Better Living Through Birding Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Christian Cooper
Published 2023
304 pages
The most popular biography & memoir books of 2023
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 2023.
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Why Don't You Just Leave Him? A Domestic Violence True Story
Stacey Jameson
Published 2023
320 pages
While Time Remains A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America
Yeonmi Park
Published 2023
224 pages
Oscar Wars
Michael Schulman - undifferentiated
Published 2023
848 pages
Surviving to Drive A Year Inside Formula 1
Guenther Steiner
Published 2023
304 pages
Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You A Memoir
Lucinda Williams
Published 2023
272 pages
The Country of the Blind A Memoir at the End of Sight
Andrew Leland
Published 2023
368 pages
Scarcity Brain Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
Michael Easter
Published 2023
304 pages
George
Frieda Hughes
Published 2023
272 pages
The Fund Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
Rob Copeland
2023 · 2025 edition
352 pages
Mexikid (Newbery Honor Award Winner)
Pedro Martin
Published 2023
264 pages
Forager Field Notes on Survival
Michelle Dowd
Published 2023
352 pages
Homegrown Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
Jeffrey Toobin
Published 2023
432 pages
Everything All at Once A Memoir
Stephanie Catudal
Published 2023
240 pages
The Other Family Doctor
Karen Fine
Published 2023
304 pages
When I Was Your Age
Kenan Thompson
2023 · 2024 edition
240 pages
Dear Future Mama A Tmi Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, and Motherhood from Your Bestie
Meghan Trainor
Published 2023
240 pages
Tremendous The Life of a Comedy Savage
Joey Diaz
Published 2023
280 pages
Oh Miriam! Stories from an Extraordinary Life
Miriam Margolyes
Published 2023
323 pages
Uncle of the Year & Other Debatable Triumphs
Andrew Rannells
Published 2023
256 pages
Madame Restell
Jennifer Wright
Published 2023
336 pages
The Underworld Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
Susan Casey
Published 2023
330 pages
Clanlands in New Zealand Kiwis, Kilts, and an Adventure Down Under
Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish
Published 2023
288 pages
My Own Magic A Reappearing Act
Anna Kloots
Published 2023
288 pages