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Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9189 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,378,378 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7593 times as biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,272,338 ratings — published 1947
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5351 times as biography)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,224,641 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4683 times as biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,925,873 ratings — published 2018
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4601 times as biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 451,510 ratings — published 2015
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4371 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 206,291 ratings — published 2007
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4307 times as biography)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,010,063 ratings — published 2010
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4195 times as biography)
avg rating 4.09 — 381,562 ratings — published 2001
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4145 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 204,088 ratings — published 2004
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4056 times as biography)
avg rating 4.49 — 829,666 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3781 times as biography)
avg rating 4.13 — 819,192 ratings — published 2010
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3692 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 132,994 ratings — published 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3438 times as biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,404 ratings — published 1965
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3369 times as biography)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,210,926 ratings — published 1996
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3343 times as biography)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,564,120 ratings — published 2022
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3313 times as biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 152,578 ratings — published 2003
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3248 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 632,937 ratings — published 2012
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 3157 times as biography)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,066,253 ratings — published 2011
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 2960 times as biography)
avg rating 4.26 — 221,145 ratings — published 1985
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2789 times as biography)
avg rating 4.45 — 381,173 ratings — published 2016
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2635 times as biography)
avg rating 4.31 — 282,751 ratings — published 2020
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2630 times as biography)
avg rating 4.41 — 834,259 ratings — published 2016
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2510 times as biography)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,388,553 ratings — published 1956
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2437 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 85,077 ratings — published 2010
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 2418 times as biography)
avg rating 4.30 — 591,740 ratings — published 1969
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2379 times as biography)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,390,396 ratings — published 2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 2343 times as biography)
avg rating 4.28 — 203,006 ratings — published 2005
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2162 times as biography)
avg rating 3.73 — 124,642 ratings — published 2010
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2151 times as biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 93,228 ratings — published 1791
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2106 times as biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 913,632 ratings — published 1946
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2092 times as biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 84,335 ratings — published 2010
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by (shelved 2072 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 62,109 ratings — published 1979
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2070 times as biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 39,085 ratings — published 1998
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2057 times as biography)
avg rating 4.30 — 61,193 ratings — published 2005
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2035 times as biography)
avg rating 3.83 — 510,829 ratings — published 2016
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1987 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 92,334 ratings — published 1992
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1970 times as biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 108,903 ratings — published 2011
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1945 times as biography)
avg rating 4.48 — 363,546 ratings — published 1971
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1940 times as biography)
avg rating 4.36 — 95,802 ratings — published 1991
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1928 times as biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 479,235 ratings — published 2020
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1893 times as biography)
avg rating 4.50 — 45,421 ratings — published 2017
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 1868 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 664,026 ratings — published 1996
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1863 times as biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 100,127 ratings — published 2015
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1843 times as biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 561,571 ratings — published 2014
Elon Musk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1806 times as biography)
avg rating 4.32 — 79,043 ratings — published 2023
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1767 times as biography)
avg rating 4.07 — 879,792 ratings — published 2012
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1708 times as biography)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,491 ratings — published 1845
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1687 times as biography)
avg rating 3.83 — 438,939 ratings — published 2023
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1679 times as biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 232,369 ratings — published 1995
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 1636 times as biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,240,473 ratings — published 1997
“Because I always feel like running
Not away, because there is no such place
Because if there was, I would have found it by now
Because it's easier to run,
Easier than staying and finding out you're the only one who didn't run
Because running will be the way your life and mine will be described,
As in "the long run"
Or as in having "given someone a run for his money"
Or as in "running out of time"
Because running makes me look like everyone else, though I hope there will never be cause for that
Because I will be running in the other direction, not running for cover
Because if I knew where cover was, I would stay there and never have to run for it
Not running for my life, because I have to be running for something of more value to be running and not in fear
Because the thing I fear cannot be escaped, eluded, avoided, hidden from, protected from, gotten away from,
Not without showing the fear as I see it now
Because closer, clearer, no sir, nearer
Because of you and because of that nice
That you quietly, quickly be causing
And because you're going to see me run soon and because you're going to know why I'm running then
You'll know then
Because I'm not going to tell you now”
― Now and Then...
Not away, because there is no such place
Because if there was, I would have found it by now
Because it's easier to run,
Easier than staying and finding out you're the only one who didn't run
Because running will be the way your life and mine will be described,
As in "the long run"
Or as in having "given someone a run for his money"
Or as in "running out of time"
Because running makes me look like everyone else, though I hope there will never be cause for that
Because I will be running in the other direction, not running for cover
Because if I knew where cover was, I would stay there and never have to run for it
Not running for my life, because I have to be running for something of more value to be running and not in fear
Because the thing I fear cannot be escaped, eluded, avoided, hidden from, protected from, gotten away from,
Not without showing the fear as I see it now
Because closer, clearer, no sir, nearer
Because of you and because of that nice
That you quietly, quickly be causing
And because you're going to see me run soon and because you're going to know why I'm running then
You'll know then
Because I'm not going to tell you now”
― Now and Then...
“The Black Prince is entombed at Canterbury Cathedral. His effigy reads: “Such as thou art, sometimes was I, Such as I am, such thou shalt be, I thought little on hour of death, So long as I enjoyed breath, On earth I had great riches, Land, houses, great treasure, Horses money and gold, But now a wretched captive am I, Deep in the ground, lo I lie, My beauty great, is all quite gone, My flesh is wasted to the bone.”
― Isabella Warrior Queen
― Isabella Warrior Queen
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bio, biografia, biografico, biographical, biographies, biographies-memoirs, biography-and-memoir, and non-fiction__biography
