| 01 | The Power Broker | 72.7 |
| 02 | The Life of Samuel Johnson | 55.3 |
| 03 | Alexander Hamilton | 48.6 |
| 04 | Washington: A Life | 47.4 |
| 05 | Steve Jobs | 32.7 |
| 06 | Einstein: His Life and Universe | 27.0 |
| 07 | The Years of Lyndon Johnson | 23.1 |
| 08 | Benjamin Franklin | 19.2 |
| 09 | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln | 18.8 |
| 10 | Just Kids | 17.5 |
| 11 | Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo | 16.9 |
| 12 | Eminent Victorians | 16.3 |
| 13 | James Boswell: A Biography | 15.8 |
| 14 | John Adams | 15.6 |
| 15 | _Virginia Woolf_ | 15.4 |
| 16 | Marlene Dietrich | 15.0 |
| 17 | Tolkien: A Biography | 14.7 |
| 18 | Leonardo da Vinci | 14.0 |
| 19 | Becoming Madame Mao | 13.8 |
| 20 | American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer | 12.5 |
| 21 | The Diary of a Young Girl | 11.2 |
| 22 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | 10.8 |
| 23 | Educated | 10.5 |
| 24 | Night | 10.2 |
| 25 | The World of Yesterday | 10.0 |
| 26 | Born a Crime | 9.8 |
| 27 | Master Slave Husband Wife | 9.5 |
| 28 | King: A Life | 8.8 |
| 29 | Plutarch’s Lives (Parallel Lives) | 8.4 |
| 30 | The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo | 8.1 |