Biography

A biography (from the Greek words bios meaning "life", and graphos meaning "write") is an account of a person's life, usually published in the form of a book or essay, or in some other form, such as a film.

Ike's Mystery Man: The Secret Lives of Robert Cutler
When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt
Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
The Allies: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II
Why Religion?: A Personal Story
Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington
Henry VIII and the men who made him: The secret history behind the Tudor throne
Welcome Home
First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story
Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow
Autism in Heels: The Untold Story of a Female Life on the Spectrum
Insomnia
Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom
Congratulations, Who Are You Again?
Little Dreamers: Visionary Women Around the World
  • Freedom's Detective by Charles  Lane
    Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror
    by
    Release date: Apr 09, 2019
    Enter to win an ARC!

    Freedom’s Detective reveals the untold story of the Reconstruction-era United States Secret Service and their battle against the K
    ...more
    View Details »

    Format: Print book

    Giveaway ends in: a

    Availability: 50 copies available, 1342 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jan 10 - Feb 09, 2019

    Countries available: U.S.

  • The Story of Lee by Sean Michael Wilson
    The Story of Lee: Volume 3 of 3
    by
    Release date: Feb 01, 2019
    Enter for a chance to win a free copy of 'The Story of Lee Vol.3' by Sean Michael Wilson and Piarelle.

    Matt, an ex-pat from Scotland in Hong Kong, meet
    ...more
    View Details »

    Format: Print book

    Giveaway ends in: a

    Availability: 5 copies available, 788 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jan 14 - Jan 28, 2019

    Countries available: U.S. and Canada

  • The Honey Bus by Meredith May
    The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees
    by
    Release date: Apr 02, 2019
    Enter to win 1 of 25 Advanced Reader Copies of The Honey Bus by Meredith May!

    An extraordinary story of a girl, her grandfather and one of nature’s mos
    ...more
    View Details »

    Format: Print book

    Giveaway ends in: a

    Availability: 25 copies available, 1372 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jan 01 - Jan 30, 2019

    Countries available: U.S.

  • The Tattooist of Auschwitz
    This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
    Rock Needs River: A Memoir About a Very Open Adoption
    The Last Days of August
    In Pieces
    The Only Woman in the Room
    My Thoughts Exactly
    The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
    The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
    The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
    Yes Please
    De Amerikaanse prinses
    The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
    D DAY Through German Eyes - The Hidden Story of June 6th 1944
    Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
    The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsNight by Elie WieselAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
    Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
    4,336 books — 4,768 voters
    Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilChronicles, Volume One by Bob DylanLove Is a Mix Tape by Rob SheffieldJust Kids by Patti SmithLife by Keith Richards
    Best Non Fiction About Music
    1,121 books — 1,015 voters

    Hiroshima by John HerseyThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBand of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. ShirerThe Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
    World War Two Non Fiction
    635 books — 455 voters
    The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienMatterhorn by Karl MarlantesDispatches by Michael HerrA Rumor Of War by Philip CaputoThe Quiet American by Graham Greene
    Best Literature About the Vietnam War
    261 books — 459 voters

    The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsCatching Fire by Suzanne CollinsMockingjay by Suzanne CollinsDivergent by Veronica RothVampire Academy by Richelle Mead
    Favourite young adult books
    1,246 books — 1,041 voters
    1984 by George OrwellSiddhartha by Hermann HesseAnimal Farm by George OrwellThe Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
    Best Books For Freedom Lovers
    706 books — 443 voters

    Steve Jobs
    The Diary of a Young Girl
    Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
    John Adams
    Bossypants
    The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
    Alexander Hamilton
    Einstein: His Life and Universe
    Into the Wild
    Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
    I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
    Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
    Cleopatra: A Life

    Ruth Brandon
    Ruth Brandon Ugly Beauty: Helena Rubinstein, L'Oreal, and the Blemished History of Looking Good
    Her Favorite Books on Beauty: Her biography, Ugly Beauty, chronicles the life of cosmetics giant Helena Rubinstein. Brandon shares her favorite books that are about more than just another pretty face.
    More Good Minds Suggest…
    Oscar Wilde
    “ You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas ”
    ― Oscar Wilde

    Laura Bush
    “ I turned to books for comfort. (Former First Lady, Laura Bush) ”
    ― Laura Bush, Spoken from the Heart

    More quotes...
    Read/Review Book together in a Week We aim at reading at least one book in a week. Do you love reading? Then join us. Challenge your…more

    4 members, last active 18 days ago

    #stopdrinking A book club for people interested in books about achieving and maintaining sobriety. Loosely ass…more

    37 members, last active 53 days ago

    Bookbarn Book Club The Bookbarn team want to share their reading experiences with you! Each month, we're going to c…more

    3 members, last active 22 days ago

    Deep State Radio Book Group This is a group for Deep State Radio Nerds and all who are interested in and inquisitive about t…more

    238 members, last active 2 days ago

    The Man Who Made Vermeers
    1 chapters — updated Mar 29, 2010 04:35PM — 4 people liked it
    No Ordinary Life
    1 chapters — updated May 13, 2015 06:32PM — 1 person liked it

    Tags

    Tags contributing to this page include: biography, auto-and-biography-and-memoir, bio, biografia, biografico, biographical, biographies, biographies-memoirs, biography-and-memoir, and non-fiction__biography