#biography
117 books tagged biography · showing top 60
A Distant Mirror
Barbara Tuchman
History
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
James Joyce
Literature
Agricola
Tacitus
Classics
Ake
Wole Soyinka
Literature
Black Boy
Richard Wright
Literature
Cairo Trilogy
Naguib Mahfouz
Literature
Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Essays
Crito
Plato
Philosophy
Dust Tracks on a Road
Zora Neale Hurston
Literature
Ecce Homo
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy
Endymion
John Keats
Poetry
Genius
James Gleick
Science
Ghost in the Wires
Kevin Mitnick
Security
Harmonium
Wallace Stevens
Poetry
Hyperion
John Keats
Poetry
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Biography/Memoir
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
Literature
Lives of the Poets
Samuel Johnson
Poetry
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
History
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Philosophy
Manfred
Lord Byron
Poetry
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir
Literature
Memorabilia
Xenophon
Philosophy
Minima Moralia
Theodor W. Adorno
Philosophy
Moralia
Plutarch
Philosophy
Ninety-Five Theses
Martin Luther
Religion
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Poetry
Paris Spleen
Charles Baudelaire
Poetry
Selected Poems of Du Fu
Du Fu
Poetry
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
John Locke
Philosophy
Speak, Memory
Vladimir Nabokov
Literature
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard Feynman
Science
The Antichrist
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy
The Art of Intelligence
Henry Crumpton
Political Theory
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Biography/Memoir
The Civil War
Julius Caesar
Literature
The Complete Poems
John Keats
Poetry
The Double Helix
James Watson
Science
The Drowned and the Saved
Primo Levi
History
The Outsider
Richard Wright
Literature
The Periodic Table
Primo Levi
Biography/Memoir
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan
Literature
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois
History
The Twelve Caesars
Suetonius
Classics
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Literature
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert Caro
History
Time Enough for Love
Robert A. Heinlein
Science Fiction
Vertigo
W.G. Sebald
Literature
Villette
Charlotte Brontë
Literature
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Philosophy
A Daughter of the Samurai
Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto
Literature
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit
Philosophy
A Man's Place
Annie Ernaux
Biography/Memoir
A Woman of No Importance
Sonia Purnell
History
A Woman's Story
Annie Ernaux
Literature
American Indian Stories
Zitkala-Sa
Literature
An Angel at My Table
Janet Frame
Literature
An Autobiography
Ellen Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Literature
Beastie Boys Book
Michael Diamond, Adam Horovitz
Literature
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Biography/Memoir