8,944 books
—
6,687 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Biography Books
Showing 1-50 of 100,000
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9227 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,385,432 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7604 times as biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,303,367 ratings — published 1947
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5351 times as biography)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,234,185 ratings — published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4708 times as biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,951,062 ratings — published 2018
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4602 times as biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 453,900 ratings — published 2015
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4390 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 207,690 ratings — published 2007
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4322 times as biography)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,014,352 ratings — published 2010
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4213 times as biography)
avg rating 4.09 — 382,977 ratings — published 2001
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 4155 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 205,513 ratings — published 2004
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4089 times as biography)
avg rating 4.49 — 838,933 ratings — published 2016
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3782 times as biography)
avg rating 4.13 — 824,092 ratings — published 2010
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3716 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 134,478 ratings — published 2017
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3450 times as biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 298,105 ratings — published 1965
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3393 times as biography)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,218,365 ratings — published 1996
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3387 times as biography)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,595,339 ratings — published 2022
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 3335 times as biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 153,398 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 3261 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 636,284 ratings — published 2012
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 3162 times as biography)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,069,993 ratings — published 2011
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character (Paperback)
by (shelved 2968 times as biography)
avg rating 4.26 — 222,221 ratings — published 1985
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2807 times as biography)
avg rating 4.45 — 385,350 ratings — published 2016
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2650 times as biography)
avg rating 4.41 — 844,282 ratings — published 2016
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2642 times as biography)
avg rating 4.31 — 285,110 ratings — published 2020
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2519 times as biography)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,396,329 ratings — published 1956
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2462 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 85,928 ratings — published 2010
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 2426 times as biography)
avg rating 4.30 — 595,115 ratings — published 1969
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2381 times as biography)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,401,344 ratings — published 2006
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 2350 times as biography)
avg rating 4.28 — 204,000 ratings — published 2005
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2165 times as biography)
avg rating 3.73 — 125,158 ratings — published 2010
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2153 times as biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 93,722 ratings — published 1791
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2132 times as biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 926,325 ratings — published 1946
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2095 times as biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 84,839 ratings — published 2010
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by (shelved 2093 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 62,539 ratings — published 1979
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2089 times as biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 39,581 ratings — published 1998
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2074 times as biography)
avg rating 4.30 — 61,960 ratings — published 2005
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2038 times as biography)
avg rating 3.83 — 513,100 ratings — published 2016
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1996 times as biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 92,643 ratings — published 1992
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1973 times as biography)
avg rating 3.95 — 109,115 ratings — published 2011
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 1957 times as biography)
avg rating 4.36 — 96,396 ratings — published 1991
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1951 times as biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 485,684 ratings — published 2020
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1946 times as biography)
avg rating 4.48 — 365,741 ratings — published 1971
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1904 times as biography)
avg rating 4.51 — 45,900 ratings — published 2017
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 1870 times as biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 666,721 ratings — published 1996
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1869 times as biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 100,641 ratings — published 2015
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1843 times as biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 563,375 ratings — published 2014
Elon Musk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1830 times as biography)
avg rating 4.32 — 80,225 ratings — published 2023
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1781 times as biography)
avg rating 4.07 — 884,505 ratings — published 2012
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 1724 times as biography)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,144 ratings — published 1845
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1694 times as biography)
avg rating 3.83 — 441,982 ratings — published 2023
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1674 times as biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 232,869 ratings — published 1995
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 1651 times as biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,257,312 ratings — published 1997
“Sé que mi familia es así pero este silencio me pesa. Tengo la impresión de tener millones de cosas que decir que, en el fondo, no interesan a nadie. Me viene a la memoria lo que decían los supervivientes de los campos de la última guerra al volver a su hogar: las pesadillas no se cuentan. Los demás no imaginan este género de pesadillas. Se instala, entre ellos y nosotras, una especie de statu quo que parece decir: ‘Estás aquí, se acabó, no hablemos más de ello.”
― For the Love of a Child
― For the Love of a Child
“You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas”
―
―
The following shelves are listed as duplicates of this shelf:
bio, biografia, biografico, biographical, biographies, biographies-memoirs, biography-and-memoir, and non-fiction__biography