Genre search:Biography

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

by Steve Martin
Paperback, 2007
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non-fiction, autobiography, comedy, humor, read in 2011
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792.7028092

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

by Leslie Jamison
Paperback, 2019
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non-fiction, memoir, addiction, alcoholism, read in 2020
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616.86

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King
Book, 2000
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non-fiction, writing, autobiography, Stephen King, read in 2011
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813.54

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

by Haruki Murakami
Paperback, 2009
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non-fiction, memoir, running, read in 2015
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Narrativa (Editorial Empúries) (370)
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895.635

Gratitude

by Oliver Sacks
Hardcover, 2015
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non-fiction, essays, death, read in 2020
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616.80092

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

by Dave Eggers
Paperback, 2000
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non-fiction, postmodernism, death, memoir, read in 2014
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973.92092

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

by Craig Ferguson
Paperback, 2009
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non-fiction, autobiography, addiction, read in 2010
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

by Mitch Albom
Paperback, 2002
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non-fiction, self-help, death, biography, read in 2013
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378.12092

Zeitoun

by Dave Eggers
Paperback, 2009
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non-fiction, biography
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305.8927076335

A Man Without a Country

by Kurt Vonnegut
Paperback, 2005
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non-fiction, memoir, Vonnegut, read in 2014
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813.54

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)

by Richard P. Feynman
Paperback, 1997
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non-fiction, physics, memoir, Nobel, read in 2014
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Feynman Memoirs
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530.0924

The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

by Jonathan Franzen
Paperback, 2006
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non-fiction, essays, memoir, read in 2013
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813.54

Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace

by D. T. Max
Paperback, 2012
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non-fiction, biography, read in 2014
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813.54

Night

by Elie Wiesel
Book, 2006
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non-fiction, autobiography, history, WWII, Holocaust, concentration camps, read in 2012, read in 2021
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The Night Trilogy (1)
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940.5318092

My Struggle: Book 1

by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Paperback, 2013
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non-fiction, memoir
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My Struggle (1)
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839.82

Caesar: Life of a Colossus

by Adrian Goldsworthy
Hardcover, 2006
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non-fiction, Rome, history, biography
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937.05092

David Mitchell: Back Story

by David Mitchell
Digital audiobook, 2012
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non-fiction, autobiography, humor, memoir, read in 2021
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791.45028092

Isaac Newton

by James Gleick
Paperback, 2003
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non-fiction, history, biography, Newton, Gleick, physics, history of science, read in 2024
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530.092

Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live

by Peter Orner
Paperback, 2016
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non-fiction, essays, books about books, read in 2020
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814.6

My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love

by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Paperback, 2014
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non-fiction, memoir
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My Struggle (2)
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839.82

My Struggle: Book 5: Some Rain Must Fall

by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Paperback, 2017
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non-fiction, memoir
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My Struggle (5)
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839.8238

My Struggle: Book 3

by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Paperback, 2015
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non-fiction, memoir
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My Struggle (3)
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839.823

Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

by Anne Lamott
Paperback, 1995
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non-fiction, memoir, humor, writing, read in 2021
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808.02

The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

by Eric Weiner
Book, 2009
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non-fiction, happiness, humor, psychology, Netherlands, Switzerland, Bhutan, Qatar, Iceland, Moldova, Thailand — 5 more, India, Great Britain, USA, travel, read in 2011
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910.4

Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace

by David Lipsky
Paperback, 2010
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non-fiction, interview, read in 2015
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813.54

Autumn

by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Hardcover, 2017
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non-fiction, read in 2019
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Seasons Quartet (1)
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839.823

What Do You Care What Other People Think? (Further Adventures of a Curious Character)

by Richard P. Feynman
Paperback, 2001
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non-fiction, physics, memoir, Nobel, read in 2014
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Feynman Memoirs
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530.092

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track

by Richard P. Feynman
Paperback, 2005
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non-fiction, physics, letters, Nobel, biography, read in 2014
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530.092

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl
Paperback, 1984
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non-fiction, psychology, logotherapy, existentialism, Holocaust, concentration camps, philosophy, read in 2012
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150.195

My Struggle: Book 6

by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Paperback, 2019
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non-fiction, memoir
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My Struggle (6)
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839.82374

Spring

by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Hardcover, 2018
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non-fiction, read in 2019
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Seasons Quartet (3)
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839.823

A Moveable Feast

by Ernest Hemingway
Book, 1964
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non-fiction, Hemingway, memoir, Nobel, read in 2013
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818.5203

Survival In Auschwitz : If This Is a Man

by Primo Levi
Hardcover, 2007
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non-fiction, memoir, Holocaust, read in 2021
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Auschwitz Trilogy (1)
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940.53/18/092 B

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin
Paperback, 1793
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non-fiction, autobiography, history, read in 2011
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973.3092

My Struggle: Book 4

by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Paperback, 2016
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non-fiction, memoir
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My Struggle (4)
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839.823

Winter

by Karl Ove Knausgaard
Hardcover, 2018
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non-fiction, read in 2019
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Seasons Quartet (2)
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839.823

Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell
Paperback, 1938
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non-fiction, Spanish Civil War, history, memoir, communism, totalitarianism, Orwell, read in 2010
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946.081

Down and Out in Paris and London

by George Orwell
Hardcover, 1933
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fiction, autobiography, Orwell, read in 2011
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914.436

The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

by Susan Orlean
Paperback, 2000
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non-fiction, botany, read in 2021
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635.934409759

Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited

by Vladimir Nabokov
Paperback, 1966
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non-fiction, Nabokov, memoir
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813.54

Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers

by David Edmonds
Paperback, 2001
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non-fiction, history, philosophy, Wittgenstein, Popper
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192

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

by Neil Strauss
Paper Book, 2005
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non-fiction, autobiography, pua, seduction, read in 2009
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973.7447092

A Grief Observed

by C. S. Lewis
Book, 1961
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non-fiction, death, religion, Christianity, C.S. Lewis, read in 2012
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242.4

Mourning Diary

by Roland Barthes
Paperback, 2010
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non-fiction, diary, read in 2014
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410.92

Patrimony : A True Story

by Philip Roth
Paperback, 1991
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non-fiction, memoir, Roth, read in 2014
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813.54

Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett

by James R. Knowlson
Paperback, 1996
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non-fiction, biography, Beckett
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Call number
848.91409

Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life

by J. M. Coetzee
Hardcover, 1997
Tags
fiction, Nobel, autobiography
Series
Coetzee's Scenes from Provincial Life (1)
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Call number
823

Romulus, My Father

by Raimond Gaita
Hardcover, 1998
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non-fiction, biography, Liv, read in 2013
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994.05092

Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans

by Plutarch
Hardcover, 120, 1683
Tags
non-fiction, history
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Call number
920.038

The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill

by John Stuart Mill
Ebook, 1873
Tags
non-fiction, utilitarianism, philosophy, autobiography
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Call number
192
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