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"

Counting the Cost
A Promised Land
Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me
Finding Me
The Happiest Man on Earth
Coming Home
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Bad Mormon: A Memoir
The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading
Inside Out
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
My Name is Barbra
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Here After
Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation - How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison
Finding Margaret Fuller
Becoming Madam Secretary
Say More: Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World
A Light through the Cracks: A Climber's Story
This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
Queenie of Norwich
Did I Ever Tell You?
The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Leslie F*cking Jones
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
Homebody
La mala costumbre
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Me
Not That Fancy: Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within
The Soul of a Woman
Live
The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
Worthy
The Lioness of Boston
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
Triste tigre
Choosing to Run: A Memoir
Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme
Between Two Trailers
Permanent Record
Ghosted: An American Story
My Mama, Cass: A Memoir
My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me
The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters
Jävla karlar
Roma soy yo: La verdadera historia de Julio César
Never Give an Inch: Fighting for the America I Love
Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl
This Much is True
A Very Private School: A Memoir
The Twins of Auschwitz
The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters
Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds
What Really Happens in Vegas: True Stories of the People Who Make Vegas, Vegas
The Half of It: A Memoir
Things I Should Have Said: Family, Fame, and Figuring it Out
Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences
Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story
El peligro de estar cuerda
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Pick Me Girls
Off with My Head: The Definitive Basic B*tch Handbook to Surviving Rock Bottom
Question 7
Kukum
Kaffee und Zigaretten
Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom
Cloistered: My Years as a Nun
King: A Life
Eat, Pray, #FML
Premier sang
Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road
Heartstrong
On Connection
Jeg burde kanskje ha sagt nei: Historier om alt som har skjedd meg fordi jeg er så dårlig til å sette grenser
The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz
Playing for Freedom: The Journey of a Young Afghan Girl
Girl With No Job: The Crazy Beautiful Life of an Instagram Thirst Monster
The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder
Diddly Squat: ‘Til The Cows Come Home
Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story
Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood
Breaking Through: My Life in Science
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain
The French Ingredient: A Memoir
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel

Imagine your worst day, multiply it by a hundred, and pray to your God that you never experience what some of the people in this war zone go through, everyday, without any hope of it getting better. Ever. Compared to these people, every day, no matter how bad, is the best day ever. I know nothing about pain, nothing about suffering and hopefully never will.
Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

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Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior. ...more
John Newton, Amazing Grace

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