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Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8387 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,248,034 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7068 times as biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,737,475 ratings — published 1947
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4999 times as biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,050,146 ratings — published 2018
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4417 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 391,584 ratings — published 2015
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4160 times as biography)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,530,756 ratings — published 2018
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4116 times as biography)
avg rating 4.38 — 935,635 ratings — published 2010
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3910 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 185,862 ratings — published 2007
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3908 times as biography)
avg rating 4.08 — 361,484 ratings — published 2001
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 3806 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 181,234 ratings — published 2004
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3681 times as biography)
avg rating 4.49 — 695,301 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3545 times as biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 736,159 ratings — published 2010
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3161 times as biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 106,521 ratings — published 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3147 times as biography)
avg rating 4.36 — 268,044 ratings — published 1965
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3102 times as biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,091,561 ratings — published 1996
Bossypants (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3090 times as biography)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,006,323 ratings — published 2011
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3053 times as biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 576,778 ratings — published 2012
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 2980 times as biography)
avg rating 4.04 — 139,804 ratings — published 2003
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 2749 times as biography)
avg rating 4.27 — 201,497 ratings — published 1985
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2453 times as biography)
avg rating 4.47 — 299,414 ratings — published 2016
Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2353 times as biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,246,614 ratings — published 1956
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2338 times as biography)
avg rating 4.40 — 670,425 ratings — published 2016
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2325 times as biography)
avg rating 4.34 — 228,198 ratings — published 2020
I'm Glad My Mom Died (ebook)
by (shelved 2318 times as biography)
avg rating 4.47 — 979,345 ratings — published 2022
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 2233 times as biography)
avg rating 4.29 — 531,703 ratings — published 1969
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2154 times as biography)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,214,762 ratings — published 2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 2153 times as biography)
avg rating 4.28 — 186,579 ratings — published 2005
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2139 times as biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 73,438 ratings — published 2010
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2049 times as biography)
avg rating 3.73 — 117,309 ratings — published 2010
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2004 times as biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 526,335 ratings — published 2014
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 1934 times as biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 85,098 ratings — published 1791
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1927 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 74,525 ratings — published 2010
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1888 times as biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 103,884 ratings — published 2011
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Paperback)
by (shelved 1875 times as biography)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,481 ratings — published 1979
Man’s Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 1823 times as biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 716,063 ratings — published 1946
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 1809 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,298 ratings — published 1998
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 1801 times as biography)
avg rating 4.14 — 629,722 ratings — published 1996
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1788 times as biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 324,994 ratings — published 1971
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1787 times as biography)
avg rating 4.35 — 86,999 ratings — published 1994
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1713 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 92,432 ratings — published 2015
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1710 times as biography)
avg rating 4.06 — 798,062 ratings — published 2012
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1663 times as biography)
avg rating 3.93 — 225,227 ratings — published 1995
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1654 times as biography)
avg rating 4.31 — 43,097 ratings — published 2005
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1628 times as biography)
avg rating 4.49 — 37,234 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1627 times as biography)
avg rating 3.87 — 412,760 ratings — published 2016
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1563 times as biography)
avg rating 4.11 — 123,853 ratings — published 1845
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1551 times as biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 330,270 ratings — published 2020
Tuesdays with Morrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 1446 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,029,348 ratings — published 1997
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1399 times as biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 59,711 ratings — published 2015
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1389 times as biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 356,337 ratings — published 2023
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 1388 times as biography)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,745,096 ratings — published 2006
“Sometimes when I’ve felt despondent for several days, it helps to discipline myself by saying, ‘I’m going to think only positive thoughts.’ Enough is enough!”
― Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
― Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
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auto-and-biography-and-memoir, bio, biografia, biografico, biographical, biographies, biographies-memoirs, biography-and-memoir, and non-fiction__biography
