The Upside of Being Down
Jen Gotch
Published 2020
288 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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Dancing in the Mosque An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son
Homeira Qaderi
Published 2020
212 pages
Three-Ring Circus Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty
Jeff Pearlman
2020 · 2021 edition
448 pages
What We Carry A Memoir
Maya Shanbhag Lang
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
Enemy Of All Mankind
Steven Johnson
Published 2020
320 pages
Red Comet
Heather L. Clark
Published 2020
1118 pages
God-Level Knowledge Darts
Desus, Mero
2020 · 2021 edition
224 pages
Stranger in the Shogun's City
Amy Stanley
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
It Was All a Lie How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump
Stuart Stevens
2020 · 2021 edition
256 pages
Once I Was You A Memoir
Maria Hinojosa
2020 · 2021 edition
368 pages
Our Malady Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary
Timothy Snyder
Published 2020
192 pages
This is what America Looks Like My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman
Ilhan Omar
Published 2020
275 pages
Overground Railroad
Candacy A. Taylor
2020 · 2026 edition
360 pages
There I Am
Ruthie Lindsey
Published 2020
288 pages
Ginseng Roots
Craig Thompson
2020 · 2025 edition
448 pages
The Price of Peace Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Zachary D. Carter
2020 · 2021 edition
656 pages
Above the Clouds
Kilian Jornet, Charlotte Whittle
2020 · 2021 edition
256 pages
Un-Trumping America A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again
Dan Pfeiffer
2020 · 2021 edition
304 pages
The Dynasty
Jeff Benedict
2020 · 2021 edition
592 pages
After the Last Border
Jessica Goudeau
2020 · 2021 edition
368 pages
Hope, Grace & Faith
Leah Messer
2020 · 2030 edition
176 pages
What Would Frida Do?
Arianna Davis
Published 2020
256 pages
First Principles
Thomas E. Ricks
Published 2020
416 pages
Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust
Loretta Lynn, Patsy Lynn Russell, Dolly Parton
Published 2020
240 pages