100 Biographies and Memoirs to Read in a (Single) Lifetime

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The Diary of a Young Girl
por Anne Frank
28,350 membros
514 críticas
4.1
7 Members
SqueakyChu, dara85, smcwl, elkiedee, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
2
Night
por Elie Wiesel
27,603 membros
573 críticas
½ 4.3
5 Members
SqueakyChu, dara85, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, FreeTickyBurden
3
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
por Bill Bryson
16,882 membros
475 críticas
4
6 Members
hipdeep, SqueakyChu, smcwl, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações
cej1027: Not sure I'd count this as a biography/memoir, but I did read it.
4
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
por Jeannette Walls
20,593 membros
796 críticas
4.2
5 Members
SqueakyChu, dara85, smcwl, elkiedee, ahef1963
5
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
por Malcolm X
9,783 membros
124 críticas
½ 4.3
4 Members
hipdeep, smcwl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
6
The Bell Jar
por Sylvia Plath
28,099 membros
503 críticas
4
4 Members
smcwl, elkiedee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
7
A Moveable Feast
por Ernest Hemingway
9,069 membros
191 críticas
4
4 Members
hipdeep, smcwl, elkiedee, FreeTickyBurden
8
The Complete Maus
por Art Spiegelman
8,714 membros
258 críticas
½ 4.5
4 Members
hipdeep, SqueakyChu, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda
9
Into the Wild
por Jon Krakauer
17,985 membros
445 críticas
3.9
4 Members
SqueakyChu, smcwl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
10
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
por Rebecca Skloot
14,647 membros
741 críticas
4.2
4 Members
SqueakyChu, elkiedee, cej1027, ahef1963
11
The Year of Magical Thinking
por Joan Didion
10,306 membros
290 críticas
3.8
4 Members
SqueakyChu, smcwl, ahef1963, FreeTickyBurden
12
Black Like Me
por John Howard Griffin
4,298 membros
79 críticas
4
3 Members
smcwl, cej1027, ahef1963
13
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
por James McBride
6,107 membros
115 críticas
4
3 Members
SqueakyChu, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda
14
Running with Scissors
por Augusten Burroughs
14,648 membros
309 críticas
½ 3.5
3 Members
SqueakyChu, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
15
The Complete Persepolis
por Marjane Satrapi
6,887 membros
252 críticas
½ 4.3
3 Members
SqueakyChu, cej1027, ahef1963
16
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
por Laura Hillenbrand
7,890 membros
155 críticas
4.2
3 Members
hipdeep, SqueakyChu, smcwl
17
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
por Anthony Bourdain
10,104 membros
273 críticas
3.9
3 Members
hipdeep, SqueakyChu, ahef1963
18
The Story of My Life
por Helen Keller
5,163 membros
58 críticas
3.9
2 Members
SqueakyChu, smcwl
19
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
por Maya Angelou
14,822 membros
224 críticas
4
2 Members
elkiedee, ManWithAnAgenda
20
The Liars' Club: A Memoir
por Mary Karr
4,002 membros
80 críticas
3.8
2 Members
elkiedee, FreeTickyBurden
21
Just Kids
por Patti Smith
5,493 membros
238 críticas
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, elkiedee
22
Ball Four: My Life and Hard Times Throwing the Knuckleball in the Big Leagues
por Jim Bouton
1,446 membros
39 críticas
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, FreeTickyBurden
23
On the Road
por Jack Kerouac
27,941 membros
387 críticas
½ 3.6
2 Members
SqueakyChu, FreeTickyBurden
24
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
por Frederick Douglass
9,264 membros
119 críticas
4
2 Members
hipdeep, cej1027
25
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
por Alexandra Fuller
3,513 membros
106 críticas
3.9
2 Members
SqueakyChu, cej1027
26
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
por Che Guevara
3,463 membros
39 críticas
½ 3.7
2 Members
SqueakyChu, FreeTickyBurden
27
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
por Ishmael Beah
7,193 membros
312 críticas
4
2 Members
SqueakyChu, ahef1963
28
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
por Gertrude Stein
2,682 membros
43 críticas
½ 3.6
2 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963
29
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
por Dave Eggers
2,363 membros
30 críticas
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
30
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: Parts I-VII (Complete)
por Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
251 membros
2 críticas
½ 4.4
Member
ArchDucchess
31
Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
por Frances Mayes
6,509 membros
140 críticas
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
32
The Meditations
por Marcus Aurelius
14,736 membros
153 críticas
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
33
Open: An Autobiography
por André Agassi
2,247 membros
94 críticas
4.1
Member
dara85
34
Naked
por David Sedaris
12,336 membros
121 críticas
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
35
The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume 1 (1931-1934)
por Anaïs Nin
1,574 membros
5 críticas
4
Member
smcwl
36
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
por Zora Neale Hurston
1,367 membros
18 críticas
4.1
Member
hipdeep
37
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
por Simon Winchester
12,053 membros
295 críticas
3.8
Member
FreeTickyBurden
38
Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited
por Vladimir Nabokov
3,608 membros
44 críticas
4.2
Member
smcwl
39
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
por Malala Yousafzai
6,436 membros
268 críticas
4.1
Member
cej1027
40
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
por William Styron
3,030 membros
82 críticas
3.9
Member
smcwl
41
Personal History
por Katharine Graham
2,693 membros
45 críticas
4
Member
smcwl
42
Notes of a Native Son
por James Baldwin
2,014 membros
30 críticas
4.2
Member
hipdeep
43
My Life in France
por Julia Child
5,152 membros
201 críticas
4.2
Member
ahef1963
44
Chronicles: Volume One
por Bob Dylan
4,402 membros
71 críticas
3.9
Member
smcwl
45
De Profundis and Other Writings
por Oscar Wilde
686 membros
6 críticas
4.1
Member
hipdeep
46
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
por Nelson Mandela
4,870 membros
63 críticas
½ 4.3
Member
ahef1963
47
Out of Africa
por Isak Dinesen
5,232 membros
99 críticas
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
48
Black Boy
por Richard Wright
5,205 membros
68 críticas
4
Member
hipdeep
49
Eat, Pray, Love
por Elizabeth Gilbert
22,151 membros
858 críticas
½ 3.5
Member
ahef1963
50
Travels with Charley in Search of America
por John Steinbeck
8,513 membros
212 críticas
4
Member
hipdeep
51
Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character
por Richard Feynman
9,878 membros
172 críticas
4.2
Member
hipdeep
52
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
por Laura Hillenbrand
12,230 membros
594 críticas
½ 4.4
Member
SqueakyChu
53
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
por Cheryl Strayed
8,695 membros
517 críticas
3.9
Member
ahef1963
55
Steve Jobs
por Walter Isaacson
9,279 membros
286 críticas
4.1
Member
SqueakyChu
56
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
por Barack Obama
9,505 membros
211 críticas
3.9
57
Bossypants
por Tina Fey
9,478 membros
520 críticas
3.8
58
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
por Jung Chang
8,334 membros
160 críticas
4.1
59
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
por Alfred Lansing
5,069 membros
124 críticas
½ 4.4
60
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
por Maxine Hong Kingston
4,969 membros
70 críticas
3.8
61
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
por Christopher McDougall
4,548 membros
229 críticas
4.2
62
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
por Edmund Morris
4,058 membros
49 críticas
½ 4.4
63
The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo
por Irving Stone
3,985 membros
81 críticas
4
64
West with the Night
por Beryl Markham
3,605 membros
128 críticas
4.1
65
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
por Steve Martin
3,565 membros
163 críticas
3.8
66
American Sniper
por Chris Kyle
3,392 membros
97 críticas
½ 3.7
67
Life
por Keith Richards
3,204 membros
138 críticas
3.9
68
American Lion
por Jon Meacham
3,196 membros
64 críticas
½ 3.7
69
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
por Robert K. Massie
2,937 membros
144 críticas
4.1
70
This Boy's Life
por Tobias Wolff
2,936 membros
46 críticas
3.9
71
The Tender Bar
por J. R. Moehringer
2,805 membros
101 críticas
3.8
72
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
por Joseph J. Ellis
2,803 membros
35 críticas
4
73
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
por Joe Simpson
2,639 membros
70 críticas
4.2
74
The Soul of A New Machine
por Tracy Kidder
2,630 membros
52 críticas
4
75
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
por Kai Bird
2,530 membros
47 críticas
½ 4.3
76
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
por Ron Chernow
2,442 membros
28 críticas
4.2
77
Autobiography of a Face
por Lucy Grealy
2,114 membros
69 críticas
3.8
78
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1
por Mark Twain
2,100 membros
36 críticas
4
79
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880 - 1964
por William Manchester
1,799 membros
18 críticas
4.1
80
Cash
por Johnny Cash
1,726 membros
25 críticas
3.9
81
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
por Nancy Milford
1,711 membros
25 críticas
4
82
Mortality
por Christopher Hitchens
1,606 membros
74 críticas
4.1
83
Napoleon: A Life
por Andrew Roberts
1,393 membros
37 críticas
4.2
84
Drinking: A Love Story
por Caroline Knapp
1,280 membros
31 críticas
4
85
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
por Phillip Hoose
1,235 membros
209 críticas
½ 4.5
86
The Basketball Diaries
por Jim Carroll
1,165 membros
18 críticas
3.9
87
Churchill: A Life
por Martin Gilbert
1,109 membros
12 críticas
4.1
88
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
por Carlos Fuentes
993 membros
11 críticas
½ 4.3
89
The Andy Warhol Diaries
por Andy Warhol
868 membros
10 críticas
½ 3.7
90
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
por Timothy Egan
849 membros
42 críticas
4.2
91
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
por Marion Meade
836 membros
15 críticas
4
92
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)
por Stacy Schiff
606 membros
6 críticas
3.9
93
Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
por Amanda Vaill
542 membros
11 críticas
4
94
The Kid Stays In The Picture
por Robert Evans
523 membros
11 críticas
3.8
95
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
por John Lahr
221 membros
5 críticas
4.1
96
Knock Wood
por Candice Bergen
180 membros
7 críticas
3.8
97
Updike
por Adam Begley
172 membros
7 críticas
3.8
98
The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television
por Evan I. Schwartz
107 membros
3 críticas
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