Contemporary biographies

The best recent biographies and memoirs - The Economist

This book from 1791 remains the gold standard for modern biographies.

A life story can be read for escapist pleasure. But at other times, reading a memoir or biography can be an expansive exercise, opening us up to broader truths about our world. Often, it’s an edifying experience that reminds us of our universal human vulnerability and the common quest for purpose in life.

Biographies and memoirs charting remarkable lives—whether because of fame, fortune or simply fascination—have the power to inspire us for their depth, curiosity or challenges. This year sees a bumper calendar of personal histories enter bookshops, grappling with enigmatic public figures like singer Joni Mitchell and writer Ian Fleming, to nuanced analysis of how motherhood or sociopathy shape our lives—for better and for worse.

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Here we compile some of the most rewarding biographies and memoirs out in 2024. There are stories of trauma and recovery, art as politics and politics as art, and sentences as single life

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A Robbie Reader-Contemporary Biographies - Barnes & Noble

These are the top trending biographies and memoirs—the titles people can't stop reading, talking, and tweeting about, according to Today's Top Books.

The Top Trending Biographies and Memoirs to Read Right Now

This list of highly recommended contemporary biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs written for young adults includes life lessons about making choices.

The Best Biographies - Five Books Expert Recommendations

Uncover extraordinary lives with our list of the best biographies of all time.

The Top Trending Biographies and Memoirs to Read Right Now

Here we compile some of the most rewarding biographies and memoirs out in 2024.

The Best New Biographies and Memoirs to Read in 2024

Uncover extraordinary lives with our list of the best biographies of all time.

The Best of Biography: the 2020 NBCC Shortlist - Five Books

Books shelved as contemporary-biography: Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare, Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière, Bossypants.

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New Biographies and Memoirs To Read This Year - Penguin ...

The best modern biography books recommended by Richard Branson, Satya Nadella, Tony Robbins, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk and Ryan Holiday.