New biography books 2014
2013 autobiography...
New biography books 2014
Best Books of Biography!
This, as long-time Stevereads readers (and my long-suffering friends) may know, is the nerve center of my reading, my favorite of the genres in which I roam. More than historical fiction, which Ive actually written (and whose self-published ranks I regularly patrol as the U.S.
Indie Editor for the redoubtable Historical Novel Review), and more than natural history, which brings me such joy, and more even than history itself. As Ive mentioned, I read more new books in than in any previous year of my life, and a whopping percentage of those were biographies in fact, its quite possible that I read nearly every major mainstream biography published in , and this despite an ominous trend that showed itself early and kept right on happening throughout the year: as even a glance at the list of winners will show, a great many of the subjects of these books were utterly dreadful people.
So in I had the surreal experience of reading thousa