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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
The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel
Counting the Cost
Finding Me
The Happiest Man on Earth
A Promised Land
I'll Never Call Him Dad Again: Turning Our Family Trauma of Sexual Assault and Chemical Submission into a Collective Fight
»Mama, bitte lern Deutsch«: Unser Eingliederungsversuch in eine geschlossene Gesellschaft
Raising Hare: A Memoir
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
This Far: My Story of Love, Loss, and Embracing the Light
My Time to Stand
The House of Hidden Meanings
Becoming Madam Secretary
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Let's Call Her Barbie
Patriot: A Memoir
The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some
Brothers
Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause
Who Is Government?: The Untold Story of Public Service
Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live
The JFK Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Kennedy―and Why It Failed
Monique s'évade
Leslie F*cking Jones
Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Bad Mormon: A Memoir
Sea Legs: A Graphic Novel (Sea Legs #1)
The Season
You Never Know: A Memoir
El cuerpo de Cristo
Nero (The Nero Trilogy, #1)
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
Finding Margaret Fuller
Maurice and Maralyn: An Extraordinary True Story of Love, Shipwreck and Survival
The Soul of a Woman
Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor
Wolf
The Sinners All Bow: Two Authors, One Murder, and the Real Hester Prynne
Making It So
Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS
Roma soy yo: La verdadera historia de Julio César (Julio César, #1)
Reality Check: Making the Best of The Situation - How I Overcame Addiction, Loss, and Prison
Give Her Credit: The Untold Account of a Women's Bank That Empowered a Generation
Beladen huis
Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly
Heartbreaker: A Memoir
Pick Me Girls
The Lioness of Boston
The Twins of Auschwitz
All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America
Mostly What God Does: Reflections on Seeking and Finding His Love Everywhere
How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying
Queenie of Norwich
El peligro de estar cuerda
Choosing to Run: A Memoir
Maldita Roma: La conquista del poder de Julio César (Julio César, #2)
Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl
La llamada: Un retrato
Jennie's Boy: A Newfoundland Childhood
I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays
Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom (A Feeding the Soul Book)
King: A Life
The Half of It: A Memoir
Somehow: Thoughts on Love
Moi, Fadi, le frère volé, 1986-1994
Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us
Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farm (Diddly Squat, #1)
Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
This Much is True
Halfway There: A Graphic Memoir of Self-Discovery
Earth to Moon: A Memoir
Trial by Ambush: Murder, Injustice, and the Truth about the Case of Barbara Graham
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
Shattered
Jackie
The Rest Is Memory
The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts
Free: My Search for Meaning
Dirtbag Queen
Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark
Force of Nature: Three Women Tackle The John Muir Trail
Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir
Vivre vite
The Story of a Heart: Two Families, One Heart, and the Medical Miracle That Saved a Child’s Life
Peggy
The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever
The Farmer's Wife: My Life in Days
Believe: The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso, the Show That Kicked Its Way into Our Hearts
Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith
Literatura infantil
How to Draw a Secret
Heartstrong
Four Eyes: A Graphic Novel (Four Eyes, #1)
De geschiedenis van mijn seksualiteit

Mark Twain
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written. ...more
Mark Twain

This is the tale of Magic Alex, the man who was everywhere: with Leonard Cohen in Hydra; in Crete with Joni Mitchell; in a Paris bathroom when Jimmy Morrison went down; working as a roadie setting up the Beatles last rooftop gig; an assistant to John and Yoko when they had a bed-in at the Amsterdam Hilton; with the Stones when they were charged for pissing against a wall; the first to find and save Dylan after the motorcycle accident; having it off with Mama Cass hours before she choked the big ...more
Harry F. MacDonald, Magic Alex and the Secret History of Rock and Roll

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