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All awards · Topic: Family Biography · Sorted by score · 91 books · filtered
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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family KeepsakeTiya Miles202142 pts6 wins8 listsRandom HouseHistoryBlack History & Culture+3
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American FamilyAnnette Gordon-Reed200832 pts4 wins5 listsW. W. NortonBiographyFamily Biography
Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for IdentityAndrew Solomon201226 pts5 wins5 listsScribnerSociety & CultureFamily, Childhood & Adoption+1
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in BetweenHisham Matar201620 pts1 wins4 listsVintage BooksMemoir & AutobiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Brother, I'm DyingEdwidge Danticat200818 pts2 wins3 listsKnopfMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to FreedomIlyon Woo202316 pts1 wins3 listsSimon & SchusterRace & EthnicityFamily Biography+2
Jennie Lee: A LifePatricia Hollis199814 pts2 wins2 listsOxford University PressBiographyReligious Biography+3
Facts of LifeMaureen Howard197814 pts1 wins2 listsLittle, BrownMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish IraqAriel Sabar200812 pts1 wins2 listsAlgonquin BooksMemoir & AutobiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early AmericaJohn Putnam Demos199512 pts1 wins3 listsVintage BooksHistoryMemoir & Personal History+1
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American FamilyKerri K. Greenidge202312 pts0 wins5 listsLiverightRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+2
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary ShelleyCharlotte Gordon201610 pts1 wins1 listsRandom House Trade PaperbacksBiographyLiterature & Writers+1
Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her FatherJohn Matteson200710 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonBiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
Them: A Memoir of ParentsFrancine du Plessix Gray200510 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin PressMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and WhiteHenry Wiencek199910 pts1 wins1 listsSt. Martin's PressRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+1
Slaves in the FamilyEdward Ball199810 pts1 wins1 listsBallantine BooksRace & EthnicityFamily Biography
Clementine ChurchillMary Soames197910 pts1 wins1 listsCassellBiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
The Day That Went Missing: A Family's StoryRichard Beard20188 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona JudgeErica Armstrong Dunbar20178 pts1 wins2 lists37 InkRace & EthnicityFamily Biography
A Ghost in the ThroatDoireann Ní Ghríofa20208 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyFamily Biography+2
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured AmericaBeth Macy20258 pts0 wins2 listsPenguin PressMemoir & AutobiographyFamily Biography+2
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free PeopleTiya Miles20248 pts0 wins3 listsPenguin PressBiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+1
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of HeredityCarl Zimmer20186 pts0 wins2 listsPenguin PressScienceFamily, Childhood & Adoption+1
Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color LineMartha A. Sandweiss20096 pts0 wins2 listsPenguin PressRace & EthnicityLgbtq History & Life+2
I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A MemoirHala Alyan20256 pts0 wins2 listsAvid Reader PressMemoir & AutobiographyFamily Biography+1
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow SouthBeth Macy20166 pts0 wins3 listsLittle, BrownRace & EthnicityFamily Biography
Dotter of Her Father's EyesMary Talbot, Bryan Talbot20124 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseBiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
Herman Melville: A Biography, Volume 2Hershel Parker19964 pts1 wins1 listsJohns Hopkins University PressBiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable FamiliesMichael Holroyd20084 pts1 wins1 listsChatto & WindusBiographyGroup Biography+2
The Valley: A Hundred Years in the Life of a FamilyRichard Benson20144 pts1 wins1 listsBloomsburyBiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the WertheimersJean Strouse20244 pts0 wins1 listsManchester University PressBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
Fi: A Memoir of My SonAlexandra Fuller20244 pts0 wins1 listsGrove PressMemoir & AutobiographyFamily Biography+2
Mother Archive: A Dominican Family MemoirErika Morillo20244 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyFamily Biography+2
Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American HistoryYunte Huang20234 pts0 wins1 listsLiverightBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
A Farewell To Gabo And Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes BarchaRodrigo Garcia20214 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyFamily Biography+2
Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's FortunesAlbert Samaha20214 pts0 wins1 listsRiverhead BooksMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San FranciscoAlia Volz20204 pts0 wins1 listsHoughton Mifflin HarcourtMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her SongsSarah Smarsh20204 pts0 wins1 listsScribnerArts & CriticismFamily Biography
Thick: And Other EssaysTressie McMillan Cottom20194 pts0 wins1 listsThe New PressSociety & CultureBlack History & Culture+1
All You Can Ever Know: A MemoirNicole Chung20184 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an EpicDaniel Mendelsohn20174 pts0 wins1 listsHarperCollinsMemoir & AutobiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+2
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated MemoirThi Bui20174 pts0 wins1 listsAbrams PressMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Henry IVChris Given-Wilson20164 pts0 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryDeath, Memory & Commemoration+3
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in CrisisJD Vance20164 pts0 wins1 listsWilliam CollinsMemoir & AutobiographyLiterature & Writers+1
The Song Poet: A Memoir of My FatherKao Kalia Yang20164 pts0 wins1 listsMetropolitan BooksMemoir & AutobiographyFamily Biography+2
The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family PortraitBlake Bailey20144 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonMemoir & AutobiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
My Long Trip Home: A Family MemoirMark Whitaker20114 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterMemoir & AutobiographyFamily Biography+2
Reading My Father: A MemoirAlexandra Styron20114 pts0 wins1 listsScribnerMemoir & AutobiographyFamily Biography+2
Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to AmericaKati Marton20094 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
The Bishop's DaughterHonor Moore20084 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century EnglandAdrian Tinniswood20074 pts0 wins1 listsRiverhead BooksHistoryFamily Biography
Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past through Our GenesSteve Olson20024 pts0 wins1 listsBloomsburyScienceFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
Marie Antoinette: The JourneyAntonia Fraser20024 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyFamily Biography+1
A Slant of Sun: One Child's CourageBeth Kephart19994 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
My BrotherJamaica Kincaid19984 pts0 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxMemoir & AutobiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+1
Fruitful: A Real Mother in the Modern WorldAnne Roiphe19964 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
The Six Wives of Henry VIIIAntonia Fraser19924 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyLiterature & Writers+2
The Jameses: A Family NarrativeR.W.B. Lewis19914 pts0 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Alfred I. Du Pont: The Man and His FamilyJoseph Frazier Wall19904 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
An American ChildhoodAnnie Dillard19874 pts0 wins1 listsPicadorMemoir & AutobiographyFamily Biography+2
Index to Children's SongsCarolyn Sue Peterson, Ann D. Fenton19794 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismFamily, Childhood & Adoption+1
Kids: Day In and Day Out: a parents' manualElisabeth L. Scharlatt19794 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureFamily, Childhood & Adoption+1
Seeing Through ClothesAnne Hollander19784 pts0 wins1 listsAvon BooksArts & CriticismMemoir & Personal History+2
World of Our FathersIrving Howe with Kenneth Libo19764 pts0 wins1 listsWeidenfeld & NicolsonRace & EthnicityFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
16 StudiesH. W. Janson19744 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintArts & CriticismMemoir & Personal History+1
Seduction and BetrayalElizabeth Hardwick19744 pts0 wins1 listsVintage BooksArts & CriticismMemoir & Personal History+1
Blackberry Winter: My Earlier YearsMargaret Mead19724 pts0 wins1 listsWilliam MorrowMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Pedro Martinez: A Mexican Peasant and His FamilyOscar Lewis19644 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyFamily Biography
A Daughter of the Middle BorderHamlin Garland19214 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyFamily Biography
Babysense: A Practical and Supportive Guide to Baby CareFrances Wells Burck19804 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureFamily, Childhood & Adoption+1
Blood Knots: On Fathers, Friendship and FishingLuke Jennings20104 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Clear Springs: A MemoirBobbie Ann Mason20004 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyFamily Biography+1
Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear PollutionMarilynne Robinson19894 pts0 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxPolitics & GovernmentFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
Secret Harvests: A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family FarmDavid Mas Masumoto20234 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural HistoryManjula Martin20244 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyFamily Biography+2
The Story of a HeartRachel Clarke20244 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthMemoir & Personal History+1
We Were Illegal: Uncovering a Texas Family's Mythmaking and MigrationJessica Goudeau20244 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyMigration & Diaspora+3
Will You Miss Me When I’m Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American MusicMark Zwonitzer with Charles Hirshberg20024 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1
Emerson's Daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and Their Family LegacyKate Culkin20252 pts0 wins1 listsUniversity of Massachusetts PressBiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of TerrorVictor Sebestyen20182 pts0 wins1 listsVintage BooksBiographyMigration & Diaspora+3
Jim Henson: The BiographyBrian Jay Jones20132 pts0 wins1 listsBallantine BooksBiographyPresidential Biography+3
A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's MotherJanny Scott20112 pts0 wins1 listsRiverhead BooksBiographyPresidential Biography+3
Henry’s Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son’s StoryPatrick Cockburn, Henry Cockburn20112 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterMemoir & AutobiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
Flaubert: A LifeGeoffrey Wall20022 pts0 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPhersonClaire Hoffman20252 pts0 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyBiography & Public Lives+1
The New York Nobody KnowsWilliam B. Helmreich20130 pts0 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressSociety & CultureHousing, Cities & Urban Life+3
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All awards · Topic: Family Biography · Sorted by score · 91 books · filtered