Amazon Editor's Best Biographies & Memoirs of 2023

by Amazon
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20 books
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Winner
Finalists

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson, 2023

A Man of Two Faces

A Memoir, A History, A Memorial
Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2023

They Called Us Exceptional

And Other Lies That Raised Us
Prachi Gupta, 2023

Class

A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
Stephanie Land, 2023

To Free the Captives

A Plea for the American Soul
Tracy K. Smith, 2023

You Could Make This Place Beautiful

A Memoir
Maggie Smith, 2023

Of Time and Turtles

Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
Sy Montgomery, 2023

Lucky Me

A Memoir of Changing the Odds
Rich Paul, 2023

The Upstairs Delicatessen

On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
Dwight Garner, 2023

While You Were Out

An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
Meg Kissinger, 2023

Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Michael Lewis, 2023

The Country of the Blind

A Memoir at the End of Sight
Andrew Leland, 2023

The Hank Show

How a House-Painting, Drug-Running DEA Informant Built the Machine That Rules Our Lives
McKenzie Funk, 2023

Gambler

Secrets from a Life at Risk
Billy Walters, 2023

The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel

Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I
Douglas Brunt, 2023

Master Slave Husband Wife

An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Ilyon Woo, 2023

Congratulations, The Best Is Over!

Essays
R. Eric Thomas, 2023

Code Name Blue Wren

The True Story of America's Most Dangerous Female Spy—and the Sister She Betrayed
Jim Popkin, 2023

The Woman in Me

Britney Spears, 2023