Best Biographies
Best Biographies List is a structured books dataset with 148 entries. Its fields include Name, Title, Author. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.
The page shows a 40-row preview for fast browsing. The complete dataset is available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- 40-row preview of 148
- Fields
- 6 columns
- Source
- Open Library
- Data updated
- Feb 21, 2026
Included fields: Name, Title, Author, First Published, Subjects, and 2 more.
Sorting and filtering apply to the 40 loaded preview rows. CSV, JSON, and Excel downloads contain all 148 records.
Preview observations
- First Published range
- 1,200 to 1,923
- Across 40 preview rows
- Editions range
- 449 to 6,084
- Across 40 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Name, Title, and Author across books entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 148 downloadable records
Name↕ | Title↕ | Author↕ | First Published↕ | Subjects↕ | Editions↕ | Languages↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bible | Bible | Bible | 1200 | Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern), Glossaries, vocabularies, Early works to 1800, Bible | 6,084 | ukr, jpn, aym |
Gulliver's Travels | Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan Swift | 1726 | YA, Young adult, Juvenile, Fiction | 1,810 | arm, jpn, por |
Don Quijote de la Mancha | Don Quijote de la Mancha | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | 1600 | Don Quixote (Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de), Quotations, Knights and knighthood, Social life and customs | 1,591 | jpn, ori, alb |
The Prince | The Prince | Niccolò Machiavelli | 1515 | Political science, early works to 1800, Machiavel, Nicolas, 1469-1527. Prince, Classic Literature, Fiction | 1,407 | jpn, por, spa |
La Divina Commedia | La Divina Commedia | Dante Alighieri | 1472 | Poetry (poetic works by one author), Literatura, Portraits, Paradise | 1,337 | arm, jpn, por |
Анна Каренина | Анна Каренина | Лев Толстой | 1876 | Fiction, Adultery, Married women, Social life and customs | 1,314 | arm, jpn, por |
Anne of Green Gables | Anne of Green Gables | Lucy Maud Montgomery | 1908 | Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Country life, Friendship | 1,299 | pol, spa, jpn |
Julius Caesar | Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | 1656 | Antoine (Marcus Antonius), Assassination, Assassins, Bibliography | 1,226 | jpn, alb, por |
Walden | Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 1854 | Biography, Homes and haunts, American Authors, Social life and customs | 1,138 | eng, fre, chi |
Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass | Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass | Frederick Douglass | 1845 | Douglass, frederick, 1818-1895, Biography, African American abolitionists, Abolitionists | 1,032 | eng, spa, und |
Twelve years a slave | Twelve years a slave | Solomon Northup | 1853 | Slavery, Plantation life, History, Biography | 1,029 | heb, spa, tur |
Dubliners | Dubliners | James Joyce | 1914 | Daily Express, West Briton, Three Graces, The Lass of Aughrim | 996 | heb, spa, rus |
Captains Courageous | Captains Courageous | Rudyard Kipling | 1896 | Teenage boys, Fishers, Fiction, Interpersonal relations | 990 | heb, spa, und |
My Ántonia | My Ántonia | Willa Cather | 1818 | Literature, Frontier and pioneer life, Czech Americans, Married women | 832 | eng, heb, ita |
Troilus and Cressida | Troilus and Cressida | William Shakespeare | 1609 | Drama, Troilus (Legendary character), Cressida (Fictitious character), Trojan War | 759 | pol, heb, spa |
Leaves of Grass | Leaves of Grass | Walt Whitman | 1855 | Manuscripts, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Gay poets, Presidents | 755 | pol, heb, spa |
The Princess and the Goblin | The Princess and the Goblin | George MacDonald | 1872 | Classic Literature, Fantasy, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction | 750 | eng, chi, ger |
The Canterbury Tales | The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham | 1478 | Death, English Narrative poetry, Juvenile poetry, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature | 722 | est, enm, rus |
The Pilgrim's Progress | The Pilgrim's Progress | John Bunyan | 1678 | Bibliography, Readers, Fiction, Spiritual life | 683 | epo, paa, ger |
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | 1791 | Wills, Scientists, Printers, American Maxims | 679 | jpn, ger, fre |
Sonnets | Sonnets | William Shakespeare | 1609 | English Sonnets, History and criticism, Bibliography, Translations into Yiddish | 646 | arm, por, kor |
Meditations | Meditations | Marcus Aurelius | 1626 | Early works to 1800, Philosophy, Stoics, Classic Literature | 642 | arm, spa, cze |
King Henry V | King Henry V | William Shakespeare | 1600 | Drama, open_syllabus_project, History, Sources | 631 | spa, und, ger |
The Second Jungle Book | The Second Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | 1887 | Romans, Enfants sauvages, Jungles, Faune de la jungle | 611 | fre, eng, rus |
The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus | The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus | L. Frank Baum | 1902 | Fantasy, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy | 560 | eng, fre |
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | Anne Brontë | 1847 | Fiction, Married women, Landlord and tenant, Alcoholics | 558 | spa, und, ger |
Ab urbe condita | Ab urbe condita | Titus Livius | 1481 | Antiquities, Bibliography, Biography, Campaigns | 558 | pol, heb, spa |
Orthodoxy | Orthodoxy | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | 1874 | Apologetics, Christianity, History, Essence, genius, nature | 551 | eng, ger, pol |
Heretics | Heretics | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | 1905 | Criticism, English Authors, English essays, Essays | 551 | pol, spa, cze |
Saint Francis of Assisi | Saint Francis of Assisi | Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Doyle Kim | 1923 | Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality | 547 | eng, ger, spa |
The Jungle Book | The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling | 1893 | Jungles, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Animals | 538 | spa, rus, ger |
My bondage and my freedom | My bondage and my freedom | Frederick Douglass | 1815 | Douglass, frederick, 1818-1895, Maryland, history, Abolitionists, Antislavery movements, united states | 509 | ger, eng |
At the Back of the North Wind | At the Back of the North Wind | George MacDonald | 1871 | Fairy tales, Children's fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Death, fiction | 496 | rus, und, tur |
Metamorphoses | Metamorphoses | Ovid | 1479 | Poetry, Classical Mythology, Metamorphosis, Mythology | 491 | por, dan, frm |
Lilith | Lilith | George MacDonald | 1895 | Fiction, romance, fantasy, Fiction, general, Non-Classifiable, Nonfiction - General | 480 | ita, eng, ger |
A history of New York | A history of New York | Washington Irving | 1800 | Dutch Americans, Social life and customs, Literature, Fiction | 472 | ger, eng, fre |
The man who would be king | The man who would be king | Rudyard Kipling | 1898 | Fiction, Kings and rulers, British, Afghanistan, fiction | 460 | ita, eng, fre |
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei | Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei | Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels | 1848 | Communism, Sources, Capitalism, Socialism | 458 | arm, por, dan |
Quo Vadis? Powieść z czasów Nerona | Quo Vadis? Powieść z czasów Nerona | Henryk Sienkiewicz | 1895 | Fiction, History, Church history, Primitive and early church | 453 | pol, arm, spa |
Confessions | Confessions | Augustine of Hippo | 1482 | Religious aspects of Truth, Christian saints, Christianity, Spiritual life | 449 | heb, spa, rus |
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