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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God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments by Hannah Brown

God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments

Hannah Brown

8 hours, 38 minutes • audio • 2021

nonfiction memoir inspiring reflective medium-paced
Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch by Sally Bedell Smith

Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

Sally Bedell Smith

21 hours, 27 minutes • audio • 2012 user-added

nonfiction biography history emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Simona. Opowieść o niezwyczajnym życiu Simony Kossak by Anna Kamińska

Simona. Opowieść o niezwyczajnym życiu Simony Kossak

Anna Kamińska

332 pages • hardcover • 2015

nonfiction biography nature informative slow-paced
The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery by Elaine McArdle, Barbara K. Lipska

The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery

Elaine McArdle, Barbara K. Lipska

208 pages • hardcover • 2018

nonfiction memoir psychology science emotional fast-paced
A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment by John Preston

A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment

John Preston

352 pages • paperback • 2016

nonfiction history politics true crime informative fast-paced
Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of The Secret Garden

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

359 pages • 2004

nonfiction biography reference informative slow-paced
The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television by Koren Shadmi

The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television

Koren Shadmi

168 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction biography comics emotional reflective fast-paced
Erlebte Geschichte: Erinnerungen an die Kriegs- und Nachkriegszeit 1939-1956 by Dieter Rösel

Erlebte Geschichte: Erinnerungen an die Kriegs- und Nachkriegszeit 1939-1956

Dieter Rösel

140 pages • paperback

nonfiction historical
The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store by Cait Flanders

The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store

Cait Flanders

189 pages • digital • 2018

nonfiction memoir self help informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenberg

I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

Jami Attenberg

272 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced