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Eat, Pray, Love

One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

by Elizabeth Gilbert 2006 458 pages

Immersive

Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson 2011 630 pages

by Michelle Obama 2018 426 pages

by Jon Krakauer 1996 240 pages

by Tina Fey 2011 290 pages

Man's Search for Meaning

by Viktor E. Frankl 1946 148 pages

When Breath Becomes Air

by Paul Kalanithi 2016 208 pages

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

by Rebecca Skloot 2010 362 pages

by Malala Yousafzai 2012 328 pages

Everything I Know About Love

by Dolly Alderton 2018 329 pages

A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

by J.D. Vance 2016 274 pages

Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

by Ashlee Vance 2015 392 pages

by Prince Harry 2023 557 pages

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

by Lori Gottlieb 2019 464 pages

Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain 2000 321 pages

A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

by Phil Knight 2016 400 pages

Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

by Daniel James Brown 2013 416 pages

by Patti Smith 2010 220 pages

A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King 2000 288 pages

Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

by David Goggins 2018 326 pages

The Autobiography Of Malcolm X

by Malcolm X 1965 460 pages

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

Adventures of a Curious Character

by Richard P. Feynman 1985 352 pages

The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

by Doris Kearns Goodwin 2005 916 pages

by Walter Isaacson 2003 586 pages

by Steve Martin 2007 271 pages

Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

by Ed Catmull 2014 368 pages

Too Much and Never Enough

How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

by Mary L. Trump 2020 225 pages

by Kay Redfield Jamison 1995 219 pages

Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

by Candice Millard 2005 416 pages

Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

by Brad Stone 2013 384 pages

by Mahatma Gandhi 1927 454 pages

by Amanda Lindhout 2013 384 pages

by Hope Jahren 2016 290 pages

the Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

by Naoki Higashida 2005 135 pages

3.88

62k+ ratings

Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Memoir

Psychology

The Snowball

Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

by Alice Schroeder 2008 832 pages

by Elizabeth Smart 2013 308 pages

The Girls of Atomic City

The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

by Denise Kiernan 2013 373 pages

Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

by Rich Roll 2012 288 pages

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Martin Luther King Jr. 1986

by Ben Carson 1992

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

Kind of the Story of My Life

by Scott Adams 2013 248 pages

Beyond Band of Brothers

The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters

by Dick Winters 2006 320 pages

How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner 2003 368 pages

A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal

by Nick Bilton 2013 321 pages

by Alex Ferguson 2013 416 pages

Poor Charlie's Almanack

The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

by Charles T. Munger 2005 548 pages

iWoz - Computer Geek to Cult Icon

How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It

by Steve Wozniak 2006 330 pages

The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea

by Marc Randolph 2019 337 pages

Ludicrous Misadventures in the Tech Start-up Bubble

by Dan Lyons 2016 272 pages

The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

by Brent Schlender 2015 482 pages

by Temple Grandin 1995 308 pages

4.10

17k+ ratings

Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Memoir

Psychology

The World As It Is

A Memoir of the Obama White House

by Ben Rhodes 2018 433 pages

by Carly Simon 2015 384 pages

Start Something That Matters

by Blake Mycoskie 2011 208 pages

Interviews With Top Traders

by Jack D. Schwager 1989 480 pages

A Silicon Valley Story

by Michael Lewis 1999 349 pages

by Sidney Lumet 1995 240 pages

by Roland Lazenby 2014 678 pages

The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician

by Anthony Everitt 2001 400 pages

A Man for All Markets

From Las Vegas to Wall Street, How I Beat the Dealer and the Market

by Edward O. Thorp 2016 416 pages

WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion

by Eliot Brown 2021 430 pages

Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living

by Elizabeth Willard Thames 2018 256 pages

The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

by Jeff Bezos 2020 288 pages

The Life And Times Of Nikola Tesla

by Marc J. Seifer 1996 678 pages

Confessions of an Advertising Man

by David Ogilvy 1963 192 pages

Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief

by James M. McPherson 2008 329 pages

The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist – A Greenwich Village Journalist's Conversion and Commitment to Peace and Justice

by Dorothy Day 1952 288 pages

My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator

by Gary Noesner 2010 226 pages

I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree

A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor

by Laura Hillman 2003 288 pages

Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company

by Bryce G. Hoffman 2012 432 pages

The Wizard Behind Harry Potter

by Marc Shapiro 2000 287 pages

A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness

by Catherine Cho 2020 240 pages

The Life and Rise of Barack Obama

by David Remnick 2010 672 pages

Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

by Ben Carson 1992 291 pages

On Marriage and Separation

by Rachel Cusk 2012 160 pages

A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties

by Suze Rotolo 2008 369 pages

by Dean Karnazes 2008 333 pages

His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation

by Collin Hansen 2023 309 pages

The Clash that Defined Modern Economics

by Nicholas Wapshott 2011 300 pages

by Danielle Steel 2012 144 pages

Tao of Charlie Munger

A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth With Commentary by David Clark

by David Clark 2017 256 pages

by Jodi Kantor 2011

The Science of Becoming Musical at Any Age

by Gary F. Marcus 2012 286 pages

Lessons in Food and Famiglia from My Italian Mother-in-Law

by Katherine Wilson 2015 287 pages

Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump

by Vicky Ward 2019 304 pages

Steve Jobs In His Own Words

by George Beahm 2011 160 pages

by The School of Life 2016 480 pages

Confessions of a Recovering Catholic

by Jenny McCarthy 2012 222 pages

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 2012 464 pages

Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times

by Wolfram Eilenberger 2020 400 pages

Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time

by Stephen Fried 2010 751 pages

The Return of the Master

by Robert Skidelsky 2009 256 pages

The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton

by Kate Williams 2005

Silicon Valley's Coming of Age

by Leslie Berlin 2017 512 pages

A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize

by Sean B. Carroll 2013 594 pages

How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think: Reflections by Scientists, Writers, and Philosophers

by Mark Ridley 2006 304 pages

My Family's Globe-Trotting Quest to Dream in Mandarin, Laugh in Arabic, and Sing in Spanish

by Christine Gilbert 2016 333 pages

The True Adventures of the World's Greatest Stuntman

by Vic Armstrong 2011

The Business Wisdom of Steve Jobs

250 Quotes from the Innovator Who Changed the World

by Alan Ken Thomas 2011 176 pages

An Introduction to His Life and Work

by Gary Lachman 2007 311 pages

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