Featherbooks's votes on the list Literary biographies

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1	Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin 3.90 avg rating — 11,836 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd 4.03 avg rating — 2,344 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin 3.92 avg rating — 7,228 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Oscar Wilde: A Biography by Richard Ellmann 4.01 avg rating — 5,181 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin 4.09 avg rating — 1,797 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway 4.02 avg rating — 168,697 ratings Featherbooks rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir 4.12 avg rating — 18,694 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas 4.11 avg rating — 8,552 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen 4.20 avg rating — 11,895 ratings Featherbooks rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 4.34 avg rating — 321,049 ratings Featherbooks rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) by Maya Angelou 4.30 avg rating — 586,724 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Must you go?: my life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser 3.62 avg rating — 1,041 ratings Featherbooks rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller by Kathleen Jones (Goodreads Author) 4.26 avg rating — 43 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace by D.T. Max (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 9,730 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life by Anne Chisholm 3.99 avg rating — 112 ratings Featherbooks added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Shakespeare of London by Marchette Gaylord Chute 3.96 avg rating — 314 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell 4.09 avg rating — 102,737 ratings Featherbooks rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Doing Life: A Biography of Elizabeth Jolley by Brian Dibble 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Flaws in the glass: A self-portrait by Patrick White 4.01 avg rating — 135 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography by Robert Graves 3.93 avg rating — 15,699 ratings Featherbooks rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm 3.64 avg rating — 901 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz o Las trampas de la fe by Octavio Paz 4.25 avg rating — 841 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 3.60 avg rating — 9,203 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Blake by Peter Ackroyd 4.07 avg rating — 918 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin 3.84 avg rating — 440 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Shelley and His World by Claire Tomalin 4.04 avg rating — 57 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Byron in Love by Edna O'Brien 3.40 avg rating — 758 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand by George Sand 3.94 avg rating — 813 ratings Featherbooks rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life by Claire Tomalin 3.90 avg rating — 334 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Letters and Journals by Katherine Mansfield 3.95 avg rating — 409 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	A Backward Glance by Edith Wharton 3.79 avg rating — 1,111 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf 4.17 avg rating — 6,589 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood by Marcel Pagnol 4.27 avg rating — 1,140 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	My Several Worlds by Pearl S. Buck 4.17 avg rating — 837 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson by Nigel Nicolson 4.06 avg rating — 4,560 ratings Featherbooks rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Homage To Catalonia / Down And Out In Paris And London by George Orwell 4.26 avg rating — 624 ratings Featherbooks rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Henry and June: From the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin by Anaïs Nin 3.94 avg rating — 13,846 ratings Featherbooks rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 4.08 avg rating — 17,829 ratings Featherbooks rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman 4.06 avg rating — 1,288 ratings Featherbooks rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath 4.28 avg rating — 26,684 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Agatha Christie: An Autobiography by Agatha Christie 4.13 avg rating — 12,657 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Aké: The Years of Childhood by Wole Soyinka 3.86 avg rating — 2,044 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez 4.03 avg rating — 12,885 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	A Mingled Measure: Diaries, 1953-1972 by James Lees-Milne 4.24 avg rating — 34 ratings Featherbooks rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Stet: An Editor's Life by Diana Athill 3.94 avg rating — 1,622 ratings Featherbooks rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Frances Partridge: A Biography by Anne Chisholm 4.35 avg rating — 55 ratings Featherbooks rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Lit by Mary Karr 3.94 avg rating — 28,332 ratings Featherbooks rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Instead of a Letter: A Memoir by Diana Athill 3.89 avg rating — 868 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill 3.72 avg rating — 3,117 ratings Featherbooks rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Dangerous Muse: The Life Of Lady Caroline Blackwood by Nancy Schoenberger 3.58 avg rating — 292 ratings Featherbooks rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	Stop-Time by Frank Conroy 3.94 avg rating — 2,551 ratings Featherbooks rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell by Elizabeth Bishop 4.25 avg rating — 370 ratings Featherbooks rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	The Life of My Choice by Wilfred Thesiger 4.16 avg rating — 281 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris by Suzanne Rodriguez 4.11 avg rating — 308 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter: A Biography by Diana Souhami 3.58 avg rating — 394 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser 4.28 avg rating — 1,273 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	West with the Night by Beryl Markham 4.15 avg rating — 41,347 ratings Featherbooks rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	What the Woman Lived: Selected Letters, 1920-1970 by Louise Bogan 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Gerald Brenan: The Interior Castle : A Biography by Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Cyril Connolly: A Life by Jeremy Lewis 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings Featherbooks added it See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Ivy: The Life of I. Compton Burnett by Hilary Spurling 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman 3.88 avg rating — 1,761 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Aldous Huxley: A Biography by Sybille Bedford 4.04 avg rating — 142 ratings Featherbooks added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	D.H. Lawrence: A Literary Life by John Worthen 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	The Priest of Love: a life of D H Lawrence by Harry Thornton Moore 3.70 avg rating — 30 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: The Secret Agent Who Made the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Discovered the Kama Sutra and Brought the Arabian Nights to the West by Edward Rice 4.25 avg rating — 1,133 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	Isabelle: The Life of Isabelle Eberhardt by Annette Kobak 3.90 avg rating — 107 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Robert Lowell: A Biography by Ian Hamilton 3.97 avg rating — 121 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Travels with Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn 3.84 avg rating — 2,345 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	Ernest Hemingway by Carlos Baker 4.14 avg rating — 892 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	Cider with Rosie & As I Walked Out One Summer Morning by Laurie Lee 4.10 avg rating — 71 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf by Vita Sackville-West 4.47 avg rating — 5,429 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	The House of Mitford by Jonathan Guinness 3.81 avg rating — 365 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 1: 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry 4.14 avg rating — 219 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl by Donald Sturrock 3.88 avg rating — 1,465 ratings Featherbooks rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars