100 biographies to read in your lifetime

1. "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers

2. "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah

3. "A Moveable Feast" by Ernest Hemingway

4. "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

5. "American Caesar" by William Manchester

6. "American Lion" by Jon Meacham

7. "American Prometheus" by Kai Bird

8. "American Sniper" by Chris Kyle

9. "American Sphinx" by Joseph J. Ellis

10. "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt

11. "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

12. "Autobiography of a Face" by Lucy Grealy

13. "Autobiography of Mark Twain" by Mark Twain

14. "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton

15. "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

16. "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin

17. "Born Standing Up" by Steve Martin

18. "Born to Run" by Christopher McDougall

19. "Bossypants" by Tina Fey

20. "Cash" by Johnny Cash

21. "Catherine the Great" by Robert K. Massie

22. "Chronicles" by Bob Dylan

23. "Churchill: A Life" by Martin Gilbert

24. "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose

25. "Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness" by William Styron

26. "De Profundis and Other Prison Writings" by Oscar Wilde

27. "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" by Alexandra Fuller

28. "Dorothy Parker" by Marion Meade

29. "Dreams from My Father" by Barack Obama

30. "Drinking: A Love Story" by Caroline Knapp

31. "Dust Tracks on a Road" by Zora Neale Hurston

32. "E=mc~2" by David Bodanis

33. "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert

34. "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing

35. "Everybody Was So Young" by Amanda Vaill

36. "Helen Keller: The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller

37. "I Am Malala" by Malala Yousafzai

38. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou

39. "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

40. "Just Kids" by Patti Smith

41. "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain

42. "Knock Wood" by Candice Bergen

43. "Life" by Keith Richards

44. "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

45. "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius

46. "Mortality" by Christopher Hitchens

47. "My Life in France" by Julia Child

48. "Naked" by David Sedaris

49. "Napoleon" by Andrew Roberts

50. "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass

51. "Night" by Elie Wiesel

52. "Notes of a Native Son" by James Baldwin

53. "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac

54. "Open" by Andre Agassi

55. "Out of Africa" by Isak Dinesen

56. "Personal History" by Katharine Graham

57. "Robert A. Caro's The Years of Lyndon Johnson" by Robert A. Caro

58. "Running with Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs

59. "Savage Beauty" by Nancy Milford

60. "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

61. "Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher" by Timothy Egan

62. "Speak, Memory" by Vladimir Nabokov

63. "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson

64. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by Richard P. Feynman

65. "Tennessee Williams" by John Lahr

66. "The Agony and the Ecstasy" by Irving Stone

67. "The Andy Warhol Diaries" by Andy Warhol

68. "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" by Gertrude Stein

69. "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X

70. "The Basketball Diaries" by Jim Carroll

71. "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

72. "The Color of Water" by James McBride

73. "The Complete Maus" by Art Spiegelman

74. "The Complete Persepolis" by Marjane Satrapi

75. "The Diary of Anais Nin" by Anais Nin

76. "The Diary of Frida Kahlo" by Carlos Fuentes

77. "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

78. "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

79. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

80. "The Kid Stays in the Picture" by Robert Evans

81. "The Last Lone Inventor" by Evan I. Schwartz

82. "The Liars' Club" by Mary Karr

83. "The Motorcycle Diaries" by Ernesto Che Guevara

84. "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester

85. "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris

86. "The Soul of A New Machine" by Tracy Kidder

87. "The Tender Bar" by J. R. Moehringer

88. "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

89. "The Year of Magical Thinking" by Joan Didion

90. "This Boy's Life" by Tobias Wolff

91. "Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr." by Ron Chernow

92. "Touching the Void" by Joe Simpson

93. "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

94. "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand

95. "Under the Tuscan Sun" by Frances Mayes

96. "Updike" by Adam Begley

97. "Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov)" by Stacy Schiff

98. "West with the Night" by Beryl Markham

99. "Wild Swans" by Jung Chang

100. "Wild" by Cheryl Strayed

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