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Historical Biography Books
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John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.08 — 377,355 ratings — published 2001
Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 38,430 ratings — published 2001
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 108,187 ratings — published 2011
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 199,655 ratings — published 2004
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.28 — 199,712 ratings — published 2005
The Life of Elizabeth I (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.03 — 32,784 ratings — published 1998
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,359,762 ratings — published 1956
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,176,283 ratings — published 1947
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.93 — 16,678 ratings — published 1999
Mary Queen of Scots (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.99 — 17,455 ratings — published 1969
Henry VIII: The King and His Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.10 — 14,588 ratings — published 2001
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.78 — 20,247 ratings — published 1998
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 72,851 ratings — published 1992
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.00 — 756,662 ratings — published 2003
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.73 — 123,080 ratings — published 2010
The Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,128 ratings — published 1992
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.18 — 98,469 ratings — published 2015
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 164,100 ratings — published 1959
Truman (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 91,382 ratings — published 1992
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.39 — 995,851 ratings — published 2010
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.23 — 29,784 ratings — published 1967
The Children of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,466 ratings — published 1996
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 82,491 ratings — published 2010
Grant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.50 — 43,787 ratings — published 2017
Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,473 ratings — published 2005
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.82 — 5,133 ratings — published 2013
The Wars of the Roses (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,319 ratings — published 1995
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,105 ratings — published 2012
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 82,548 ratings — published 2010
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,542 ratings — published 2003
American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 56,849 ratings — published 2008
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.84 — 121,676 ratings — published 1998
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,791 ratings — published 2009
Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 48,627 ratings — published 1995
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.05 — 150,007 ratings — published 2003
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,739 ratings — published 2000
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,106,710 ratings — published 1997
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.13 — 802,584 ratings — published 2010
Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,056 ratings — published 2006
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,904 ratings — published 2005
The Diamond Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.29 — 201,270 ratings — published 2022
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,640 ratings — published 2018
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.30 — 136,618 ratings — published 2020
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 201,867 ratings — published 2007
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.25 — 28,377 ratings — published 2014
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 871,630 ratings — published 1946
Theodore Rex (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 51,150 ratings — published 2001
The Princes in the Tower (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,732 ratings — published 1992
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 3.98 — 14,345 ratings — published 2009
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-biography)
avg rating 4.39 — 360,560 ratings — published 2013
“Are you saying these Christians believe we will never be good enough to marry their daughters because of our race?”
― Red Clay, Running Waters
― Red Clay, Running Waters
“Don Pedro Luis de Borja-Pierluigi Borgia to the Italians—was still in his mid-twenties when he became the first member of his family to be the most hated man in Rome. He did so not by behaving badly in any way of which a credible record has survived, but by carrying out an assignment that made him the enemy of some of the most badly behaved Romans of his time.”
― The Borgias: The Hidden History
― The Borgias: The Hidden History
