This is an alphabetical version. For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: Biographies: Auto, Memoir, and Other Types
Below is a list of various biographies. Accounts of people which allow others to learn from their example.
Autobiography
- The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
- Black Boy by Richard Wright
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
- "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
- Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
Autobiography / Fiction
- The River Why by David James Duncan
Biography
- Alexander the Great: A Historical Biography of History's Greatest Military Commander by Philip Egenes
- Alexander the Great: A Life From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
- Boss Tweed: The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman
- Buddha by Karen Armstrong
- Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
- Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
- Genghis Khan: A Life From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman
- Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother by James A. Connor
- Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt
- Nelson Mandela: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
- Tesla: His Tremendous and Troubled Life by Marko Perko, Stephen M Stahl
Biographies
- Amazing Women In History: 5 Kick-Ass Women the History Books Left Out by Keri Lynn Engel
- The Battle of the Little Bighorn: A Good Day To Die by Francis Hayes
- Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade by Nina J. Easton
- Improbable Voices: A History of the World Since 1450 Seen From Twenty-Six Unusual Perspectives by Derek Dwight Anderson
- The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
- The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
Diary
- A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf
Diary / Fiction
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Memoir
- A Book of Bees by Sue Hubbell
- The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
- Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani
- The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford
- The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution by Brent Preston
- Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy by Eilene B. Zimmerman
Memoirs
- Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean by Jennifer Browdy De Hernandez
