Literary biographies

1.
A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast 4.02 avg rating — 162,841 ratings
2.
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare 3.87 avg rating — 10,656 ratings
3.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 568,912 ratings
4.
Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London 4.09 avg rating — 97,501 ratings
5.
Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass
Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass 4.21 avg rating — 11,732 ratings
6.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens 3.91 avg rating — 7,066 ratings
7.
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter 4.13 avg rating — 17,743 ratings
8.
Confessions
Confessions 3.59 avg rating — 9,158 ratings
9.
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft 4.34 avg rating — 310,108 ratings
10.
Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,128 ratings
11.
My Family and Other Animals
My Family and Other Animals 4.17 avg rating — 61,491 ratings
12.
Speak, Memory
Speak, Memory 4.08 avg rating — 17,393 ratings
13.
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
by: D.T. Max
3.76 avg rating — 9,597 ratings
14.
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 4.33 avg rating — 33,403 ratings
15.
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography 3.93 avg rating — 15,315 ratings
16.
A Child's Christmas in Wales
A Child's Christmas in Wales 4.12 avg rating — 7,958 ratings
17.
A Writer's Diary
A Writer's Diary 4.16 avg rating — 6,457 ratings
18.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 4.27 avg rating — 25,455 ratings
19.
The Year of Magical Thinking
The Year of Magical Thinking 3.93 avg rating — 284,927 ratings
20.
Capote
Capote 4.16 avg rating — 5,092 ratings
21.
Zelda
Zelda 3.82 avg rating — 10,362 ratings
22.
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft 3.84 avg rating — 432 ratings
23.
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf 4.01 avg rating — 4,894 ratings
24.
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,837 ratings
25.
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness 3.99 avg rating — 30,921 ratings
26.
Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating — 832,353 ratings
27.
Dickens
Dickens 3.85 avg rating — 2,121 ratings
28.
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Shakespeare: The World as Stage 3.82 avg rating — 48,082 ratings
29.
Oscar Wilde: A Biography
Oscar Wilde: A Biography 4.01 avg rating — 5,107 ratings
30.
West with the Night
West with the Night 4.15 avg rating — 40,229 ratings
31.
Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth 4.11 avg rating — 12,163 ratings
32.
Must you go?: my life with Harold Pinter
Must you go?: my life with Harold Pinter 3.62 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
33.
Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Joseph Anton: A Memoir 3.65 avg rating — 9,221 ratings
34.
Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Reveries of the Solitary Walker 3.61 avg rating — 7,316 ratings
35.
Jane Austen: A Life
Jane Austen: A Life 3.90 avg rating — 11,660 ratings
36.
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller 4.07 avg rating — 1,271 ratings
37.
Anne Sexton: A Biography
Anne Sexton: A Biography 4.17 avg rating — 4,026 ratings
38.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë
The Life of Charlotte Brontë 3.85 avg rating — 8,901 ratings
39.
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy 4.08 avg rating — 1,762 ratings
40.
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley 4.22 avg rating — 7,199 ratings
41.
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations 3.97 avg rating — 3,475 ratings
42.
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette 3.88 avg rating — 1,723 ratings
43.
Shelley: The Pursuit
Shelley: The Pursuit 4.40 avg rating — 408 ratings
44.
Homage To Catalonia / Down And Out In Paris And London (2 Works)
Homage To Catalonia / Down And Out In Paris And London (2 Works) 4.26 avg rating — 613 ratings
45.
Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust 3.86 avg rating — 1,041 ratings
46.
Travels With Myself and Another
Travels With Myself and Another 3.83 avg rating — 2,270 ratings
47.
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile 3.89 avg rating — 11,983 ratings
48.
Shakespeare: The Biography
Shakespeare: The Biography 4.03 avg rating — 2,277 ratings
49.
Nancy Mitford: A Biography
Nancy Mitford: A Biography 3.98 avg rating — 325 ratings
50.
An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3) 4.21 avg rating — 2,516 ratings
51.
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography 4.15 avg rating — 588 ratings
52.
Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life
Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life 4.09 avg rating — 769 ratings
53.
Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand
Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand 3.96 avg rating — 791 ratings
54.
The Private World of Georgette Heyer
The Private World of Georgette Heyer 3.92 avg rating — 1,492 ratings
54.
James Joyce
James Joyce 4.34 avg rating — 2,886 ratings
56.
Running with Scissors
Running with Scissors 3.77 avg rating — 400,424 ratings
57.
Half Broke Horses
Half Broke Horses 4.09 avg rating — 171,090 ratings
58.
Augustine of Hippo: A Biography
Augustine of Hippo: A Biography 4.27 avg rating — 2,234 ratings
59.
Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life
Rumer Godden: A Storyteller's Life 3.98 avg rating — 111 ratings
60.
Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller
Katherine Mansfield: The Story-Teller 4.29 avg rating — 41 ratings
60.
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 4.08 avg rating — 4,227 ratings
62.
The House of Mitford
The House of Mitford 3.83 avg rating — 342 ratings
63.
The Life of Samuel Johnson
The Life of Samuel Johnson 3.80 avg rating — 5,264 ratings
64.
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 650,940 ratings
65.
The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys
The Blue Hour: A Life of Jean Rhys 3.68 avg rating — 292 ratings
66.
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf 4.47 avg rating — 4,852 ratings
67.
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens 3.74 avg rating — 1,774 ratings
68.
The Autobiography: Truth and poetry: from my own life
The Autobiography: Truth and poetry: from my own life 3.80 avg rating — 312 ratings
69.
Hons and Rebels
Hons and Rebels 4.11 avg rating — 5,315 ratings
70.
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
Agatha Christie: An Autobiography 4.12 avg rating — 12,255 ratings
71.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 3.54 avg rating — 13,201 ratings
72.
Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch
Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch 3.72 avg rating — 3,009 ratings
73.
A Christmas Memory
A Christmas Memory 4.24 avg rating — 17,526 ratings
74.
Shelley and His World
Shelley and His World 4.02 avg rating — 55 ratings
74.
Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
by: Jean Rhys
3.97 avg rating — 1,021 ratings
76.
The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 1: 1904-1939
The Life of Graham Greene, Volume 1: 1904-1939 4.13 avg rating — 219 ratings
77.
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton 3.92 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
78.
The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers
The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers 4.23 avg rating — 669 ratings
79.
The Life of My Choice
The Life of My Choice 4.16 avg rating — 271 ratings
80.
Chatterton
Chatterton 3.68 avg rating — 1,915 ratings
80.
The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life 4.08 avg rating — 150,146 ratings
80.
The World I Live In
The World I Live In 3.97 avg rating — 1,223 ratings
83.
The Prelude
The Prelude 3.88 avg rating — 4,155 ratings
84.
Unruly Times
Unruly Times 3.60 avg rating — 96 ratings
85.
Blake
Blake 4.07 avg rating — 902 ratings
86.
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life
Katherine Mansfield: A Secret Life 3.90 avg rating — 329 ratings
87.
Letters and Journals
Letters and Journals 3.96 avg rating — 412 ratings
88.
Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller
Georgette Heyer: Biography of a Bestseller 3.93 avg rating — 604 ratings
89.
My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood
My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle: Memories of Childhood 4.27 avg rating — 1,092 ratings
90.
Geoffrey Chaucer of England
Geoffrey Chaucer of England 3.93 avg rating — 45 ratings
90.
A Backward Glance
A Backward Glance 3.78 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
92.
Searching for Shakespeare
Searching for Shakespeare 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
92.
A Very Private Eye: The Diaries, Letters and Notebooks of Barbara Pym
A Very Private Eye: The Diaries, Letters and Notebooks of Barbara Pym 4.01 avg rating — 331 ratings
94.
Myself When Young
Myself When Young 3.87 avg rating — 724 ratings
95.
Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl
Storyteller: The Authorized Biography of Roald Dahl 3.88 avg rating — 1,448 ratings
95.
The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends
The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends 3.94 avg rating — 3,721 ratings
97.
Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Works
Christine de Pizan: Her Life and Works 3.91 avg rating — 46 ratings
97.
Ben Jonson of Westminster
Ben Jonson of Westminster really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
99.
C.S. Lewis: A Biography
C.S. Lewis: A Biography 3.62 avg rating — 578 ratings
100.
Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903-1939
Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years 1903-1939 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 37 ratings
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