Best Biographies

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Jane Austen: A Life
de Claire Tomalin
1,603 membres
33 ressenyes
4
7 Members
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2
Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
de Barbara Goldsmith
482 membres
11 ressenyes
3.8
4 Members
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3
The Life of Samuel Johnson
de James Boswell
3,892 membres
42 ressenyes
4.2
4 Members
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4
His Excellency: George Washington
de Joseph J. Ellis
3,815 membres
59 ressenyes
4
4 Members
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5
John Adams
de David McCullough
13,694 membres
199 ressenyes
½ 4.3
4 Members
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6
Eudora Welty: A Writer's Life
de Ann Waldron
51 membres
1 ressenya
½ 3.3
3 Members
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7
Einstein: His Life and Universe
de Walter Isaacson
5,493 membres
94 ressenyes
4.2
3 Members
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8
Two Lives
de Vikram Seth
1,193 membres
27 ressenyes
½ 3.7
3 Members
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9
Tolkien: A Biography
de Humphrey Carpenter
2,774 membres
22 ressenyes
4
2 Members
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10
American Lion
de Jon Meacham
3,199 membres
64 ressenyes
½ 3.7
2 Members
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11
Madame Curie: A Biography
de Eve Curie
1,203 membres
25 ressenyes
4
2 Members
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12
Joan of Arc: Her Story
de Régine Pernoud
323 membres
3 ressenyes
3.9
2 Members
AnnaClaire, mazurat
13
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
de Claire Tomalin
1,725 membres
32 ressenyes
4.1
3 Members
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14
The Sun King
de Nancy Mitford
906 membres
16 ressenyes
½ 3.7
3 Members
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15
The Life of Elizabeth I
de Alison Weir
2,799 membres
40 ressenyes
4
3 Members
AnnaClaire, Diane-bpcb, kara.shamy
16
Edith Wharton
de Hermione Lee
538 membres
12 ressenyes
3.9
2 Members
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17
Sarah Orne Jewett
de Elizabeth Silverthorne
11 membres
1 ressenya
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 membres
34 ressenyes
½ 4.5
2 Members
smc1, smcwl
19
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
de Doris Kearns Goodwin
9,914 membres
229 ressenyes
½ 4.4
2 Members
AnnaClaire, kara.shamy
20
Evelyn Waugh: A Biography
de Christopher Sykes
136 membres
2 ressenyes
2.9
3 Members
smc1, thorold, John_Vaughan
21
William Clark and the Shaping of the West
de Landon Y. Jones
127 membres
1 ressenya
4.2
2 Members
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22
Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography
de Martha Saxton
175 membres
3 ressenyes
½ 3.7
2 Members
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23
Evita, First Lady: A Biography of Evita Peron
de John Barnes
110 membres
2 ressenyes
½ 3.5
2 Members
John_Vaughan, mazurat
24
Renoir, My Father
de Jean Renoir
550 membres
4 ressenyes
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 membres
27 ressenyes
4.1
2 Members
smc1, souloftherose
26
The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors
de Juliet Barker
856 membres
17 ressenyes
4.2
2 Members
Minthe, kara.shamy
27
Charles Dickens: A Life
de Claire Tomalin
918 membres
32 ressenyes
4.2
2 Members
souloftherose, kara.shamy
28
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
de Charlotte Gordon
699 membres
17 ressenyes
½ 4.5
2 Members
elkiedee, kara.shamy
29
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
de H. W. Brands
1,911 membres
11 ressenyes
4.1
2 Members
AnnaClaire, John_Vaughan
30
High endeavours : the life and endeavours of Miles and Beryl Smeeton
de Miles Clark
42 membres
3 ressenyes
½ 4.3
2 Members
smc1, John_Vaughan
31
Last train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
de Peter Guralnick
1,115 membres
11 ressenyes
4.2
2 Members
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32
Alan Turing: The Enigma
de Andrew Hodges
2,381 membres
32 ressenyes
3.9
2 Members
smc1, souloftherose
33
Isaac Newton
de James Gleick
1,455 membres
44 ressenyes
½ 3.7
2 Members
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34
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
de Amanda Foreman
3,016 membres
67 ressenyes
3.8
2 Members
smc1, souloftherose
35
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
de Andrew Wilson
346 membres
5 ressenyes
4
2 Members
thorold, JuliaMaria
36
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
de H. W. Brands
930 membres
21 ressenyes
4
2 Members
AnnaClaire, Bretzky1
37
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
de Bill Bryson
4,803 membres
175 ressenyes
3.8
2 Members
smc1, souloftherose
38
Truman
de David McCullough
5,892 membres
82 ressenyes
½ 4.4
Member
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40
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic
de Michael Scammell
141 membres
1 ressenya
3.8
Member
deebee1
41
Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 1865-1900
de Charles Allen
110 membres
1 ressenya
4
Member
John_Vaughan
42
Eleanor Marx: A Life
de Rachel Holmes
102 membres
4 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Member
elkiedee
43
O'Neill
de Arthur Gelb
77 membres
Member
hipdeep
44
George Washington: A Biography (7 volumes)
de Douglas Southall Freeman
68 membres
½ 4.7
Member
Bretzky1
45
The life of Richard Wagner
de Ernest Newman
35 membres
1 ressenya
½ 4.3
Member
SnootyBaronet
46
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
de Alison Weir
1,138 membres
35 ressenyes
3.8
2 Members
AnnaClaire, kara.shamy
47
Sinclair Lewis
de James Lundquist
13 membres
1 ressenya
3.8
2 Members
smc1, Bretzky1
48
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
de Walter Isaacson
5,453 membres
83 ressenyes
4
2 Members
smc1, John_Vaughan
49
El Professor i el boig : un relat d'assassinats, bogeria i la creació de l'Oxford English Dictionary
de Simon Winchester
12,040 membres
295 ressenyes
3.8
2 Members
Minthe, kara.shamy
50
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
de Malcolm X
9,768 membres
123 ressenyes
½ 4.3
2 Members
elkiedee, kara.shamy
51
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
de Alison Weir
1,224 membres
34 ressenyes
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
4,761 membres
127 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Member
kara.shamy
53
Mary, Queen of Scotland and the Isles
de Stefan Zweig
706 membres
11 ressenyes
4
Member
smc1
54
Mozart: A Life
de Maynard Solomon
613 membres
3 ressenyes
4.2
Member
Diane-bpcb
55
Fouché. Retrat d'un home polític
de Stefan Zweig
507 membres
21 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Member
raperper
56
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom
de Conrad Black
496 membres
4 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Member
Bretzky1
57
My Father and Myself
de J. R. Ackerley
461 membres
7 ressenyes
3.9
Member
thorold
58
Red Rosa
de Kate Evans
348 membres
9 ressenyes
4.1
Member
hipdeep
59
Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson
de Jonathan Coe
245 membres
2 ressenyes
3.9
Member
Minthe
60
Love and Capital
de Mary Gabriel
233 membres
9 ressenyes
4
Member
elkiedee
61
Mary Queen of Scots
de Antonia Fraser
2,899 membres
26 ressenyes
4
Member
kara.shamy
62
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
de Sarah Bakewell
1,979 membres
86 ressenyes
4.1
Member
JuliaMaria
63
Ishi in Two Worlds
de Theodora Kroeber
805 membres
9 ressenyes
3.8
Member
Minthe
64
Feynman
de Jim Ottaviani
798 membres
48 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
65
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
de Eric Ives
552 membres
7 ressenyes
4.2
Member
AnnaClaire
66
James Baldwin: A Biography
de David Leeming
271 membres
1 ressenya
3.8
Member
thorold
67
A Russian Childhood
de S. Kovalevskaya
40 membres
1 ressenya
3.9
Member
smc1
68
In Search of H. V. Morton
de Michael Bartholomew
10 membres
1 ressenya
Member
John_Vaughan
69
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
de Robert K. Massie
2,926 membres
144 ressenyes
4.1
Member
kara.shamy
70
Bruce Chatwin
de Nicholas Shakespeare
464 membres
7 ressenyes
3.9
Member
thorold
71
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
de Hermione Lee
247 membres
7 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Member
elkiedee
72
R. E. Lee: A Biography
de Douglas Southall Freeman
233 membres
1 ressenya
½ 4.6
Member
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73
John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography
de Jackson J. Benson
170 membres
3 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Member
John_Vaughan
74
Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma
de Michael Peppiatt
156 membres
2 ressenyes
½ 3.6
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JuliaMaria
75
Dignifying Science: Stories About Women Scientists
de Jim Ottaviani
134 membres
1 ressenya
½ 3.7
Member
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76
Lincoln
de David Herbert Donald
3,016 membres
26 ressenyes
4.2
Member
Bretzky1
77
The Path to Power
de Robert A. Caro
2,623 membres
45 ressenyes
½ 4.6
Member
kara.shamy
78
Her Husband: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: A Marriage
de Diane Middlebrook
430 membres
6 ressenyes
3.8
Member
JuliaMaria
79
Trotsky : el profeta armat, 1879-1921
de Isaac Deutscher
404 membres
10 ressenyes
½ 4.4
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elkiedee
80
Goethe und Schiller. Geschichte einer Freundschaft
de Rüdiger Safranski
82 membres
2 ressenyes
3.8
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81
Means of Ascent
de Robert A. Caro
2,130 membres
30 ressenyes
½ 4.4
Member
kara.shamy
82
The Black Jacobins
de C. L. R. James
1,387 membres
22 ressenyes
½ 4.3
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elkiedee
83
Anne Sexton: A Biography
de Diane Middlebrook
729 membres
5 ressenyes
3.9
Member
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84
Nehru: The Invention of India
de Shashi Tharoor
131 membres
5 ressenyes
½ 3.3
Member
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86
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
de Andrew Piper
27 membres
10 ressenyes
½ 3.7
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Minthe
87
First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin
de Richard Bradford
19 membres
1 ressenya
3
Member
John_Vaughan
88
Cap a terres salvatges
de Jon Krakauer
17,950 membres
445 ressenyes
3.9
Member
Minthe
89
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
de Dan Jones
1,897 membres
42 ressenyes
4.1
Member
kara.shamy
90
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
de H. W. Brands
927 membres
19 ressenyes
4.1
Member
John_Vaughan
91
Robert Kennedy: His Life
de Evan Thomas
482 membres
7 ressenyes
4.1
Member
Bretzky1
92
Rowan's Rule: The Biography of the Archbishop
de Rupert Shortt
133 membres
4 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
souloftherose
93
Rosa Luxemburg: A Life
de Elzbieta Ettinger
73 membres
2 ressenyes
4.1
Member
elkiedee
94
P.G. Wodehouse : man and myth
de Barry Phelps
14 membres
5
Member
thorold
95
Gabriele Münter und Wassily Kandinsky - Biographie eines Paares
de Gisela Kleine
8 membres
5
Member
JuliaMaria
96
Autobiografia d'Alice B. Toklas
de Gertrude Stein
2,681 membres
43 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Member
thorold
97
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
de Ross King
2,577 membres
31 ressenyes
3.9
Member
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98
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
de Nancy Milford
1,710 membres
25 ressenyes
4
Member
Diane-bpcb
99
The Passage of Power
de Robert A. Caro
1,541 membres
38 ressenyes
½ 4.6
Member
kara.shamy
100
Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels
de Janet Soskice
388 membres
25 ressenyes
4.2
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