✍️ Biography & Memoir · International
Best Biography & Memoir Books from International
Biography and memoir are the literature of real lives. International has produced some of the most internationally recognised works in biography & memoir, with titles that have appeared on major prize lists and critical surveys worldwide. This page ranks the best biography & memoir from International by editorial consensus.
#1
literary-fiction
La Divina Commedia
Dante Alighieri· 1472
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#2
literary-fiction
Анна Каренина
Лев Толстой· 1876
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#3
literary-fiction
My Ántonia
Willa Cather· 1818
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#4
literary-fiction
πολιτεία
Plato· 1554
Library Journal
Editorial Score55/100
#5
literary-fiction
The Princess and the Goblin
George MacDonald· 1872
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#6
literary-fiction
The Pilgrim's Progress
John Bunyan· 1678
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#7
literary-fiction
The Second Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling· 1887
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score55/100
#8
literary-fiction
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling· 1893
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score55/100
#9
literary-fiction
Confessions
Augustine of Hippo· 1482
Library Journal
Editorial Score55/100
#10
literary-fiction
The Romany Rye
George Henry Borrow· 1800
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#11
literary-fiction
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell· 1905
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score55/100
#12
literary-fiction
Noa Noa
Paul Gauguin· 1900
Library Journal
Editorial Score55/100
#13
biography-memoir
Picasso
Pablo Picasso· 1926
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score55/100
#14
literary-fiction
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin· 1791
Library Journal
Editorial Score50/100
#15
literary-fiction
Le avventure di Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi· 1883
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#16
literary-fiction
Two years before the mast
Richard Henry Dana· 1000
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#17
literary-fiction
Roots
Alex Haley· 1861
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#18
literary-fiction
The Road
Jack London· 1907
Library Journal
Editorial Score50/100
#19
classic-literature
The story of my life
Helen Keller· 1903
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#20
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biography-memoir
Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan shozō Meijiki kankō tosho maikuro-ban shūsei
Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (Japan)· 1991
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#21
biography-memoir
Paul Klee
Paul Klee· 1930
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#22
biography-memoir
Lyonel Feininger
Lyonel Feininger· 1950
Library Journal
Editorial Score50/100
#23
biography-memoir
Lives of the saints
Alban Butler· 1894
Library Journal
Editorial Score50/100
#24
biography-memoir
Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera· 1929
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score50/100
#25
biography-memoir
Paradise Lost
John Milton· 1667
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#26
biography-memoir
The Forsyte Saga (The Man of Property / Indian Summer of a Forsyte / In Chancery / Awakening / To Let)
John Galsworthy· 1918
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#27
biography-memoir
Poems (Lover's Complaint / Passionate Pilgrim / Phoenix and the Turtle / Rape of Lucrece / Sonnets / Venus and Adonis)
William Shakespeare· 1771
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#28
biography-memoir
Fox's book of martyrs
John Foxe· 1741
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#29
biography-memoir
Goethe's Werke
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe· 1800
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#30
biography-memoir
Father Henson's Story of His Own Life
Josiah Henson· 1849
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#31
biography-memoir
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom, or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
William Craft· 1860
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#32
biography-memoir
Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée
Simone de Beauvoir· 1900
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#33
biography-memoir
Thirty Years A Slave From Bondage To Freedom The Institution Of Slavery As Seen On The Plantation And In The Home Of The Planter
Louis Hughes· 1887
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#34
biography-memoir
Mémoires d'une portraitiste, 1755-1842
Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun· 1835
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#35
biography-memoir
Mémoires d'outre-tombe
François-René de Chateaubriand· 1840
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#36
biography-memoir
Apologie pour l'histoire ou Métier d'historien
Marc Bloch· 1949
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#37
biography-memoir
Byron's letters and journals
Lord Byron· 1830
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#38
biography-memoir
Behind the scenes. By Elizabeth Keckley. Or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White House.
Elizabeth Keckley· 1868
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#39
biography-memoir
The life of General Francis Marion, a celebrated partisan officer, in the revolutionary war, against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia
Mason Locke Weems· 1814
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#40
biography-memoir
Alumni oxonienses: the members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886: their parentage, birthplace, and year of birth, with a record of their degrees
University of Oxford· 1887
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#41
biography-memoir
The Christian's great interest, in two parts
William Guthrie· 1667
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#42
biography-memoir
Dix années d'exil
Germaine de Staël· 1800
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#43
biography-memoir
Mendel's principles of heredity
William Bateson· 1902
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#44
biography-memoir
A Woman's Life-Work Labors and Experiences
Laura S. Haviland· 1881
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#45
biography-memoir
A north-side view of slavery. The refugee; or, The narrative of fugitive slaves in Canada related by themselves. With an account of the history and condition of the colored population of Upper Canada
Benjamin Drew· 1856
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#46
biography-memoir
Oliver Cromwell's letters and speeches
Oliver Cromwell· 1845
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#47
biography-memoir
Recollections of a busy life: including reminiscences of American politics and politicians, from the opening of the Missouri contest to the downfall of slavery
Horace Greeley· 1868
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#48
biography-memoir
Everybody's Boswell
James Boswell· 1798
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#49
biography-memoir
Histoire d'une âme
Saint Thérèse de Lisieux· 1911
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
#50
biography-memoir
David Walker's appeal, in four articles, together with a preamble, to the coloured citizens of the world, but in particular, and very expressly, to those of the United States of America
David Walker· 1829
Notable Work
Editorial Score46/100
