Most Popular Biography Books

Explore the most popular Biography books across decades, with reader ratings and discoveries from Risingshadow.

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J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography

Humphrey Carpenter

Biography · Non-fiction

1977

J. K. Rowling: A Biography

Sean Smith

Biography · Non-fiction

1999

I, Robert

Robert Rankin

Biography · Non-fiction

2015

Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes: The Official Biography

Rob Wilkins

Biography · Hugo Award · Non-fiction

September 29, 2022

Book of Lives

Margaret Atwood

Biography · Non-fiction

November 4, 2025

The Way the Future Was: A Memoir

Frederik Pohl

Biography · Non-fiction

1978

Mary Shelley

Muriel Spark

Biography · Non-fiction

April 2013

Poe: A Life Cut Short

Peter Ackroyd

Biography · Non-fiction

February 7, 2008

Modern Masters of Science Fiction

Iain M. Banks

Paul Kincaid

Biography · Non-fiction

May 12, 2017

Positive Obsession

Susana M. Morris

Biography · Non-fiction

August 19, 2025

Making It So

Patrick Stewart

Biography · Non-fiction

October 3, 2023

Monster, She Wrote

Lisa Kröger, Melanie R. Anderson

Horror · Biography · Weird Fiction · Non-fiction

September 17, 2019

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Ruth Franklin

Biography · Non-fiction

September 2016