home
books
Categories
fiction
health & fitness
science & nature
non-fiction
technology
design
Featured books
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg
The Lessons of History
Will & Ariel Durant
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig
How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christensen
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The Martian
Andy Weir
Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey A. Moore
Super Pumped
Mike Isaac
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro
The Martian
Andy Weir
The Elephant in the Brain
Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Superforecasting
Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner
The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Most Important Thing Illuminated
Howard Marks
High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
Drive
Daniel Pink
view all categories
explore all books
people
Industries
technology
education
venture capital
writing
science
media
Featured people
Gary Vaynerchuk
Satya Nadella
Girish Mathrubootham
Hugh Jackman
Lex Fridman
Aubrey Marcus
Coleen Baik
Joe Biden
Samin Nosrat
Travis Kalanick
Cal Newport
Emily Ratajkowski
Yuval Noah Harari
Jason Fried
Ben Horowitz
Coleen Baik
Mike Shinoda
Matt Mullenweg
Jessica Livingston
Sadia Badiei
Winston Churchill
view all industries
explore all people
lists
series
top 100
blog
books
view all
all categories
arts & entertainment
biographies & memoirs
business & management
design
economics & politics
fiction
health & fitness
history
money & investing
non-fiction
philosophy
poetry
psychology
science & nature
self improvement
spirituality & religion
technology
top 100 books
view all
fiction
non-fiction
people
view all
all industries
crypto
activism
hospitality
education
photography
marketing
film
comedy
journalism
design
venture capital
technology
sport
science
politics
music
media
investing
modelling
entrepreneurship
writing
entertainment
featured
Samin Nosrat
Max Levchin
James Cameron
Maria Sharapova
Whitney Wolfe Herd
Joe Rogan
Jocko Willink
Michael Pollan
Esther Dyson
Chris Sacca
Cal Newport
Zoë Foster Blake
Andrew Grove
Marissa Mayer
Diana Kimball
Stephen Dubner
Steven Pressfield
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Satya Nadella
Meg Whitman
Josh Waitzkin
Dustin Moskovitz
Naval Ravikant
Vitalik Buterin
lists
curated book lists
series
book series in order
blog
the reading journal
missing something?
submit
instagram
facebook
twitter
hi@goodbooks.io
biographies & memoirs
Discover the best biographies & memoirs books recommended by the world's most successful and interesting people.
filter by category
All bios & memoir books
47 people
47 people
47 person
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
33 people
33 people
33 person
Principles
Ray Dalio
31 people
31 people
31 person
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
27 people
27 people
27 person
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
25 people
25 people
25 person
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
19 people
19 people
19 person
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
18 people
18 people
18 person
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Richard P. Feynman
15 people
15 people
15 person
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
14 people
14 people
14 person
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
14 people
14 people
14 person
The Ride of a Lifetime
Robert Iger
13 people
13 people
13 person
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
11 people
11 people
11 person
The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
11 people
11 people
11 person
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull
11 people
11 people
11 person
The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh
10 people
10 people
10 person
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
10 people
10 people
10 person
Einstein
Walter Isaacson
10 people
10 people
10 person
Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
9 people
9 people
9 person
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
9 people
9 people
9 person
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
9 people
9 people
9 person
Can't Hurt Me
David Goggins
9 people
9 people
9 person
Only the Paranoid Survive
Andrew Grove
8 people
8 people
8 person
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
8 people
8 people
8 person
Becoming Steve Jobs
Brent Schlender
8 people
8 people
8 person
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
1 / 43
Filter by category
All books
arts & entertainment
biographies & memoirs
business & management
design
economics & politics
fiction
health & fitness
history
money & investing
non-fiction
philosophy
poetry
psychology
science & nature
self improvement
spirituality & religion
technology
Featured books in biographies & memoirs
47 people
47 people
47 person
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
33 people
33 people
33 person
Principles
Ray Dalio
31 people
31 people
31 person
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
27 people
27 people
27 person
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
25 people
25 people
25 person
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
19 people
19 people
19 person
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
18 people
18 people
18 person
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Richard P. Feynman
15 people
15 people
15 person
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
14 people
14 people
14 person
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
14 people
14 people
14 person
The Ride of a Lifetime
Robert Iger
13 people
13 people
13 person
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
11 people
11 people
11 person
The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
11 people
11 people
11 person
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull
11 people
11 people
11 person
The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh
10 people
10 people
10 person
Bird by Bird
Anne Lamott
explore all books
Featured people
Ana Fabrega
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Ta-Nehisi Coates
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Rana el Kaliouby
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Mario Gabriele
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Stephen Dubner
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Kevin Kelly
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Nigella Lawson
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Peter Attia
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Cal Newport
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Sophie Bakalar
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Yuval Noah Harari
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Whitney Wolfe Herd
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
explore all people
Recently added books
The Creative Act
Rick Rubin
What We Owe the Future
William MacAskill
Scorecard Marketing
Daniel Priestley
The Art and Business of Online Writing
Nicolas Cole
The 3 Alarms
Eric Partaker
Beyond Wealth
Alexander Green
Someday Is Today
Matthew Dicks
The Pathless Path
Paul Millerd
The Plague
Albert Camus
The Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
Trauma
Paul Conti
Jaws
Sandra Kahn, Paul R. Ehrlich
The Nature of the Beast
David J. Anderson
The Secret Pulse of Time
Stefan Klein
VC
Tom Nicholas
explore all books
There is nothing quite like ignorance combined with a driving need to succeed to force rapid learning.
Ed Catmull
Try Audible Premium Plus and Get Up to Two Free Audiobooks
Check it out
