Best Biographies

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Jane Austen: A Life
de Claire Tomalin
1,601 membros
33 resenhas
4
7 Members
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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
de Barbara Goldsmith
482 membros
11 resenhas
3.8
4 Members
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
de James Boswell
3,890 membros
42 resenhas
4.2
4 Members
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4
His Excellency: George Washington
de Joseph J. Ellis
3,814 membros
59 resenhas
4
4 Members
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5
John Adams
de David McCullough
13,686 membros
199 resenhas
½ 4.3
4 Members
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6
Eudora Welty: A Writer's Life
de Ann Waldron
51 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.3
3 Members
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7
Einstein: His Life and Universe
de Walter Isaacson
5,488 membros
94 resenhas
4.2
3 Members
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8
Two Lives
de Vikram Seth
1,193 membros
27 resenhas
½ 3.7
3 Members
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9
Tolkien: A Biography
de Humphrey Carpenter
2,774 membros
22 resenhas
4
2 Members
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10
American Lion
de Jon Meacham
3,194 membros
64 resenhas
½ 3.7
2 Members
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11
Madame Curie: A Biography
de Eve Curie
1,203 membros
25 resenhas
4
2 Members
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12
Joan of Arc: Her Story
de Régine Pernoud
323 membros
3 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
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13
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
de Claire Tomalin
1,725 membros
32 resenhas
4.1
3 Members
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14
The Sun King
de Nancy Mitford
907 membros
16 resenhas
½ 3.7
3 Members
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15
The Life of Elizabeth I
de Alison Weir
2,796 membros
40 resenhas
4
3 Members
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16
Edith Wharton
de Hermione Lee
538 membros
12 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
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17
Sarah Orne Jewett
de Elizabeth Silverthorne
11 membros
1 resenha
3
2 Members
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18
The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
de William Manchester
2,327 membros
34 resenhas
½ 4.5
2 Members
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19
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
de Doris Kearns Goodwin
9,906 membros
229 resenhas
½ 4.4
2 Members
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20
Evelyn Waugh: A Biography
de Christopher Sykes
136 membros
2 resenhas
2.9
3 Members
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21
William Clark and the Shaping of the West
de Landon Y. Jones
126 membros
1 resenha
4.2
2 Members
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22
Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography
de Martha Saxton
175 membros
3 resenhas
½ 3.7
2 Members
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23
Evita, First Lady: A Biography of Evita Peron
de John Barnes
110 membros
2 resenhas
½ 3.5
2 Members
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24
Renoir, My Father
de Jean Renoir
550 membros
4 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
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25
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
de Joshua Wolf Shenk
968 membros
27 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
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26
The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors
de Juliet Barker
857 membros
17 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
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27
Charles Dickens: A Life
de Claire Tomalin
918 membros
32 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
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28
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
de Charlotte Gordon
699 membros
17 resenhas
½ 4.5
2 Members
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29
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
de H. W. Brands
1,909 membros
11 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
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30
High endeavours : the life and endeavours of Miles and Beryl Smeeton
de Miles Clark
41 membros
3 resenhas
½ 4.3
2 Members
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31
Last train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
de Peter Guralnick
1,116 membros
11 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
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32
Alan Turing: The Enigma
de Andrew Hodges
2,387 membros
32 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
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33
Isaac Newton
de James Gleick
1,455 membros
44 resenhas
½ 3.7
2 Members
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34
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
de Amanda Foreman
3,015 membros
67 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
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35
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
de Andrew Wilson
346 membros
5 resenhas
4
2 Members
thorold, JuliaMaria
36
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
de H. W. Brands
929 membros
21 resenhas
4
2 Members
AnnaClaire, Bretzky1
37
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
de Bill Bryson
4,801 membros
175 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
smc1, souloftherose
38
Truman
de David McCullough
5,889 membros
82 resenhas
½ 4.4
Member
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39
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
de Justin Spring
410 membros
17 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
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40
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic
de Michael Scammell
141 membros
1 resenha
3.8
Member
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41
Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 1865-1900
de Charles Allen
109 membros
1 resenha
4
Member
John_Vaughan
42
Eleanor Marx: A Life
de Rachel Holmes
102 membros
4 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
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43
O'Neill
de Arthur Gelb
77 membros
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44
George Washington: A Biography (7 volumes)
de Douglas Southall Freeman
68 membros
½ 4.7
Member
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45
The life of Richard Wagner
de Ernest Newman
35 membros
1 resenha
½ 4.3
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46
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
de Alison Weir
1,139 membros
35 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
AnnaClaire, kara.shamy
47
Sinclair Lewis
de James Lundquist
13 membros
1 resenha
3.8
2 Members
smc1, Bretzky1
48
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
de Walter Isaacson
5,452 membros
83 resenhas
4
2 Members
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49
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
de Simon Winchester
12,034 membros
295 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
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50
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
de Malcolm X
9,761 membros
123 resenhas
½ 4.3
2 Members
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51
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
de Alison Weir
1,224 membros
34 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
AnnaClaire, kara.shamy
52
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
de Adam Hochschild
4,758 membros
127 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
kara.shamy
53
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles
de Stefan Zweig
706 membros
11 resenhas
4
Member
smc1
54
Mozart: A Life
de Maynard Solomon
613 membros
3 resenhas
4.2
Member
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55
Joseph Fouché: The Portrait of a Politician
de Stefan Zweig
506 membros
21 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
raperper
56
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom
de Conrad Black
496 membros
4 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
Bretzky1
57
My Father and Myself
de J. R. Ackerley
461 membros
7 resenhas
3.9
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thorold
58
Red Rosa
de Kate Evans
347 membros
9 resenhas
4.1
Member
hipdeep
59
Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson
de Jonathan Coe
245 membros
2 resenhas
3.9
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Minthe
60
Love and Capital
de Mary Gabriel
233 membros
9 resenhas
4
Member
elkiedee
61
Mary Queen of Scots
de Antonia Fraser
2,900 membros
26 resenhas
4
Member
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62
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
de Sarah Bakewell
1,975 membros
86 resenhas
4.1
Member
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63
Ishi in Two Worlds
de Theodora Kroeber
804 membros
9 resenhas
3.8
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Minthe
64
Feynman
de Jim Ottaviani
797 membros
48 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
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65
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
de Eric Ives
552 membros
7 resenhas
4.2
Member
AnnaClaire
66
James Baldwin: A Biography
de David Leeming
271 membros
1 resenha
3.8
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67
A Russian Childhood
de S. Kovalevskaya
40 membros
1 resenha
3.9
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68
In Search of H. V. Morton
de Michael Bartholomew
10 membros
1 resenha
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John_Vaughan
69
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
de Robert K. Massie
2,926 membros
144 resenhas
4.1
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70
Bruce Chatwin
de Nicholas Shakespeare
464 membros
7 resenhas
3.9
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71
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
de Hermione Lee
246 membros
7 resenhas
4.2
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72
R. E. Lee: A Biography
de Douglas Southall Freeman
233 membros
1 resenha
½ 4.6
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73
John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography
de Jackson J. Benson
170 membros
3 resenhas
½ 4.3
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74
Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma
de Michael Peppiatt
155 membros
2 resenhas
½ 3.7
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75
Dignifying Science: Stories About Women Scientists
de Jim Ottaviani
134 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.7
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76
Lincoln
de David Herbert Donald
3,015 membros
26 resenhas
4.2
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77
The Path to Power
de Robert A. Caro
2,622 membros
45 resenhas
½ 4.6
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78
Her Husband: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: A Marriage
de Diane Middlebrook
430 membros
6 resenhas
3.8
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79
The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921
de Isaac Deutscher
402 membros
10 resenhas
½ 4.4
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80
Goethe und Schiller. Geschichte einer Freundschaft
de Rüdiger Safranski
82 membros
2 resenhas
3.8
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81
Means of Ascent
de Robert A. Caro
2,130 membros
30 resenhas
½ 4.4
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82
The Black Jacobins
de C. L. R. James
1,387 membros
22 resenhas
½ 4.3
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83
Anne Sexton: A Biography
de Diane Middlebrook
729 membros
5 resenhas
3.9
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84
Nehru: The Invention of India
de Shashi Tharoor
131 membros
5 resenhas
½ 3.3
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85
The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control
de Nathaniel C. Comfort
36 membros
½ 4.4
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86
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
de Andrew Piper
27 membros
10 resenhas
½ 3.7
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87
First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin
de Richard Bradford
19 membros
1 resenha
3
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John_Vaughan
88
Into the Wild
de Jon Krakauer
17,943 membros
445 resenhas
3.9
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89
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
de Dan Jones
1,895 membros
42 resenhas
4.1
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90
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
de H. W. Brands
927 membros
19 resenhas
4.1
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91
Robert Kennedy: His Life
de Evan Thomas
482 membros
7 resenhas
4.1
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92
Rowan's Rule: The Biography of the Archbishop
de Rupert Shortt
133 membros
4 resenhas
½ 3.7
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93
Rosa Luxemburg: A Life
de Elzbieta Ettinger
73 membros
2 resenhas
4.1
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94
P.G. Wodehouse : man and myth
de Barry Phelps
14 membros
5
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thorold
95
Gabriele Münter und Wassily Kandinsky - Biographie eines Paares
de Gisela Kleine
6 membros
5
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96
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
de Gertrude Stein
2,678 membros
43 resenhas
½ 3.6
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thorold
97
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
de Ross King
2,577 membros
31 resenhas
3.9
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98
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
de Nancy Milford
1,708 membros
25 resenhas
4
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99
The Passage of Power
de Robert A. Caro
1,541 membros
38 resenhas
½ 4.6
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100
Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels
de Janet Soskice
388 membros
25 resenhas
4.2
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