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Biography
38 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Where to Start with Alice Schroeder: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Alice Schroeder — how to approach The Snowball, the definitive authorised biography of Warren Buffett. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Barack Obama: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Barack Obama — whether to begin with Dreams from My Father or A Promised Land. A complete reading guide to the 44th US President's books.
Where to Start with Doris Kearns Goodwin: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Doris Kearns Goodwin — whether to begin with Team of Rivals, No Ordinary Time, or Leadership. A complete reading guide to the presidential biographer.
Where to Start with Elie Wiesel: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Elie Wiesel — how to approach Night, his essential Holocaust memoir. A complete reading guide to the Romanian-American Nobel laureate's work.
Where to Start with J.D. Vance: A Reading Guide
Where to start with J.D. Vance — how to approach Hillbilly Elegy, his essential memoir of Appalachian family and working-class decline. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Jeannette Walls: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jeannette Walls — how to approach The Glass Castle, her essential memoir about an extraordinary nomadic childhood. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Jennette McCurdy: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Jennette McCurdy — how to approach I'm Glad My Mom Died, her essential memoir of childhood abuse and recovery. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Kai Bird: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Kai Bird — how to approach American Prometheus, the Pulitzer-winning biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer co-written with Martin Sherwin. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Laura Hillenbrand: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Laura Hillenbrand — how to approach Unbroken, her essential account of Louis Zamperini's impossible survival story. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Malala Yousafzai: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Malala Yousafzai — how to approach I Am Malala, her essential memoir of surviving Taliban assassination. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Malcolm X: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Malcolm X — how to approach The Autobiography of Malcolm X, one of the most powerful American autobiographies ever written. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Michelle Obama: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Michelle Obama — whether to begin with Becoming or The Light We Carry. A complete reading guide to the former First Lady's books.
Where to Start with Michelle Zauner: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Michelle Zauner — how to approach Crying in H Mart, her memoir of grief, Korean-American identity, and the food that held a mother-daughter relationship together. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Nelson Mandela: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Nelson Mandela — how to approach Long Walk to Freedom, his autobiography tracing a Transkei childhood through 27 years of imprisonment to liberation. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Patti Smith: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Patti Smith — how to approach Just Kids, her National Book Award-winning memoir of her friendship with Robert Mapplethorpe in 1970s New York. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Paul Kalanithi: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Paul Kalanithi — how to approach When Breath Becomes Air, his essential memoir about mortality and meaning. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Phil Knight: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Phil Knight — how to approach Shoe Dog, his essential memoir about building Nike. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Rebecca Skloot: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Rebecca Skloot — how to approach The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, her essential work of science and human story. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Richard Feynman: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Richard Feynman — how to approach Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman, his essential memoir of scientific curiosity and adventure. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Ron Chernow: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ron Chernow — whether to begin with Alexander Hamilton, Washington: A Life, or Grant. A complete reading guide to the American presidential biographer.
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