The most popular biography & memoir books of 2024

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biography & memoir books published in 2024, most popular first.

Bad Feminist [Tenth Anniversary Limited Collector's Edition] Essays

Roxane Gay

Published 2024

352 pages

The Pianist The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–1945

Wladyslaw Szpilman

Published 2024

225 pages

Creepy Classics: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Easy Classics)

Washington Irving

Published 2024

120 pages

The Savage Detectives

Roberto Bolaño

Published 2024

648 pages

Dear Dolly Collected Wisdom

Dolly Alderton

Published 2024

240 pages

The Science of Getting Rich

Wallace D. Wattles

Published 2024

78 pages

Orthodoxy

Mr Gilbert K Chesterton

Published 2024

174 pages

William Shakespeare's Henry V - Unabridged

William Shakespeare

Published 2024

The Princess and the Goblin

George MacDonald

Published 2024

196 pages

Chinese Cinderella 25th Anniversary Edition

Yen Mah

Published 2024

264 pages

Walden And, on the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

Published 2024

320 pages

Up from Slavery (The Norton Library)

Booker T. Washington

Published 2024

212 pages

The Antichrist

Mr F. W Nietzsche

Published 2024

60 pages

Fear and Trembling Dialectical Lyric

Søren Kierkegaard

Published 2024

368 pages

All the Beauty in the World A Museum Guard's Adventures in Life, Loss and Art

Patrick Bringley

Published 2024

226 pages

World of Wonders In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Published 2024

248 pages

Barracoon Adapted for Young Readers

Zora Neale Hurston

Published 2024

195 pages

Agent Zigzag The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy

Ben Macintyre

Published 2024

400 pages

The Algebraist (Culture)

Iain M. Banks

Published 2024

704 pages

Dinners with Ruth A Memoir on the Power of Friendships

Nina Totenberg

Published 2024

320 pages

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Simone de Beauvoir

Published 2024

371 pages

Outrun

Amy Liptrot

Published 2024

96 pages

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Published 2024

295 pages

The Story of Philosophy The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers

Will Durant

Published 2024

568 pages

Bad Feminist [Tenth Anniversary Limited Collector's Edition] Essays

The Pianist The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–1945

Creepy Classics: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Easy Classics)

The Savage Detectives

Dear Dolly Collected Wisdom

The Science of Getting Rich

Orthodoxy

William Shakespeare's Henry V - Unabridged

The Princess and the Goblin

Chinese Cinderella 25th Anniversary Edition

Walden And, on the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Up from Slavery (The Norton Library)

The Antichrist

Fear and Trembling Dialectical Lyric

All the Beauty in the World A Museum Guard's Adventures in Life, Loss and Art

World of Wonders In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

Barracoon Adapted for Young Readers

Agent Zigzag The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy

The Algebraist (Culture)

Dinners with Ruth A Memoir on the Power of Friendships

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Outrun

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe

The Story of Philosophy The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers

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