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Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,537,530 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,053,479 ratings — published 2018
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,746,508 ratings — published 1947
Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,249,209 ratings — published 1956
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.49 — 697,733 ratings — published 2016
I'm Glad My Mom Died (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 997,124 ratings — published 2022
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.12 — 737,695 ratings — published 2010
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.29 — 532,715 ratings — published 1969
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.38 — 936,818 ratings — published 2010
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,093,573 ratings — published 1996
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 181,599 ratings — published 2004
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,218,085 ratings — published 2005
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.40 — 673,309 ratings — published 2016
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,249,871 ratings — published 2011
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 393,151 ratings — published 2015
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 577,767 ratings — published 2012
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.06 — 799,861 ratings — published 2012
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,821 ratings — published 2019
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
by (shelved 11 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 136,306 ratings — published 2016
Yes Please (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 3.85 — 527,101 ratings — published 2014
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.36 — 268,481 ratings — published 1965
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 3.98 — 108,565 ratings — published 2016
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.40 — 333,977 ratings — published 2015
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.09 — 219,959 ratings — published 2012
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.11 — 124,052 ratings — published 1845
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 3.94 — 103,961 ratings — published 2011
A Promised Land (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.34 — 229,163 ratings — published 2020
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.71 — 201,806 ratings — published 2019
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 59,778 ratings — published 2015
Tuesdays with Morrie (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,032,251 ratings — published 1997
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.46 — 325,670 ratings — published 1971
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.23 — 55,566 ratings — published 1979
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 3.84 — 117,100 ratings — published 1998
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.14 — 630,386 ratings — published 1996
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.27 — 424,855 ratings — published 2021
Greenlights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.21 — 332,990 ratings — published 2020
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.15 — 148,256 ratings — published 2016
Man’s Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.37 — 719,092 ratings — published 1946
The Princess Diarist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 3.70 — 84,381 ratings — published 2016
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 3.87 — 413,434 ratings — published 2016
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.31 — 25,409 ratings — published 2015
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.17 — 59,014 ratings — published 2013
Seabiscuit: An American Legend (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.22 — 162,979 ratings — published 1999
Bossypants (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,007,563 ratings — published 2011
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.19 — 84,687 ratings — published 2003
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.20 — 106,873 ratings — published 2017
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 3.83 — 27,085 ratings — published 2015
The Wright Brothers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.16 — 92,562 ratings — published 2015
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.39 — 315,433 ratings — published 2013
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nonfiction-biography)
avg rating 4.24 — 507,793 ratings — published 1997
