✍️ Biography & Memoir · Japan
Best Biography & Memoir Books from Japan
Biography and memoir are the literature of real lives. Japan 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 Japan by editorial consensus.
#1
biography-memoir
Goethe's Werke
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe· 1800
Library Journal
Editorial Score45/100
#2
biography-memoir
Sämtliche Werke
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe· 1800
Library Journal
Editorial Score45/100
#3
biography-memoir
Aus meinem Leben
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe· 1800
Library Journal
Editorial Score40/100
#4
biography-memoir
Italienische Reise
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe· 1860
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#5
biography-memoir
Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe· 1828
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#6
biography-memoir
The life and times of Cavour
William Roscoe Thayer· 1911
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#7
biography-memoir
Vida, ascendencia, nacimiento, crianza y aventuras del Doctor Don Diego de Torres Villarroel
Diego de Torres Villarroel· 1789
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#8
biography-memoir
Life and times of Washington
John Frederick Schroeder· 1857
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#9
biography-memoir
The works of Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe· 1840
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#10
biography-memoir
Diaries
Joseph Goebbels· 1948
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#11
biography-memoir
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings
Joel Chandler Harris· 1894
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#12
biography-memoir
La lie de la terre
Arthur Koestler· 1941
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#13
biography-memoir
George Washington
Matt Doeden· 2000
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#14
biography-memoir
Widerstand und Ergebung
Dietrich Bonhoeffer· 1951
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#15
biography-memoir
The Tender Bar
J. R. Moehringer· 2001
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#16
biography-memoir
Ishi in Two Worlds a Biogr
Theodora Kroeber· 1961
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
#17
biography-memoir
Ishi, the Last of His Tribe
Theodora Kroeber· 1964
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#18
biography-memoir
Touching the void
Joe Simpson· 1988
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#19
biography-memoir
Gerhard Hoehme
Gerhard Hoehme· 1964
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score30/100
#20
biography-memoir
Arrow in the blue
Arthur Koestler· 1952
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score30/100
