Best Biographies/Autobiographies

1.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,031 ratings
2.
The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle 4.32 avg rating — 1,325,616 ratings
3.
John Adams
John Adams 4.08 avg rating — 373,234 ratings
4.
The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life 4.08 avg rating — 150,147 ratings
5.
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty 4.23 avg rating — 29,465 ratings
6.
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind
The Daughter of Kurdland: A Life Dedicated to Humankind 4.20 avg rating — 409 ratings
7.
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln 4.28 avg rating — 196,288 ratings
8.
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen 3.71 avg rating — 160,372 ratings
9.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,175 ratings
10.
Moab Is My Washpot (Memoir, #1)
Moab Is My Washpot (Memoir, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 24,904 ratings
11.
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West 4.23 avg rating — 66,333 ratings
12.
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating — 989,184 ratings
13.
Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,194 ratings
13.
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1) 4.15 avg rating — 650,950 ratings
15.
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 — 568,933 ratings
16.
Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely
Ain't No Grave: The Life and Legacy of Brother Claude Ely 3.59 avg rating — 872 ratings
17.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 4.13 avg rating — 787,042 ratings
18.
Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2)
Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2) 4.74 avg rating — 106 ratings
19.
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3)
Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #3) 4.42 avg rating — 23,634 ratings
20.
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880-1964 4.09 avg rating — 13,888 ratings
21.
Truman
Truman 4.17 avg rating — 90,310 ratings
22.
Eleanor and Franklin
Eleanor and Franklin 4.26 avg rating — 2,956 ratings
23.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde 4.01 avg rating — 5,107 ratings
24.
Zeitoun
Zeitoun 4.05 avg rating — 79,607 ratings
25.
Washington: A Life
Washington: A Life 4.16 avg rating — 79,884 ratings
26.
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-40 4.39 avg rating — 11,881 ratings
27.
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 4.33 avg rating — 15,702 ratings
28.
Black Like Me
Black Like Me 4.11 avg rating — 69,182 ratings
29.
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities 3.99 avg rating — 90,418 ratings
30.
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary 3.84 avg rating — 120,604 ratings
31.
Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love 3.64 avg rating — 1,819,795 ratings
32.
Separate Things: A Memoir
Separate Things: A Memoir 4.16 avg rating — 86 ratings
33.
Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976
Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger, 1929-1976 3.68 avg rating — 917 ratings
34.
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman 3.94 avg rating — 107,265 ratings
35.
Capote
Capote 4.16 avg rating — 5,092 ratings
36.
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life 3.93 avg rating — 16,522 ratings
37.
Mornings on Horseback
Mornings on Horseback 4.10 avg rating — 34,705 ratings
38.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 4.48 avg rating — 113,282 ratings
39.
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time 3.99 avg rating — 75,022 ratings
40.
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance 3.94 avg rating — 229,608 ratings
41.
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog 4.14 avg rating — 475,395 ratings
42.
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood 3.97 avg rating — 56,654 ratings
43.
Walt Disney: An American Original
Walt Disney: An American Original 4.34 avg rating — 5,448 ratings
43.
Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait 4.48 avg rating — 566 ratings
45.
Confessions
Confessions 3.59 avg rating — 9,159 ratings
46.
Born on a Blue Day
Born on a Blue Day 3.84 avg rating — 23,815 ratings
46.
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor
Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor 3.95 avg rating — 8,216 ratings
46.
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo 4.01 avg rating — 71,949 ratings
49.
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare 3.87 avg rating — 10,656 ratings
50.
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia 4.04 avg rating — 7,107 ratings
50.
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe 4.08 avg rating — 5,423 ratings
52.
Witness
Witness 4.38 avg rating — 2,266 ratings
53.
Madame Curie: A Biography
Madame Curie: A Biography 4.37 avg rating — 4,979 ratings
54.
A Year in Provence (Provence, #1)
A Year in Provence (Provence, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 81,427 ratings
55.
Ike: An American Hero
Ike: An American Hero 4.12 avg rating — 1,758 ratings
56.
My Place
My Place 3.99 avg rating — 6,669 ratings
56.
All Over But the Shoutin'
All Over But the Shoutin' 4.13 avg rating — 29,149 ratings
58.
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House 4.16 avg rating — 6,975 ratings
59.
The Life of Elizabeth I
The Life of Elizabeth I 4.03 avg rating — 32,631 ratings
60.
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr. 4.44 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
61.
I. Asimov: A Memoir
I. Asimov: A Memoir 4.04 avg rating — 3,526 ratings
62.
My Family and Other Animals
My Family and Other Animals 4.17 avg rating — 61,493 ratings
63.
Peter the Great: His Life and World
Peter the Great: His Life and World 4.15 avg rating — 22,818 ratings
64.
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England 3.77 avg rating — 7,831 ratings
65.
Half Broke Horses
Half Broke Horses 4.09 avg rating — 171,094 ratings
66.
A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind 4.13 avg rating — 134,373 ratings
67.
Cleopatra: A Life
Cleopatra: A Life 3.73 avg rating — 121,457 ratings
68.
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.30 avg rating — 120,278 ratings
69.
Private Battles and The Khaki Cage
Private Battles and The Khaki Cage 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
70.
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton 3.89 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
71.
A Writer's Diary 1873-1881
A Writer's Diary 1873-1881 3.72 avg rating — 1,477 ratings
71.
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 4.27 avg rating — 25,455 ratings
73.
Thoughts Without Cigarettes
Thoughts Without Cigarettes 3.39 avg rating — 206 ratings
73.
Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #1)
Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 72,261 ratings
75.
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl 4.04 avg rating — 7,894 ratings
75.
My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue
My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue 4.20 avg rating — 373 ratings
77.
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King 3.87 avg rating — 7,980 ratings
77.
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Marie Antoinette: The Journey 3.94 avg rating — 38,047 ratings
77.
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
Stories I Only Tell My Friends
by: Rob Lowe
3.87 avg rating — 83,931 ratings
80.
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House 3.86 avg rating — 55,953 ratings
80.
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention 4.19 avg rating — 19,914 ratings
80.
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton 4.22 avg rating — 194,771 ratings
83.
Travels With Myself and Another
Travels With Myself and Another 3.83 avg rating — 2,270 ratings
83.
This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone
This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone 3.75 avg rating — 2,961 ratings
85.
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin 4.11 avg rating — 22,671 ratings
86.
The Wives of Henry VIII
The Wives of Henry VIII 4.11 avg rating — 18,966 ratings
87.
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss 3.91 avg rating — 25,538 ratings
88.
Tarzan Forever : The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan
Tarzan Forever : The Life of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Creator of Tarzan 3.63 avg rating — 81 ratings
89.
War as I Knew It
War as I Knew It 4.13 avg rating — 2,801 ratings
90.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
by: C.G. Jung
4.17 avg rating — 37,265 ratings
91.
Just Kids
Just Kids 4.21 avg rating — 333,643 ratings
92.
The Wright Brothers
The Wright Brothers 4.17 avg rating — 96,948 ratings
93.
A. Lincoln
A. Lincoln 4.30 avg rating — 20,123 ratings
94.
With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln
With Malice Toward None: A Life of Abraham Lincoln 4.27 avg rating — 8,620 ratings
95.
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom, 1940-1945 4.17 avg rating — 515 ratings
96.
The White Masai
The White Masai 3.55 avg rating — 10,389 ratings
96.
Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses 3.88 avg rating — 24,078 ratings
96.
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy 3.72 avg rating — 4,657 ratings
99.
Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman
Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman 3.81 avg rating — 642 ratings
99.
Murder of a Medici Princess
Murder of a Medici Princess 3.94 avg rating — 1,333 ratings
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