Biography & Memoir

Books
18
Average
7.9/ 10
Read
2013–2025
Median
352pages
Difficulty
  • Light 3
  • Moderate 10
  • Dense 5
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Books here are most often also filed under History and Business: 6 and 5 of 18.

Books 18 books

Staying power: what still shapes how I think, separate from the rating.

  1. Born a Crime

    Rated 10 out of 10 · Trevor Noah

    Staying power: Lasting influence

  2. Creativity, Inc.

    Rated 9.5 out of 10 · Ed Catmul

    Staying power: Lasting influence

  3. When Breath Becomes Air

    Rated 9.5 out of 10 · Paul Kalanithi

    Staying power: Lasting influence

  4. Between the World and Me

    Rated 9 out of 10 · Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Staying power: Lingering influence

  5. Poor Charlie's Almanack

    Rated 9 out of 10 · Charles T. Munger

    Staying power: Lingering influence

  6. Man's Search for Meaning

    Rated 9 out of 10 · Viktor E. Frankl

    Staying power: Lasting influence

  7. The Art of Learning

    Rated 8.5 out of 10 · Josh Waitzkin

    Staying power: Lingering influence

  8. The Truth

    Rated 8.5 out of 10 · Neil Strauss

    Staying power: Lasting influence

  9. Unbroken

    Rated 8.5 out of 10 · Laura Hillenbrand

    Staying power: Lasting influence

  10. Total Recall

    Rated 7.5 out of 10 · Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Staying power: Lingering influence

  11. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track

    Rated 7.5 out of 10 · Richard P. Feynman

    Staying power: Passing influence

  12. How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

    Rated 7.5 out of 10 · Scott Adams

    Staying power: Lasting influence

  13. Moonwalking with Einstein

    Rated 7 out of 10 · Joshua Foer

    Staying power: Lingering influence

  14. The Clockwork Universe

    Rated 6.5 out of 10 · Edward Dolnick

    Staying power: Passing influence

  15. When Work Disappears

    Rated 6.5 out of 10 · William Julius Wilson

    Staying power: Lingering influence

  16. The Virgin Way

    Rated 6.5 out of 10 · Richard Branson

    Staying power: Passing influence

  17. The Surrender Experiment

    Rated 6 out of 10 · Michael A. Singer

  18. Daily Rituals

    Rated 5.5 out of 10 · Mason Currey

    Staying power: Lingering influence