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Lives and Memoirs

First-hand accounts and biographies of people worth several hundred pages.

24 books in this list

Every title on this shelf is a real biography or memoir already held in the catalogue.

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Biography & Memoir

Educated

by Tara Westover

A woman raised off-grid in Idaho, who first set foot in a classroom at seventeen and kept going to Cambridge.

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Biography & Memoir

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl

A psychiatrist's account of the camps, and the therapy he built from what he observed there.

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Biography & Memoir

Becoming

by Michelle Obama

From the South Side of Chicago to the White House, told in her own voice.

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Biography & Memoir

Into the Wild

by Jon Krakauer

Chris McCandless gave away his savings and walked into the Alaskan interior.

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Biography & Memoir

The Wright Brothers

by David McCullough

Two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, and the four years that ended with flight.

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The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank

Two years in a hidden annexe in Amsterdam, written by a teenager who wanted to be a writer.

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