The Greatest Biography Books of All Time

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
17131 The World She Edited Amy Reading 2024 Unknown English
17131 Its So Easy And Other Lies Duff McKagan 2011 American English
17131 Going Solo Roald Dahl 1986 British English
17131 The Disaster Artist Greg Sestero 2013 American English
17131 Room To Dream David Lynch 2018 American English
17131 Theodore Roosevelt Trilogy Edmund Morris 1979 American English
17131 The Good Neighbor Maxwell King 2018 American English
17131 The Motorcycle Diaries Che Guevara 1993 Argentinian Spanish
17131 Distant Replay Jerry Kramer, Dick Schaap 1985 American English
17131 Obsessed Johnny Sexton 2024 Unknown English
17131 My Story Joe Canning, Vincent Hogan 2024 Unknown English
17131 The Hidden Victims Cormac Ó Gráda 2024 Unknown English
17131 Hotel Lux Maurice Casey 2024 Unknown English
17131 The Irish In The Resistance Clodagh Finn, John Morgan 2024 Unknown English
17131 Glasgow Boys Margaret McDonald 2024 Unknown English
17131 Environmentalism From Below Ashley Dawson 2024 Unknown English
17131 Living On Earth Peter Godfrey-Smith 2024 Unknown English
17131 Why We Die Venki Ramakrishnan 2024 Unknown English
17131 Hazzard And Harrower Brigitta Olubas, Susan Wyndham 2024 Unknown English
17131 Quantum Drama Jim Baggott, John L. Heilbron 2024 Unknown English
17131 The Immune Mind Monty Lyman 2024 British English
17131 Selfish Genes To Social Beings Jonathan Silvertown 2024 Unknown English
17131 Hits, Flops, And Other Illusions Ed Zwick 2024 Unknown English
17131 Life On The Run Bill Bradley 1976 American English
17131 Poverty Safari Darren McGarvey 2017 British English
17131 This Boy Alan Johnson 2013 British English
17131 On The Front Line Marie Colvin 2012 British English
17131 Keeper Andrea Gillies 2009 British English
17131 Palestinian Walks Raja Shehadeh 2008 Palestinian English
17131 Alexander Solzhenitsyn D. M. Thomas 1998 Unknown English
17131 Jennie Lee Patricia Hollis 1997 British English
17131 The Bedwetter Sarah Silverman 2010 American English
17131 Dear Lupin Roger Mortimer, Charlie Mortimer 2011 British English
17131 Stuart Alexander Masters 2005 British English
17131 Running In The Family Michael Ondaatje 1982 Canadian English
17131 Our Man In Rome Catherine Fletcher 2012 Unknown English
17131 Only The Paranoid Survive Andrew S. Grove 1996 American English
17131 Fire In The Valley Paul Freiberger, Michael Swaine 1984 American English
17131 Ludwig Wittgenstein Ray Monk 1990 British English
17131 At Home With André And Simone Weil Sylvie Weil 2009 Unknown French
17131 Kant Manfred Kuehn 2001 Unknown English
17131 Simone De Beauvoir Toril Moi 2008 Unknown English
17131 Frantz Fanon David Macey 2001 Unknown English
17131 Georges Perec David Bellos 1993 Unknown English
17131 Angela Davis Angela Davis 1974 American English
17131 The Pity Of Partition Ayesha Jalal 2013 English
17131 Sounds Like Titanic Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman 2019 American English
17131 The Naked Island Russell Braddon 1951 Australian English
17131 Kings In Grass Castles Mary Durack 1959 Australian English
17131 Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia Edward John Eyre 2004 Australian English
17131 Wild Men Of Sydney Cyril Pearl 1958 Australian English
17131 The Watcher On The Cast Iron Balcony Hal Porter 1963 Australian English
17131 A Woman's Story Annie Ernaux 1988 French French
17131 The World That Made Mandela Luli Callinicos 2000 Unknown English
17131 Portraits Of Power Mark Gevisser 1996 Unknown English
17131 Mountain Of Fame John E. Wills Jr. 1992 Chinese English
17131 Easily Slip Into Another World Henry Threadgill, Brent Hayes Edwards 2023 Unknown English
17131 The Odyssey Of Phillis Wheatley David Waldstreicher 2023 Unknown English
17131 Schoenberg Harvey Sachs 2023 Unknown English
17131 Sink Joseph Earl Thomas 2023 Unknown English
17131 Up Home Ruth J. Simmons 2023 Unknown English
17131 Keeping The Faith Brenda Wineapple 2024 Unknown English
17131 The Letters Of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller, Domhnall Mitchell 2024 American English
17131 Black Women Taught Us Jenn M. Jackson 2024 Unknown English
17131 Disability Intimacy Alice Wong 2024 Unknown English
17131 Night Flyer Tiya Miles 2024 Unknown English
17131 I Write What I Like Steve Biko 1978 South African English
17131 Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness 2018 Unknown English
17131 Freethinkers Susan Jacoby 2004 American English
17131 All The Beauty In The World Patrick Bringley 2023 Unknown English
17131 Horse Barbie Geena Rocero 2023 Unknown English
17118 Malcolm X Malcolm X 1965 American English
17131 Viktor Frankl's Search For Meaning Timothy Pytell 2015 Unknown English
17131 The City Game Pete Axthelm 1970 American English
17131 Babe Robert Creamer 1974 American English
17131 Joe Di Maggio Richard Ben Cramer 2000 American English
17131 Veeck As In Wreck Bill Veeck, Ed Linn 1962 American English
17131 Big Red Of Meadow Stable William Nack 1988 American English
17131 Foul! The Connie Hawkins Story David Wolf 1972 American English
17131 Baseball's Great Experiment Jules Tygiel 1983 American English
17131 The Glory Of Their Times Lawrence Ritter 1966 American English
17131 Days Of Grace Arnold Rampersad, Arthur Ashe 1993 American English
17131 In These Girls, Hope Is A Muscle Madeleine Blais 1995 American English
17131 They Call Me Coach John Wooden, Jack Tobin 1972 American English
17131 Cosell Howard Cosell 1973 American English
16814 Down The Fairway Bobby Jones, O.B. Keeler 1927 American English
17131 Arnold Arnold Schwarzenegger, Douglas Kent Hall 1979 Unknown English
17131 Whatever Happened To Gorgeous George? Joe Jares 1974 Unknown English
17131 Inside Edge Christine Brennan 1996 American English
17131 Muhammad Ali Thomas Hauser 1991 American English
17131 Game Misconduct Russ Conway 1995 Unknown English
17131 Little Girls In Pretty Boxes Joan Ryan 1995 American English
17131 It Gets Me Home, This Curving Track Ian Penman 2019 British English
17131 Why We Love Baseball Joe Posnanski 2023 American English
17131 On Call Anthony Fauci 2024 Unknown English
17131 The Cleopatras Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones 2024 Unknown English
17131 The Elements Of Marie Curie Dava Sobel 2024 Unknown English
17131 To Anyone Who Ever Asks Howard Fishman 2023 Unknown English
17131 Coast Of Slaves, Ships Of Slaves And Islands Of Slaves Thorkild Hansen 1967 Danish Danish
17131 A Girl Named Zippy Haven Kimmel 2001 American English
17131 Rizal In Saga Nick Joaquin 1996 Philippine English
17131 Heavier Than Heaven Charles R. Cross 2001 American English
17131 I Am Ozzy Ozzy Osbourne 2009 British English
17131 Combee Edda L. Fields-Black 2024 Unknown English
17131 Savings And Trust Justene Hill Edwards 2024 Unknown English
17131 The Pleasures Of The Imagination John Brewer 1997 British English
17131 Maurice And Maralyn Sophie Elmhirst 2024 Unknown English
17131 Blitzed Norman Ohler 2015 German German
17131 Hue 1968 Mark Bowden 2017 American English
17131 Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World Jack Weatherford 2004 American English
17131 Congo David Van Reybrouck 2010 Belgian Dutch
17131 Claudette Colvin Phillip Hoose 2009 American English
17131 I Can't Accept Not Trying Michael Jordan 1994 American English
17131 Having Our Say Amy Hill Hearth, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Sarah Louise Delany 1993 American English
17131 The Extinction Of Experience Christine Rosen 2004 Unknown English
17131 The World Simon Sebag Montefiore 2022 British English
17131 A Stranger In Your Own City Ghaith Abdul-Ahad 2023 Unknown English
17131 Be Water, My Friend Shannon Lee 2020 Unknown English
17039 Dostoevsky Joseph Frank 1864 American English
17131 Diego & Frida J. M. G. Le Clezio 1993 French French