Top 10 autobiography books 2013

New Yorker staff writer and Pulitzer Prize—winner Wright offers a reality test about a set of beliefs and behaviors that constitute this formidable 20th-century religious movement. Neither the U. The government twists the law and the Constitution to serve an ideology that sees the whole world as a potential battlefield, in which we make and remake the rules as we go.

Scahill produces a masterwork of investigative journalism that offers a bleak, chilling vision of our militarized future. With graceful prose and a heavy heart, critically acclaimed novelist Ward bravely enters nonfiction terrain in this starkly honest and deeply tragic account of the deaths of five important men in her life. The Blood of Olympus , the fifth and final book in the Heroes of Olympus series, will be released on 7 October Eben Alexander is an American neurosurgeon.

This book describes his near-death experience and asserts that science can and will determine that heaven really does exist. It details the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. Start Now. Want to Read. Shelving menu. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Rate it:. I come from a country that was created at midnight.

Top 10 autobiography books 2013

When I almost died it was just after midday. When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, , when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. Life in a Socialist police state has never been as perceptively looked back on as here.

A memoir by one of the youngest people on Oskar Schindler's list of Jews saved from the Nazis. Simply, but evocatively and heartbreakingly told, this is something that should be read by children and adults alike. Compelling in its level of detail, this book shows us why Alan Moore is held in such high esteem — and deserves nothing less itself.

The first full biography of King Edward VII written for many years, with the aid of full access to papers from the Royal Archives and elsewhere. A biography of film star Oliver Reed, remembered for his off-screen antics as much as his acting, written with the aid of interviews with family, friends and peers.