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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812Laurel Thatcher Ulrich199020 pts2 wins2 listsKnopfBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Jennie Lee: A LifePatricia Hollis199814 pts2 wins2 listsOxford University PressBiographyReligious Biography+3
King George VKenneth Rose198414 pts2 wins2 listsWeidenfeld & NicolsonBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Scholar, TeacherRay Allen Billington197314 pts1 wins2 listsOxford University PressBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of DeclineJohn Elliott198610 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryReligious Biography+3
Clementine ChurchillMary Soames197910 pts1 wins1 listsCassellBiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made ThemEkow Eshun202510 pts1 wins1 listsHarperBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
The Invisible Woman: The Story Of Nelly Ternan And Charles DickensClaire Tomalin19908 pts2 wins2 listsVikingBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730–1810Jenny Uglow20028 pts2 wins2 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of LearJames Shapiro20156 pts1 wins2 listsFaber & FaberBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
The Many Lives of Anne FrankRuth Franklin20256 pts0 wins2 listsYale University PressBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
Scarred: A Feminist Journey Through PainL. Ayu Saraswati20234 pts1 wins1 listsNew York University PressMemoir & AutobiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
Dotter of Her Father's EyesMary Talbot, Bryan Talbot20124 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseBiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal HouseholdKate Hubbard20124 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Portrait of a PriestessJoan Breton Connelly20074 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryBiography & Public Lives
Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the TroubadoursFredric L. Cheyette20014 pts1 wins1 listsCornell University PressBiographyGender & Feminism+3
Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and GreatnessDavid Cairns20004 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Georgiana, Duchess of DevonshireAmanda Foreman19984 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 2Hershel Parker19964 pts1 wins1 listsJohns Hopkins University PressBiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
D H Lawrence: The Married ManBrenda Maddox19954 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Terence RattiganGeoffrey Wansell19954 pts1 wins1 listsPalgrave MacmillanBiographyOceans, Rivers & Water+3
TrollopeVictoria Glendinning19924 pts1 wins1 listsHutchinsonBiographyFilm, Television & Popular Culture+2
Monty: The Making of a GeneralNigel Hamilton19824 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
On the Edge of Paradise: A. C. Benson, DiaristDavid Newsome19804 pts1 wins1 listsJohn MurrayBiographyBiography & Public Lives
In Our InfancyHelen Corke19754 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Poor, Dear Brendan: The Quest for Brendan BrackenAndrew Boyle19744 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksBiographyBiography & Public Lives
CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-BannermanJohn Wilson19734 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
A Life in the StruggleGeorge Lipsitz19894 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
A New Life Of ChekhovRonald Hingley19764 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable FamiliesMichael Holroyd20084 pts1 wins1 listsChatto & WindusBiographyGroup Biography+2
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a Century in His LifeD. M. Thomas19994 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in ChinaHilary Spurling20104 pts1 wins1 listsProfile BooksBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
Chateaubriand, Vol.1: The Longed-For TempestsGeorge Painter19774 pts1 wins1 listsChatto & WindusBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Christopher Isherwood: A Critical BiographyBrian Finney19794 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Citizen Clem: A Biography of AttleeJohn Bew20174 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Cockburn's MillenniumKarl Miller19754 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
DarwinAdrian Desmond, James Moore19914 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
Dolphin Days: The Life and Times of the Spinner DolphinKenneth S. Norris19924 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Dr Johnson And Mr SavageRichard Holmes19934 pts1 wins1 listsHodder & StoughtonBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
Edison: A BiographyMatthew Josephson19604 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Edvard Munch: Behind The ScreamSue Prideaux20054 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Edward Heath: A BiographyJohn Campbell19944 pts1 wins1 listsJonathan CapeBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Edward MarshChristopher Hassall19594 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Elizabeth GaskellWinifred Gerin19764 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
English Naturalists From Neckham To RayC. C. E. Raven19474 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
English ScholarsDavid C. Douglas19394 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Fassbinder: Thousands of MirrorsIan Penman20234 pts1 wins1 listsFitzcarraldo EditionsBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Florence NightingaleMrs Cecil Woodham-Smith19504 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso YearsAlan Walker19834 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
George Bernard ShawSt John Greer Ervine19564 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
George Eliot: The Last VictorianKathryn Hughes19994 pts1 wins1 listsFourth EstateBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Gilbert WhiteRichard Mabey19864 pts1 wins1 listsTrafalgar Square PublishingBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Helen WaddellD. Felicitas Corrigan19864 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Henry Ponsonby: Queen Victoria's Private SecretaryLord Ponsonby of Shulbrede19424 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield CountryJake MacDonald20024 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismBiography & Public Lives+1
James Bryce, Viscount Bryce Of Dechmont, O.M.H. A. L. Fisher19274 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
John Keble: A Study In LimitationsGeorgina Battiscome19634 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite ReversedDavid Nokes19854 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Joseph Ashby Of TysoeM. K. Ashby19614 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.Stephen B. Oates19834 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
Life Of John LockeMaurice Cranston19574 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Lives Of A Bengal LancerFrancis Yeats Brown19304 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
Lloyd George: The People's ChampionJohn Grigg19784 pts1 wins1 listsHarperCollinsBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
Lord Grey Of The Reform BillG. M. Trevelyan19204 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Mary, Queen Of ScotsAntonia Fraser19694 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
My Great Arab MelancholyLamia Ziadé20244 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Newman: The Pillar And The Cloud and Newman: Light In WinterMeriol Trevor19624 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Philip Wilson SteerD. S. MacColl19454 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Robert Frost: A LifeJay Parini19994 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSir Edmund Chambers19384 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
Spanish TudorHilda F. M. Prescott19404 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
The Autobiography of an Unknown South AfricanNaboth Mokgatle19724 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
The Autobiography of Malcolm XMalcolm X19664 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBlack History & Culture+2
The Book Of TalbotViolet Clifton19334 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
The Great Dr BurneyPercy A. Scholes19484 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
The House Of AirlieRev. William Wilson19244 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyBiography & Public Lives
The Last Pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian ImaginationFiona MacCarthy20114 pts1 wins1 listsFaber & FaberBiographyBiography & Public Lives
The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew, Modern Pots, Colonialism and the CountercultureTanya Harrod20124 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressBiographyEmpire & Colonialism+2
| 1990 | A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | Biography | 20 | 2 | 2 | Knopf | Penguin Random House |
| 1998 | Jennie Lee: A Life | Patricia Hollis | Biography | 14 | 2 | 2 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 1984 | King George V | Kenneth Rose | Biography | 14 | 2 | 2 | Weidenfeld & Nicolson | Hachette UK |
| 1973 | Frederick Jackson Turner: Historian, Scholar, Teacher | Ray Allen Billington | Biography | 14 | 1 | 2 | Oxford University Press | Oxford University Press |
| 1986 | The Count-Duke of Olivares: The Statesman in an Age of Decline | John Elliott | History | 10 | 1 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 1979 | Clementine Churchill | Mary Soames | Biography | 10 | 1 | 1 | Cassell | Hachette UK |
| 2025 | The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them | Ekow Eshun | Biography | 10 | 1 | 1 | Harper | HarperCollins |
| 1990 | The Invisible Woman: The Story Of Nelly Ternan And Charles Dickens | Claire Tomalin | Biography | 8 | 2 | 2 | Viking | Penguin Random House |
| 2002 | The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730–1810 | Jenny Uglow | Biography | 8 | 2 | 2 | Unknown | Faber |
| 2015 | 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear | James Shapiro | Biography | 6 | 1 | 2 | Faber & Faber | Faber & Faber |
| 2025 | The Many Lives of Anne Frank | Ruth Franklin | Biography | 6 | 0 | 2 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 2023 | Scarred: A Feminist Journey Through Pain | L. Ayu Saraswati | Memoir & Autobiography | 4 | 1 | 1 | New York University Press | New York University Press |
| 2012 | Dotter of Her Father's Eyes | Mary Talbot, Bryan Talbot | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Random House | Penguin Random House |
| 2012 | Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household | Kate Hubbard | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Random House | Penguin Random House |
| 2007 | Portrait of a Priestess | Joan Breton Connelly | History | 4 | 1 | 1 | Princeton University Press | Princeton University Press |
| 2001 | Ermengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours | Fredric L. Cheyette | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Cornell University Press | Cornell University Press |
| 2000 | Berlioz Volume Two: Servitude and Greatness | David Cairns | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | University of California Press | University of California Press |
| 1998 | Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire | Amanda Foreman | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | HarperCollins | HarperCollins |
| 1996 | Gladstone | Roy Jenkins | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1996 | Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 2 | Hershel Parker | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Johns Hopkins University Press | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| 1995 | D H Lawrence: The Married Man | Brenda Maddox | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Vintage Books | Penguin Random House |
| 1995 | Terence Rattigan | Geoffrey Wansell | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Palgrave Macmillan | Macmillan |
| 1992 | Trollope | Victoria Glendinning | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Hutchinson | Penguin Random House |
| 1985 | Hugh Dalton | Ben Pimlott | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Jonathan Cape | Penguin Random House |
| 1983 | Bismarck | Edward Crankshaw | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Viking | Penguin Random House |
| 1982 | Monty: The Making of a General | Nigel Hamilton | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1980 | On the Edge of Paradise: A. C. Benson, Diarist | David Newsome | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | John Murray | Hachette UK |
| 1975 | In Our Infancy | Helen Corke | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Cambridge University Press | Cambridge University Press |
| 1974 | Poor, Dear Brendan: The Quest for Brendan Bracken | Andrew Boyle | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Vintage Books | Penguin Random House |
| 1973 | CB: A Life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman | John Wilson | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1963 | Henrik Ibsen | Michael Meyer | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1989 | A Life in the Struggle | George Lipsitz | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1976 | A New Life Of Chekhov | Ronald Hingley | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | OUP |
| 2008 | A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families | Michael Holroyd | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Chatto & Windus | Penguin Random House |
| 1990 | AA Milne–His Life | Ann Thwaite | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1999 | Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a Century in His Life | D. M. Thomas | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1972 | Anthony Trollope | James Pope-Hennessy | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Phoenix | Hachette UK |
| 2010 | Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China | Hilary Spurling | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Profile Books | Profile Books |
| 1977 | Chateaubriand, Vol.1: The Longed-For Tempests | George Painter | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Chatto & Windus | Penguin Random House |
| 1979 | Christopher Isherwood: A Critical Biography | Brian Finney | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Faber |
| 2017 | Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee | John Bew | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2011 | Cleopatra: A Life | Stacy Schiff | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Little, Brown | Hachette Book Group |
| 1975 | Cockburn's Millennium | Karl Miller | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Duckworth |
| 1991 | Darwin | Adrian Desmond, James Moore | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Paladin |
| 1931 | David Hume | J. Y. R. Greig | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1992 | Dolphin Days: The Life and Times of the Spinner Dolphin | Kenneth S. Norris | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1993 | Dr Johnson And Mr Savage | Richard Holmes | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Hodder & Stoughton | Hachette UK |
| 1922 | Earlham | Percy Lubbock | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1960 | Edison: A Biography | Matthew Josephson | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2005 | Edvard Munch: Behind The Scream | Sue Prideaux | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
| 1994 | Edward Heath: A Biography | John Campbell | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Jonathan Cape | Penguin Random House |
| 1959 | Edward Marsh | Christopher Hassall | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1976 | Elizabeth Gaskell | Winifred Gerin | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1947 | English Naturalists From Neckham To Ray | C. C. E. Raven | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1939 | English Scholars | David C. Douglas | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2000 | Experience | Martin Amis | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Jonathan Cape | Penguin Random House |
| 2023 | Fassbinder: Thousands of Mirrors | Ian Penman | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Fitzcarraldo Editions | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| 1950 | Florence Nightingale | Mrs Cecil Woodham-Smith | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1943 | Fourscore Years | G. G. Coulton | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1983 | Franz Liszt: The Virtuoso Years | Alan Walker | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Faber |
| 1956 | George Bernard Shaw | St John Greer Ervine | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1999 | George Eliot: The Last Victorian | Kathryn Hughes | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Fourth Estate | HarperCollins |
| 1986 | Gilbert White | Richard Mabey | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Trafalgar Square Publishing | Trafalgar Square Publishing |
| 1986 | Helen Waddell | D. Felicitas Corrigan | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Victor Gollancz |
| 1942 | Henry Ponsonby: Queen Victoria's Private Secretary | Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2002 | Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country | Jake MacDonald | Arts & Criticism | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1927 | James Bryce, Viscount Bryce Of Dechmont, O.M. | H. A. L. Fisher | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1963 | John Keble: A Study In Limitations | Georgina Battiscome | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1937 | John Knox | Lord Eustace Percy | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1985 | Jonathan Swift: A Hypocrite Reversed | David Nokes | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | OUP |
| 1961 | Joseph Ashby Of Tysoe | M. K. Ashby | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1941 | King George V | John Gore | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1951 | Leslie Stephen | Noel G. Annan | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1983 | Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. | Stephen B. Oates | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1971 | Lewis Namier | Julia Namier | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1957 | Life Of John Locke | Maurice Cranston | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1930 | Lives Of A Bengal Lancer | Francis Yeats Brown | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1978 | Lloyd George: The People's Champion | John Grigg | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | HarperCollins | HarperCollins |
| 1920 | Lord Grey Of The Reform Bill | G. M. Trevelyan | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1970 | Lord Palmerston | Jasper Ridley | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1969 | Mary, Queen Of Scots | Antonia Fraser | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1928 | Montrose | John Buchan | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2024 | My Great Arab Melancholy | Lamia Ziadé | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Pluto Press |
| 1962 | Newman: The Pillar And The Cloud and Newman: Light In Winter | Meriol Trevor | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1945 | Philip Wilson Steer | D. S. MacColl | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1934 | Queen Elizabeth | J. E. Neale | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1921 | Queen Victoria | Lytton Strachey | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1999 | Robert Frost: A Life | Jay Parini | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1974 | Samuel Johnson | John Wain | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1938 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Sir Edmund Chambers | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1953 | Sir John Moore | Carola Oman | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1940 | Spanish Tudor | Hilda F. M. Prescott | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1952 | Stanley Baldwin | G. M. Young | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1972 | The Autobiography of an Unknown South African | Naboth Mokgatle | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1966 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Malcolm X | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1933 | The Book Of Talbot | Violet Clifton | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1948 | The Great Dr Burney | Percy A. Scholes | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 1924 | The House Of Airlie | Rev. William Wilson | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Unknown | Not yet sourced |
| 2011 | The Last Pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination | Fiona MacCarthy | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Faber & Faber | Faber & Faber |
| 2012 | The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew, Modern Pots, Colonialism and the Counterculture | Tanya Harrod | Biography | 4 | 1 | 1 | Yale University Press | Yale University Press |
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All awards · Topic: Biography & Public Lives · Sorted by score · 167 books · filtered