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The ledger — Biography & Memoir

Biography & Memoir, ranked by the world's readers.

The 560 most-read biography & memoir titles in print, surveyed from the Google Books index and ranked by reader count. Titles the Library already binds aren't listed here — they live on their shelf.

In a Sunburned Country Bill Bryson 2001 · 356pp ★ 3.5 · 29 readers

A Moveable Feast Ernest Hemingway 2003 · 244pp ★ 4.0 · 19 readers

Hitler, 1889-1936 Ian Kershaw 1999 · 918pp ★ 4.5 · 11 readers

Under the Tuscan Sun Frances Mayes 1997 · 308pp ★ 3.5 · 10 readers

Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi 2004 · 380pp ★ 3.5 · 9 readers

An Unquiet Mind Kay Redfield Jamison 1996 · 244pp ★ 3.5 · 8 readers

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin 2003 · 359pp ★ 3.5 · 5 readers

Hunting Eichmann Neal Bascomb 2009 · 409pp ★ 5.0 · 4 readers

Walter Benjamin's Archive Walter Benjamin Archiv 2007 · 330pp ★ 5.0 · 3 readers

Napoleon Andrew Roberts 2014 · 1029pp ★ 4.5 · 3 readers

Roving Mars Steven Squyres 2005 · 472pp ★ 4.0 · 3 readers

Martha Washington Patricia Brady 2005 · 312pp ★ 2.0 · 3 readers

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Jack Weatherford 2005 · 354pp ★ 5.0 · 2 readers

Love In A Torn Land Jean Sasson 2011 · 444pp ★ 5.0 · 2 readers

The Real Team Richard Marcinko 1999 · 292pp ★ 4.5 · 2 readers

Che Fidel Castro 2006 · 276pp ★ 4.0 · 2 readers

Embroideries Marjane Satrapi 2005 · 100pp ★ 3.5 · 2 readers

Born To Fight Mark Hunt, Ben Mckelvey 2015 · 191pp ★ 3.0 · 2 readers

The Story of My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 2010 · 589pp ★ 5.0 · 1 reader

Adios to Tears Seiichi Higashide 2000 · 276pp ★ 5.0 · 1 reader

Power, Politics, and Culture Edward W. Said 2001 · 520pp ★ 5.0 · 1 reader

The Story of My Life Helen Keller 1996 · 83pp ★ 5.0 · 1 reader

The Last Girl Nadia Murad 2017 · 320pp ★ 5.0 · 1 reader

Letters to Felice Franz Kafka, Felice Bauer 1973 · 630pp ★ 5.0 · 1 reader

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