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Biography Book Lists

  • The Diary of a Young Girl
  • The Glass Castle
  • Night
  • Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
  • Eat, Pray, Love
Best Memoir / Biography / Autobiography
6,427 books
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Pride and Prejudice
  • Jane Eyre
  • The Diary of a Young Girl
  • The Handmaid's Tale
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,770 books
  • John Adams
  • The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
  • 1776
  • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
  • The Guns of August
Best History Books
3,945 books
  • The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
  • The Bell Jar
  • Jane Eyre
  • A Room of One’s Own
  • The Second Sex
Best Feminist Books
2,812 books
  • The Diary of a Young Girl
  • Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
  • The Glass Castle
  • Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
  • All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small #1-2)
Biography and Memoirs that are BETTER than Fiction
2,572 books
  • The Diary of a Young Girl
  • The Glass Castle
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
  • Eat, Pray, Love
  • Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
Memoirs by Women
3,251 books
  • Steve Jobs
  • Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
  • Einstein: His Life and Universe
  • Into the Wild
  • John Adams
Best Biographies
1,743 books
  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything
  • First Time Dad: The Ultimate 42-Week Pregnancy Handbook for Expecting Fathers: Support Your Partner, Prepare for Baby, and Build Confidence as a New Dad
  • The Cosmic Experience of One: An awareness-expanding course for human beings
  • Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism!: The Marx Code—Socialism with a Human Face: A New World Order
Interesting and Readable Nonfiction
4,459 books
  • John Adams
  • 1776
  • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
  • A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Best American History Books
2,234 books
  • Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
  • Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
  • Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
  • We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
  • Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,215 books