Biography Published in Year: 2021
1. 
Journey to the West: A Long March from Eastern Dream to Western Reality
by:
Biao Wang
4.27 avg rating — 142 ratings 
4. 
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
by:
Elizabeth Becker
4.33 avg rating — 1,338 ratings 5. 
The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine
by:
Janice P. Nimura
3.59 avg rating — 5,902 ratings 
8. 
You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism
by:
Amber Ruffin
4.42 avg rating — 21,787 ratings 
11. 
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
by:
Jonathan M. Katz
4.24 avg rating — 1,863 ratings 12. 
Moonlite: The Tragic Love Story of Captain Moonlite and the Bloody End of the Bushrangers
by:
Garry Linnell
3.85 avg rating — 141 ratings 13. 
Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
by:
Debby Applegate
3.81 avg rating — 1,297 ratings 14. 
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
by:
John Green
4.36 avg rating — 161,052 ratings 15. 
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.28 avg rating — 39,741 ratings 
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The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred 4.11 avg rating — 4,007 ratings
19. 
In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire 3.93 avg rating — 1,706 ratings
23. 
With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism
by:
Laura L. Lovett
3.87 avg rating — 165 ratings 
28. 
Overnight Code: The Life of Raye Montague, the Woman Who Revolutionized Naval Engineering
by:
Paige Bowers
4.11 avg rating — 116 ratings 28. 
30. 
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
by:
Stephen Walker
4.57 avg rating — 1,654 ratings 
32. 
Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
by:
Stephen Kendrick
4.30 avg rating — 398 ratings 32. 
Spies, Lies, and Exile: The Extraordinary Story of Russian Double Agent George Blake
by:
Simon Kuper
3.65 avg rating — 564 ratings 32. 
Dracul – Of the Father: The Untold Story of Vlad Dracul
by:
A.K. Brackob
4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings 35. 
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation 4.08 avg rating — 8,668 ratings
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Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome
by:
Lindsay Powell
3.86 avg rating — 22 ratings 38. 
The Life She Wished to Live: A Biography of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, author of The Yearling
by:
Ann McCutchan
4.05 avg rating — 191 ratings 38. 
In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
by:
Nancy Goldstone
4.17 avg rating — 1,192 ratings 38. 
Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43
by:
Henry Channon
4.36 avg rating — 157 ratings 41. 
The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution
by:
James Oakes
3.87 avg rating — 436 ratings 41. 
The Reason for the Darkness of the Night: Edgar Allan Poe and the Forging of American Science
by:
John Tresch
3.72 avg rating — 406 ratings 41. 
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Sensational: The Hidden History of America's “Girl Stunt Reporters”
by:
Kim Todd
3.85 avg rating — 665 ratings 44. 
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The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World
by:
Edward Shawcross
4.26 avg rating — 1,265 ratings 47. 
Nellie Francis: Fighting for Racial Justice and Women's Equality in Minnesota
by:
William D. Green
3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings 47. 
King Richard: Nixon and Watergate — An American Tragedy
by:
Michael Dobbs
4.25 avg rating — 1,369 ratings 47. 
Winged Bull: The Extraordinary Life of Henry Layard, the Adventurer Who Discovered the Lost City of Nineveh
by:
Jeff Pearce
3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings 47. 
53. 
Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR
by:
Lisa Napoli
3.85 avg rating — 3,759 ratings 53. 
Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood
by:
Gary Paulsen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,164 ratings 53. 
Twilight Man: Love and Ruin in the Shadows of Hollywood and the Clark Empire
by:
Liz Brown
3.87 avg rating — 360 ratings 
56. 
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt 3.64 avg rating — 1,750 ratings
59. 
Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna
by:
Billy Wilder
3.50 avg rating — 54 ratings 62. 
The Incredible Nellie Bly: Journalist, Investigator, Feminist, and Philanthropist
by:
Luciana Cimino
3.63 avg rating — 850 ratings 63. 
Dragonslayer: The Legend of Erich Ludendorff in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich
by:
Jay Lockenour
4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings 
67. 
Manuel II Palaiologos, 1350-1425: A Byzantine Emperor in a Time of Tumult
by:
Siren Çelik
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings 
73. 
Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London, 1902-1907 (Volume 2)
by:
Jay Williams
did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution 4.07 avg rating — 212 ratings
79. 
An Educated Woman In Prostitution: A Memoir of Lust, Exploitation, Deceit (Calcutta, 1929)
by:
Manabi Devi
3.61 avg rating — 301 ratings 79. 
The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood
by:
Tristram Hunt
3.71 avg rating — 188 ratings 82. 
Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning
by:
Tom Vanderbilt
3.67 avg rating — 3,820 ratings 
87. 
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
by:
Laurence Rees
4.53 avg rating — 1,526 ratings 
89. 
Queens of the Crusades (England's Medieval Queens, #2)
by:
Alison Weir
3.96 avg rating — 1,664 ratings 
91. 
Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic
by:
Rachel Clarke
4.28 avg rating — 1,633 ratings 
93. 
The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government's Greatest Humanitarian
by:
Robert D. Kaplan
4.37 avg rating — 308 ratings 93. 
The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double Helix
by:
Howard Markel
4.15 avg rating — 751 ratings 
95. 
A Revolution in Three Acts: The Radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge
by:
David Hajdu
3.74 avg rating — 54 ratings 97. 
American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery
by:
Craig Unger
3.90 avg rating — 956 ratings 97. 
His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
by:
Jon Meacham
4.50 avg rating — 6,505 ratings 
