The Skin We're In
Desmond Cole
Published 2020
248 pages
The most popular biography & memoir books of 2020
Biography and memoir are true stories of real lives. Some are told by a writer who has studied the person for years and others by the person who lived it. Presidents, artists, athletes, scientists and people you have never heard of are all here, with lives as gripping as any novel. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.
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Sigh, Gone
Phuc Tran
2020 · 2022 edition
320 pages
Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood
Trixie Mattel, Katya Zamolodchikova
Published 2020
208 pages
Notes on a Silencing
2020 · 2021 edition
432 pages
Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire
Jen Hatmaker
Published 2020
224 pages
Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald
2020 · 2021 edition
320 pages
How Do We Know We're Doing It Right?
Pandora Sykes
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
Pastoral Song
James Rebanks
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
Sing Backwards and Weep
Mark Lanegan
2020 · 2021 edition
335 pages
Bag Man
Rachel Maddow, Michael Yarvitz
2020 · 2026 edition
304 pages
How to Write One Song
Jeff Tweedy
Published 2020
176 pages
Being Heumann
Judith Heumann
Published 2020
232 pages
An Ugly Truth
Sheera Frenkel, Sheera Frankel, Cecilia Kang
2020 · 2021 edition
352 pages
Another Gospel?
Alisa Childers
Published 2020
288 pages
Let Love Rule
Lenny Kravitz, Лени Кравиц, Дейвид Риц
2020 · 2021 edition
272 pages
I Have Something to Tell You
Chasten Glezman Buttigieg
Published 2020
256 pages
Funny Weather Art in an Emergency
Olivia Laing
2020 · 2021 edition
352 pages
The Chiffon Trenches
André Leon Talley
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
More Than a Woman
Caitlin Moran
2020 · 2021 edition
288 pages
A Bit of a Stretch The Diaries of a Prisoner
Chris Atkins
Published 2020
340 pages
A Knock at Midnight
Brittany K. Barnett
Published 2020
321 pages
The Adventurer's Son A Memoir
Roman Dial
2020 · 2021 edition
368 pages
A Ghost in the Throat
Doireann Ní Ghríofa
2020 · 2021 edition
326 pages
American Sherlock Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI
Kate Winkler Dawson
Published 2020
325 pages