Finding Freedom
Omid Scobie, Carolyn Durand
2020 · 2021 edition
368 pages
The most popular biography books of 2020
A biography is the story of a real life, told by someone else. The best are built on letters, interviews and years in the archives, and they show you the person behind the public name. Their subjects are leaders, artists, scientists, athletes and figures history nearly forgot. This list shows the ones first published in 2020.
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The Biggest Bluff How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Maria Konnikova
2020 · 2021 edition
370 pages
Everything Beautiful in Its Time Seasons of Love and Loss
Jenna Bush Hager
2020 · 2022 edition
240 pages
Here for it Or, how to Save Your Soul in America
R. Eric Thomas
Published 2020
264 pages
Beyond the Gender Binary
Alok Vaid-Menon
Published 2020
64 pages
Frontier Follies Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere
Ree Drummond
2020 · 2022 edition
352 pages
Dragon Hoops
Gene Luen Yang, Lark Pien, Rianne Meyers
2020 · 2025 edition
448 pages
You Can't Be Serious
Kal Penn
2020 · 2021 edition
384 pages
Being Heumann An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
Judith Heumann, Kristin Joiner
2020 · 2021 edition
240 pages
The House of Kennedy
James Patterson
2020 · 2021 edition
448 pages
The Last Days of John Lennon
James Patterson
2020 · 2021 edition
400 pages
Dirt Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French cooking
Bill Buford
2020 · 2021 edition
432 pages
I Have Something to Tell You
Chasten Glezman Buttigieg
Published 2020
256 pages
Funny Weather Art in an Emergency
Olivia Laing
2020 · 2021 edition
352 pages
The Chiffon Trenches
André Leon Talley
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
A Ghost in the Throat
Doireann Ní Ghríofa
2020 · 2021 edition
326 pages
Sitting Pretty The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Rebekah Taussig
2020 · 2021 edition
256 pages
Strongmen
Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Published 2020
384 pages
The Black Friend
Frederick Joseph
2020 · 2021 edition
272 pages
Hill Women Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains
Cassie Chambers
Published 2020
279 pages
The New One
Mike Birbiglia, J. Hope Stein
Published 2020
256 pages
I Am an Island
Tamsin Calidas
Published 2020
304 pages
All the Young Men A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South
Ruth Coker Burks, Kevin Carr O'Leary
Published 2020
355 pages
The White Ship
Charles Spencer
Published 2020
366 pages