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.

See also:
Autobiography
Memoir
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Acceptance: A Memoir
Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
Scenes from My Life: A Memoir
Hitler's Girl: The British Aristocracy and the Third Reich on the Eve of WWII
This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After
Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery
The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War's Last Honest Man
Mothercare: On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Always Faithful: A Story of the War in Afghanistan, the Fall of Kabul, and the Unshakable Bond Between a Marine and an Interpreter
Breaking History: A White House Memoir
Into Enemy Waters: A World War II Story of the Demolition Divers Who Became the Navy SEALS
Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment
Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821
Eliot After the Waste Land
No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir
The Happiest Man on Earth
Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life
Becoming
Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors
The Daughter of Auschwitz: A Memoir
The World's Worst Assistant
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Breaking History: A White House Memoir
Out of the Corner
Token Black Girl: A Memoir
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
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
2,323 books — 1,873 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Best Woman-Authored Books
7,379 books — 5,100 voters
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
2,315 books — 1,402 voters

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

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