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Biography and Autobiography Books: Real Lives Worth Reading

Some of the best lessons are not in textbooks. They are in the lives of people who failed, tried again and changed something. That is what you will find in the biography books and autobiography books on this page: leaders, scientists, artists, business founders and sportspeople, told honestly and at length. If you want to buy biography books online, for yourself or for a student at home, start here.

Browse by Kind of Life Story

Biographies: a life seen from the outside, researched and put in context, in Biography: General.
Memoirs: a person looking back on one part of their life in their own voice, in Memoirs.
True stories: survival, courage and real events that read like novels, in True Stories.
Sports biographies: cricketers, athletes and champions, in Sports Biography.
Business biographies: founders and the companies they built, in Business.
Music biographies: singers, composers and bands, in Music Biography.

Famous Autobiographies to Start With

If you have never read a life story before, begin with one that almost every Indian reader knows. Mahatma Gandhi's The Story of My Experiments with Truth is plain, short chaptered and surprisingly frank. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is often the first autobiography a teenager reads and remembers. Autobiography of a Yogi has introduced generations to Indian spirituality, and Wings of Fire by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam remains a favourite of students. All of these are in our store. Use the search bar to find a title or a person by name.

Why Read Biographies

They are history made personal. A period is easier to understand when you follow one person through it.
They help in essays and interviews. Students preparing for exams and job interviews quote real lives more convincingly than theories.
They are honest about failure. A good autobiography spends as many pages on mistakes as on success.
They make good gifts. A biography of a famous person the reader already admires is rarely left unread.

How to Choose

Pick the person, not the prize list. Choose someone from a field you care about, whether that is cricket, science, cinema or business. Then decide between a biography, which gives the full picture, and an autobiography, which gives the voice. If you enjoy these, you will find more real world reading in Non-Fiction, History and Self-Help.

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