Top 100 Biographies That Changed The World

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1. "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" by Benjamin Franklin
2. "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
3. "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
4. "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
5. "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson
6. "Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo" by Hayden Herrera
7. "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow
8. "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller
9. "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" by Manning Marable
10. "Leonardo da Vinci" by Walter Isaacson
11. "Marie Curie: A Biography" by Eve Curie
12. "Gandhi: An Autobiography - The Story of My Experiments With Truth" by Mohandas K. Gandhi
13. "Churchill: A Life" by Martin Gilbert
14. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
15. "The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt" by Edmund Morris
16. "Cleopatra: A Life" by Stacy Schiff
17. "The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough
18. "Jane Austen: A Life" by Claire Tomalin
19. "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" by Jon Meacham
20. "No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
21. "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
22. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
23. "A Beautiful Mind" by Sylvia Nasar
24. "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Doris Kearns Goodwin
25. "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill" by William Manchester
26. "Napoleon: A Life" by Andrew Roberts
27. "Mao: The Unknown Story" by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
28. "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" by Robert A. Caro
29. "Hitler: A Biography" by Ian Kershaw
30. "Freud: In His Time and Ours" by Elisabeth Roudinesco
31. "The Life of Elizabeth I" by Alison Weir
32. "Goodbye to All That" by Robert Graves
33. "The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin" by H.W. Brands
34. "The Life of Charlotte Brontë" by Elizabeth Gaskell
35. "American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer" by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
36. "John Adams" by David McCullough
37. "Truman" by David McCullough
38. "Alexander of Macedon, 356–323 B.C.: A Historical Biography" by Peter Green
39. "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass
40. "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
41. "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution" by Walter Isaacson
42. "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois
43. "Michelangelo: His Epic Life" by Martin Gayford
44. "Beethoven: The Universal Composer" by Edmund Morris
45. "Shakespeare: The World as Stage" by Bill Bryson
46. "The Years of Lyndon Johnson" series by Robert A. Caro
47. "The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism" by Megan Marshall
48. "Vincent van Gogh: The Life" by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
49. "Pablo Picasso: A Biography" by Patrick O'Brian
50. "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
51. "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
52. "The Double Helix" by James D. Watson
53. "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" by Jung Chang
54. "The Agony and the Ecstasy" by Irving Stone (A Biography of Michelangelo)
55. "The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes" by Janet Malcolm
56. "Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age" by W. Bernard Carlson
57. "Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China" by Jung Chang
58. "The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance" by Edmund de Waal
59. "The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between" by Hisham Matar
60. "The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey" by Candice Millard
61. "King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero" by David Remnick
62. "The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan" by Robert Kanigel
63. "The Oracle of Oil: A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable Future" by Mason Inman
64. "Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race" by Margot Lee Shetterly
65. "The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary" by Simon Winchester
66. "The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough
67. "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand
68. "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
69. "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution" by Walter Isaacson
70. "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
71. "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
72. "Einstein: His Life and Universe" by Walter Isaacson
73. "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life" by Walter Isaacson
74. "Leonardo da Vinci" by Walter Isaacson
75. "The Life of Samuel Johnson" by James Boswell
76. "Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman" by Robert K. Massie
77. "The Last Emperor" by Edward Behr (A Biography of Puyi)
78. "The Passion of Artemisia" by Susan Vreeland (A Novel about Artemisia Gentileschi)
79. "The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge" by David McCullough
80. "The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1)" by Robert A. Caro
81. "Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 2)" by Robert A. Caro
82. "Master of the Senate (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 3)" by Robert A. Caro
83. "The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4)" by Robert A. Caro
84. "Alexander Hamilton" by Ron Chernow
85. "Washington: A Life" by Ron Chernow
86. "Grant" by Ron Chernow
87. "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany" by William L. Shirer
88. "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932" by William Manchester
89. "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940" by William Manchester
90. "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965" by William Manchester and Paul Reid
91. "Churchill: A Life" by Martin Gilbert
92. "Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948" by Ramachandra Guha
93. "Napoleon: A Life" by Andrew Roberts
94. "The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York" by Robert A. Caro
95. "Truman" by David McCullough
96. "John Adams" by David McCullough
97. "Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt" by David McCullough
98. "The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey" by Candice Millard
99. "Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush" by Jon Meacham
100. "The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism" by Doris Kearns Goodwin