Biography is published in numbered series more often than most readers expect, and those series are a reliable way to browse a life in order.
Series in Reading Order
- Who Was/Is...? by Penguin Workshop — 10 books · 2002–2003
Illustrated biography series for young readers. - Little People, BIG DREAMS by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Picture-book biography series, begun 2014. - Penguin Lives by Various
Short-form biography series from Penguin. - Very Short Introductions by Oxford University Press
Subject-by-subject introduction series. - DK Biography by DK
Illustrated biography series for schools. - A Very Short, Fairly Interesting... by SAGE
Short-form series on business and social subjects.
How to read these series
Numbered entries follow the order the books were published, which is the order the story was written and the safest order for a first read. Where a series has side novels or novellas, reading them in publication order avoids spoilers from later books.
Where the numbers come from
Book counts and publication years on this page are taken from the series entries in the GoBookSeries index. Each title links to the full book list for that series.
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