Please include great biographies, autobiographies and memoirs with fewer than 500 ratings on Goodreads.
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All non fiction with at least 100,000 ratings
All non fiction at 50,000 to 99,999 ratings
Biography/Memoir/Autobiography lists by ratings:
50,000_ratings or more
25,000 to 49,999 ratings
10,000 to 24,999 ratings
5,000 to 9,999 ratings
2,500 to 4,999 ratings
1,500 to 2,499 ratings
1,000 to 1,499 ratings
500 to 999 ratings
under 500 ratings
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All non fiction with at least 100,000 ratings
All non fiction at 50,000 to 99,999 ratings
Biography/Memoir/Autobiography lists by ratings:
50,000_ratings or more
25,000 to 49,999 ratings
10,000 to 24,999 ratings
5,000 to 9,999 ratings
2,500 to 4,999 ratings
1,500 to 2,499 ratings
1,000 to 1,499 ratings
500 to 999 ratings
under 500 ratings
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I did mean 500. Perhaps it's confusing because I did not make a list or lists that covered 500 up to the other list at 5,000. I ran out of time the day I was doing this and wanted to get a list up of good bios that did not have a lot of rankings so I did this first. Please feel free to add lists for the 500-5,000 range. Like I said, I mostly just ran out of time as I am preparing for surgery next week.

Helen Keller: A Life
Fifth Chinese Daughter
The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife
Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations
American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
After the Fire: A True Story of Friendship and Survival
Nisei Daughter
The True History of the Elephant Man
Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
Lonely: A Memoir
Paper Daughter: A Memoir
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home
Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection
Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness
Marilyn Monroe: Private And Undisclosed
Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
Colored People
Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea
Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White-Collar Dreams
People of the Century: One Hundred Men & Women Who Shaped the Last One Hundred Years
The Flamboya Tree: Memories of a Family's War Time Courage
Haywire
Haven: The Dramatic Story of 1,000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America
Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface
Not Even My Name: A True Story
50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany

Helen Keller: A Life
Fifth Chinese Daughter
The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife
[book:Mosaic: A ..."
thanks for this. I'll try to do a quick run though and double your votes. I haven't wanted to take on the biography lists so I'm glad you did.

The Unsayable: The Hidden Language of Trauma
Genius on the Edge: The Bizarre Double Life of Dr. William Stewart Halsted
The Ear of the Heart: An Actress' Journey from Hollywood to Holy Vows

Memoirs of a Revolutionary
The Bonfire Of Berlin
Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
Conversations with Stalin
The Jungle Is Neutral
Carve Her Name with Pride: The Story of Violette Szabo
Around the World in 72 Days
The Confessions of Lady Nijō
Wellington: The Iron Duke
Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
Without a Net: Middle Class and Homeless with Kids in America
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
The Loony-Bin Trip

Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage
America's Boy: A Memoir
Escape from Slavery: The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal
Nurse
In Praise of Imperfection
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
After Kathy Acker: A Biography
Three Came Home
In Our Hearts We Were Giants: The Remarkable Story of the Lilliput Troupe, a Dwarf Family's Survival of the Holocaust
Every Last Tie: The Story of the Unabomber and His Family
Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
James Cook: The Story Behind the Man Who Mapped the World
The Watchmaker's Daughter: A Memoir
The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail
Undaunted: My Struggle for Freedom and Survival in Burma
James Monroe: A Life
Mine Were of Trouble
Daughter of the Ganges: The Story of One Girl's Adoption and Her Return Journey to India
Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
I Was A Doctor In Auschwitz
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