The StoryGraph’s Genre Challenge 2023 - hosted by thestorygraph

A biography about someone you don't know much about
A biography is an account of somebody's life written by somebody else.
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Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity by Nabeel Qureshi

Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity

Nabeel Qureshi

7 hours, 29 minutes • audio • 2014

nonfiction memoir religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World by Jayne Zanglein

The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World

Jayne Zanglein

416 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White

The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense

Edward White

336 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction art biography informative reflective medium-paced
Tina by Pino Cacucci

Tina

Pino Cacucci

240 pages • 1991

nonfiction art biography emotional reflective sad slow-paced
The Young H. G. Wells: Changing The World by Claire Tomalin

The Young H. G. Wells: Changing The World

Claire Tomalin

272 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction biography history dark reflective slow-paced
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Mary Seacole

256 pages • paperback • 1857

nonfiction classics history travel adventurous informative medium-paced
Rosa Parks: The Woman Who Ignited a Movement by Hourly History

Rosa Parks: The Woman Who Ignited a Movement

Hourly History

45 pages • 2017

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced
We Set the Night on Fire: Igniting the Gay Revolution by Martha Shelley

We Set the Night on Fire: Igniting the Gay Revolution

Martha Shelley

224 pages • hardcover

nonfiction feminism lgbtqia+ memoir informative slow-paced
I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick by Emmanuel Carrère

I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick

Emmanuel Carrère

336 pages • 1993

nonfiction biography adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced
Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West by Benazir Bhutto

Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West

Benazir Bhutto

336 pages • hardcover • 2008

nonfiction biography history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced