Book length or pamphlet length (10,000 words+) or otherwise notable biographies of the life of and works about the founder of the Anarchist movement Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) with considerable reference to his politics in chronological order. No works by Bakunin except in edited collections or extracts. For works by Bakunin see https://libcom.org/library/works-mikhail-bakunin-reading-guide
Bakunin (1937) E. H. Carr
(Academic - Historian of the Soviet Union)
http://libcom.org/library/michael-bakunin-e-h-carr
Hostile biography
Bakunin (1940) Guy Aldred
(Anarchist)
https://libcom.org/library/bakunin-guy-aldred
The political philosophy of Bakunin (1953) G. P. Maximoff
(Anarchist and syndicalist)
http://libcom.org/library/political-philosophy-bakunin-scientific-anarchism-gp-maximoff
By Gregori Maximoff, mentor of Sam Dolgoff with chapters by Max Nettlau and Rudolf Rocker. Reprinted 1964
The legacy of Bakunin (1970) Paul Avrich
(Anarchist)
http://libcom.org/history/paul-avrich-legacy-bakunin
Bakunin: Father of Anarchism (1974) Anthony Masters
(Author and biographer)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14868360W/Bakunin_the_father_of_anarchism
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_rjaAAAAMAAJ
The collaboration of Necaev, Ogarev and Bakunin in 1869 (1977) Stephen T. Cochrane
(Anarchist)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6462506W/The_collaboration_of_Necaev_Ogarev_and_Bakunin_in_1869
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kZ0JAQAAIAAJ
The Social and Political Thought of Bakunin (1983) Richard B. Saltman
(Academic)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4123912W/The_social_and_political_thought_of_Michael_Bakunin
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pLnaAAAAMAAJ
Bakunin and the Italians (1988) T. R. Ravindranathan
(Academic)
Thesis
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4853728W/Bakunin_and_the_Italians
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dgTFQgAACAAJ
Demanding the Impossible - Chapter 18: Michael Bakunin: The Fanatic of Freedom (1992) Peter Marshall
(Author)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL693881W/Demanding_the_Impossible
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QDWIOL_KtGYC
Mikhail Bakunin: The philosophy of freedom (1993) Brian Morris
(Anarchist)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8915097W/Bakunin
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Bakunin.html?id=GJXy5eCpPawC
Mikhail Bakunin: The philosophical basis of his Anarchism (2002) Paul McLaughlin
(Academic)
http://libcom.org/library/mikhail-bakunin-philosophical-basis-his-anarchism-paul-mclaughlin
Bakunin: The Creative Passion (2010) Mark Leier
(Anarchist academic)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL9281391W/Bakunin
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vSp6NmJvTswC
The first socialist schism (2016) Wolfgang Eckhardt
(Anarchist)
http://libcom.org/history/first-socialist-schism-bakunin-vs-marx-international-working-mens-association-wolfgang-e
Reflections on Prophecy (2017) Marc B. Young
(Anarchist)
http://libcom.org/library/reflections-prophecy-critical-appreciation-michael-bakunins-thought
Bakunin (2017) Miguel Amoros
(Spanish anarchist historian and militant, who was born in Alcoy, Alicante, in 1949)
http://libcom.org/library/bakunin-miguel-amor-s
French
Bakunin (2000) Madelaine Grawitz
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL4191909W/Bakounine
German
The Life of Mikhail Bakunin Vol 1 (1896) Max Nettlau
The Life of Mikhail Bakunin Vol 2 (189?) Max Nettlau
The Life of Mikhail Bakunin Vol 3 (1900) Max Nettlau
3-volume biography of Bakunin
(Anarchist)
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2905194W/Michael_Bakunin
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=kWE9kgAACAAJ
Michael Bakunin. Ein Lebensbild (1913) Georg Steklow
https://libcom.org/library/michael-bakunin-ein-lebensbild-georg-steklow
see also
http://pzacad.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives////////bakunin/Bakuninbiblio.html
Comments
for the literature in German,
for the literature in German, see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Alexandrowitsch_Bakunin#Literatur
http://www.bakunin.de/biograf
http://www.bakunin.de/biografien/index.html
Bakunin and Japan (1978)
Bakunin and Japan (1978) Libero no.5
https://libcom.org/library/bakunin-japan
a bit older, but still
a bit older, but still useful:
Bakunin digital – zu seinem 200. Geburtstag
https://syndikalismus.wordpress.com/2014/05/30/bakunin-digital-zu-seinem-200-geburtstag/