As usual, the experts do not agree, which is actually good. There is a great range of biographical reading from which readers may choice with some assurance that someone deemed it worthy to read. In the end, what matters is whether the readers enjoy the books.
If you are like me, your wish list is getting longer every year. I am hoping many of these will be available in audiobooks to help me make my way through my list.
Enjoy 2014 as a great reading year!
Amazon
Biographies
Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearnes Goodwin
A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley by Neal Thompson
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune by Bill Dedman
Lawrence in Arabia: War Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter by Alyn Shipton
Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaskan Frontier by Tom Kizzia
Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever by Reed Albergotti
Memoirs
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story by Michael Hainey
Coming Clean by Kimberly Rae Miller
Detroit: An American Autopsy by Charlie LeDuff
A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story by Qais Akbar Omar
A House in the Sky: A Memoir by Amanda Lindhout
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove by Questlove
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
Booklist
Biographies
Beethoven: The Man Revealed by John Suchet
Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince by Jane Ridley
Jack London: An American Life by Earle Labor
Jim Henson by Brian Jay Jones
Wilson by A. Scott Berg
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
Memoirs
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography by Richard Rodriguez
Kirkus
Biographies
The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keyes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order by Benn Steil
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearnes Goodwin
Dreadful: The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns by David Margolick
Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington by Terry Teachout
Fosse by Sam Wasson
The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind - And Changed the History of Free Speech in America by Thomas Healy
Hammarskjold: A Life by Roger Lipsey
How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate by Wendy Moore
JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President by Thurston Clarke
Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert Hilburn
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker by Stanley Crouch
The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman by Benita Eisler
Robert Oppenheimer: His Life and Mind by Ray Monk
Useful Enemies: John Demjanjuk and America's Open-Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals by Richard Rashke
Memoirs
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story by Michael Hainey
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2 by Mark Twain
The Book of My Lives by Aleksandar Hemon
A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story by Qais Akbar Omar
Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang
A House in the Sky: A Memoir by Amanda Lindhout
I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography by Richard Hell
I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place by Howard Norman
The Joker: A Memoir by Andrew Hudgins
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove by Questlove
My Mistake : A Memoir by Daniel Menaker
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA by Scott C. Johnson
The World Is Moving Around Me: A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake by Dany Laferriere
Library Journal (Various lists)
Biographies
Francis: A New World Pope by Michel Cool
How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate by Wendy Moore
Jack London: An American Life by Earle Labor
Memoirs
Drinking with Men by Rosie Schaap
Her by Christa Parravani
Holding Silvan: A Brief Life by Monica Wesolowska
Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malal Yousafzai
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
My Foreign Cities by Elizabeth Scarboro
Playing House: Notes of a Reluctant Mother by Lauren Slater
Son of a Gun by Justin St. Germain
Unremarried Widow by Artis Henderson
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
National Public Radio
Biographies
Fosse by Sam Wasson
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
Memoirs
After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story by Michael Hainey
Drinking with Men by Rosie Schaap
I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place by Howard Norman
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen Year Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida
Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division by Peter Hook
You Don't Know Me But You Don't Like Me: Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and My Misadventures with Two of Music's Most Maligned Tribes by Nathan Rabin
Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk by Shozan Jack Haubner
New York Times: 100 Notable Books
Biographies
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearnes Goodwin
Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House by Peter Baker
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang
Heir Apparent: A Life of Edward VII, the Playboy Prince by Jane Ridley
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn
Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall
Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 by Lynne Olsomn
Memoirs
The Boy Detective: A New York Childhood by Roger Rosenblatt
Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O'Brien
A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
Publishers Weekly
Biographies
Fosse by Sam Wasson
Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert Hilburn
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life by Jonathan Sperber
The Last Cowboy: A Life of Tom Landry by Mark Ribowsky
Memoirs
For a Song and a Hundred Songs: A Poet's Journey Through a Chinese Prison by Liao Yiwu
A House in the Sky: A Memoir by Amanda Lindhout
Italo Calvino: Letter, 1941-1985 by Italo Calvino
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Anya von Bremzen
Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward
Shocked: My Mother, Schiaparelli, and Me by Patricia Volk
Washington Post
Biographies
Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare by Stephen Budiansky
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary J. Bass
Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie Arana
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House by Peter Baker
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
Gabriele D'Annunzio: Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Margaret Thatcher: From Grantham to Falklands by Charles Moore
Norman Mailer: A Double Life by J. Michael Lennon
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David Nasaw
Queen Bee of Tuscany: The Redoubtable Janet Ross by Ben Downing
The Short Strange Life of Herschel Grynszpan: A Boy Avenger, a Nazi Diplomat, and a Murder in Paris by Jonathan Kirsch
Memoirs
The Death of Santini by Pat Conroy
A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story by Qais Akbar Omar
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malal Yousafzai
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing Genius by Kristine Barnett
Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton
The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA by Scott C. Johnson
The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family by Josh Hanagarne
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