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Biographies & Memoirs Bestsellers

The top 50 Biographies & Memoirs books on Amazon — with recorded rankings, chart movement, and tracking history. Check the snapshot date to see when these books were collected.

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Biographies & Memoirs — 2026-09-1750 booksAvg 4.56★1,412,496 total reviewsLatest collected snapshot

Movement compared with 2026-09-16

CoverRankMoveBookRatingReviewsShare

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One Man In: The Explosive Firsthand Account of the Lone Special-Ops Commando Who Fought Off a Major Terrorist Attack in Kenya

Christian Craighead

6 days tracked

520 reviews

243

Swan Song: Diana, my sister

Charles Spencer

30 days tracked

—— reviews

The Perilous Fight

Colin Kaepernick

2 days tracked · peak #2

—— reviews

4New

New

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Memoir of Nature, Observation, and the Seasons in Virginia

Annie Dillard

4.41,512 reviews

This Is Me: A Reckoning

Hayden Panettiere

31 days tracked · peak #1 · −3 this week

4.63,541 reviews

The Back Bedroom: A True Story of Exorcism and Murder

Gregg Olsen

13 days tracked · peak #1 · −5 this week

3.62,762 reviews

48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

50 days tracked · peak #2 · −2 this week

4.790,197 reviews

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

Belle Burden

50 days tracked · peak #1 · −4 this week

4.463,598 reviews

925

Turns Out They Were Right All Along: Life Lessons I Learned...Eventually

Trace Gallagher

2 days tracked

—— reviews

101

London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth

Patrick Radden Keefe

50 days tracked · peak #3 · −3 this week

4.413,237 reviews

113

American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump

Kai Bird

13 days tracked · peak #1 · −8 this week

4.653 reviews

125

F*ck Failure

benny blanco

13 days tracked · peak #7

—— reviews

1312

My Battlefield: A Life Broken and Made Whole

Joyce Meyer

2 days tracked

52 reviews

143

Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey

50 days tracked · peak #11 · +1 this week

4.675,658 reviews

151

If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood

Gregg Olsen

50 days tracked · peak #4 · −5 this week

4.2186,035 reviews

161

Redwood: The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy

Ben Macintyre

3 days tracked · peak #15

2.94 reviews

174

Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson, 25th Anniversary Edition

Mitch Albom

50 days tracked · peak #8 · −5 this week

4.849,358 reviews

186

Grant

Ron Chernow

8 days tracked · peak #8 · +8 this week

4.814,964 reviews

1912

Appetites: A Cookbook

Anthony Bourdain

3 days tracked

4.85,021 reviews

203

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

50 days tracked · peak #8 · −6 this week

4.7100,330 reviews

215

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Stephanie Foo

12 days tracked · peak #11 · +7 this week

4.66,860 reviews

227

Night

Elie Wiesel

50 days tracked · peak #5

4.723,722 reviews

235

Roll the Calls: A Memoir

Ari Emanuel

2 days tracked · peak #18

4.9— reviews

244

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

7 days tracked · peak #17

4.695,610 reviews

256

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Sarah Wynn-Williams

49 days tracked · peak #16

4.414,423 reviews

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Educated: A Memoir

Tara Westover

42 days tracked · peak #11 · −9 this week

4.6232,021 reviews

27New

New

Lane Being Lane: The Story of Lane Kiffin, College Football’s Agent of Chaos

John Talty

4.47 reviews

28New

New

Freedom Under Grace: Reflections on the Spiritual Tradition That Formed Me

Robert Prevost

—— reviews

292

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah

49 days tracked · peak #20

4.7113,661 reviews

307

Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton

Martha Ackmann

13 days tracked · peak #9 · −19 this week

4.2453 reviews

3121

Slaves in the Family (FSG Classics)

Edward Ball

3 days tracked · peak #9

4.6460 reviews

32New

New

Actually, Nevermind: Essays

Taylor Tomlinson

—— reviews

333

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

Jocko Willink

50 days tracked · peak #22 · −3 this week

4.739,440 reviews

341

Going Further: The Incomparable Clarence Thomas

Ted Cruz

25 days tracked · peak #2 · −28 this week

4.8287 reviews

3511

Churchill: Walking with Destiny

Andrew Roberts

7 days tracked · peak #22

4.85,797 reviews

366

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Anthony Bourdain

50 days tracked · peak #9 · −13 this week

4.527,379 reviews

372

Famesick: A Memoir

Lena Dunham

38 days tracked · peak #14 · −10 this week

4.56,771 reviews

386

The Glass Castle: A Memoir (book)

Jeannette Walls

50 days tracked · peak #19

4.649,775 reviews

3911

Unburdened: A Former Democrat Insider’s Shocking Account of Political Power, Betrayal, and Party Collapse

Lindy Li

4 days tracked · peak #15

—— reviews

407

Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

Timothy Egan

2 days tracked · peak #33

4.6— reviews

4120

The Day the World Came to Town Updated Edition: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland ― An Inspiring Social History of Stranded Passengers

Jim DeFede

3 days tracked · peak #13

4.515,324 reviews

424

Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More than They Expect

Will Guidara

50 days tracked · peak #28 · −7 this week

4.8— reviews

432

When Breath Becomes Air: Pulitzer Prize Finalist

Paul Kalanithi

50 days tracked · peak #23 · −14 this week

4.7119,290 reviews

44New

New

Never Say Die: A Memoir

Ke Huy Quan

5— reviews

45New

New

The Steps: A Memoir

Sylvester Stallone

4.7— reviews

46New

New

The Many Lives of Mama Love (Oprah's Book Club): A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

Lara Love Hardin

50 days tracked · peak #22

4.6— reviews

479

I've Got a New Complaint: Essays on Aging Disgracefully and Other Small Disasters

Laurie Notaro

45 days tracked · peak #6 · −23 this week

4.12,076 reviews

4811

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

Dolly Parton

13 days tracked · peak #8 · −30 this week

4.910,279 reviews

49New

New

What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love

Carole Radziwill

4.6— reviews

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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

50 days tracked · peak #24 · −17 this week

4.442,569 reviews

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