100 Best Female Biographies and Autobiographies
101. 
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
by:
Deborah Layton
4.12 avg rating — 3,917 ratings 102. 
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
by:
Helen Castor
4.04 avg rating — 8,384 ratings 103. 
How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
by:
Sy Montgomery
4.06 avg rating — 12,941 ratings 104. 
You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness
by:
Julie Klam
3.78 avg rating — 4,902 ratings 105. 
Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage
by:
Tori Amos
3.90 avg rating — 2,466 ratings 
107. 
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
by:
Janet Mock
4.30 avg rating — 16,468 ratings 
107. 
107. 
If everyone cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker
by:
Margaret Tucker
4.30 avg rating — 37 ratings 107. 
Gianna: Aborted...and Lived to Tell About It (Living Books) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 756 ratings
107. 
A New Gospel for Women: Katharine Bushnell and the Challenge of Christian Feminism 4.28 avg rating — 118 ratings
107. 
107. 
Falling for Eli: How I Lost Heart, Then Gained Hope Through the Love of a Singular Horse
by:
Nancy Shulins
4.13 avg rating — 336 ratings 
107. 
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
by:
Leymah Gbowee
4.16 avg rating — 4,306 ratings 107. 
Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs
by:
Jeni Stepanek
4.46 avg rating — 650 ratings 123. 
Wounds of the Father: A True Story of Child Abuse, Betrayal, and Redemption 4.16 avg rating — 1,211 ratings
123. 
The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville
by:
Clare Mulley
3.74 avg rating — 2,313 ratings 123. 
123. 
Won by Love: Norma McCorvey, Jane Roe of Roe V. Wade, Speaks Out for the Unborn As She Shares Her New Conviction for Life
by:
Norma McCorvey
4.28 avg rating — 323 ratings 
123. 
Lottie Moon: A Southern Baptist Missionary to China in History and Legend (Southern Biography Series) 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings
123. 
Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
by:
Nina Willner
4.37 avg rating — 12,282 ratings 
123. 
Thanks to Life: A Biography of Violeta Parra
by:
Ericka Kim Verba
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 134. 
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide 4.28 avg rating — 55,460 ratings
134. 
Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
by:
Afschineh Latifi
4.06 avg rating — 551 ratings 
134. 
Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown
by:
Jennifer Scanlon
3.25 avg rating — 307 ratings 
134. 
Wishing on the Moon: The Life and Times of Billie Holiday
by:
Donald Clarke
3.84 avg rating — 365 ratings 
142. 
142. 
142. 
The Lady Bushranger : The life of Elizabeth Jessie Hickman
by:
Pat Studdy-Clift
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
142. 
Queen Victoria, From her Birth to the Death of the Prince Consort 3.97 avg rating — 159 ratings
149. ![My Home in Tasmania, during a residence of nine years [combining two volumes]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1328163191i/8567089._SX100_.jpg)
My Home in Tasmania, during a residence of nine years [combining two volumes] really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
149. 
Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928)
by:
Coryne Hall
4.26 avg rating — 194 ratings 
154. 
Gypsy: Memoirs of America's Most Celebrated Stripper
by:
Gypsy Rose Lee
4.07 avg rating — 1,225 ratings 154. 
154. 
Oorlogsdagboeken: 1914-1918. Een vrouw vertelt over haar Eerste Wereldoorlog 4.15 avg rating — 59 ratings
154. 
154. 
The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness
by:
Susannah Cahalan
3.64 avg rating — 12,204 ratings 
162. 
Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin
by:
Kathy Griffin
3.79 avg rating — 37,774 ratings 
162. 
Nell Brinkley and the New Woman in the Early 20th Century
by:
Trina Robbins
4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings 162. 
162. 
169. 
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs
by:
Elissa Wall
3.95 avg rating — 31,195 ratings 169. 
I Put a Spell on You: The Autobiography of Nina Simone
by:
Nina Simone
4.10 avg rating — 1,972 ratings 
169. 
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History
by:
Linda Colley
3.46 avg rating — 550 ratings 169. 
Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Wind 3.66 avg rating — 188 ratings
176. 
The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice, Countess de Janzé
by:
Paul Spicer
3.65 avg rating — 572 ratings 
183. 
183. 
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
by:
Jung Chang
3.91 avg rating — 10,430 ratings 183. 
Lady Editor: Sarah Josepha Hale and the Making of the Modern American Woman 4.21 avg rating — 62 ratings
183. 
Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir
by:
Jenny Lawson
3.90 avg rating — 198,661 ratings 
191. 
Florence Griffith Joyner: Track and Field Star (First Book)
by:
April Koral
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 
191. 
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
by:
Anne Glenconner
4.06 avg rating — 30,064 ratings 191. 
Carve Her Name with Pride: The Story of Violette Szabo
by:
R.J. Minney
4.22 avg rating — 628 ratings 
197. 
Shell Games: The Life and Times of Pearl McGill, Industrial Spy and Pioneer Labor Activist
by:
Jeffrey Copeland
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings 197. 
197. 
What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
by:
Carole Radziwill
4.20 avg rating — 22,041 ratings