Best Biographies

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Jane Austen: A Life
af Claire Tomalin
1,603 medlemmer
33 anmeldelser
4
7 Members
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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie
af Barbara Goldsmith
482 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
3.8
4 Members
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3
The Life of Samuel Johnson
af James Boswell
3,898 medlemmer
42 anmeldelser
4.2
4 Members
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4
His Excellency: George Washington
af Joseph J. Ellis
3,818 medlemmer
59 anmeldelser
4
4 Members
AnnaClaire, John_Vaughan, Bretzky1, Diane-bpcb
5
John Adams
af David McCullough
13,703 medlemmer
199 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
4 Members
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6
Eudora Welty: A Writer's Life
af Ann Waldron
51 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.3
3 Members
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7
Einstein : hans liv og univers
af Walter Isaacson
5,497 medlemmer
94 anmeldelser
4.2
3 Members
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Two Lives
af Vikram Seth
1,195 medlemmer
27 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
3 Members
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9
Tolkien: A Biography
af Humphrey Carpenter
2,776 medlemmer
22 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
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10
American Lion
af Jon Meacham
3,199 medlemmer
64 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
2 Members
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11
Madame Curie: A Biography
af Eve Curie
1,207 medlemmer
25 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
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12
Joan of Arc: Her Story
af Régine Pernoud
325 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
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13
Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
af Claire Tomalin
1,726 medlemmer
32 anmeldelser
4.1
3 Members
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14
The Sun King
af Nancy Mitford
907 medlemmer
16 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
3 Members
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15
The Life of Elizabeth I
af Alison Weir
2,801 medlemmer
40 anmeldelser
4
3 Members
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16
Edith Wharton
af Hermione Lee
538 medlemmer
12 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
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17
Sarah Orne Jewett
af Elizabeth Silverthorne
11 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3
2 Members
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18
The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume I: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932
af William Manchester
2,328 medlemmer
34 anmeldelser
½ 4.5
2 Members
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19
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
af Doris Kearns Goodwin
9,923 medlemmer
229 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
2 Members
AnnaClaire, kara.shamy
20
Evelyn Waugh: A Biography
af Christopher Sykes
136 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
2.9
3 Members
smc1, thorold, John_Vaughan
21
William Clark and the Shaping of the West
af Landon Y. Jones
127 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4.2
2 Members
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22
Louisa May Alcott: A Modern Biography
af Martha Saxton
175 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
2 Members
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23
Evita, First Lady: A Biography of Evita Peron
af John Barnes
110 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 3.5
2 Members
John_Vaughan, mazurat
24
Renoir, My Father
af Jean Renoir
551 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
4.1
2 Members
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25
Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness
af Joshua Wolf Shenk
969 medlemmer
27 anmeldelser
4.1
2 Members
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26
The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors
af Juliet Barker
857 medlemmer
17 anmeldelser
4.2
2 Members
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27
Charles Dickens: A Life
af Claire Tomalin
919 medlemmer
32 anmeldelser
4.2
2 Members
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28
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
af Charlotte Gordon
702 medlemmer
17 anmeldelser
½ 4.5
2 Members
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29
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
af H. W. Brands
1,911 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
4.1
2 Members
AnnaClaire, John_Vaughan
30
High endeavours : the life and endeavours of Miles and Beryl Smeeton
af Miles Clark
42 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
2 Members
smc1, John_Vaughan
31
Last train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
af Peter Guralnick
1,117 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
4.2
2 Members
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32
Alan Turing: The Enigma
af Andrew Hodges
2,385 medlemmer
32 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
smc1, souloftherose
33
Isaac Newton
af James Gleick
1,456 medlemmer
44 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
2 Members
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34
Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
af Amanda Foreman
3,023 medlemmer
67 anmeldelser
3.8
2 Members
smc1, souloftherose
35
Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith
af Andrew Wilson
348 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
thorold, JuliaMaria
36
Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times
af H. W. Brands
932 medlemmer
21 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
AnnaClaire, Bretzky1
37
Shakespeare : verden som scene
af Bill Bryson
4,806 medlemmer
175 anmeldelser
3.8
2 Members
smc1, souloftherose
38
Truman
af David McCullough
5,900 medlemmer
82 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
Member
MDGentleReader
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Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
af Justin Spring
411 medlemmer
17 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
aulsmith
40
Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic
af Michael Scammell
141 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.8
Member
deebee1
41
Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 1865-1900
af Charles Allen
110 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
4
Member
John_Vaughan
42
Eleanor Marx: A Life
af Rachel Holmes
102 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
elkiedee
43
O'Neill
af Arthur Gelb
77 medlemmer
Member
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44
George Washington: A Biography (7 volumes)
af Douglas Southall Freeman
68 medlemmer
½ 4.7
Member
Bretzky1
45
The life of Richard Wagner
af Ernest Newman
35 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 4.3
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SnootyBaronet
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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
af Alison Weir
1,141 medlemmer
35 anmeldelser
3.9
2 Members
AnnaClaire, kara.shamy
47
Sinclair Lewis
af James Lundquist
13 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.8
2 Members
smc1, Bretzky1
48
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
af Walter Isaacson
5,458 medlemmer
83 anmeldelser
4
2 Members
smc1, John_Vaughan
49
Professoren og galningen : en beretning om mord, sindssyge og tilblivelsen af Oxford English Dictionary
af Simon Winchester
12,045 medlemmer
295 anmeldelser
3.8
2 Members
Minthe, kara.shamy
50
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
af Malcolm X
9,780 medlemmer
123 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
2 Members
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51
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
af Alison Weir
1,226 medlemmer
34 anmeldelser
3.8
2 Members
AnnaClaire, kara.shamy
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Kong Leopolds arv : en fortælling om grådighed, terror og heroisme i kolonitidens Afrika
af Adam Hochschild
4,766 medlemmer
127 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
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Maria Stuart / Omslagstegning af Des Asmussen
af Stefan Zweig
706 medlemmer
11 anmeldelser
4
Member
smc1
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Mozart: A Life
af Maynard Solomon
613 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
4.2
Member
Diane-bpcb
55
Kamæleonen : romanbiografi om Joseph Fouché
af Stefan Zweig
507 medlemmer
21 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
raperper
56
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom
af Conrad Black
496 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
Bretzky1
57
My Father and Myself
af J. R. Ackerley
461 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
thorold
58
Red Rosa
af Kate Evans
349 medlemmer
9 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
hipdeep
59
Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson
af Jonathan Coe
245 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
Minthe
60
Love and Capital
af Mary Gabriel
233 medlemmer
9 anmeldelser
4
Member
elkiedee
61
Mary Queen of Scots
af Antonia Fraser
2,901 medlemmer
26 anmeldelser
4
Member
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62
How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
af Sarah Bakewell
1,978 medlemmer
86 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
JuliaMaria
63
Ishi in Two Worlds
af Theodora Kroeber
805 medlemmer
9 anmeldelser
3.8
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Minthe
64
Feynman
af Jim Ottaviani
799 medlemmer
48 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
Member
hipdeep
65
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
af Eric Ives
553 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
Member
AnnaClaire
66
James Baldwin: A Biography
af David Leeming
275 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.8
Member
thorold
67
A Russian Childhood
af S. Kovalevskaya
40 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3.9
Member
smc1
68
In Search of H. V. Morton
af Michael Bartholomew
10 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
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John_Vaughan
69
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
af Robert K. Massie
2,934 medlemmer
144 anmeldelser
4.1
Member
kara.shamy
70
Bruce Chatwin
af Nicholas Shakespeare
465 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
3.9
Member
thorold
71
Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
af Hermione Lee
246 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
4.2
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elkiedee
72
R. E. Lee: A Biography
af Douglas Southall Freeman
233 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 4.6
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Bretzky1
73
John Steinbeck, Writer: A Biography
af Jackson J. Benson
170 medlemmer
3 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
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John_Vaughan
74
Francis Bacon: Anatomy of an Enigma
af Michael Peppiatt
156 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
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75
Dignifying Science: Stories About Women Scientists
af Jim Ottaviani
134 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
½ 3.7
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76
Lincoln
af David Herbert Donald
3,020 medlemmer
26 anmeldelser
4.2
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The Path to Power
af Robert A. Caro
2,624 medlemmer
45 anmeldelser
½ 4.6
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78
Her Husband: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: A Marriage
af Diane Middlebrook
430 medlemmer
6 anmeldelser
3.8
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79
The Prophet Armed: Trotsky 1879-1921
af Isaac Deutscher
404 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
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elkiedee
80
Goethe und Schiller. Geschichte einer Freundschaft
af Rüdiger Safranski
82 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
3.8
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Minthe
81
Means of Ascent
af Robert A. Caro
2,131 medlemmer
30 anmeldelser
½ 4.4
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82
The Black Jacobins
af C. L. R. James
1,390 medlemmer
22 anmeldelser
½ 4.3
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elkiedee
83
Anne Sexton: A Biography
af Diane Middlebrook
729 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
3.9
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JuliaMaria
84
Nehru: The Invention of India
af Shashi Tharoor
131 medlemmer
5 anmeldelser
½ 3.3
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85
The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control
af Nathaniel C. Comfort
36 medlemmer
½ 4.4
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smc1
86
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
af Andrew Piper
27 medlemmer
10 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
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Minthe
87
First Boredom, Then Fear: The Life of Philip Larkin
af Richard Bradford
19 medlemmer
1 anmeldelse
3
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John_Vaughan
88
Ind i vildmarken
af Jon Krakauer
17,964 medlemmer
445 anmeldelser
3.9
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Minthe
89
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
af Dan Jones
1,900 medlemmer
42 anmeldelser
4.1
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90
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
af H. W. Brands
928 medlemmer
19 anmeldelser
4.1
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John_Vaughan
91
Robert Kennedy: His Life
af Evan Thomas
482 medlemmer
7 anmeldelser
4.1
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92
Rowan's Rule: The Biography of the Archbishop
af Rupert Shortt
134 medlemmer
4 anmeldelser
½ 3.7
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souloftherose
93
Rosa Luxemburg: A Life
af Elzbieta Ettinger
73 medlemmer
2 anmeldelser
4.1
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94
P.G. Wodehouse : man and myth
af Barry Phelps
14 medlemmer
5
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thorold
95
Gabriele Münter und Wassily Kandinsky - Biographie eines Paares
af Gisela Kleine
8 medlemmer
5
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JuliaMaria
96
Alice B. Toklas' selvbiografi
af Gertrude Stein
2,682 medlemmer
43 anmeldelser
½ 3.6
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thorold
97
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
af Ross King
2,577 medlemmer
31 anmeldelser
3.9
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98
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
af Nancy Milford
1,711 medlemmer
25 anmeldelser
4
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99
The Passage of Power
af Robert A. Caro
1,541 medlemmer
38 anmeldelser
½ 4.6
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100
Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels
af Janet Soskice
388 medlemmer
25 anmeldelser
4.2
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