Biography & Memoir
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AI Consensus Ranking
- #1Steve Jobs79.6
- #2Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln79.4
- #3Alexander Hamilton76.0
- #4Wild64.4
- #5Educated63.7
- #6The Power Broker60.2
- #7Long Walk to Freedom50.8
- #8Churchill: Walking with Destiny50.2
- #9The Life of Samuel Johnson49.7
- #10Becoming46.9
- #11King: A Life46.2
- #12John Adams45.4
- #13I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings37.3
- #14Born a Crime37.2
- #15Penguin Random House34.0
- #16Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-194833.4
- #17macmillan.com32.7
- #18Churchill: A Life31.9
- #19George Washington31.6
- #20Napoleon: A Life30.9
- #21The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks30.7
- #22The Autobiography of Malcolm X30.0
- #23The Glass Castle26.9
- #24When Breath Becomes Air25.6
- #25mitpressbookstore.mit.edu25.5
- #26Einstein: His Life and Universe25.1
- #27The Year of Magical Thinking24.8
- #28Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.24.6
- #29A Beautiful Mind23.2
- #30Eleanor of Aquitaine23.1
- #31Max Weber: A Biography22.0
- #32Amazon21.9
- #33The Path to Power21.8
- #34littlebrown.com21.8
- #35The Color of Water20.6
- #36Just Kids20.3
- #37Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman19.1
- #38A. Lincoln18.7
- #39Benjamin Franklin: An American Life17.5
- #40The Years of Lyndon Johnson15.4
- #41Eminent Victorians14.4
- #42Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett14.2
- #43Boswell’s Life of Johnson13.8
- #44American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer13.5
- #45Finding Me13.5
- #46Between Two Kingdoms12.4
- #47Untamed11.8
- #48Hamilton11.8
- #49Truman10.5
- #50Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom10.5