top best biography books

12. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann. Another mysterious explorer takes center stage in this gripping 2009 biography. Grann tells the story of Percy Fawcett, the archaeologist who vanished in the Amazon along with his son in 1925, supposedly in search of an ancient lost city.

5. In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs by Stephen M. Ward (2016) In this dual biography, Stephen M. Ward (professor of Afroamerican and African Studies at ...

Oscar Wilde: A Life, by Matthew Sturgis. Now 10% Off. $36 at Amazon $40 at Macy's. Now remembered for his 1891 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde was one of the most fascinating men of ...

The 21 most captivating biographies of all time. Written by Katherine Fiorillo. Aug 3, 2021, 2:48 PM PDT. The bets biographies include books about Malcolm X, Frida Kahlo, Steve Jobs, Alexander ...

At Her Majesty's Request: An African Princess in Victorian England by Walter Dean Myers. "One terrifying night in 1848, a young African princess's village is raided by warriors. The invaders kill her mother and father, the King and Queen, and take her captive. Two years later, a British naval captain rescues her and takes her to England ...

message 37: by Katrina (new) Feb 16, 2013 04:34PM. Deleted The Price of Deception by Simangele Kekana (erotica / fiction) Through a Dog's Eyes: by Jennifer Arnold (dog research) Anything Goes: My Autobiography by John Barrowman (autobiography) Growing Up Amish: A Memoir by Ira Wagler (memoir)

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Michelle wrote: "Too many books on this list are not biographies or memoirs. The Catcher in the Rye is a lovely book but it's fiction. Likewise The Great Gatsby. The Bible is not a memoir or a biography." I agree, so I have removed all five books (three different versions of the Bible were on the list).

Notable Memoirs of 2023, recommended by Cal Flyn. Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn selects the best recent autobiographical writing in this round-up of notable memoirs of 2023—taking in new work from such literary giants as Janet Malcolm and Annie Ernaux, the writer other writers are raving about, and a humorous debut depicting life in a ...

Alexander Hamilton. Ron Chernow - Mar 29, 2005 (first published in 2004) Goodreads Rating. 4.2 (179k) History Nonfiction American History. Unleash the life and legacy of one of America's most debated and misunderstood Founding Fathers with this landmark biography.

Last modified on Wed 8 Dec 2021 11.37 EST. In a bonanza year for memoirs, Ruth Coker Burks got us off to a strong start with All the Young Men (Trapeze), a clear-eyed and poignant account of her ...

Lewis was captured and put in bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave trade was outlawed in the United States. 13. The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel. In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G. H. Hardy, a pre-eminent English mathematician, with several ideas about numbers.

Isaacson also covers Einstein's Physics achievements and his formulation of the General Theory of Relativity. This is one of the best biography books for anyone interested in politics, physics, or personal achievement. Walter Isaacson has quite the resume. He's been the managing editor at , CEO of CNN, and CEO of the Aspen Institute.

WINNER 19,969 votes. This year's winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for History/Biography, Empire of Pain is an exhaustively researched profile of the Sackler family, the aristocratic American clan that made its fortune making and marketing the painkiller OxyContin. Patrick Radden Keefe is a master of the kind of narrative reporting style ...

by Maya Angelou. A favourite book of former president Obama and countless others, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, recounts Angelou's childhood in the American south in the 1930s. A beautifully written classic, this is the first of Maya Angelou's seven bestselling autobiographies.

The Pulitzer-winning Stay True (Picador), by New Yorker writer Hua Hsu, is a powerful and beautifully written meditation on guilt, memory and male friendship as the author reflects on the death of ...

Talented biographers examine the interplay between individual qualities and greater social forces, explains Elizabeth Taylor—chair of the judges for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle award for biography.Here, she offers us an overview of their five-book shortlist, including a garlanded account of the life of J. Edgar Hoover and a group biography of post-war female philosophers.

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie. Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Romanovs, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Peter the Great, showcases his writing prowess with this biography of Catherine the Great. Massie follows the journey of this obscure German princess from a minor noble family role to ...

15 Memoirs and Biographies to Read This Fall. New autobiographies from Jemele Hill, Matthew Perry and Hua Hsu are in the mix, along with books about Martha Graham, Agatha Christie and more. 58. By ...

Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley. This is another best biography of 2022 that many, many readers will want to sink into. The audio is also by the author so you may want to read it that way. Whether someone reads it with eyes or ears (or both!), this book is sure to interest many curious Christie fans.

by. Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 7 times as best-biographies) avg rating 4.16 — 1,241,959 ratings — published 2011. Want to Read. Rate this book. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover) by.

Number One is Walking by Steve Martin. The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama. Madly, Deeply by Alan Rickman. Solito by Javier Zamora. Beyond the Wand by Tom Felton. James Patterson by James Patterson. Read compelling biography books, autobiographies and memoirs about your favorite (or least favorite) icons, including politicians, actors, and ...

Back to Black: Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. With Lesley Manville, Jack O'Connell, Eddie Marsan, Marisa Abela. The life and music of Amy Winehouse, through the journey of adolescence to adulthood and the creation of one of the best-selling albums of our time.

by. Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author) From Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in journalism, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents continues a discernible theme in this year's awards: books that take a long, hard look at America itself. Wilkerson argues, persuasively, that Americans are mired in an outdated and dangerous ...