Biographies & Memoirs

Nearly 60 lives, told first-hand or closely observed. Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, Edith Eger’s The Choice, Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt, Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains, and the Who Was…? series that introduces children to figures like Albert Einstein. Doctors, prisoners, survivors, leaders and artists — memoirs that read like novels, plus the accessible short biographies schools use for reading projects.