Best Autobiographies/Memoirs Books

The Many Lives of Anne Frank (Jewish Lives)

$14.99

A revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diary

“Trenchant. . . . An essential look at the diarist’s legacy.”—Publishers Weekly

In this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929–1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of her years in hiding, now translated into more than seventy languages, is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust.

The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.: A Biography

$14.99

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An electrifying cultural biography of the greatest and last American rock band of the millennium, whose music ignited a generation—and reasserted the power of rock and roll

“[Carlin’s] unique gift for capturing the sweep and tenor of a cultural moment…is here on brilliant display.” —Michael Chabon

The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention

$12.99

“A funny, seasoned take on dashed illusions.”O Magazine 

“I love everything Meredith Maran writes. She is insightful, funny, and human, and the things she writes about matter to me deeply. Her memoir, The New Old Me, is a book I don’t just want to read—I need to read it. So does everyone else who’s getting older and wants to live fully, with immediacy and enjoyment, which is to say, everyone.”—Anne Lamott, author of Hallelujah Anyway

The Paris Girl: The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero

$14.28

Movingly written by her own daughter, this captivating and intimate biography chronicles the astonishing courage Andrée Griotteray, a teenage girl in Nazi-occupied Paris who would become a hero of the French Resistance through her harrowing work as an underground intelligence courier. For readers of Three Ordinary Girls, A Woman of No Importance, Lis Parisiennes, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line, and the many other untold stories of WWII’s “hidden figures.”