Ranked: Biographies: Auto, Memoir, and Other Types

This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: Biographies: Auto, Memoir, and Other Types


Autobiography

  1. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
  2. Black Boy by Richard Wright
  3. The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
  4. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
  5. Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
  6. Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung
  7. Woman in Hiding: A True Tale of Backdoor Abuse, Dark Secrets & Other Evil Deeds by Kathleen Hoy Foley
  8. Forget About Heaven: Don’t Yell At Me, Take It Up With My Dead Mother by Kathleen Hoy Foley
  9. Breaking Through Silence: A No-Nonsense Love Letter to Women by Kathleen Hoy Foley

Autobiography / Fiction

Biography

  1. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
  2. Buddha by Karen Armstrong
  3. Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
  4. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
  5. Saladin: The Sultan Who Vanquished the Crusaders and Built an Islamic Empire by John Man
  6. Marx's General: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt
  7. Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach
  8. 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
  9. Crazy Horse by Larry McMurtry
  10. Boss Tweed: The Corrupt Pol Who Conceived the Soul of Modern New York by Kenneth D. Ackerman
  11. Charlemagne by Johannes Fried
  12. Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
  13. Tesla: His Tremendous and Troubled Life by Marko Perko, Stephen M Stahl
  14. The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
  15. Nelson Mandela: A History From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman
  16. Alexander the Great: A Historical Biography of History's Greatest Military Commander by Philip Egenes
  17. Alexander the Great: A Life From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman
  18. Genghis Khan: A Life From Beginning to End by Henry Freeman


Biographies

  1. Improbable Voices: A History of the World Since 1450 Seen From Twenty-Six Unusual Perspectives by Derek Dwight Anderson
  2. The Wolf Age: The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire by Tore Skeie
  3. The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
  4. When Women Ruled The World by Maureen Quilligan
  5. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
  6. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson
  7. Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Crusade by Nina J. Easton
  8. The Battle of the Little Bighorn: A Good Day To Die by Francis Hayes
  9. Amazing Women In History: 5 Kick-Ass Women the History Books Left Out by Keri Lynn Engel


Diary

  1. A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf


Diary / Fiction
  1. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes


Memoir

  1. Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  2. A Book of Bees by Sue Hubbell
  3. The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution by Brent Preston
  4. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance
  5. Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy by Eilene B. Zimmerman
  6. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  7. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  8. The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 3]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  9. Indonesia, Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation by Elizabeth Pisani
  10. The Mandela Revolution: A British Soldier's Inside View of His Rise to Power by Huw Lawford