Biography & Autobiography

Details	Release Year	Readers Count	Rating
The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien	1954	1,618 reads	4.38
I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy	2022	846 reads	4.49
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank	1944	706 reads	4.03
Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl	1946	462 reads	4.24
Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner	2021	333 reads	4.34
Educated Tara Westover	2018	423 reads	4.4
Meditations Marcus Aurelius Martin Hammond (Translator)	-180	268 reads	4.21
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Trevor Noah	2016	387 reads	4.54
Night Elie Wiesel Stella Rodway (Translator)	1955	391 reads	4.31
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Stephen King	1999	334 reads	4.3
Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson	2011	338 reads	4.22
Becoming Michelle Obama	2018	316 reads	4.46
Bossypants Tina Fey	2011	386 reads	3.78
The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls	2005	207 reads	4.16
We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	2012	269 reads	4.41
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou	1969	165 reads	4.17
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder David Grann	2023	130 reads	4.08
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed	2012	211 reads	3.72
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion	2005	144 reads	4.07
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi Mattias Ripa (Translator)	2000	194 reads	4.36
The Woman in Me Britney Spears	2023	205 reads	4
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia Elizabeth Gilbert	2004	214 reads	3.28
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Ashlee Vance	2015	179 reads	4.14
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened Allie Brosh	2013	191 reads	4.21
Persepolis, Vol. 1 Marjane Satrapi Mihaela Dobrescu (Translator)	2003	168 reads	4.41
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Patrick Radden Keefe	2021	87 reads	4.62
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee	2010	83 reads	4.2
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Ed Catmull Amy Wallace	2001	104 reads	4.36
Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Anne Lamott	1994	135 reads	4.18
Greenlights Matthew McConaughey	2020	161 reads	4.15
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J.D. Vance	2016	156 reads	3.47
Just Kids Patti Smith	2010	104 reads	4.25
If It Bleeds Stephen King	2020	111 reads	3.83
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami	2006	149 reads	3.93
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence Michael Pollan	2018	100 reads	4.23
Girl, interrupted Susanna Kaysen	1993	108 reads	3.78
Spare Prince Harry	2023	135 reads	3.59
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay	2014	114 reads	3.95
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor Adam Kay	2017	116 reads	4.22
Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow	2004	86 reads	4.42
Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre Lloyd Alexander (Translator)	1938	62 reads	3.49
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing Matthew Perry	2022	112 reads	3.72
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness Susannah Cahalan	2012	90 reads	3.92
Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly	2016	85 reads	3.88
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë	1847	63 reads	3.99
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	1962	71 reads	3.86
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway	1964	62 reads	3.96
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Jack Weatherford	2004	43 reads	4.14
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin Erik Larson	2011	81 reads	3.72
H is for Hawk Helen Macdonald	2014	62 reads	3.91
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Simon Winchester	1998	55 reads	3.77
Running with Scissors Augusten Burroughs	2002	85 reads	3.65
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass	1845	80 reads	4.18
Pageboy: A Memoir Elliot Page	2023	68 reads	3.56
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama	1995	76 reads	4.01
John Adams David McCullough	2001	54 reads	4.34
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Walter Isaacson	2011	44 reads	3.89
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride Cary Elwes Joe Layden	2014	65 reads	4.09
Heavy Kiese Laymon	2018	25 reads	4.62
Homage to Catalonia George Orwell	1938	56 reads	4
The Best We Could Do Thi Bui	2017	52 reads	4.39
Stay True Hua Hsu	2022	42 reads	4.12
The Complete Stories Franz Kafka Willa Muir (Translator) Edwin Muir (Translator) Tania Stern (Translator) James Stern (Translator) Ernst Kaiser (Translator) Eithne Wilkins (Translator)	1915	56 reads	4.03
Marley and Me John Grogan	2005	75 reads	3.78
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang	1991	34 reads	4.45
Washington: A Life Ron Chernow	2010	35 reads	4.32
Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution. Brené Brown	2015	45 reads	3.75
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography: A Norton Critical Edition Benjamin Franklin	1791	46 reads	3.97
The Wright Brothers David McCullough	2015	44 reads	4.02
How to Be a Woman Caitlin Moran	2011	49 reads	3.55
The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois	1903	21 reads	4.13
What Happened Hillary Rodham Clinton	2017	58 reads	3.96
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death Maggie O'Farrell	2017	43 reads	4.18
Strong Female Character Fern Brady	2023	32 reads	4.48
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage Clifford Stoll	1989	42 reads	4.06
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Barack Obama	2006	48 reads	4
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Ta-Nehisi Coates	2017	39 reads	4.53
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness Edward Abbey	1968	36 reads	3.94
Will Will Smith Mark Manson	2020	53 reads	4.26
Men We Reaped: A Memoir Jesmyn Ward	2013	21 reads	4.5
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters Matt Ridley	1999	21 reads	3.94
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib	2017	26 reads	4.58
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life William Finnegan	2015	35 reads	4.26
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives Steven Levy	2011	36 reads	3.84
A Beautiful Mind Sylvia Nasar	1998	32 reads	3.58
Four Hundred Souls : A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Ibram X. Kendi Keisha N. Blain	2021	19 reads	4.67
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries Kory Stamper	2017	22 reads	4.4
Sociopath Patric Gagne	2024	25 reads	3.66
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive Stephanie Land	2019	31 reads	3.78
M Train Patti Smith	2015	26 reads	3.79
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made Greg Sestero Tom Bissell	2013	49 reads	4.29
All You Can Ever Know Nicole Chung	2018	17 reads	4.07
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother James McBride	1995	31 reads	4.04
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" Lena Dunham	2014	51 reads	2.91
Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography Neil Patrick Harris	2014	37 reads	3.91
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl Carrie Brownstein	2015	35 reads	3.94
The Confessions Augustine of Hippo Edward Bouverie Pusey (Translator)	378	23 reads	3.59
Henry V William Shakespeare	1599	37 reads	3.88
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride Daniel James Brown	2009	25 reads	4.23
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir Safiya Sinclair	2023	6 reads	4.92

Details	Release Year	Readers Count	Rating
The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien	1954	1,618 reads	4.38
I'm Glad My Mom Died Jennette McCurdy	2022	846 reads	4.49
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank	1944	706 reads	4.03
Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl	1946	462 reads	4.24
Crying in H Mart Michelle Zauner	2021	333 reads	4.34
Educated Tara Westover	2018	423 reads	4.4
Meditations Marcus Aurelius Martin Hammond (Translator)	-180	268 reads	4.21
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Trevor Noah	2016	387 reads	4.54
Night Elie Wiesel Stella Rodway (Translator)	1955	391 reads	4.31
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft Stephen King	1999	334 reads	4.3
Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson	2011	338 reads	4.22
Becoming Michelle Obama	2018	316 reads	4.46
Bossypants Tina Fey	2011	386 reads	3.78
The Glass Castle Jeannette Walls	2005	207 reads	4.16
We Should All Be Feminists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	2012	269 reads	4.41
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou	1969	165 reads	4.17
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder David Grann	2023	130 reads	4.08
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Cheryl Strayed	2012	211 reads	3.72
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion	2005	144 reads	4.07
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi Mattias Ripa (Translator)	2000	194 reads	4.36
The Woman in Me Britney Spears	2023	205 reads	4
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia Elizabeth Gilbert	2004	214 reads	3.28
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future Ashlee Vance	2015	179 reads	4.14
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened Allie Brosh	2013	191 reads	4.21
Persepolis, Vol. 1 Marjane Satrapi Mihaela Dobrescu (Translator)	2003	168 reads	4.41
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Patrick Radden Keefe	2021	87 reads	4.62
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer Siddhartha Mukherjee	2010	83 reads	4.2
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Ed Catmull Amy Wallace	2001	104 reads	4.36
Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Anne Lamott	1994	135 reads	4.18
Greenlights Matthew McConaughey	2020	161 reads	4.15
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis J.D. Vance	2016	156 reads	3.47
Just Kids Patti Smith	2010	104 reads	4.25
If It Bleeds Stephen King	2020	111 reads	3.83
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Haruki Murakami	2006	149 reads	3.93
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence Michael Pollan	2018	100 reads	4.23
Girl, interrupted Susanna Kaysen	1993	108 reads	3.78
Spare Prince Harry	2023	135 reads	3.59
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay	2014	114 reads	3.95
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor Adam Kay	2017	116 reads	4.22
Alexander Hamilton Ron Chernow	2004	86 reads	4.42
Nausea Jean-Paul Sartre Lloyd Alexander (Translator)	1938	62 reads	3.49
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing Matthew Perry	2022	112 reads	3.72
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness Susannah Cahalan	2012	90 reads	3.92
Hidden Figures Margot Lee Shetterly	2016	85 reads	3.88
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Anne Brontë	1847	63 reads	3.99
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	1962	71 reads	3.86
A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway	1964	62 reads	3.96
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Jack Weatherford	2004	43 reads	4.14
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin Erik Larson	2011	81 reads	3.72
H is for Hawk Helen Macdonald	2014	62 reads	3.91
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Simon Winchester	1998	55 reads	3.77
Running with Scissors Augusten Burroughs	2002	85 reads	3.65
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass	1845	80 reads	4.18
Pageboy: A Memoir Elliot Page	2023	68 reads	3.56
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance Barack Obama	1995	76 reads	4.01
John Adams David McCullough	2001	54 reads	4.34
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution Walter Isaacson	2011	44 reads	3.89
As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride Cary Elwes Joe Layden	2014	65 reads	4.09
Heavy Kiese Laymon	2018	25 reads	4.62
Homage to Catalonia George Orwell	1938	56 reads	4
The Best We Could Do Thi Bui	2017	52 reads	4.39
Stay True Hua Hsu	2022	42 reads	4.12
The Complete Stories Franz Kafka Willa Muir (Translator) Edwin Muir (Translator) Tania Stern (Translator) James Stern (Translator) Ernst Kaiser (Translator) Eithne Wilkins (Translator)	1915	56 reads	4.03
Marley and Me John Grogan	2005	75 reads	3.78
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang	1991	34 reads	4.45
Washington: A Life Ron Chernow	2010	35 reads	4.32
Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution. Brené Brown	2015	45 reads	3.75
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography: A Norton Critical Edition Benjamin Franklin	1791	46 reads	3.97
The Wright Brothers David McCullough	2015	44 reads	4.02
How to Be a Woman Caitlin Moran	2011	49 reads	3.55
The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. Du Bois	1903	21 reads	4.13
What Happened Hillary Rodham Clinton	2017	58 reads	3.96
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death Maggie O'Farrell	2017	43 reads	4.18
Strong Female Character Fern Brady	2023	32 reads	4.48
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage Clifford Stoll	1989	42 reads	4.06
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream Barack Obama	2006	48 reads	4
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Ta-Nehisi Coates	2017	39 reads	4.53
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness Edward Abbey	1968	36 reads	3.94
Will Will Smith Mark Manson	2020	53 reads	4.26
Men We Reaped: A Memoir Jesmyn Ward	2013	21 reads	4.5
Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters Matt Ridley	1999	21 reads	3.94
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us Hanif Abdurraqib	2017	26 reads	4.58
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life William Finnegan	2015	35 reads	4.26
In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives Steven Levy	2011	36 reads	3.84
A Beautiful Mind Sylvia Nasar	1998	32 reads	3.58
Four Hundred Souls : A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 Ibram X. Kendi Keisha N. Blain	2021	19 reads	4.67
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries Kory Stamper	2017	22 reads	4.4
Sociopath Patric Gagne	2024	25 reads	3.66
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive Stephanie Land	2019	31 reads	3.78
M Train Patti Smith	2015	26 reads	3.79
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made Greg Sestero Tom Bissell	2013	49 reads	4.29
All You Can Ever Know Nicole Chung	2018	17 reads	4.07
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother James McBride	1995	31 reads	4.04
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" Lena Dunham	2014	51 reads	2.91
Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography Neil Patrick Harris	2014	37 reads	3.91
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl Carrie Brownstein	2015	35 reads	3.94
The Confessions Augustine of Hippo Edward Bouverie Pusey (Translator)	378	23 reads	3.59
Henry V William Shakespeare	1599	37 reads	3.88
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride Daniel James Brown	2009	25 reads	4.23
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir Safiya Sinclair	2023	6 reads	4.92

Biography & Autobiography

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