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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Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
The Queen: Her Life
Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth
Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century
Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions
Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
Nero: Matricide, Music, and Murder in Imperial Rome
Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim
The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan in the White House and the World
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
A Heart That Works
Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem
Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within
The Happiest Man on Earth
Becoming
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)
Le jeune homme
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, Collected wisdom from her Sunday Times Style Column
Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays
Pesos: The Rise and Fall of a Border Family
Waxing On: The Karate Kid and Me
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
1,262 books — 1,266 voters
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
5,392 books — 5,809 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,709 books — 1,818 voters

The Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourtNight by Elie WieselEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Favorite Memoirs/Autobiographies
1,833 books — 1,729 voters
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
2,096 books — 1,840 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
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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