Biography

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#2
I Am Malala
I Am Malala
  • Malala Yousafzai
  • Christina Lamb
4.2246 reads
#3
Me: A Memoir
Me: A Memoir
  • Brenda Ueland
41 read
#4
Just Kids
Just Kids
  • Patti Smith
4.18214 reads
#5
An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus
An Emergency in Slow Motion: The Inner Life of Diane Arbus
  • William Todd Schultz
3.52 reads
#6
The Naked Civil Servant
The Naked Civil Servant
  • Quentin Crisp
41 read
#7
Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels
Tango: My Childhood, Backwards and in High Heels
  • Justin Vivian Bond
01 read
#8
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
A Queer and Pleasant Danger: The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
  • Kate Bornstein
01 read
#9
Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography
Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography
  • Sebastian Horsley
32 reads
#10
Mommie Dearest
Mommie Dearest
  • Christina Crawford
4.0914 reads
#11
Laurence Olivier: A Biography
Laurence Olivier: A Biography
  • Donald Spoto M.A. Ph.D.
41 read
#12
American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee
  • Karen Abbott
2.334 reads
#13
Cover 3

Full Service

Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars
  • Lionel Friedberg, Scotty Bowers
01 read
#14
Cover 2

Dropped Names

Dropped Names: Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them
  • Frank Langella
31 read
#15
Garbo
Garbo
  • Barry Paris
41 read
#16
The house of Barrymore
The house of Barrymore
  • Margot Peters
00 reads
#17
If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth
If This Was Happiness: A Biography of Rita Hayworth
  • Barbara Leaming
41 read
#18
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
  • Barbara Leaming
51 read
#19
Ecstasy and Me: My Life as a Woman
Ecstasy and Me: My Life as a Woman
  • Hedy Lamarr
  • Leo Guild
31 read
#20
Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London
  • George Orwell
4.02128 reads
#21
Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart
Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart
  • Claire Harman
52 reads
#22
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph
  • Jan Swafford
4.52 reads
#23
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt
  • Kara Cooney
3.8317 reads
#24
More Havoc
More Havoc
  • June Havoc
00 reads
#25
The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay
The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay
  • Louis Begley
31 read
#26
Great Masters: Shostakovich His Life & Music
Great Masters: Shostakovich His Life & Music
  • Robert Greenberg
01 read
#27
Kafka in 90 Minutes
Kafka in 90 Minutes
  • Paul Strathern
  • Robert Whitfield
01 read
#28
The Confessions
The Confessions
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • J.M. Cohen (Translator)
3.510 reads
#29
Great Masters: Beethoven - His Life and Music
Great Masters: Beethoven - His Life and Music
  • Robert Greenberg
52 reads
#30
Great Masters: Tchaikovsky - His Life and Music
Great Masters: Tchaikovsky - His Life and Music
    51 read
    #31
    Great Masters: Robert And Clara Schumann   Their Lives And Music
    Great Masters: Robert And Clara Schumann Their Lives And Music
    • Robert Greenberg
    42 reads
    #32
    Early Havoc
    Early Havoc
    • June Havoc
    41 read
    #33
    Ayn Rand and the World She Made
    Ayn Rand and the World She Made
    • Anne C. Heller
    31 read
    #34
    Lulu in Hollywood
    Lulu in Hollywood
    • Louise Brooks
    34 reads
    #35
    Agatha Christie: An Autobiography, Volume Two
    Agatha Christie: An Autobiography, Volume Two
    • Agatha Christie
    31 read
    #36
    Cover 1

    Searching for Mercy Street

    Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton
    • Linda Gray Sexton
    00 reads
    #37
    33 Artists in 3 Acts
    33 Artists in 3 Acts
    • Sarah Thornton
    51 read
    #38
    Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
    Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction
    • Elizabeth Vargas
    44 reads
    #39
    Duchess of Death: The Unauthorized Biography of Agatha Christie
    Duchess of Death: The Unauthorized Biography of Agatha Christie
    • Richard Hack
    00 reads
    #40
    Fatal Vision
    Fatal Vision
    • Joe McGinniss
    4.1410 reads
    #41
    Life After Death
    Life After Death
    • Damien Echols
    3.89 reads
    #42
    Other People's Dirt
    Other People's Dirt
    • Louise Rafkin
    00 reads
    #43
    Cover 4

    Tearing Down the Wall of Sound

    Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector
    • Mick Brown
    31 read
    #44
    The Lost Days of Agatha Christie
    The Lost Days of Agatha Christie
    • Carole Owens
    01 read
    #45
    Thunderstruck
    Thunderstruck
    • Erik Larson
    3.7460 reads
    #46
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Vincent Van Gogh
    • Julius Meier-Graefe
    01 read
    #47
    Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
    Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
    • David Wojnarowicz
    4.4412 reads
    #48
    Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient
    Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient
    • Norman Cousins
    01 read
    #49
    Holy Anorexia
    Holy Anorexia
    • Rudolph M. Bell
    00 reads
    #50
    Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
    Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
    • Mason Currey
    3.5558 reads
    #51
    Pages from the Goncourt Journals (New York Review Books Classics)
    Pages from the Goncourt Journals (New York Review Books Classics)
    • Edmond de Goncourt
    • Jules de Goncourt
    • Robert Baldick (Translator)
    00 reads
    #52
    Tough Without a Gun
    Tough Without a Gun
    • Stefan Kanfer
    31 read
    #53
    Bossypants
    Bossypants
      3.83697 reads
      #54
      The Diary of a Young Girl
      The Diary of a Young Girl
      • Anne Frank
      4.011,334 reads
      #55
      Night
      Night
      • Elie Wiesel
      • Stella Rodway (Translator)
      4.34795 reads
      #56
      On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
      On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
      • Stephen King
      4.31625 reads
      #57
      Man's Search for Meaning
      Man's Search for Meaning
      • Viktor E. Frankl
      4.24841 reads
      #58
      A Moveable Feast
      A Moveable Feast
      • Ernest Hemingway
      3.94141 reads
      #59
      Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
      Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
      • Frederick Douglass
      4.21136 reads
      #60
      The Secrets of Grown-Ups: An Autobiography
      The Secrets of Grown-Ups: An Autobiography
      • Vera Caspary
      01 read
      #61
      Beautiful Shadow
      Beautiful Shadow
      • Andrew Wilson
      00 reads
      #62
      A Girl Like I: An Autobiography
      A Girl Like I: An Autobiography
      • Anita Loos
      41 read
      #63
      Cover 0

      Truly Wilde

      Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story Of Dolly Wilde, Oscar's Niece
      • Joan Schenkar
      01 read
      #64
      The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
      The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
      • Josh Levin
      03 reads
      #65
      A Year in Provence
      A Year in Provence
      • Peter Mayle
      3.9858 reads
      #66
      Cover 2

      Memoirs of a Professional Cad

      Memoirs of a Professional Cad
      • George Sanders
      31 read
      #67
      The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
      The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
      • Julie Kavanagh
      41 read
      #68
      Cover 7

      Mama Rose's Turn

      Mama Rose's Turn: The True Story of America's Most Notorious Stage Mother
      • Carolyn Summer Quinn
      01 read
      #69
      My wicked, wicked ways
      My wicked, wicked ways
      • Errol Flynn
      43 reads
      #70
      Cover 6

      Isak Dinesen

      Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
      • Judith Thurman
      00 reads
      #71
      Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World
      Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World
      • Elspeth Beard
      4.438 reads
      #72
      Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
      Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
      • Mark Braude
      51 read
      #73
      Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
      Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law
      • Haben Girma
      54 reads
      #74
      Yes I Can: The Complete Story of Sammie Davis, Jr.
      Yes I Can: The Complete Story of Sammie Davis, Jr.
      • Sammy Davis Jr.
      01 read
      #75
      Great Masters: Mahler—His Life and Music
      Great Masters: Mahler—His Life and Music
      • Robert Greenberg
      4.53 reads
      #76
      Great Masters: Liszt - His Life & Music
      Great Masters: Liszt - His Life & Music
      • Robert Greenberg
      01 read
      #77
      Cover 0

      Between the Shadow and Lo

      Between the Shadow and Lo
      • Lauren Sapala
      51 read
      #78
      The Story of Junk
      The Story of Junk
      • Linda Yablonsky
      51 read
      #79
      Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
      Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker
      • Jason McBride
      00 reads
      #80
      Poe for Your Problems
      Poe for Your Problems
      • Catherine Baab-Muguira
      00 reads
      #81
      Dust Tracks on a Road
      Dust Tracks on a Road
      • Zora Neale Hurston
      • Robert E. Hemenway
      3.86 reads
      #82
      Autobiography of an Androgyne
      Autobiography of an Androgyne
      • Jennie June
      • Earl Lind
      • Ralph Werther
      41 read
      #83
      The Woman I Was Not Born to Be
      The Woman I Was Not Born to Be
      • Aleshia Brevard
      51 read
      #84
      The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty
      The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty
      • Natalie Livingstone
      42 reads
      #85
      Cover 7

      Before Trans

      Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France
      • Rachel Mesch
      00 reads
      #86
      Cover 5

      Candy Darling

      Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
      • Cynthia Carr
      4.333 reads
      #87
      Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream
      Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream
      • Steven Watts
      01 read
      #88
      Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess. An Intimate Biography of Grace Kelly
      Grace: The Secret Lives of a Princess. An Intimate Biography of Grace Kelly
      • James Spada
      00 reads
      #89
      Resurrecting Jane de La Vaudère: Literary Shapeshifter of the Belle Époque
      Resurrecting Jane de La Vaudère: Literary Shapeshifter of the Belle Époque
      • SHARON LARSON
      01 read
      #90
      Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself
      Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself
      • Crystal Hefner
      3.427 reads
      #91
      The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
      The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America
      • Sara B. Franklin
      51 read
      #92
      At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life
      At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life
      • Francine du Plessix Gray
      51 read
      #93
      Still Writing
      Still Writing
      • Dani Shapiro
      4.718 reads
      #94
      After Sappho
      After Sappho
      • Selby Wynn Schwartz
      3.6818 reads