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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Uncultured: A Memoir
Solito
American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life
Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
Becoming FDR: The Personal Crisis That Made a President
Stay True: A Memoir
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology
Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories
Life's Work: A Memoir
Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America
The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women
A Visible Man: A Memoir
It Won't Always Be Like This
Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories
Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients
Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)
Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
The Happiest Man on Earth
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
Becoming
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
Tanqueray
The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
No One Crosses the Wolf: A Memoir
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
The Daughter of Auschwitz: A Memoir
James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life
John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinThe Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
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Memoirs by Women
2,782 books — 2,915 voters

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Best Biographies
1,332 books — 2,712 voters

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
1,256 books — 1,262 voters
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Best Books on Rock and Roll
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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
Educated
John Adams
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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