15 must-read biography books like The Mansions of Limbo by Dominick Dunne

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The Mansions of Limbo

By: Dominick Dunne

3.80

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling author Dominick Dunne, who chronicles the escapades, excesses, and eccentricities of hi…

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1. Ava's Man

By: Rick Bragg

4.26

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All Over but the Shoutin’ continues his personal history of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"They lived, though simply, richly, if rich means a good cup of coffee."

-Rick Bragg, Ava's Man

"But if she was going to live in a damn jungle, she preferred it be a damn jungle in Georgia, she always said, and never saw any reason to elaborate on that."

-Rick Bragg, Ava's Man

"Like most men, Jimmy Jim was neither all good nor all bad. It is just that when he was bad, gentler people saw in him a disturbing fury. People, a lot them, don't understand fury. They understand ang…"

-Rick Bragg, Ava's Man

"It is true that almost everyone in the foothills farmed and hunted, so there were no breadlines, no men holding signs that begged for work and food, no children going door to door, as they did in Atl…"

-Rick Bragg, Ava's Man

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2. Girl in Hyacinth Blue

By: Susan Vreeland

3.74

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

A professor invites a colleague from the art department to his home to view a painting he has kept … read more

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"Work is love made plain, whether man’s work or woman’s work."

-Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue

"I came to see that knowing what love isn't might be just as valuable, though infinitely less satisfying, as knowing what it is."

-Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue

"No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work."

-Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue

"The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower, a circumstance that propelled us into an earlier intimacy than what we would have known had we bee…"

-Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue

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3. Summer People

By: Elin Hilderbrand

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Every summer the Newton family retreats to their beloved home on Nantucket for three months of suns… read more

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4. Promised Land (Spenser, #4)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Boston PI gets tangled in Cape Cod’s criminal underworld in this Edgar Award–winning mystery fr… read more

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  • crime
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5. Confessions of an Art Addict

By: Gore Vidal , Peggy Guggenheim

3.75

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A patron of art since the 1930s, Peggy Guggenheim, in a candid self-portrait, provides an insider's… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

6. Answered Prayers - The Unfinished Novel

By: Truman Capote

4.31

Format: 517 pages, Paperback

Although Truman Capote's last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions… read more

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7. The Swans of Fifth Avenue

By: Melanie Benjamin

1.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife comes an enthralling new novel abo… read more

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8. Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune

By: Bill Dedman , Paul Clark Newell Jr.

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupie… read more

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9. Blessing of the Lost Girls (Joanna Brady #20; Walker Family #6)

By: J.A. Jance

4.19

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Returning to her southwest roots, New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance presents a riveting… read more

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  • crime
Cover of You Never Know: A Memoir by Tom Selleck

10. You Never Know: A Memoir

By: Tom Selleck

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern Ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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11. The Beautiful People

By: Michelle Gable

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Set against the glamorous 1960s Jet Set, a novel about a failed debutante whose new job as assistan… read more

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12. An American Beauty

By: Shana Abe

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This sweeping novel of historical fiction is inspired by the true rags-to-riches story of Arabella … read more

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13. The Social Graces

By: Renée Rosen

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The author of Park Avenue Summer throws back the curtain on one of the most remarkable feuds in his… read more

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14. The Beautiful Ones

By: Prince

3.78

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the gre… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Still, my soul is cast iron and not to be dented."

-Prince, The Beautiful Ones

"A lot of people have the idea that I'm a wild sexual person...I've lectured quite a few people out there. I'll say, 'Think about what you're saying. How would you react if you were me?' I ask that qu…"

-Prince, The Beautiful Ones

Cover of Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer

15. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

By: Laurence Leamer

3.83

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scan… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo

16. Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

By: Roseanne Montillo

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Exploring the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
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17. Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt

By: Todd Harra

3.73

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

When the casket reached the front of the sanctuary, there was a loud cracking sound as the bottom f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • essays
Cover of The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy

18. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont

By: Shawn Levy

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Since 1929, Hollywood’s brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
Cover of The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne

19. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Cover of Such Good Friends: A Novel of Truman Capote & Lee Radziwill by Stephen Greco

20. Such Good Friends: A Novel of Truman Capote & Lee Radziwill

By: Stephen Greco

3.71

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

“Fans of Capote and the era of Camelot should be delighted.” —Shana Abé, New York Times bestsellin… read more

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Cover of The Mansions of Limbo by Dominick Dunne

21. The Mansions of Limbo

By: Dominick Dunne

3.80

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling author Dominick Dunne, who chronicles the escapades, excesses, and eccentricities of hi… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • crime
Cover of Palm Beach Babylon: The Sinful History of America's Super-Rich Paradise by Murray Weiss

22. Palm Beach Babylon: The Sinful History of America's Super-Rich Paradise

By: Murray Weiss

3.96

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

The New York Times' critically acclaimed book on the history and scandal of America's tropical para… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Too Rich: The Family Secrets of Doris Duke by Jason Thomas

23. Too Rich: The Family Secrets of Doris Duke

By: Jason Thomas

3.89

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

Too The Family Secrets of Doris Duke offers a fascinating and honest inside portrait of a woman wh… read more

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  • biography
  • nonfiction
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24. The Plaza: The Secret Life of America's Most Famous Hotel

By: Julie Satow

3.79

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Journalist Julie Satow's thrilling, unforgettable history of how one illustrious hotel has defined … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Get Mahoney!: A Hollywood Insider's Memoir by Jim Mahoney

25. Get Mahoney!: A Hollywood Insider's Memoir

By: Jim Mahoney

4.41

Format: 549 pages, Kindle Edition

It's not easy being in the public eye. There's always someone watching, waiting for you to mess up.… read more

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Cover of Drowning Sorrows: A True Story of Love, Passion and Betrayal by Howard Johns

26. Drowning Sorrows: A True Story of Love, Passion and Betrayal

By: Howard Johns

3.80

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

William Holden and Natalie Wood were two of Hollywood's most beloved stars — until they died under … read more

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27. Dilettante: True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster

By: Dana Brown

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Dana Brown was a twenty-one-year-old college dropout playing in punk bands and partying his way thr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It by Sharrie Williams

28. The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It

By: Sharrie Williams

4.17

Format: 467 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1915, when a kitchen stove fire singed his sister Mabel’s lashes and brows, Tom Lyle Williams wa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

29. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
Cover of Growing Up Getty: The Story of America's Most Unconventional Dynasty by James Reginato

30. Growing Up Getty: The Story of America's Most Unconventional Dynasty

By: James Reginato

3.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling and comprehensive look into the contemporary state of one of the wealthiest—and most… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Butler Wore Guccis: Cover Illustration by Kathryn Rathke by Thomas Gardner

31. The Butler Wore Guccis: Cover Illustration by Kathryn Rathke

By: Thomas Gardner

4.11

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

The purpose of this work The Butler Wore Guccis is to share with you the unique events that I, a mi… read more

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Transform Your Habits

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Rick Bragg

4.26

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3.75

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4.05

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