Best Biographies
103. 
Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
by:
Charles R. Cross
4.17 avg rating — 10,213 ratings 104. 
Becoming Queen Victoria: The Tragic Death of Princess Charlotte and the Unexpected Rise of Britain's Greatest Monarch
by:
Kate Williams
3.95 avg rating — 3,651 ratings 
111. 
To the Rescue: The Biography of Thomas S. Monson
by:
Heidi S. Swinton
4.46 avg rating — 5,042 ratings 112. 
Go Forward With Faith: The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley
by:
Sheri Dew
4.56 avg rating — 8,189 ratings 113. 
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
by:
Graham Farmelo
4.01 avg rating — 7,384 ratings 114. 
Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader
by:
Dinesh D'Souza
4.12 avg rating — 1,273 ratings 
119. 
iCon: Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business
by:
Jeffrey S. Young
4.06 avg rating — 10,626 ratings 
121. 
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
by:
Kati Marton
4.32 avg rating — 7,373 ratings 122. 
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The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
by:
Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating — 109,006 ratings 
130. 
Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
by:
S.C. Gwynne
4.28 avg rating — 8,559 ratings 
132. 
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
by:
Widad Akreyi
4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings 
134. 
137. 
Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino
by:
Emily W. Leider
4.12 avg rating — 420 ratings 137. 
The True History of the Elephant Man: The Definitive Account of the Tragic and Extraordinary Life of Joseph Carey Merrick
by:
Peter Ford
3.84 avg rating — 1,026 ratings 
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145. 
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
by:
Trevor Noah
4.49 avg rating — 778,787 ratings 146. 
With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
by:
Stephen B. Oates
4.27 avg rating — 8,620 ratings 146. 
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 4.44 avg rating — 7,333 ratings
148. 
Alice: Alice Roosevelt Longworth, from White House Princess to Washington Power Broker
by:
Stacy A. Cordery
3.85 avg rating — 1,476 ratings 
151. 
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess
by:
Alison Weir
3.86 avg rating — 5,711 ratings 
153. 
Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
by:
Ron Hall
4.20 avg rating — 91,990 ratings 
154. 
George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
by:
Miranda Carter
4.03 avg rating — 4,253 ratings 
161. 
163. 
The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
by:
Simon Winchester
3.82 avg rating — 13,927 ratings 
169. 
172. 
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
by:
David Hajdu
3.91 avg rating — 3,609 ratings 
176. 
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
by:
Charlotte Gordon
4.22 avg rating — 7,199 ratings 177. 
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
by:
Irin Carmon
4.18 avg rating — 63,000 ratings 178. 
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
by:
Taylor Branch
4.43 avg rating — 1,899 ratings 178. 
180. 
The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero
by:
William Kalush
3.86 avg rating — 2,679 ratings 
182. 
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
by:
H.W. Brands
4.11 avg rating — 22,672 ratings 183. 
185. 
Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
by:
Nancy Goldstone
3.89 avg rating — 4,568 ratings 186. 
188. 
Becoming the Ex-Wife: The Unconventional Life and Forgotten Writings of Ursula Parrott
by:
Marsha Gordon
4.14 avg rating — 63 ratings 
190. 
FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History
by:
Steven Lomazow
4.33 avg rating — 1,083 ratings 
194. 
The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.10 avg rating — 4,264 ratings 
196. 
Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi
by:
Bob Woodward
3.74 avg rating — 2,695 ratings 
198. 
The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy 4.14 avg rating — 5,024 ratings
199. 
Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century
by:
Sam Kashner
3.88 avg rating — 4,561 ratings 