✍️ Biography & Memoir · United Kingdom
Best Biography & Memoir Books from United Kingdom
Biography and memoir are the literature of real lives. United Kingdom 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 United Kingdom by editorial consensus.
#1
biography-memoir
A Life's Work
Rachel Cusk· 2001
★Women's Prize for Fiction
Editorial Score75/100
#2
literary-fiction
Plays (36)
William Shakespeare· 1623
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score55/100
#3
literary-fiction
The mirror of the sea
Joseph Conrad· 1906
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score55/100
#4
literary-fiction
Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad· 1900
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#5
literary-fiction
Their Wedding Journey
William Dean Howells· 1872
Library Journal
Editorial Score50/100
#6
literary-fiction
The nigger of the "Narcissus"
Joseph Conrad· 1897
Library Journal
Editorial Score50/100
#7
literary-fiction
Plays (37)
William Shakespeare· 1768
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score50/100
#8
literary-fiction
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare· 1656
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score45/100
#9
literary-fiction
Measure for Measure
William Shakespeare· 1700
Library Journal
Editorial Score45/100
#10
literary-fiction
A personal record
Joseph Conrad· 1912
Library Journal
Editorial Score45/100
#11
literary-fiction
D.H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence· 1928
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score45/100
#12
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classic-literature
Works [37 plays, 4 poems, sonnets]
William Shakespeare· 1797
Library Journal
Editorial Score45/100
#13
biography-memoir
A Writer's Diary
Virginia Woolf· 1953
Notable Work
Editorial Score43/100
#14
biography-memoir
My year
Roald Dahl· 1993
Notable Work
Editorial Score43/100
#15
literary-fiction
Troilus and Cressida
William Shakespeare· 1609
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#16
literary-fiction
Sonnets
William Shakespeare· 1609
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#17
literary-fiction
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Anne Brontë· 1847
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#18
literary-fiction
The Magician
William Somerset Maugham· 1908
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#19
literary-fiction
The Rise of Silas Lapham
William Dean Howells· 1884
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#20
literary-fiction
Flush
Virginia Woolf· 1694
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#21
literary-fiction
Poems (Lover's Complaint / Passionate Pilgrim / Phoenix and the Turtle / Rape of Lucrece / Sonnets / Venus and Adonis)
William Shakespeare· 1771
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#22
literary-fiction
Scenes of clerical life
George Eliot· 1858
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#23
literary-fiction
Memoir of Jane Austen, by her nephew
James Edward Austen-Leigh· 1869
Library Journal
Editorial Score40/100
#24
classic-literature
Notes On Life And Letters Of Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad· 1921
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#25
biography-memoir
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell· 1938
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#26
biography-memoir
Venus and Adonis
William Shakespeare· 1593
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#27
biography-memoir
Italian journeys
William Dean Howells· 1867
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#28
biography-memoir
On a Chinese screen
William Somerset Maugham· 1922
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#29
biography-memoir
When the Going Was Good
Evelyn Waugh· 1934
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#30
biography-memoir
Come, tell me how you live
Agatha Christie· 1946
Library Journal
Editorial Score40/100
#31
biography-memoir
The life of Charles Dickens
John Forster· 1872
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score40/100
#32
biography-memoir
Death Valley in '49
William Lewis Manly· 1894
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#33
biography-memoir
History of a six weeks' tour 1817
Mary Shelley· 1817
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score40/100
#34
biography-memoir
A passionate apprentice
Virginia Woolf· 1990
Notable Work
Editorial Score40/100
#35
biography-memoir
Shooting an Elephant and other essays
George Orwell· 1950
Editorial Score38/100
#36
biography-memoir
Diary of Virginia Woolf, the - V.1 1915-19
Virginia Woolf· 1979
Editorial Score38/100
#37
literary-fiction
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson· 1985
ALA Notable Books
Editorial Score35/100
#38
biography-memoir
Henry V
William Shakespeare· 1600
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#39
biography-memoir
Poems
Samuel Taylor Coleridge· 1796
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#40
biography-memoir
Poems by John Keats
John Keats· 1800
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#41
biography-memoir
The Poetical Works of John Dryden
John Dryden· 1777
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#42
biography-memoir
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T. E. Lawrence· 1905
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#43
biography-memoir
Biographia literaria
Samuel Taylor Coleridge· 1817
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#44
biography-memoir
A memoir of S. S. Prentiss
George Lewis Prentiss· 1855
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#45
biography-memoir
Poems
Lord Byron· 1800
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#46
biography-memoir
Poems
D. H. Lawrence· 1913
Library Journal
Editorial Score35/100
#47
biography-memoir
Narrative of William W. Brown
William Wells Brown· 1847
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#48
biography-memoir
Literary Friends And Acquaintance
William Dean Howells· 1900
Kirkus Reviews
Editorial Score35/100
#49
biography-memoir
The poetical works of Lord Byron
Lord Byron· 1800
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
#50
biography-memoir
The poetical works of Alexander Pope, esq
Alexander Pope· 1773
Publishers Weekly
Editorial Score35/100
