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Ultimate Best Books

Genre: Biography (19 books)

The best classic books from the Biography genre.

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Gertrude Stein

4.0 (3)

I was born in San Francisco, California.

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Mountains Beyond Mountains

Mountains Beyond Mountains

Tracy Kidder

5.0 (1)

Six years after the fact, Dr. Paul Edward Farmer reminded me, "We met because of a beheading, of all things."

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The Periodic Table

The Periodic Table

Primo Levi

4.33 (3)

There are the so-called inert gases in the air we breathe.

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Goodbye to All That

Goodbye to All That

Robert Graves

5.0 (2)

As a proof of my readiness to accept autobiographical conventions, let me at once record my two earliest memories.

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Testament of Youth

Testament of Youth

Vera Brittain

5.0 (1)

When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.

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The Education of Henry Adams

The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

5.0 (1)

Under the shadow of Boston State House, turning its back on the house of John Hancock, the little passage called Hancock Avenue runs, or ran, from Beacon Street, skirting the State House grounds, to Mount Vernon Street, on the summit of Beacon Hill; and there, in the third house below Mount Vernon Place, February 16, 1838, a child was born, and christened later by his uncle, the minister of the First Church after the tenets of Boston Unitarianism, as Henry Brooks Adams.

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The road from Coorain

The road from Coorain

Jill Ker Conway

4.0 (3)

The western plains of New South Wales are grasslands.

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Eminent Victorians

Eminent Victorians

Lytton Strachey

3.0 (1)

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.

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An evil cradling

An evil cradling

Brian Keenan

4.67 (3)

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