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24 books recommended for fans of Classic Biography Casanova by John Masters, tied together by themes of Biography & Autobiography.

Biography & Autobiography

Top related books to Classic Biography Casanova

A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

Dirt Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking

Bill Buford

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Letter to the Father/Brief an den Vater Bilingual Edition

Franz Kafka

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Lessons in Liberty Thirty Rules for Living from Ten Extraordinary Americans

Jeremy S. Adams

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Maria Callas The Woman Behind the Legend

Arianna Huffington

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Personal Memoirs

Ulysses S. Grant

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

All the Moves I Had A Football Life

Raymond Berry

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Capote’s Women A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

Laurence Leamer

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Only in America Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer

Richard Bernstein

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Making It So A Memoir

Patrick Stewart

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#10

Raphael, Painter in Rome A Novel

Stephanie Storey

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#11

Blood and Treasure Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier

Bob Drury

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#12

H is for Hawk

Helen Macdonald

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#13

Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#14

Gone A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

Min Kym

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#15

Washington’s Immortals The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment who Changed the Course of the Revolution — Patrick K. O’Donnell

Patrick K. O'Donnell

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#16

1967 How I Got There and why I Never Left

Robyn Hitchcock

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#17

Believing Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence

Anita Hill

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#18

Mommie Dearest

Christina Crawford

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#19

Crazy Horse A Life

Larry McMurtry

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#20

Up From Slavery

Booker T. Washington

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#21

Dispatches

Michael Herr

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#22

Journey of a Lawman

Robert Sobba

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#23

Juror Number 2 The Story of a Murder, the Agony of a Neighborhood

Efrem Sigel

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#24

Hidden History of Maine

Harry Gratwick

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Biography & Autobiography — the same threads that run through Classic Biography Casanova by John Masters. Among the authors featured: Bill Buford, Franz Kafka, Jeremy S. Adams, Arianna Huffington, and others.