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Biography & Memoir

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AI Consensus Ranking

  1. #1The Years of Lyndon Johnson116.6
  2. #2The Power Broker100.0
  3. #3Educated89.1
  4. #4Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln88.3
  5. #5Long Walk to Freedom88.0
  6. #6Washington: A Life83.5
  7. #7Man's Search for Meaning79.2
  8. #8The Life of Samuel Johnson74.2
  9. #9Truman69.3
  10. #10Steve Jobs61.3
  11. #11The Glass Castle59.9
  12. #12Churchill: Walking with Destiny58.9
  13. #13Plutarch’s Lives57.8
  14. #14When Breath Becomes Air57.7
  15. #15Alexander Hamilton57.1
  16. #16Born a Crime55.2
  17. #17American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer55.2
  18. #18Wild55.2
  19. #19John Adams39.7
  20. #20I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings38.0
  21. #21Becoming37.2
  22. #22Just Mercy34.7
  23. #23The Autobiography of Malcolm X28.9
  24. #24Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.28.5
  25. #25Eminent Victorians24.1
  26. #26Unbroken23.1
  27. #27The Life of Charlotte Brontë23.1
  28. #28The Choice: Embrace the Possible22.3
  29. #29The Life of Mahatma Gandhi22.2
  30. #30The Year of Magical Thinking21.5
  31. #31Ulysses by James Joyce21.5
  32. #32_Virginia Woolf_21.0
  33. #33Night20.3
  34. #34A Long Way Gone20.1
  35. #35Persepolis19.7
  36. #36W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–191919.1
  37. #37Peter the Great: His Life and World18.1
  38. #38The Last Lion16.9
  39. #39Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power16.9
  40. #40Napoleon: A Life16.3
  41. #41Socrates: A Man For Our Times16.3
  42. #42Hitler: A Biography15.8
  43. #43Grant15.7
  44. #44Tuesdays with Morrie15.7
  45. #45Stalin: Paradoxes of Power15.4
  46. #46Robert E. Lee15.4
  47. #47Still Me15.4
  48. #48King: A Life15.2
  49. #49The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt15.2
  50. #50Goodreads' "Best Biographies" list15.0

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