Best Biography Books — Community Picks

Discover the top Biography books as rated by the RateYourReads community. 275 books in this genre.

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott
• Flush by Virginia Woolf
• The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
• On Writing by Stephen King
• La aventura de Miguel Littín, clandestino en Chile by Gabriel García Márquez
• Une mort tres douce by Simone de Beauvoir
• Black Boy by Richard Wright
• The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett
• Far off things by Arthur Machen
• History of Alexander the Great by Jacob Abbott
• Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov