“What are the best Biography And Memoir books released in 2024?” We looked at 148 of the top Biography And Memoir books, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!

The top 30 books, all appearing on 2 or more “Best Biography And Memoir” book lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 100+ titles, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.

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Top 30 Best Biography And Memoir Books From 2024

30.) A Very Private School: A Memoir written by Charles Spencer

Lists It Appears On:

• NPR
• Waterstones

29.) Burn Book: A Tech Love Story written by Kara Swisher

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• NPR

28.) Cloistered: My Years as a Nun written by Catherine Coldstream

Lists It Appears On:

• NPR
• Waterstones

27.) Consent: A Memoir written by Jill Ciment

Lists It Appears On:

• Indigo
• NPR

26.) From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir written by Lisa-Marie Presley

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Goodreads

25.) Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses written by Paula Byrne

Lists It Appears On:

• The Guardian
• Waterstones

24.) Here After written by Amy Lin

Lists It Appears On:

• Goodreads
• NPR

22.) Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue written by Sonia Purnell

Lists It Appears On:

• The Guardian
• Waterstones

21.) Lovely One written by Ketanji Brown Jackson

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble

20.) Maurice and Maralyn: A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story written by Sophie Elmhirst

Lists It Appears On:

• The Guardian
• Waterstones

19.) Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir written by Anna Marie Tendler

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Indigo

18.) My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-Wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me written by Caleb Carr

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• NPR

17.) My Family: The Memoir written by David Baddiel

Lists It Appears On:

• The Guardian
• Waterstones

16.) Patriot written by Alexei Navalny

Lists It Appears On:

• Indigo
• NPR

15.) Question 7 written by Richard Flanagan

Lists It Appears On:

• The Guardian
• Waterstones

14.) The House of Hidden Meanings written by RuPaul

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Goodreads

13.) The Manicurist’s Daughter written by Susan Lieu

Lists It Appears On:

• Goodreads
• NPR

12.) The Trading Game: A Confession written by Gary Stevenson

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Waterstones

11.) Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell written by Ann Powers

Lists It Appears On:

• Indigo
• NPR

10.) Whiskey Tender written by Deborah Jackson Taffa

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• NPR

9.) A Voyage Around the Queen written by Craig Brown

Lists It Appears On:

• Listener
• The Guardian
• Waterstones

8.) An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s written by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Goodreads

7.) Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir written by Ina Garten

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Goodreads

6.) The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir written by Griffin Dunne

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Goodreads
• NPR

5.) Grief Is for People written by Sloane Crosley

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Goodreads
• Indigo
• NPR

4.) In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife written by Sebastian Junger

Lists It Appears On:

• Barnes & Noble
• Indigo
• Listener
• NPR

3.) Sociopath: A Memoir written by Patric Gagne

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Goodreads
• NPR
• Waterstones

2.) There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension written by Hanif Abdurraqib

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Goodreads
• Indigo

1.) Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder written by Salman Rushdie

Lists It Appears On:

• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Goodreads
• Indigo
• Listener
• NPR
• The Guardian
• Waterstones

The 100+ Additional Best Biography And Memoir Books Released In 2024

31) A Beginner’s Guide to Dying – Simon Boas List: (Waterstones)

32) A Bookshop of One’s Own: How a Group of Women Set out to Change the World – Jane Cholmeley List: (Waterstones)

33) A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery – Lawrence Ingrassia List: (NPR)

34) A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy … a Memoir of Sorts – Nigel Slater List: (Waterstones)

35) A Thousand Threads – Neneh Cherry List: (The Guardian)

36) A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon – Kevin Fedarko List: (Barnes & Noble)

37) A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy – Tia Levings List: (Goodreads)

38) A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson – Camille Peri List: (NPR)

39) A Woman Like Me – List: (The Guardian)

40) Accordion Eulogies: A Memoir of Music, Migration, and Mexico – Noé Álvarez List: (NPR)

41) Adrift on a Painted Sea – Tim Bird, paintings by Sue Bird List: (NPR)

42) All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey – Teresa Wong List: (NPR)

43) All That Glitters A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art – Orlando Whitfield List: (Waterstones)

44) All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians – Phil Elwood List: (Amazon)

45) Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances – Lucas Mann List: (NPR)

46) Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt’s Journey to His Musical Language – Joonas Sildre, edited by Aile Tooming, translated by Adam Cullen List: (NPR)

47) Bird of Four Hundred Voices: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging – Eugene Rodriguez List: (NPR)

48) Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees – Aimee Nezhukumatathil List: (Barnes & Noble)

49) Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me – Whoopi Goldberg List: (Goodreads)

50) Broken Threads: My Family from Empire to Independence – Mishal Husain List: (Waterstones)

51) Call Me Roberto! Roberto Clemente Goes to Bat for Latinos – Nathalie Alonso, illustrated by Rudy Gutierrez List: (NPR)

52) CENT ANS D’AMOUR: Réflexions sur la vieillesse – Janette Bertrand List: (Indigo)

53) Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story. – Robert Hardman List: (Waterstones)

54) Cher: The Memoir, Part One – Cher List: (The Guardian)

55) Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food – Michelle T. King List: (NPR)

56) Citizen – List: (The Guardian)

57) Connie A Memoir – Connie Chung List: (Barnes & Noble)

58) D. TURCOTTE ET FILS : DANY TURCOTTE MON HISTOIRE: Dany Turcotte, mon histoire – DANY TURCOTTE List: (Indigo)

59) Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison – and How We Stayed Connected – Jay Jay Patton and Antoine Patton, with Kiara Valdez, illustrated by Markia Jenai List: (NPR)

60) Didion and Babitz – Lili Anolik List: (The Guardian)

61) Eliot After The Waste Land – Robert Crawford List: (Listener)

62) Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir – Tessa Hulls List: (NPR)

63) First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream – Jessica Hoppe List: (Amazon)

64) First Love: Essays on Friendship – Lilly Dancyger List: (NPR)

65) Frontline Surgeon – Mark Derby List: (Listener)

66) Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me – Glory Edim List: (NPR)

67) Génial, ma mère est morte ! – Jennette Mccurdy List: (Indigo)

68) Getting to Know Death: A Meditation – Gail Godwin List: (NPR)

69) Grid: The Life And Times Of First World War Fighter Ace Keith Caldwell – Adam Claasen List: (Listener)

70) Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s Greatest Warrior King – Dan Jones List: (Amazon)

71) Hine Toa: A Story Of Bravery – Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku List: (Listener)

72) How to Live Free in a Dangerous World: A Decolonial Memoir – Shayla Lawson List: (NPR)

73) I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I’m Going to Anyway] – Chelsea Devantez List: (Goodreads)

74) I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki – Baek Sehee List: (Waterstones)

75) If You Can’t Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury – Geraldine DeRuiter List: (NPR)

76) John Lewis: A Life – David Greenberg List: (Amazon)

77) Kubrick: An Odyssey – Robert P Kolker & Nathan Abrams List: (Listener)

78) La mort sur ordonnance: Histoires vraies et insolites de meurtres en milieu médical – Simon Predj List: (Indigo)

79) Le couteau: réflexions suite à une tentative d’assassinat – Salman Rushdie List: (Indigo)

80) Learning to Think.: A memoir about hardship, education, hellfire, family, finding a way to break free – Tracy King List: (Waterstones)

81) Leonard Cohen: L’homme qui voyait tomber les anges – Christophe Lebold List: (Indigo)

82) Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House – Jared Cohen List: (NPR)

83) Loud: Accept Nothing Less Than the Life You Deserve – Drew Afualo List: (Goodreads)

84) Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders – Vanessa Angélica Villarreal List: (NPR)

85) Mean Boys: A Personal History – Geoffrey Mak List: (NPR)

86) Melting Point: Family, Memory And The Search For A Promised Land – Rachel Cockerell List: (Listener)

87) Metamorphoses: In Search Of Franz Kafka – Karolina Watroba List: (Listener)

88) Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius – Carrie Courogen List: (NPR)

89) Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets – Clair Wills List: (Waterstones)

90) My Antarctica: True Adventures in the Land of Mummified Seals, Space Robots, and So Much More – G. Neri, illlustrated by Corban Wilkin List: (NPR)

91) My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir – Sarah Moss List: (Waterstones)

92) My Side of the River – Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez List: (Goodreads)

93) No One Gets to Fall Apart A Memoir – Sarah LaBrie List: (NPR)

94) No Son of Mine A Memoir – Jonathan Corcoran List: (BookRiot)

95) Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning – Liz Cheney List: (Goodreads)

96) Ootlin – Jenni Fagan List: (Waterstones)

97) ORDURES ! : JOURNAL D’UN VIDANGEUR: Journal d’un vidangeur – Simon Paré-Poupart List: (Indigo)

98) Past Tense: Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy – Sacha Mardou List: (NPR)

99) PLEIN LEURS YEUX: Pour qu’ils gardent en mémoire la beauté du monde – ÉDITH Lemay List: (Indigo)

100) Powsels and Thrums – Alan Garner List: (Waterstones)

101) Private Revolutions Four Women Face China’s New Social Order – Yuan Yang List: (Waterstones)

102) Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk – Kathleen Hanna List: (NPR)

103) Rue Duplessis: Ma petite noirceur – Jean-Philippe Pleau List: (Indigo)

104) Shattered – Hanif Kureishi List: (Waterstones)

105) Sidetracks – Bei Dao, translated by Jeffrey Yang List: (NPR)

106) Something Lost, Something Gained – Hillary Rodham Clinton List: (The Guardian)

107) Sonny Boy – Al Pacino List: (The Guardian)

108) Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story – Leslie Jamison List: (Indigo)

109) Still Life with Remorse – Maira Kalman List: (NPR)

110) The Backyard Bird Chronicles – Amy Tan List: (NPR)

111) The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi – Wright Thompson List: (Amazon)

112) The Bookshop Woman – Nanako Hanada List: (Waterstones)

113) The Boy Who Lived: When Magic and Reality Collide: my story, with a foreword by Daniel Radcliffe – David Holmes List: (Waterstones)

114) The Chain: The Relationships That Break Us, the Women Who Rebuild Us – Chimene Suleyman List: (Waterstones)

115) The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him – Eric Blehm List: (Indigo)

116) The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty – Valerie Bauerlein List: (Amazon)

117) The Giant on the Skyline: On Home, Belonging and Learning to Let Go – Clover Stroud List: (Waterstones)

118) The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History – Manjula Martin List: (NPR)

119) The Last Secret Agent – Pippa Latour with Jude Dobson List: (Listener)

120) The Letters of Emily Dickinson – Emily Dickinson, edited by Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell List: (NPR)

121) The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony – Annabelle Tometich List: (NPR)

122) The Memoir – List: (The Guardian)

123) The Mountains Are High – Alec Ash List: (NPR)

124) The Peace: A Warrior’s Journey – Romeo Dallaire List: (Indigo)

125) The Position of Spoons: And other intimacies – Deborah Levy List: (Waterstones)

126) The Rebel’s Clinic The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon – Adam Shatz List: (The Guardian)

127) The Rising Down: Lives in a Sussex Landscape – Alexandra Harris List: (Waterstones)

128) The Showman: Inside the Invasion That Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky – Simon Shuster List: (NPR)

129) The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice – Dan Slepian List: (Amazon)

130) The Spamalot Diaries – Eric Idle List: (NPR)

131) The Strangers – List: (The Guardian)

132) The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History – Karen Valby List: (NPR)

133) The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir – Kelly Bishop List: (Goodreads)

134) The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook – Hampton Sides List: (Listener)

135) The Wives: A Memoir – Simone Gorrindo List: (Goodreads)

136) Three Dads Walking: 300 Miles of Hope – Tim Owen List: (Waterstones)

137) Troubled: A Memoir Of Foster Care, Family, And Social Class – Rob Henderson List: (Listener)

138) Uprooted: A Memoir About What Happens When Your Family Moves Back – Ruth Chan List: (NPR)

139) Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice – David S. Tatel List: (NPR)

140) Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous – Gillian Anderson List: (Waterstones)

141) Wanted: Toddler’s Personal Assistant: How Nannying for the 1% Taught Me about the Myths of Equality, Motherhood, and Upward Mobility in America – Stephanie Kiser List: (Goodreads)

142) We Will Not Be Saved – List: (The Guardian)

143) What Have We Here?: Portraits of a Life – Billy Dee Williams List: (NPR)

144) What I Ate in One Year: (and related thoughts) – Stanley Tucci List: (Barnes & Noble)

145) Wild Thing: A Life Of Paul Gauguin – Sue Prideaux List: (The Guardian)

146) You’re Embarrassing Yourself – Desiree Akhavan List: (The Guardian)

147) Your Wild and Precious Life: On grief, hope and rebellion – Liz Jensen List: (Waterstones)

148) Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir – Ai Weiwei with Elettra Stamboulis, illustrated by Gianluca Costantini List: (NPR)

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