The Best British Biographies
1. 
A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III
by:
Janice Hadlow
4.12 avg rating — 1,266 ratings 
3. 
The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter
by:
Matthew Dennison
3.81 avg rating — 1,056 ratings 
8. 
Richard II: King of England 1377 - 1399: A True King's Fall
by:
Kathryn Warner
3.72 avg rating — 83 ratings 
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Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music - The Definitive Life
by:
Tim Riley
3.89 avg rating — 478 ratings 
22. 
Diana Mosley: Mitford Beauty, British Fascist, Hitler's Angel
by:
Anne de Courcy
3.96 avg rating — 708 ratings 22. 
Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert and the Death That Changed the Monarchy
by:
Helen Rappaport
3.82 avg rating — 1,363 ratings 
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The White King: Charles I, Traitor, Murderer, Martyr
by:
Leanda de Lisle
4.09 avg rating — 727 ratings 26. 
Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter
by:
Matthew Dennison
3.58 avg rating — 518 ratings 
26. 
The King and the Gentleman: Charles Stuart and Oliver Cromwell, 1599-1649
by:
Derek Wilson
3.48 avg rating — 21 ratings 
30. 
Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558
by:
Alison Weir
4.01 avg rating — 15,352 ratings 30. 
Do Let's Have Another Drink!: The Dry Wit and Fizzy Life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
by:
Gareth Russell
4.09 avg rating — 887 ratings 34. 
Elizabeth's Spymaster: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved England 3.77 avg rating — 369 ratings
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In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire 3.93 avg rating — 1,706 ratings
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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII
by:
Gareth Russell
4.15 avg rating — 2,238 ratings 38. 
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
by:
Tracy Borman
4.20 avg rating — 2,581 ratings 38. 
Never to be Taken Alive: A Biography of General Gordon really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The King's Grave: The Discovery of Richard III’s Lost Burial Place and the Clues it Holds
by:
Philippa Langley
3.86 avg rating — 2,458 ratings 46. 
Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History
by:
Tracy Borman
4.28 avg rating — 2,231 ratings 46. 
Bernard Shaw, Volume 1: The Search for Love, 1856-98
by:
Michael Holroyd
3.73 avg rating — 37 ratings 50. 
Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson, Ll.d., During the Last Twenty Years of His Life 3.91 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Baby's in Black: Astrid Kirchherr, Stuart Sutcliffe, and The Beatles
by:
Arne Bellstorf
3.76 avg rating — 2,296 ratings 59. 
Mrs Guinness: The Rise and Fall of Diana Mitford, the Thirties Socialite
by:
Lyndsy Spence
3.68 avg rating — 160 ratings 61. 
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Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles
by:
Geoff Emerick
4.29 avg rating — 6,427 ratings 
65. 
The Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock
by:
Donald Spoto
3.87 avg rating — 1,560 ratings 
67. 
Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
by:
John M. Barry
4.24 avg rating — 1,089 ratings 
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Our Man in Charleston: Britain's Secret Agent in the Civil War South 3.97 avg rating — 1,184 ratings
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A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
by:
Ben Macintyre
4.19 avg rating — 28,145 ratings 75. 
The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
by:
David Quammen
3.97 avg rating — 2,669 ratings 
81. 
Suffer and Survive: The Extreme Life of J.S. Haldane
by:
Martin Goodman
4.10 avg rating — 21 ratings 
83. 
Captain-General and rebel chief: The life of James, Duke of Monmouth
by:
J.N.P. Watson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 84. 
The Greatest Traitor: The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March Ruler of England 1327-1330
by:
Ian Mortimer
4.15 avg rating — 1,061 ratings 
87. 
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World
by:
Shelley Emling
3.84 avg rating — 1,340 ratings 