The Greatest Biography Books Since 2010

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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
909 The Warmth Of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson 2010 American English
1392 Evicted Matthew Desmond 2016 American English
1817 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot 2010 American English
1974 The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010 American English
2522 The Passage Of Power Robert Caro 2012 American English
2991 Frederick Douglass David W. Blight 2018 American English
3235 When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi 2016 American English
3604 Limonov Emmanuel Carrère 2011 French French
4381 How To End A Story Helen Garner 2021 Australian English
4979 The Hare with Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal 2010 British English
5329 Grant Ron Chernow 2017 American English
5588 Caste Isabel Wilkerson 2020 American English
5642 Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker 2018 American English
5780 Entangled Life Merlin Sheldrake 2020 British English
5808 Prairie Fires Caroline Fraser 2017 American English
5932 King Jonathan Eig 2023 American English
6378 Leonardo Da Vinci Walter Isaacson 2017 American English
6500 The Black Count Tom Reiss 2012 French English
6537 Hunger Roxane Gay 2017 American English
6596 The Invention Of Nature Andrea Wulf 2015 German English
6612 Hidden Valley Road Robert Kolker 2020 American English
6655 Invisible Child Andrea Elliott 2021 American English
6664 How The Word Is Passed Clint Smith 2021 American English
6788 The Splendid And The Vile Erik Larson 2020 American English
7020 Albert Murray Albert Murray 2016 American Unknown
7212 Question 7 Richard Flanagan 2023 Unknown English
7569 Mortality Christopher Hitchens 2012 British English
7595 Wealth And Power Orville Schell, John Delury 2013 Chinese English
7679 Master Slave Husband Wife Ilyon Woo 2023 Unknown English
7885 Wifedom Anna Funder 2023 Unknown English
8003 Play Their Hearts Out George Dohrmann 2010 American English
8005 On The Move Oliver Sacks 2015 British English
8062 The Future Is History Masha Gessen 2017 Russian English
8067 All That She Carried Tiya Miles 2021 American English
8100 The Gates Of Europe Serhii Plokhy 2015 Ukrainian English
8173 Life Keith Richards 2010 British English
8225 The Best Minds Jonathan Rosen 2023 Unknown English
8298 Empire Of Pain Patrick Radden Keefe 2021 American English
8311 A Marriage At Sea Sophie Elmhirst 2024 British English
8423 Coming Apart Charles Murray 2012 American English
8426 Sad Tiger Neige Sinno 2023 Unknown French
8457 March John Lewis 2013 American English
8518 Into The Woods Anna Krien 2010 Australian English
8558 A Thread Of Violence Mark O'Connell 2023 Unknown English
8625 Things In Nature Merely Grow Yiyun Li 2025 Unknown English
8649 Raising Hare Chloe Dalton 2025 Unknown English
8734 Tangata Whenua Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris 2014 New Zealand English
8782 Mother Mary Comes To Me Arundhati Roy 2025 Unknown English
8848 Tragedy At Pike River Mine Rebecca Macfie 2013 New Zealand English
8871 Becoming Mrs. Lewis Patti Callahan Henry 2018 American English
8876 How To Survive A Plague David France 2016 American English
8891 Midnight In Chernobyl Adam Higginbotham 2024 British English
8895 Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama Alison Bechdel 2012 American English
8926 Hidden America Jeanne Marie Laskas 2012 American English
9039 Anansi’s Gold Yepoka Yeebo 2023 Unknown English
9057 In The Darkroom Susan Faludi 2016 American English
9073 Cleopatra Stacy Schiff 2010 Egyptian English
9191 Love And Ruin Evan Ratliff, Susan Orlean 2016 Unknown English
9191 A Sliver Of Light Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, Sarah Shourd 2014 American English
9191 Irritable Hearts Mac McClelland 2015 Unknown English
9191 The Death Class Erika Hayasaki 2014 American English
9191 The Saboteur Paul Kix 2017 Unknown English
9261 Malcolm X Manning Marable 2011 American English
9696 The Beautiful Country And The Middle Kingdom John Pomfret 2016 American English
9709 Katherine Of Aragon Alison Weir 2016 British English
9890 Bhimayana Srividya Natarajan, S. Anand 2011 Indian English
9977 The Most Wanted Man In China Fang Lizhi 2016 Unknown English
9997 Baldwin Nicholas Boggs 2025 Unknown English
10018 Nine Continents Xiaolu Guo 2017 Chinese English
10054 A Truce That Is Not Peace Miriam Toews 2025 Canadian English
10098 A Flower Traveled In My Blood Haley Cohen Gilliland 2025 Unknown English
10190 Waiting To Be Arrested At Night Tahir Hamut Izgil 2023 Unknown Uyghur
10236 Race For Profit Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 2019 American English
10269 The Mind's Eye Oliver Sacks 2010 British English
10272 The Wicked Boy Kate Summerscale 2016 British English
10288 I Was Born There, I Was Born Here Mourid Barghouti 2011 Palestinian Arabic
10376 Nuclear War Annie Jacobsen 2024 Unknown Unknown
10394 Memorial Days Geraldine Brooks 2025 Unknown English
10406 Dark Renaissance Stephen Greenblatt 2025 American English
10436 Daughter Of The Dragon Yunte Huang 2023 Unknown English
10445 Patriot Alexei Navalny 2024 Unknown English
10450 A Promised Land Barack Obama 2020 American English
10450 Arthur Ashe: A Life Raymond Arsenault 2018 Unknown English
10450 Churchill Andrew Roberts 2018 British English
10450 The Poison Squad Deborah Blum 2018 American English
10510 Motherland Julia Ioffe 2025 American English
10538 Careless People Sarah Wynn-Williams 2025 Unknown English
10547 Pageboy Elliot Page 2023 Canadian English
10562 A Walk In The Park Kevin Fedarko 2024 Unknown English
10566 The Third Revolution Elizabeth C. Economy 2018 Unknown English
10581 Some People Need Killing Patricia Evangelista 2023 Unknown English
10584 Claire McCardell Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson 2025 American English
10590 Deep House Jeremy Atherton Lin 2025 American English
10596 The Harder I Fight The More I Love You Neko Case 2025 American English
10599 Book Of Lives Margaret Atwood 2025 Canadian English
10602 Black Moses Caleb Gayle 2025 Unknown English
10610 King Of Kings Scott Anderson 2025 American English
10624 Lives Of The Wives Carmela Ciuraru 2023 Unknown English
10624 Crumb Dan Nadel 2025 American English
10635 The Country Of The Blind Andrew Leland 2023 Unknown English
10639 Bottoms Up And The Devil Laughs Kerry Howley 2023 Unknown English
10643 The Vanishing Man Laura Cumming 2016 British English
10646 Bread Of Angels Patti Smith 2025 American English
10658 Paper Girl Beth Macy 2025 American English
10662 Buckley Sam Tanenhaus 2025 American English
10664 Lorne Susan Morrison 2025 Unknown English
10677 A Living Remedy Nicole Chung 2023 American English
10680 My Name Is Barbra Barbra Streisand 2023 American English
10677 John & Paul Ian Leslie 2025 British English
10681 Unscripted James B. Stewart, Rachel Abrams 2023 Unknown English
10689 Daughters Of The Bamboo Grove Barbara Demick 2025 American English
10692 The Tragedy Of True Crime John J. Lennon 2025 Unknown English
10721 Melting Point Rachel Cockerell 2024 Unknown English
10709 The Dress Diary Kate Strasdin 2023 Unknown English
10702 I Regret Almost Everything Keith McNally 2025 British English
10716 The Beast In The Clouds Nathalia Holt 2025 American English
10762 The Banished Immortal Ha Jin 2019 American English
10785 Washington Ron Chernow 2010 American English
10785 The New Negro Jeffrey C. Stewart 2018 American English
10785 The Dead Are Arising Les Payne 2020 American English