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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The Watchmakers: A Story of Brotherhood, Survival, and Hope Amid the Holocaust
Corrections in Ink: A Memoir
Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir
The Catch Me if You Can: One Woman's Journey to Every Country in the World
Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic
Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker's Wife, and Mussolini's Daughter Outwitted the Nazis
Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More
Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original
Pig Years
Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
Radical Love: Learning to Accept Yourself and Others
Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
Tanqueray
Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)
James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life
Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature
The Happiest Man on Earth
Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
Becoming
Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings
River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists
The Choice: Embrace the Possible
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Freakonomics by Steven D. LevittA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondStiff by Mary RoachOutliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
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Must Read Non-Fiction
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Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilJust Kids by Patti SmithChronicles by Bob DylanLife by Keith RichardsLove Is a Mix Tape by Rob Sheffield
Best Non Fiction About Music
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëA Room of One's Own by Virginia WoolfThe Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
Best Feminist Books
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Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonBlood River by Tim ButcherThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Best Traveling Vicariously
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Steve Jobs
The Diary of a Young Girl
Becoming
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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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