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The Diary of a Young Girl (Paperback)
by Anne Frank (shelved 2292 times as biography)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,128,022 ratings — published 1947
John Adams (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 1388 times as biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 122,733 ratings — published 2001
Bossypants (Audio CD)
by Tina Fey (shelved 1107 times as biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 273,408 ratings — published 2011
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Hardcover)
by Laura Hillenbrand (shelved 968 times as biography)
avg rating 4.45 — 221,247 ratings — published 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author) (shelved 923 times as biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 244,825 ratings — published 2010
Into the Wild (Paperback)
by Jon Krakauer (shelved 886 times as biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 444,915 ratings — published 1996
Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
by Elie Wiesel (shelved 787 times as biography)
avg rating 4.25 — 427,131 ratings — published 1955
Angela's Ashes (Paperback)
by Frank McCourt (shelved 784 times as biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 254,320 ratings — published 1996
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by Walter Isaacson (shelved 759 times as biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 88,771 ratings — published 2007
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by Stacy Schiff (Goodreads Author) (shelved 747 times as biography)
avg rating 3.57 — 98,217 ratings — published 2010
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Paperback)
by Malcolm X (shelved 688 times as biography)
avg rating 4.24 — 84,803 ratings — published 1966
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by Jeannette Walls (shelved 646 times as biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 425,500 ratings — published 2005
I Love Yous Are for White People (Paperback)
by Lac Su (shelved 644 times as biography)
avg rating 3.60 — 29,842 ratings — published 2009
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by Robert K. Massie (shelved 614 times as biography)
avg rating 3.97 — 74,310 ratings — published 2011
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by Doris Kearns Goodwin (shelved 611 times as biography)
avg rating 4.40 — 79,545 ratings — published 2005
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by Barack Obama (shelved 604 times as biography)
avg rating 3.81 — 91,993 ratings — published 1995
Truman (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 592 times as biography)
avg rating 4.29 — 41,761 ratings — published 1992
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by Walter Isaacson (shelved 591 times as biography)
avg rating 3.98 — 52,115 ratings — published 2003
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by Elizabeth Gilbert (shelved 576 times as biography)
avg rating 3.40 — 863,813 ratings — published 2006
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Paperback)
by Richard P. Feynman (shelved 551 times as biography)
avg rating 4.32 — 56,305 ratings — published 1985
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
by Eric Metaxas (shelved 497 times as biography)
avg rating 4.28 — 41,361 ratings — published 2009
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Paperback)
by Edmund Morris (shelved 487 times as biography)
avg rating 4.30 — 31,924 ratings — published 1979
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by Benjamin Franklin (shelved 466 times as biography)
avg rating 3.75 — 34,994 ratings — published 1790
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (Hardcover)
by Barack Obama (shelved 446 times as biography)
avg rating 3.68 — 99,997 ratings — published 2006
Running with Scissors (Paperback)
by Augusten Burroughs (shelved 436 times as biography)
avg rating 3.61 — 235,730 ratings — published 2002
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by Ron Chernow (shelved 428 times as biography)
avg rating 4.11 — 23,274 ratings — published 2004
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Mass Market Paperback)
by Maya Angelou (shelved 419 times as biography)
avg rating 4.06 — 172,198 ratings — published 1970
Theodore Rex (Paperback)
by Edmund Morris (shelved 417 times as biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 17,842 ratings — published 2001
His Excellency: George Washington (Paperback)
by Joseph J. Ellis (shelved 416 times as biography)
avg rating 3.93 — 27,437 ratings — published 2004
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by Walter Isaacson (shelved 412 times as biography)
avg rating 4.13 — 256,300 ratings — published 2011
My Life in France (Hardcover)
by Julia Child (shelved 411 times as biography)
avg rating 4.14 — 70,446 ratings — published 2006
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Hardcover)
by Steve Martin (shelved 410 times as biography)
avg rating 3.84 — 52,256 ratings — published 2007
A Beautiful Mind (Paperback)
by Sylvia Nasar (shelved 397 times as biography)
avg rating 4.06 — 61,556 ratings — published 1998
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by Greg Mortenson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 397 times as biography)
avg rating 3.65 — 258,322 ratings — published 2006
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by Anthony Bourdain (shelved 379 times as biography)
avg rating 3.96 — 109,335 ratings — published 2000
Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Paperback)
by Antonia Fraser (shelved 379 times as biography)
avg rating 3.87 — 42,860 ratings — published 2001
The Last Lecture (Hardcover)
by Randy Pausch (shelved 369 times as biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 179,584 ratings — published 2008
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by Frederick Douglass (shelved 368 times as biography)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,646 ratings — published 1845
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by Jon Meacham (shelved 350 times as biography)
avg rating 3.76 — 24,565 ratings — published 2008
Life (Hardcover)
by Keith Richards (shelved 348 times as biography)
avg rating 3.82 — 48,102 ratings — published 2010
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by Simon Winchester (shelved 345 times as biography)
avg rating 3.84 — 65,248 ratings — published 1998
Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Hardcover)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 328 times as biography)
avg rating 3.74 — 20,530 ratings — published 2007
Infidel (Hardcover)
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (shelved 327 times as biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,351 ratings — published 2006
Nicholas and Alexandra (Paperback)
by Robert K. Massie (shelved 326 times as biography)
avg rating 4.25 — 18,316 ratings — published 1967
The Story of My Life (Paperback)
by Helen Keller (shelved 315 times as biography)
avg rating 4.11 — 56,125 ratings — published 1902
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Paperback)
by Jung Chang (shelved 314 times as biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 42,213 ratings — published 1991
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Paperback)
by Amanda Foreman (shelved 313 times as biography)
avg rating 3.79 — 14,220 ratings — published 1998
Mornings on Horseback (Paperback)
by David McCullough (shelved 311 times as biography)
avg rating 4.11 — 16,168 ratings — published 1981
“Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.”
― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
“What drove us crazy wasn't necessarily the sexual freedom his critic claimed he was unleashing, but freedom, period. Freedom to be yourself, to express yourself, to wear what you wanted to wear, to look the way you wanted to look, to have your own style, your own talk.”
― Larry Geller, Joel Spector, Patricia Romanowski
― Larry Geller, Joel Spector, Patricia Romanowski
Alison Lapper's story symbolizes perseverance, courage
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