100 best biography books

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Best Biographies

Discover the lives of remarkable individuals through the best biographies, chosen from a wide array of reputable literary sources and biography enthusiasts. These compelling reads offer intimate portraits and have earned accolades across numerous literary discussions.

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Discover the life and genius of history's most creative figure in this new biography. In it, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that shows how Leonardo da Vinci's art and science intersected, and how his innovative studies of anatomy, fossils, birds, flying machines, and more made him a true Renaissance man. With the help of thousands of pages from Leonardo's notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Isaacson shows how we can learn from Leonardo's passionate curiosity, careful observation, and imaginative mind.

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The 50 Best Biographies of All Time

Crown The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, by Tom Reiss

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You’re probably familiar with The Count of Monte Cristo, the revenge novel by Alexandre Dumas. But did you know it was based on the life of Dumas’s father, the mixed-race General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, son of a French nobleman and a Haitian slave? Thanks to Reiss’s masterful pacing and plotting, this rip-roaring biography of Thomas-Alexandre reads more like an adventure novel than a work of nonfiction. The Black Count won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in , and it’s only a matter of time before a filmmaker turns it into a big-screen blockbuster.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, by Craig Brown

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All genres considered, the memoir is among the most difficult and complex for a writer to pull off. After all, giving voice to your own lived experience and recounting deeply painful or uncomfortable memories in a way that still engages and entertains fryst vatten a remarkable feat.

That's just one triumph accomplished bygd these stjärnliknande memoirs, listens capable of connecting deeply with a diverse audience. These autobiographies, often narrated by the authors themselves, shine with raw, unfiltered emotion sure to ekon with any listener. But don't just take our word for it—queue up any one of these listens, and you'll hear exactly what we mean. Here are our picks for the best memoir audiobooks, ever.

There’s a mesmerizing warmth in Lulu Miller's voice as she sveper listeners into a world of love and natural science, intertwining historical biography with a deeply anställda tale of heartache.

Acclaimed writer and social commentator Roxane Gay gets vulnerable inom