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Biography
Biography -  an account of someone's life written by someone else. Read a biography.
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African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan by Geoffrey Girard, Thomas Lockley

African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan

Geoffrey Girard, Thomas Lockley

nonfiction biography historical history adventurous slow-paced

missing duration info

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave by Zora Neale Hurston

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

Zora Neale Hurston

nonfiction biography history race emotional informative reflective slow-paced

208 pages | first published 2018

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

Blaine Harden

nonfiction biography history dark emotional medium-paced

224 pages | first published 2012

Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin

Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out

Susan Kuklin

nonfiction biography gender lgbtqia+ emotional informative reflective medium-paced

182 pages | first published 2014

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

nonfiction biography history science emotional informative medium-paced

381 pages | first published 2010

Eine Frau by Annie Ernaux

Eine Frau

Annie Ernaux with Sonja Finck (Translator)

nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced

88 pages | first published 1988

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women

Kate Moore

nonfiction biography history science emotional slow-paced

485 pages | first published 2016

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird

nonfiction biography history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

26 hours, 30 minutes | first published 2005

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

Jack Weatherford

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced

missing duration info | first published 2004

The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History by Joseph M. Marshall

The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History

Joseph M. Marshall

nonfiction autobiography biography history adventurous reflective medium-paced

336 pages | first published 2004