Careless People
Sarah Wynn-Williams
Published 2025
400 pages
The most popular biography books of 2025
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 2025.
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Paper Girl
Beth Macy
Published 2025
368 pages
John & Paul A Love Story in Songs
Ian Leslie
Published 2025
448 pages
Accidentally on Purpose
Kristen Kish, Stef Ferrari
Published 2025
352 pages
When the Going Was Good
Graydon Carter
Published 2025
432 pages
Death in the Jungle
Candace Fleming
Published 2025
356 pages
Pathemata, Or, The Story of My Mouth
Maggie Nelson
2025 · 2026 edition
80 pages
Autopsy of an Ex-Teen Heartthrob
Avan Jogia
Published 2025
240 pages
The Novel Life of Jane Austen
Janine Barchas
Published 2025
144 pages
Do Not Cry When I Die A Holocaust Memoir of a Mother and Daughter's Survival In Jewish Ghettos, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen
Renee Salt, Kate Thompson
Published 2025
272 pages
My Perfectly Imperfect Body
Debbie Tung
Published 2025
208 pages
Remember Us
Robert M. Edsel
Published 2025
528 pages
She's Under Here
Karen Palmer
Published 2025
256 pages
Perfect Is Boring (And It Tastes Like Kale)
Jess Johnston
Published 2025
192 pages
How to End a Story
Helen Garner
Published 2025
832 pages
Bird School
Adam Nicolson
Published 2025
448 pages
J.R.R. Tolkien
Don Marshall
Published 2025
240 pages
Being Carlos Alcaraz
Mark Hodgkinson
2025 · 2026 edition
304 pages
Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love
Lida Maxwell
Published 2025
176 pages
The Many Lives of Ibrahim Nagui
Samia Mehrez
Published 2025
252 pages
Blitz
Robert Elms
Published 2025
304 pages
No One Taught Me How to Be a Man
Shannon T. L. Kearns
Published 2025
224 pages
How to Defeat the Far Right
Nick Lowles
2025 · 2026 edition
320 pages
The Many Faces of Anne Boleyn
Helene Harrison
Published 2025
260 pages