I enjoy reading about other people's lives. A lot of times, truth can be stranger than fiction.

Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand is amazing. As is Seabiscuit which is a memoir sort of.

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is lovely.

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion is heartwrenching.

My Life in France by Julia Child is one of my favorite memoirs/food books ever. Along the same line, Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential and Bill Buford's Heat are both hilarious and wonderful.

Everything by David Sedaris is gold, but his stories are admittedly embellished and exaggerated.

Tina Fey's Bossypants is pretty good too. I'm almost finished with Craig Ferguson's American on Purpose and finding it hilarious and surprisingly deep.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is not strictly a biography in the traditional sense. But it is all about her life and death and the global impact she's had (and continues to have) on all our lives. Pretty fascinating stuff.