5 must-read biography memoir books like A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

Cover of A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

A Beautiful Mind

By: Sylvia Nasar

4.13

Format: 461 pages, Paperback

Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound—such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model …

"Nash was respected but not well liked."

-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

"Nash was respected but not well liked."

-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

"Nash was respected but not well liked."

-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

"A genius with a penis. Isn’t that what we all want?"

-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

If you liked the biography memoir plot in A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

1. A Beautiful Mind

By: Sylvia Nasar

4.13

Format: 461 pages, Paperback

Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound—such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model … read more

Similar categories in Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind book and Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • mathematics
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • media tie in
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Nash was respected but not well liked."

-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

"A genius with a penis. Isn’t that what we all want?"

-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

"His heroes were solitary thinkers and supermen like Newton and Nietzsche."

-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

"Hey Nash! You scared?' 'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you!"

-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

Cover of A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script by Ron Howard, Akiva Goldsman

2. A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script

By: Ron Howard , Akiva Goldsman

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"A Beautiful Mind, the intensely human drama of a true genius, is inspired by events in the life of… read more

Similar categories in Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script book and Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind

  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Your creativity has value. You’re not wasting your time dreaming."

-Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script

Cover of Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

3. Long Walk to Freedom

By: Nelson Mandela

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

The book that inspired the major new motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. Nelson Mandela i… read more

Similar categories in Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom book and Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

4. Cleopatra: A Life

By: Stacy Schiff

4.09

Format: 129 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of th… read more

Similar categories in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra: A Life book and Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
Cover of James Cameron's Titanic by Ed W. Marsh, Douglas Kirkland

5. James Cameron's Titanic

By: Ed W. Marsh , Douglas Kirkland

3.00

Format: 32 pages,

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Similar categories in Ed W. Marsh's James Cameron's Titanic book and Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind

  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Long Walk To Freedom (Volume 1: 1918-1962) by Nelson Mandela

6. Long Walk To Freedom (Volume 1: 1918-1962)

By: Nelson Mandela

3.82

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

From his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation … read more

Similar categories in Nelson Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom (Volume 1: 1918-1962) book and Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic Remembrance by Anna Quindlen, Anne Frank, Ruud van der Rol, Rian Verhoeven, Tony Langham, None

7. Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic Remembrance

By: Anna Quindlen , Anne Frank , Ruud van der Rol , Rian Verhoeven , Tony Langham , None

4.00

Format: 139 pages,

In over one hundred photographs, many which have never been published, this poignant memoir brings … read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary - A Photographic Remembrance book and Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
Cover of Helen Keller by Stewart Graff, Wayne Alfano, Polly Anne Graff

8. Helen Keller

By: Stewart Graff , Wayne Alfano , Polly Anne Graff

3.65

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

From the age of a year and a half, Helen Keller could not hear. She could not see, and she did not … read more

Similar categories in Stewart Graff's Helen Keller book and Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
Cover of My Life by Bill Clinton

9. My Life

By: Bill Clinton

3.74

Format: 1056 pages, Paperback

An exhaustive, soul-searching memoir, Bill Clinton's My Life is a refreshingly candid look at the f… read more

Similar categories in Bill Clinton's My Life book and Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself."

-Bill Clinton, My Life

"The idea that power was an end in itself, rather than a means to provide the security and opportunity necessary for the pursuit of happiness, seemed to him stupid and self-defeating." (about Senator …"

-Bill Clinton, My Life

"I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can’t be judged by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh j…"

-Bill Clinton, My Life

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10. Lincoln

By: David Herbert Donald

4.19

Format: 714 pages, Paperback

A masterful work by Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Herbert Donald, Lincoln is a stunning portr… read more

Similar categories in David Herbert Donald's Lincoln book and Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir

11. Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By: Barack Obama

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voic… read more

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12. Good Will Hunting

By: Gus Van Sant , Matt Damon , None

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

As director Gus Van Sant observes in the introduction to Matt Damon's and Ben Affleck's screenplay … read more

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13. Twelve Years a Slave

By: Solomon Northup

3.58

Format: None pages, ebook

A film tie-in edition of this eloquent and powerful memoir, to accompany the major new film starrin… read more

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14. The Shawshank Redemption: The Shooting Script

By: Stephen King , Frank Darabont

4.21

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

This modern film classic, an extraordinary tale of hope and survival inside a maximum security pris… read more

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15. Einstein: His Life and Universe

By: Walter Isaacson

4.33

Format: 201 pages,

By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive… read more

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16. The Story of My Life

By: Helen Keller

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An American classic rediscovered by each generation, The Story of My Lifeis Helen Keller's account … read more

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17. The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

By: Barack Obama

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The Audacity of Hopeis Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics--a politics that builds upon … read more

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18. The Pursuit of Happyness

By: Chris Gardner

4.15

Format: 447 pages, Paperback

The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son o… read more

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19. Braveheart

By: Randall Wallace

4.28

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

For love of country, for love of maiden, for love of freedom...he became the hammer and scourge of … read more

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20. Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump, #1)

By: Winston Groom

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Meet Forrest Gump, the lovable, herculean, and surprisingly savvy hero of this remarkable comic ody… read more

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21. The Story of My Experiments With Truth

By: Mahatma Gandhi

4.29

Format: 426 pages, Paperback

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography h… read more

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