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Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9298 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,398,738 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7649 times as biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,354,512 ratings — published 1947
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5401 times as biography)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,254,160 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4756 times as biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,995,427 ratings — published 2018
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4605 times as biography)
avg rating 4.11 — 460,184 ratings — published 2015
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4414 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 211,536 ratings — published 2007
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4324 times as biography)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,022,300 ratings — published 2010
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4252 times as biography)
avg rating 4.09 — 386,762 ratings — published 2001
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4193 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 209,239 ratings — published 2004
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4127 times as biography)
avg rating 4.48 — 856,439 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3821 times as biography)
avg rating 4.14 — 834,038 ratings — published 2010
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3748 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 139,029 ratings — published 2017
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3489 times as biography)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,645,779 ratings — published 2022
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3488 times as biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 301,803 ratings — published 1965
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3426 times as biography)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,230,836 ratings — published 1996
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3369 times as biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 155,213 ratings — published 2003
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3277 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 642,180 ratings — published 2012
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 3159 times as biography)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,077,071 ratings — published 2011
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 2990 times as biography)
avg rating 4.26 — 224,589 ratings — published 1985
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2830 times as biography)
avg rating 4.45 — 394,098 ratings — published 2016
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2679 times as biography)
avg rating 4.41 — 861,178 ratings — published 2016
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2658 times as biography)
avg rating 4.31 — 289,441 ratings — published 2020
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2548 times as biography)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,410,719 ratings — published 2012
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2501 times as biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,613 ratings — published 2010
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 2448 times as biography)
avg rating 4.30 — 601,249 ratings — published 1969
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2403 times as biography)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,418,843 ratings — published 2005
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 2365 times as biography)
avg rating 4.28 — 206,189 ratings — published 2005
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2175 times as biography)
avg rating 3.74 — 126,141 ratings — published 2010
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2165 times as biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 94,720 ratings — published 1791
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2162 times as biography)
avg rating 4.36 — 949,773 ratings — published 1946
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2121 times as biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 40,716 ratings — published 1998
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2115 times as biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 86,123 ratings — published 2010
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by (shelved 2106 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 63,351 ratings — published 1979
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2105 times as biography)
avg rating 4.30 — 63,842 ratings — published 2005
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2048 times as biography)
avg rating 3.83 — 516,964 ratings — published 2016
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 2004 times as biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 93,342 ratings — published 1992
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1992 times as biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 497,051 ratings — published 2020
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1990 times as biography)
avg rating 3.95 — 109,588 ratings — published 2011
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1982 times as biography)
avg rating 4.36 — 98,471 ratings — published 1991
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1968 times as biography)
avg rating 4.48 — 370,574 ratings — published 1971
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1934 times as biography)
avg rating 4.50 — 47,597 ratings — published 2017
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1890 times as biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 102,319 ratings — published 2015
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 1876 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 671,966 ratings — published 1996
Elon Musk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1871 times as biography)
avg rating 4.31 — 83,092 ratings — published 2023
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1839 times as biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 567,078 ratings — published 2014
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1791 times as biography)
avg rating 4.07 — 894,594 ratings — published 2012
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1735 times as biography)
avg rating 4.14 — 140,266 ratings — published 1845
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1703 times as biography)
avg rating 3.83 — 447,726 ratings — published 2023
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 1681 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,290,352 ratings — published 1997
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1674 times as biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 234,462 ratings — published 1995
“Everyone knows that Africa is not reasonable place but if we can get
across that neither are we, we strengthen the bond with the continent.
People are not conscious beings, just ask any marketer. Irrationality
of the early explorers, irrationality of the new ones, irrationality
of the place we go into. What a great canvas we have to paint on...”
― Living the Best Day Ever
― Living the Best Day Ever
“This is the tale of Magic Alex, the man who was everywhere: with Leonard Cohen in Hydra; in Crete with Joni Mitchell; in a Paris bathroom when Jimmy Morrison went down; working as a roadie setting up the Beatles last rooftop gig; an assistant to John and Yoko when they had a bed-in at the Amsterdam Hilton; with the Stones when they were charged for pissing against a wall; the first to find and save Dylan after the motorcycle accident; having it off with Mama Cass hours before she choked the big one; arranging the security at Altamont; at Haight-Ashbury with George Harrison and the Grateful Dead; and in the Japanese airport with McCartney after the dope rap. He was the guy Carly Simon was really singing about and the missing slice of ‘Bye, Bye Miss American Pie’.”
― Magic Alex and the Secret History of Rock and Roll
― Magic Alex and the Secret History of Rock and Roll
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bio, biografia, biografico, biographical, biographies, biographies-memoirs, biography-and-memoir, and non-fiction__biography