Biography Published in Decade: 2010s
2. 
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
4.09 avg rating — 64,232 ratings 
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James Warren, Empire Of Monsters: The Man Behind Creepy, Vampirella, And Famous Mons
by:
Bill Schelly
4.35 avg rating — 113 ratings 
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Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout
by:
Lauren Redniss
4.02 avg rating — 6,059 ratings 12. 
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.88 avg rating — 24,077 ratings 12. 
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
by:
Michael Finkel
3.90 avg rating — 82,168 ratings 
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
by:
Jung Chang
3.91 avg rating — 10,431 ratings 19. 
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books) 3.87 avg rating — 4,491 ratings
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Jackie, Janet & Lee: The Secret Lives of Janet Auchincloss and Her Daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill 3.85 avg rating — 3,436 ratings
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Otto Binder: The Life and Work of a Comic Book and Science Fiction Visionary
by:
Bill Schelly
4.25 avg rating — 61 ratings 19. 
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Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl
by:
Donald Sturrock
3.88 avg rating — 1,448 ratings 
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Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor i
by:
Bill Schelly
4.37 avg rating — 116 ratings 26. 
Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II 4.27 avg rating — 11,421 ratings
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Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
by:
Abby Norman
3.93 avg rating — 2,651 ratings 
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Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime
by:
John Heilemann
4.13 avg rating — 22,715 ratings 31. 
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
by:
Allie Brosh
4.17 avg rating — 213,869 ratings 31. 
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
by:
Marcus Rediker
4.13 avg rating — 497 ratings 35. 
Women to the Front: Australian Women Doctors of the First World War
by:
Heather Sheard
3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings 
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The Master Plan: My Journey from Life in Prison to a Life of Purpose
by:
Chris Wilson
4.61 avg rating — 1,816 ratings 35. 
Cut: One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today
by:
Hibo Wardere
4.54 avg rating — 1,071 ratings 39. 
The Grit in the Pearl: The Scandalous Life of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll
by:
Lyndsy Spence
3.55 avg rating — 1,108 ratings 
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Killing Christians: Living the Faith Where It's Not Safe to Believe
by:
Tom Doyle
4.59 avg rating — 1,030 ratings 
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Ike and McCarthy: Dwight Eisenhower's Secret Campaign against Joseph McCarthy
by:
David A. Nichols
3.96 avg rating — 228 ratings 
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Born To Fight: The bestselling story of UFC champion Mark Hunt, the real life Rocky
by:
Mark Hunt
4.30 avg rating — 611 ratings 47. 
The Fabulous Bouvier Sisters: The Tragic and Glamorous Lives of Jackie and Lee
by:
Sam Kashner
3.69 avg rating — 3,070 ratings 
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Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees
by:
Franck Prévot
4.27 avg rating — 700 ratings 
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Spearhead: An American Tank Gunner, His Enemy, and a Collision of Lives In World War II
by:
Adam Makos
4.53 avg rating — 6,472 ratings 54. 
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Fauci: The Bernie Madoff of Science and the HIV Ponzi Scheme that Concealed the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
by:
Charles Ortleb
3.99 avg rating — 159 ratings 
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Major Thomas: The bush lawyer who defended Breaker Morant and took on the British Empire
by:
Greg Growden
4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings 57. 
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
by:
Masha Gessen
4.19 avg rating — 6,914 ratings 60. 
From Shadow to Light: The Life and Art of Mort Meskin
by:
Steven Brower
4.09 avg rating — 22 ratings 60. 
Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
by:
James Wyllie
3.83 avg rating — 2,707 ratings 
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The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy: How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America
by:
Jim Marrs
3.91 avg rating — 735 ratings 67. 
Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took on Washington
by:
Patricia Miller
4.02 avg rating — 705 ratings 67. 
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya
by:
Donna Jo Napoli
4.21 avg rating — 1,036 ratings 69. 
Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy
by:
Larry Loftis
3.99 avg rating — 11,604 ratings 
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Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World
by:
Emma Southon
4.20 avg rating — 2,740 ratings 71. 
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.19 avg rating — 28,145 ratings 73. 
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Sonia Purnell
4.15 avg rating — 58,210 ratings 73. 
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by:
Ashlee Vance
4.13 avg rating — 434,900 ratings 75. 
Madame Fourcade's Secret War: The Daring Young Woman Who Led France's Largest Spy Network Against Hitler
by:
Lynne Olson
4.22 avg rating — 8,386 ratings 75. 
The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France
by:
Seth Meyerowitz
4.20 avg rating — 1,699 ratings 77. 
Constance Baker Motley: One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law
by:
Gary L. Ford
4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings 
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Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster 3.68 avg rating — 1,689 ratings
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To My Best Girl: Courage, Honor, and Love in the Civil War: The Inspiring Life Stories of Rufus Dawes and Mary Gates
by:
Steve Magnusen
4.53 avg rating — 30 ratings 83. 
The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies
by:
Jason Fagone
4.09 avg rating — 23,146 ratings 83. 
The Eighty-Dollar Champion: Snowman, the Horse That Inspired a Nation
by:
Elizabeth Letts
4.23 avg rating — 14,499 ratings 85. 
The Woman Who Fought an Empire: Sarah Aaronsohn and Her Nili Spy Ring 3.84 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street 4.20 avg rating — 16,389 ratings
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Song of Praise for a Flower: One Woman's Journey through China's Tumultuous 20th Century
by:
Fengxian Chu
4.54 avg rating — 215 ratings 87. 
Down in the Chapel: Religious Life in an American Prison
by:
Joshua Dubler
3.81 avg rating — 58 ratings 89. 
The Woman Who Fooled the World: Belle Gibson's Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry
by:
Beau Donelly
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,319 ratings 89. 
91. 
Victoria, The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire
by:
Julia Baird
4.11 avg rating — 11,959 ratings 91. 
The Untold Life of Peter Lee: "born of slave parents, the property of Colonel John Stevens"
by:
Holly Metz
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings 93. 
Garden of the Lost and Abandoned: The Extraordinary Story of One Ordinary Woman and the Children She Saves
by:
Jessica Yu
3.86 avg rating — 192 ratings 
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Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
by:
Will Harlan
4.36 avg rating — 3,102 ratings 97. 
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Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: An Eccentric Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom
by:
Philip Eade
3.26 avg rating — 191 ratings 99. 
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
by:
Michael Lewis
3.99 avg rating — 62,917 ratings