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Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9223 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,384,442 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7604 times as biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,298,967 ratings — published 1947
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5349 times as biography)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,232,801 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4704 times as biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,947,477 ratings — published 2018
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4599 times as biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 453,628 ratings — published 2015
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4387 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 207,537 ratings — published 2007
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4317 times as biography)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,013,818 ratings — published 2010
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4210 times as biography)
avg rating 4.09 — 382,778 ratings — published 2001
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4155 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 205,326 ratings — published 2004
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4081 times as biography)
avg rating 4.49 — 837,413 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3782 times as biography)
avg rating 4.13 — 823,414 ratings — published 2010
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3713 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 134,335 ratings — published 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3451 times as biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 297,901 ratings — published 1965
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3389 times as biography)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,217,261 ratings — published 1996
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3384 times as biography)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,590,877 ratings — published 2022
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3334 times as biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 153,308 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 3256 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 635,838 ratings — published 2012
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 3159 times as biography)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,069,515 ratings — published 2011
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 2966 times as biography)
avg rating 4.26 — 222,101 ratings — published 1985
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2803 times as biography)
avg rating 4.45 — 384,764 ratings — published 2016
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2648 times as biography)
avg rating 4.41 — 842,712 ratings — published 2016
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2643 times as biography)
avg rating 4.31 — 284,785 ratings — published 2020
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2516 times as biography)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,395,267 ratings — published 1956
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2458 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 85,831 ratings — published 2010
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 2422 times as biography)
avg rating 4.30 — 594,651 ratings — published 1969
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2382 times as biography)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,399,722 ratings — published 2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 2347 times as biography)
avg rating 4.28 — 203,890 ratings — published 2005
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2165 times as biography)
avg rating 3.73 — 125,098 ratings — published 2010
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2152 times as biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 93,672 ratings — published 1791
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2124 times as biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 924,518 ratings — published 1946
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2094 times as biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 84,791 ratings — published 2010
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by (shelved 2087 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 62,500 ratings — published 1979
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2087 times as biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 39,533 ratings — published 1998
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2074 times as biography)
avg rating 4.30 — 61,864 ratings — published 2005
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2039 times as biography)
avg rating 3.83 — 512,757 ratings — published 2016
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1992 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 92,617 ratings — published 1992
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1974 times as biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 109,094 ratings — published 2011
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1959 times as biography)
avg rating 4.36 — 96,325 ratings — published 1991
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1948 times as biography)
avg rating 4.48 — 365,483 ratings — published 1971
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1948 times as biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 484,724 ratings — published 2020
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1903 times as biography)
avg rating 4.51 — 45,834 ratings — published 2017
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 1870 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 666,280 ratings — published 1996
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1868 times as biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 100,572 ratings — published 2015
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1842 times as biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 563,152 ratings — published 2014
Elon Musk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1825 times as biography)
avg rating 4.32 — 80,059 ratings — published 2023
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1776 times as biography)
avg rating 4.07 — 883,894 ratings — published 2012
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1727 times as biography)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,074 ratings — published 1845
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1694 times as biography)
avg rating 3.83 — 441,569 ratings — published 2023
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1676 times as biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 232,799 ratings — published 1995
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 1643 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,254,767 ratings — published 1997
“Where you are depends on how you get there.”
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“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
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bio, biografia, biografico, biographical, biographies, biographies-memoirs, biography-and-memoir, and non-fiction__biography