Booklist's Top 10

Though much is mentioned about beach reads or guilty pleasures for summer reading, a lot of readers like to learn even as they relax. If you're one of those people and you enjoy biographies, you should take a look at Booklist's Top 10 Biographies. 

Barack Obama: The Story by David Maraniss
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman by Alice Kessler-Harris
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
John Huston: Courage and Art by Jeffrey Meyers
Just One Catch: A Biography of Joseph Heller by Tracy Daugherty
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett

Once you've made your way through Booklist's suggestions, check out the new biographies page on Goodreads or the books that have a biography tag on LibraryThing.