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Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9190 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,378,319 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7592 times as biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,272,127 ratings — published 1947
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5351 times as biography)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,224,583 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4683 times as biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,925,717 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 — 451,477 ratings — published 2015
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4371 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 206,280 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 — 1,010,045 ratings — published 2010
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4193 times as biography)
avg rating 4.09 — 381,560 ratings — published 2001
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4144 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 204,081 ratings — published 2004
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4056 times as biography)
avg rating 4.49 — 829,605 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3781 times as biography)
avg rating 4.13 — 819,171 ratings — published 2010
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3692 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 132,988 ratings — published 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3438 times as biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,390 ratings — published 1965
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3369 times as biography)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,210,881 ratings — published 1996
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3341 times as biography)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,563,919 ratings — published 2022
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3312 times as biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 152,574 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 — 632,922 ratings — published 2012
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 3157 times as biography)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,066,223 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 — 221,136 ratings — published 1985
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2789 times as biography)
avg rating 4.45 — 381,141 ratings — published 2016
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2635 times as biography)
avg rating 4.31 — 282,737 ratings — published 2020
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2630 times as biography)
avg rating 4.41 — 834,210 ratings — published 2016
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2510 times as biography)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,388,508 ratings — published 1956
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2438 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 85,069 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 — 591,716 ratings — published 1969
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2379 times as biography)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,390,351 ratings — published 2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 2343 times as biography)
avg rating 4.28 — 203,000 ratings — published 2005
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2162 times as biography)
avg rating 3.73 — 124,637 ratings — published 2010
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2150 times as biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 93,222 ratings — published 1791
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2107 times as biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 913,543 ratings — published 1946
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2092 times as biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 84,331 ratings — published 2010
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by (shelved 2072 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 62,106 ratings — published 1979
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2070 times as biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 39,082 ratings — published 1998
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2056 times as biography)
avg rating 4.30 — 61,186 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 — 510,812 ratings — published 2016
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1987 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 92,335 ratings — published 1992
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1970 times as biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 108,901 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 — 363,530 ratings — published 1971
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1940 times as biography)
avg rating 4.36 — 95,799 ratings — published 1991
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1928 times as biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 479,186 ratings — published 2020
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1893 times as biography)
avg rating 4.50 — 45,420 ratings — published 2017
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 1868 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 664,017 ratings — published 1996
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1863 times as biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 100,123 ratings — published 2015
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1843 times as biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 561,555 ratings — published 2014
Elon Musk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1806 times as biography)
avg rating 4.32 — 79,036 ratings — published 2023
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1767 times as biography)
avg rating 4.07 — 879,771 ratings — published 2012
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1708 times as biography)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,489 ratings — published 1845
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1687 times as biography)
avg rating 3.83 — 438,911 ratings — published 2023
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1679 times as biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 232,366 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 — 1,240,365 ratings — published 1997
“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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“I felt like a secret agent, relying on my wits and charm to keep me alive amidst an epidemic of violent death”
― Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
― Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
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bio, biografia, biografico, biographical, biographies, biographies-memoirs, biography-and-memoir, and non-fiction__biography
