Best Biographies
2. 
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,138 ratings
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Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
by:
Ashlee Vance
4.13 avg rating — 434,827 ratings 12. 
Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
by:
Vernon Davis
4.30 avg rating — 4,842 ratings 13. 
Mary Edwards Walker: America's Only Female Medal of Honor Recipient
by:
Ammar Habib
4.37 avg rating — 7,944 ratings 
15. 
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by:
Edmund Morris
4.23 avg rating — 59,119 ratings 
18. 
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II 4.20 avg rating — 46,348 ratings
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by:
Candice Millard
4.21 avg rating — 74,669 ratings 20. 
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by:
Candice Millard
4.22 avg rating — 81,268 ratings 21. 
You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television
by:
Al Michaels
3.97 avg rating — 3,623 ratings 22. 
Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time
by:
Ian O'Connor
4.11 avg rating — 2,051 ratings 23. 
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Browns Town 1964: The Cleveland Browns and the 1964 Championship
by:
Terry Pluto
4.20 avg rating — 450 ratings 26. 
The Yankee Way: The Untold Inside Story of the Brian Cashman Era
by:
Andy Martino
4.27 avg rating — 863 ratings 
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The Truth About Aaron: My Journey to Understand My Brother really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,708 ratings
29. 
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
by:
Robert K. Massie
4.23 avg rating — 29,465 ratings 
31. 
Talking to GOATs: The Moments You Remember and the Stories You Never Heard
by:
Jim Gray
3.98 avg rating — 1,846 ratings 32. 
The League: How Five Rivals Created the NFL and Launched a Sports Empire
by:
John Eisenberg
4.16 avg rating — 1,895 ratings 33. 
The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
by:
Bill Walsh
4.21 avg rating — 6,095 ratings 34. 
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
by:
Erik Larson
3.89 avg rating — 215,176 ratings 35. 
The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
by:
Jeff Pearlman
4.18 avg rating — 3,463 ratings 
38. 
SUGAR BEAR: Life Lessons, Leadership, and the Legacy of a High School Coach
by:
Chris Heeb
4.24 avg rating — 382 ratings 39. 
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.52 avg rating — 27,068 ratings 
44. 
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by:
Simon Winchester
3.84 avg rating — 120,599 ratings 45. 
Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier 4.23 avg rating — 66,329 ratings
49. 
The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #1)
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.42 avg rating — 25,860 ratings 
52. 
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 4.33 avg rating — 15,702 ratings
53. 
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by:
Alice Schroeder
4.16 avg rating — 53,185 ratings 
56. 
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
by:
Tracy Kidder
4.20 avg rating — 87,482 ratings 57. 
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating — 75,016 ratings 
59. 
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.42 avg rating — 23,633 ratings 
62. 
The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.40 avg rating — 19,288 ratings 
67. 
Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
by:
Robert A. Caro
4.28 avg rating — 27,104 ratings 68. 
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
by:
Jack Weatherford
4.06 avg rating — 80,995 ratings 
71. 
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
by:
Tom Reiss
4.02 avg rating — 21,030 ratings 72. 
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family
by:
Mary S. Lovell
3.91 avg rating — 13,805 ratings 
76. 
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
by:
Neal Gabler
4.06 avg rating — 11,239 ratings 77. 
83. 
In Plain Sight: A True Story of Kidnapping and Rape
by:
Anna D. Stoddard
4.26 avg rating — 2,420 ratings 
85. 
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
by:
Adam Hochschild
4.19 avg rating — 66,205 ratings 86. 
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
by:
Robert Kanigel
4.03 avg rating — 8,788 ratings 87. 
Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War Years
by:
Carl Sandburg
4.28 avg rating — 5,424 ratings 88. 
89. 
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
by:
Peter Guralnick
4.17 avg rating — 9,894 ratings 
91. 
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63
by:
Taylor Branch
4.36 avg rating — 9,962 ratings 
93. 
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 — 58,200 ratings 
95. 
The Confidante: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Helped Win WWII and Shape Modern America 4.29 avg rating — 2,642 ratings
98. 
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
by:
Antonia Fraser
3.87 avg rating — 7,980 ratings 
100. 
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
by:
Susan Ware
3.90 avg rating — 934 ratings