biography (881)
Peter Maas

The Valachi Papers
Peter Maas · 1968
Annie Ernaux

La Place
Annie Ernaux · 1984
Karen Armstrong
Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet
Karen Armstrong · 1991
Ron Chernow

Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow · 2004
Christopher Ciccone

Life with My sister Madonna
Christopher Ciccone · 2008
Edmund de Waal

The Hare with Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal · 2010
Saroo Brierley

A Long Way Home
Saroo Brierley · 2013
Walter Isaacson

The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson · 2014
George W. Bush
41: A Portrait of My Father
George W. Bush · 2014
Waleed Al-Husseini

The Blasphemer: The Price I Paid for Rejecting Islam
Waleed Al-Husseini · 2015
Paulo Coelho

The Spy
Paulo Coelho · 2016
Plutarch

Life of Alexander the Great
Plutarch
Jean
L'Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal
Jean
Cornelius Nepos
Lives of the Eminent Commanders
Cornelius Nepos
Huangfu Mi
Biographies of Exemplary Gentlemen
Huangfu Mi · 260
Porphyry
Life of Plotinus
Porphyry · 277
Legenda Trium Sociorum
1246
Bonaventure
Major Legend
Bonaventure · 1263
Petrarch
De viris illustribus
Petrarch · 1337
Charles IV
Vita Caroli
Charles IV · 1340
Gulbadan Begum
Humayunnama
Gulbadan Begum · 1600
Jacob Campo Weyerman
The Lives of Dutch painters and paintresses
Jacob Campo Weyerman · 1729
Voltaire

History of Charles XII
Voltaire · 1731
Stefan Zweig

Fouché
Stefan Zweig · 1929
Stuart N. Lake

Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal
Stuart N. Lake · 1931
Stefan Zweig

Erasmus of Rotterdam
Stefan Zweig · 1934
L. Sprague de Camp

Lovecraft: A Biography
L. Sprague de Camp · 1975
Kazimierz Moczarski

Conversations with an Executioner
Kazimierz Moczarski · 1978
Frederick Forsyth

Emeka
Frederick Forsyth · 1982
Sergei Dovlatov

Ours
Sergei Dovlatov · 1983
David Robinson
Chaplin: His Life and Art
David Robinson · 1985
Kurt Loder

I, Tina
Kurt Loder · 1986
Fatima Jinnah

My Brother
Fatima Jinnah · 1987
Blanche Barton

The Church of Satan
Blanche Barton · 1990
Emmanuel Carrère

I Am Alive and You Are Dead
Emmanuel Carrère · 1993
Barry Miles

Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now
Barry Miles · 1997
Anthony Sampson
Mandela: The Authorised Biography
Anthony Sampson · 1999
Pam Muñoz Ryan

Esperanza Rising
Pam Muñoz Ryan · 2000
Terry Breverton
100 Great Welsh Women
Terry Breverton · 2001
Chester Brown

Louis Riel
Chester Brown · 2003
Charles R. Cross

Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix
Charles R. Cross · 2005
Alexander Masters
Stuart: A Life Backwards
Alexander Masters · 2005
Ignacio Ramonet

My Life
Ignacio Ramonet · 2006
Lucy O'Brien

Madonna: Like an Icon
Lucy O'Brien · 2007
Ron Chernow

Washington: A Life
Ron Chernow · 2010
Ronald Reng
A Life too Short
Ronald Reng · 2012
Andrea Wulf

The Invention of Nature
Andrea Wulf · 2015
Haldhar Nag
Kavyanjali
Haldhar Nag · 2016