Most Read This Week In Biography

A biography (from the Greek words bios meaning "life", and graphos meaning "write") is a non-fictional account of a person's life. Biographies are written by an author who is not the subject/focus of the book.

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Autobiography
Memoir
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Most Read This Week Tagged "Biography"

I’m Glad My Mom Died
From Here to the Great Unknown
Counting the Cost
A Promised Land
The Happiest Man on Earth
Finding Me
»Mama, bitte lern Deutsch«: Unser Eingliederungsversuch in eine geschlossene Gesellschaft
Code Name: Pale Horse—How I Went Undercover to Expose America's Nazis
Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
I'll Never Call Him Dad Again: Turning Our Family Trauma of Sexual Assault and Chemical Submission into a Collective Fight
I Regret Almost Everything
Becoming Madam Secretary
Class Clown: The Memoirs of a Professional Wiseass—How I Went 77 Years Without Growing Up
My Time to Stand
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Patriot: A Memoir
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Boat Baby: A Memoir
The House of Hidden Meanings
Triste tigre
The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
El loco de Dios en el fin del mundo
The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
The Möbius Book
The Cardinal
John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs
Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
Beladen huis
Градинарят и смъртта
Free Ride
Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Love, Shipwreck and Survival
Brothers
The Soul of a Woman
The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some
Monique s'évade
Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1)
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
King: A Life
Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television
This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light
Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order
There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History
The Director
You Never Know: A Memoir
Wolf
The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road
El cuerpo de Cristo
The Official Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Book
The Last Secret Agent: My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
The Lioness of Boston
Heartbreaker: A Memoir
Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly
El peligro de estar cuerda
The Season
The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
Talking to GOATs: The Moments You Remember and the Stories You Never Heard
Bad Mormon: A Memoir
Pick Me Girls
Roma soy yo: La verdadera historia de Julio César (Julio César, #1)
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
It Rhymes With Takei
Making It So
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus
Always Home, Always Homesick
Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation - How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison
The Peepshow
I Love You, Byee: Rambles on DIY TV, Rockstars, Kids and Mums
Diddly Squat: Home to Roost
I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays
Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl
Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska
La llamada: Un retrato
Leslie F*cking Jones
Slayers, Every One of Us: How One Girl in All the World Showed Us How to Hold On
Queenie of Norwich
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Karen: A Brother Remembers
Finding Margaret Fuller
Don't Call Me Jupiter: Memoir of a Reluctant Hippie Kid (Jupiter, #1)
Blood in the Water: The Untold Story of a Family Tragedy
The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress, and Dr. Crippen
The Asylum
Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age
I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying
The Half of It: A Memoir
Restless Dolly Maunder
This Much is True
Wild West Village: Not a Memoir—Unless I Win an Oscar, Die Tragically, or Score a Country #1
House of Huawei: The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company
Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
Cellar Rat: My Life in the Restaurant Underbelly

Paul Auster
Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge – none of that tells us very much.
Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

Gil Scott-Heron
Because I always feel like running Not away, because there is no such place Because if there was, I would have found it by now Because it's easier to run, Easier than staying and finding out you're the only one who didn't run Because running will be the way your life and mine will be described, As in "the long run" Or as in having "given someone a run for his money" Or as in "running out of time" Because running makes me look like everyone else, though I hope there will never be cause for that B ...more
Gil Scott-Heron, Now and Then...

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