Biography

A biography (from the Greek words bios meaning "life", and graphos meaning "write") is a non-fictional account of a person's life. Biographies are written by an author who is not the subject/focus of the book.

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Autobiography
Memoir
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South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Lost & Found: A Memoir
Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy
Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness
Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American
Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom
This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
High-Risk Homosexual
Rise: My Story
Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
Trapped in the Present Tense
Fearless Heart: An Illustrated Biography of Surya Bonaly
The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning
North to Paradise
Becoming
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
Her Hidden Genius
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Once Upon a Wardrobe
Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation
The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Por si las voces vuelven
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Peril
All about Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
This Much is True
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
Bossypants by Tina FeyIs Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy KalingLet's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny  LawsonYes Please by Amy PoehlerAre You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler
Funny Women Memoirs
412 books — 1,536 voters
Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonStiff by Mary RoachGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
2,107 books — 1,245 voters

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs by Women
2,721 books — 2,791 voters

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandLone Survivor by Marcus LuttrellWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
Best Non-fiction War Books
1,688 books — 2,057 voters

Steve Jobs
The Diary of a Young Girl
Becoming
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
John Adams
Educated
Alexander Hamilton
Einstein: His Life and Universe
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Bossypants
Into the Wild
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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