17 Best biography books like Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows by Isabel Vincent

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Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows

By: Isabel Vincent

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Isabel Vincent has written a riveting account of the life of the international socialite and billi…

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Cover of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks

1. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

By: Oliver Sacks

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

In his most extraordinary book, "one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century" (The N… read more

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  • nonfiction

2. The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal

By: Ben Mezrich

3.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The high-energy tale of how two socially awkward Ivy Leaguers, trying to increase their chances wit… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of A Summer Affair (Nantucket, #1) by Elin Hilderbrand

3. A Summer Affair (Nantucket, #1)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

3.60

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Claire Danner Crispin, mother of four young children and nationally renowned glassblower, bites off… read more

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"Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught."

-Elin Hilderbrand, A Summer Affair (Nantucket, #1)

"All her life, Claire had had a problem figuring out where other people ended and she began. All her life, she’d taken on the world’s hurt; she held herself responsible. But why?"

-Elin Hilderbrand, A Summer Affair (Nantucket, #1)

Cover of Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach by Meryl Gordon

4. Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach

By: Meryl Gordon

3.70

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look behind the gates of the house of Astor as a famous family falls apart in public The… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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5. The End of the Affair

By: Graham Greene , Monica Ali

3.90

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look… read more

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"As long as one suffers one lives."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

"I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend."

-Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

6. A Season in Purgatory

By: Dominick Dunne

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

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7. Too Much Money

By: Dominick Dunne

4.09

Format: 256 pages,

My name is Gus Bailey...It should be pointed out that it is a regular feature of my life that peopl… read more

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8. Elon Musk

By: Walter Isaacson

4.40

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"[Musk] concluded that Trump as president was no different than he was as a candidate. The buffoonery was not just an act. "Trump might be one of the world’s best bullshitters ever," he says. "Like my…"

-Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk

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9. The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

By: Tina Brown

4.03

Format: 571 pages, Hardcover

The gripping inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"What Diana’s younger son was thinking only he can tell us, and doubtless will."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Dacre's staff referred to his morning editorial meetings as the “Vagina Monologues,"

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Until he lost his hair, Prince William was probably the biggest heartthrob to be heir to the throne since the pre-obese Henry VIII."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Philip had to apologize in 1999 after a walkabout at an Edinburgh electronics factory when he commented that a fuse box bursting with wires looked “as if it was put in by an Indian."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

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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
Cover of The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen

11. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

By: Jonathan Rosen

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

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12. Stone Cold Fox

By: Rachel Koller Croft

3.67

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

A compelling debut novel about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mo… read more

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13. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Cover of The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

14. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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15. The Meaning of Malice: On the Trail of the Black Widow of Highland Park

By: John Leake

3.99

Format: 418 pages, Kindle Edition

Sandra Bridewell was a beautiful socialite in the affluent Dallas suburb of Highland Park in 1978-8… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Jackie and Maria: A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas by Gill Paul

16. Jackie and Maria: A Novel of Jackie Kennedy & Maria Callas

By: Gill Paul

4.15

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From the internationally bestselling author of The Secret Wife comes a tale of love, sacrifice and … read more

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Cover of Jackie: Public, Private, Secret by J. Randy Taraborrelli

17. Jackie: Public, Private, Secret

By: J. Randy Taraborrelli

4.17

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startling loo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself by Crystal Hefner

18. Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

By: Crystal Hefner

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman’s st… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port by Kate Storey

19. White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis Port

By: Kate Storey

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Impeccably researched…captivating!” —Elin Hilderbrand * “A well-paced history.” — The New York Tim… read more

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

20. 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

21. 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
  • biography
Cover of Wives Like Us by Plum Sykes

22. Wives Like Us

By: Plum Sykes

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcee, three rich wives, two tyco… read more

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Cover of At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, a Wife's Murder, and a Ten-Year War for Justice by Rebecca  Rosenberg

23. At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, a Wife's Murder, and a Ten-Year War for Justice

By: Rebecca Rosenberg

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

At Any Cost unravels the twisted story of Rod Covlin, whose unrepentant greed drove him to an unspe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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24. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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25. The Social Climber

By: Amanda Pellegrino

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When you’re on top, you can get away with anything... It’s the week before her wedding, and all … read more

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26. Meghan and Harry: The Real Story

By: Lady Colin Campbell

3.69

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

The fall from popular grace of Prince Harry, the previously adulated brother of the heir to the Bri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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27. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

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"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

28. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

29. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows

By: Isabel Vincent

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Isabel Vincent has written a riveting account of the life of the international socialite and billi… read more

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Cover of Empress Bianca by Lady Colin Campbell

31. Empress Bianca

By: Lady Colin Campbell

3.89

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

Empress Bianca is a window into the lives of the wealthiest people in the world. It chronicles the … read more

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Ben Mezrich

3.17

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Meryl Gordon

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Griffin Dunne

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