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Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8837 times as biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,309,468 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7349 times as biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,985,573 ratings — published 1947
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5187 times as biography)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,133,875 ratings — published 2018
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4574 times as biography)
avg rating 4.14 — 425,584 ratings — published 2015
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4440 times as biography)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,706,856 ratings — published 2018
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4269 times as biography)
avg rating 4.39 — 977,097 ratings — published 2010
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4033 times as biography)
avg rating 4.08 — 369,729 ratings — published 2001
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 3956 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 190,863 ratings — published 2004
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3853 times as biography)
avg rating 4.49 — 757,138 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3652 times as biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 772,001 ratings — published 2010
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3446 times as biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 116,871 ratings — published 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3288 times as biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 280,208 ratings — published 1965
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3251 times as biography)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,146,178 ratings — published 1996
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3170 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 604,188 ratings — published 2012
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3155 times as biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 145,052 ratings — published 2003
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 3135 times as biography)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,033,236 ratings — published 2011
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2854 times as biography)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,267,414 ratings — published 2022
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 2851 times as biography)
avg rating 4.27 — 209,790 ratings — published 1985
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2611 times as biography)
avg rating 4.47 — 337,545 ratings — published 2016
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2496 times as biography)
avg rating 4.33 — 254,905 ratings — published 2020
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2470 times as biography)
avg rating 4.41 — 741,091 ratings — published 2016
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2417 times as biography)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,310,443 ratings — published 1956
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 2317 times as biography)
avg rating 4.30 — 557,052 ratings — published 1969
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2270 times as biography)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,296,966 ratings — published 2005
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2262 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 77,762 ratings — published 2010
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 2245 times as biography)
avg rating 4.28 — 193,427 ratings — published 2005
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2087 times as biography)
avg rating 3.73 — 119,967 ratings — published 2010
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2048 times as biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 88,283 ratings — published 1791
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1989 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 78,509 ratings — published 2010
Man’s Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 1973 times as biography)
avg rating 4.38 — 800,551 ratings — published 1946
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Paperback)
by (shelved 1957 times as biography)
avg rating 4.23 — 57,878 ratings — published 1979
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 1932 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 34,123 ratings — published 1998
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1931 times as biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 106,021 ratings — published 2011
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1925 times as biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 473,126 ratings — published 2016
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1900 times as biography)
avg rating 4.32 — 52,497 ratings — published 2005
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1876 times as biography)
avg rating 4.47 — 342,169 ratings — published 1971
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1863 times as biography)
avg rating 4.36 — 90,853 ratings — published 1994
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 1837 times as biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 645,363 ratings — published 1996
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1783 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 95,657 ratings — published 2015
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1781 times as biography)
avg rating 4.06 — 837,624 ratings — published 2012
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1745 times as biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 400,667 ratings — published 2020
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1744 times as biography)
avg rating 4.50 — 40,644 ratings — published 2017
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1687 times as biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 228,450 ratings — published 1995
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1638 times as biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 130,026 ratings — published 1845
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1584 times as biography)
avg rating 3.84 — 404,191 ratings — published 2023
Elon Musk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1550 times as biography)
avg rating 4.36 — 63,012 ratings — published 2023
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 1549 times as biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,117,572 ratings — published 1997
Just Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1460 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 318,962 ratings — published 2010
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 1452 times as biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 347,708 ratings — published 2000
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1420 times as biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 61,231 ratings — published 2015
“if you want it really, you get it !!!”
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“What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written.”
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auto-and-biography-and-memoir, bio, biografia, biografico, biographical, biographies, biographies-memoirs, biography-and-memoir, and non-fiction__biography
