Best Autobiographies/Memoirs Books

Lab Girl: A Memoir

$12.99

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity, humility, and passion that drive every scientist.

Letters

$14.99

One of The New Statesman’s Best Books of the Year
One of Kirkus Reviews’ Best Nonfiction Books of 2024
One of The New Yorker’s ‘Best Books We’ve Read in 2024 So Far’

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • The letters of one of the greatest observers of the human species, revealing his passion for life and work, friendship and art, medicine and society, and the richness of his relationships with friends, family, and fellow intellectuals over the decades, collected here for the first time

“Here is the unedited Oliver Sacks—struggling, passionate, a furiously intelligent misfit. And also endless interesting. He was a man like no other.” —Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal

Licking the Knife: A memoir

$9.99

At 45, Lucky finally feels like she has achieved her dreams – a lovely life with a successful career, beautiful son, adoring husband, two dogs and house in the ‘burbs.

But when Lucky’s mother and 100-year-old grandfather violently attack her home, it sends her spiraling out of control.

Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents

$17.99

From the New York Times bestselling presidential biographer comes the greatest untold story of the Civil War: how two American presidents faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the balance—and how Abraham Lincoln came to embrace emancipation as the last, best chance to save the Union. 

Little Vic and the Great Mafia War

$14.54

From award-winning New York Daily News reporter Larry McShane, the gritty, bloody, first definite biography of one of the Mafia’s deadliest contenders for boss, “Little Vic” Orena, who battled it out in the streets with Carmine “The Snake” Persico for control of the Colombo Family and triggered the bloodiest Mafia war of our times . . .

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

$13.99

“A true-crime masterpiece.” Don Winslow

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways, revealing the FBI Highway Serial Killings Initiative’s hunt for the long-haul truckers behind an astonishing 850 murders–and counting.

Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live

$14.99

The definitive biography of Lorne Michaels, the man behind America’s most beloved comedy show

Over the fifty years that Lorne Michaels has been at the helm of Saturday Night Live, he has become a revered and inimitable presence in the entertainment world. He’s a tastemaker, a mogul, a withholding father figure, a genius spotter of talent, a shrewd businessman, a name-dropper, a raconteur, the inspiration for Dr.