home
books
Categories
science & nature
business & management
technology
biographies & memoirs
health & fitness
non-fiction
Featured books
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
Atomic Habits
James Clear
The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
The Most Important Thing Illuminated
Howard Marks
How To Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
The Snowball
Alice Schroeder
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
Super Pumped
Mike Isaac
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi
Let My People Go Surfing
Yvon Chouinard
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
The Gene
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey A. Moore
The War of Art
Steven Pressfield
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
Measure What Matters
John Doerr
view all categories
explore all books
people
Industries
technology
venture capital
media
writing
education
science
Featured people
Michelle Obama
Emma Chamberlain
Seth Godin
Peter Attia
Joe Gebbia
Eric Weinstein
Jennifer Morgan
Simon Sinek
Larry Page
Janet Mock
Nigella Lawson
Mario Gabriele
Ryan Holiday
David Heinemeier Hansson
Ana Fabrega
Jason Fried
Kendall Jenner
Kobe Bryant
Tim Urban
Brian Chesky
Chris Anderson
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
Anya Taylor-Joy
Aubrey Marcus
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Meg Whitman
Brené Brown
Daniel Ek
Packy McCormick
Roshni Nadar Malhotra
Cal Newport
Sophia Amoruso
Michael Bierut
Bill Gates
Coleen Baik
Ryan Hoover
Mark Zuckerberg
Brian Grazer
Anthony Pompliano
Chris Sacca
Kendall Jenner
Lex Fridman
Mike Maples, Jr.
Janet Mock
Jacinda Ardern
Ana Fabrega
lists
curated book lists
series
book series in order
blog
the reading journal
shop
shop the goodbooks merch
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
2 people
2 people
2 person
Eleven Rings
Phil Jackson
2 people
2 people
2 person
Winning
Jack Welch
2 people
2 people
2 person
Barbarian Days
William Finnegan
2 people
2 people
2 person
Nixon Agonistes
Garry Wills
2 people
2 people
2 person
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass
2 people
2 people
2 person
How to Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran
2 people
2 people
2 person
Ordinary Men
Christopher R. Browning
2 people
2 people
2 person
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro
2 people
2 people
2 person
All That You Leave Behind
Erin Lee Carr
2 people
2 people
2 person
Rocket Men
Robert Kurson
2 people
2 people
2 person
COAN The Man, The Myth, The Method
Marty Gallagher
2 people
2 people
2 person
My Stroke of Insight
Jill Bolte Taylor
2 people
2 people
2 person
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit
2 people
2 people
2 person
My Life on the Road
Gloria Steinem
2 people
2 people
2 person
The Return
Hisham Matar
2 people
2 people
2 person
Made in America
Sam Walton
2 people
2 people
2 person
Just the Funny Parts
Nell Scovell
2 people
2 people
2 person
Confessions of an Advertising Man
David Ogilvy
2 people
2 people
2 person
Screw Business As Usual
Richard Branson
2 people
2 people
2 person
Ernest Hemingway on Writing
Ernest Hemingway
2 people
2 people
2 person
Daily Rituals
Mason Currey
2 people
2 people
2 person
Devil in the Grove
Gilbert King
2 people
2 people
2 person
Lenin
Victor Sebestye
2 people
2 people
2 person
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Richard P. Feynman
9 / 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
35 people
35 people
35 person
Principles
Ray Dalio
32 people
32 people
32 person
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
28 people
28 people
28 person
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
25 people
25 people
25 person
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
20 people
20 people
20 person
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
18 people
18 people
18 person
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Richard P. Feynman
16 people
16 people
16 person
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
14 people
14 people
14 person
The Ride of a Lifetime
Robert Iger
14 people
14 people
14 person
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
13 people
13 people
13 person
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
12 people
12 people
12 person
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull
11 people
11 people
11 person
The Score Takes Care of Itself
Bill Walsh
11 people
11 people
11 person
The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
11 people
11 people
11 person
Benjamin Franklin
Walter Isaacson
explore all books
Featured people
Jocko Willink
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
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
Meg Whitman
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Winston Churchill
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Emily Ratajkowski
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Keith Rabois
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Samin Nosrat
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Matt Mullenweg
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Steve Jobs
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Ray Dalio
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Jessica Livingston
activist
comedian
designer
educator
actor
entrepreneur
filmmaker
hospitality
investor
journalist
marketer
media personality
model
musician
photographer
politics
scientist
sport
technology
venture capitalist
author
Mark Zuckerberg
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
Money and the Prosperous Soul: Tipping the Scales of Favor and Blessing
Stephen De Silva
The Help
Kathryn Stockett
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
I Am the Messenger
Markus Zusak
A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
Mindset
Carol S. Dweck
Daring Greatly
Brene Brown
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz
Awaken the Giant Within
Tony Robbins
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
The Road Less Traveled and Beyond
M. Scott Peck
Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
explore all books
Books allowed me to see a world beyond the front porch of my grandmother’s shotgun house…[and] the power to see possibilities beyond what was allowed at the time.
Oprah Winfrey
Try Audible Premium Plus and Get Up to Two Free Audiobooks
Check it out