 people
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000
Lee Kuan Yew · 2000
7 recommenders
- 7 people
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
William Finnegan · 2015
7 recommenders
- 7 people
A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
Brian Grazer · 2015
7 recommenders
- 6 people
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Jonathan Freedland · 2022
6 recommenders
- 6 people
Out of Africa (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)
Isak Dinesen · 1992
6 recommenders
- 5 people
Sell It Like Serhant: How to Sell More, Earn More, and Become the Ultimate Sales Machine
Ryan Serhant · 2019
5 recommenders
- 5 people
The Reason I Jump: One Boy's Voice from the Silence of Autism
Naoki Higashida, translated by David Mitchell and Keiko Yoshida · 2013
5 recommenders
- 5 people
I Love Capitalism!: An American Story
Ken Langone · 2018
5 recommenders
- 5 people
The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
Amanda Palmer · 2014
5 recommenders
- 4 people
Vignette: Stories Of Life And Wine In 100 Bottles
Jane Lopes · 2019
4 recommenders
- 4 people
Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
Muhammad Yunus · 1999
4 recommenders
- 4 people
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Eric Berger · 2021
4 recommenders
- 4 people
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Mira Jacob · 2019
4 recommenders
- 4 people
Here, Right Matters: An American Story
Alexander Vindman · 2021
4 recommenders
- 4 people
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot · 2010
4 recommenders
- 4 people
The Black Jacobins;: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
C. L. R. James · 1989
4 recommenders
- 3 people
Mao: The Unknown Story
Jon Halliday & Jung Chang · 2006
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
Mitch Albom · 2019
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Little Big Things: The Inspirational Memoir of the Year
Henry Fraser · 2018
3 recommenders
- 3 people
What Do You Care What Other People Think: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman · 2008
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close
Aminatou Sow · 2020
3 recommenders
- 3 people
In-N-Out Burger: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain That Breaks All the Rules
Stacy Perman · 2009
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
Dan Lyons · 2016
3 recommenders
- 3 people
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
John Wooden · 1997
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Dave Grohl · 2021
3 recommenders
- 3 people
From the Ground Up: A Journey to Reimagine the Promise of America
Howard Schultz · 2019
3 recommenders
- 3 people
The Harder You Work, the Luckier You Get: An Entrepreneur's Memoir
Joe Ricketts · 2019
3 recommenders
- 2 people
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, Updated Edition
David Bornstein · 2007
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Unstoppable: From Underdog to Undefeated: How I Became a Champion
Anthony Robles · 2012
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Inside Trump's White House: The Real Story of His Presidency
Doug Wead · 2019
2 recommenders
- 2 people
A New Way to Age: The Most Cutting-Edge Advances in Antiaging
Suzanne Somers · 2020
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Inside Voice: My Obsession with How We Sound
Lake Bell
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow (New Black Studies Series)
Tyrone McKinley Freeman · 2020
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Long Way
Bernard Moitessier, translated by William Rodarmor · 1995
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
William Kamkwamba · 2009
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
Jonathan Sperber · 2013
2 recommenders
- 2 people
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
Marc Randolph · 2019
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love
Mike Pompeo · 2023
2 recommenders
- 2 people
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
David Foster Wallace · 1997
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure
VILLANI Cédric · 2016
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic
Steven Johnson · 2006
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Man Who Fed the World: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Norman Borlaug and His Battle to End World Hunger
Hesser Hesser · 2006
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club
Simon Kuper · 2021
2 recommenders
- 2 people
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game
Michael Lewis · 2007
2 recommenders
- 2 people
Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour
Lynne Olson · 2010
2 recommenders
