Any suggestions? I’m looking for a really good biography to read this weekend.
Hi everyone! I’m looking for a really good biography to read this weekend. Any suggestions?
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Hi everyone! I’m looking for a really good biography to read this weekend. Any suggestions?
Julia Child’s My Life in France. So sweet the love she had for her husband.
Agatha C hristie’s autobiography is brilliant
Beryl Markham, West With the Night, or the fictionalized account, Circling the Sun by Paula McLain!
Just looked her up.What an interesting woman! Can’t wait to read these!
I enjoyed Circling the Sun.
I loved the Frida Kahlo biography that the movie was based on! Also Uncle Tungsten by Oliver Sacks! I’ve bought the memoirs he wrote just before his death, but haven’t read them yet–maybe this weekend is the time to remove them from my TBR stack! Thanks for the inspiration
Just looked up Oliver sacks i might have to start with the man who mistook his wife for a hat ?
That’s a great book too! I love his medical essays! My favorites are that one, Musicophilia, Mind’s Eye, and strangely Oaxaca Journal! Only a very gifted writer could keep me that interested in ferns!
The boy who harnessed the wind
Miles Davis’ autobiography is AMAZING. I mean, the guy was a total asshole, but his stories are incredible and the ease with which he jumps from some petty gripe to deep musical theory is head-spinning.
Alan Cumming’s Not My Father’s Son.
Eric by Eric Clapton.
Malcolm X
Mary Lovell’s Book The Churchills: In Love and War was fascinating and not particularly heavy.
Winston and Clementine
King Peggy by Peggielene Bartels
Oh, this is good. I frequently wonder what she’s up to
Me too! You can watch interviews with her on YouTube.
Rob Lowe has 2: stories i tell my friends and forgot the name of the second one.
Groucho and Me, Harpo Speaks
Walking with the wind by John Lewis about civil rights movement!
Uncommon Knowledge by Judy Lewis
Rosemary Kennedy
Both autobiographies but I recommend “Lucky Man” (Michael J. Fox) and “Does The Noise In My Head Bother You” (Steven Tyler) off the top of my head.
If you’re interested in women of long ago, I loved A Schoolteacher in Old Alaska, and I’ll Gather My Geese.
My Mother and Amelia Earhart by Jane Blue
Kindle Edition is $ .99
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Ugly by Robert Hoge
You could tackle Hamilton by Ron Chernow, but it might take more than one weekend. 🙂
Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand
I am malala
I forgot about that one she is a remarkable woman!
All Over But The Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg
Catherine the Great by Massie.
Catherine of Aragon by Amy Licence
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Ted Turners. Listen to it, he narrTes/reads it. It was so good he is amazing
John Adams,Zelda, any of the Roosevelts,Agatha Christie, Antonia Frasier’s Msry Queen of Scots.
Personal History, by Katharine Graham.
Lust for Life. Van Gogh s life.
Brothers: John Foster and Allen Dulles by Kinzer. Everyone I know who has read this book has been thrilled and PO’d. These were a couple of not-very-nice guys. I am re-reading it right now and going to bed angry.
Isacc Asimov
Zelda
Wild by Cheryl Strayed or Destiny of the Republic (about President Garfield)
I loved ‘a lotus grows in mud’ by Goldie Hawn
Have just downloaded Bryan Cranston’s biography for 99p on Amazon. Not Started yet but looks really good. Another one I recently enjoyed was Spaceman by Mike Massimino.
a little late but if you like James Brown and his music then Kill Em and Leave by James McBride was one of the best music bios I have read.
Scar Tissue by Anthony Keidis.