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- 100 times : a memoir of sexism
- A Ben of all trades : the most inventive boyhood of Benjamin Franklin
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brotherhood betrayed : the man behind the rise and fall of Murder, Inc.
- A child's introduction to African American history : the experiences, people, and events that shaped our country
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A drop of midnight : a memoir
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A puppy for Helen Keller
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A ride to remember : a civil rights story
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A truck full of money
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A voice that could stir an army : Fannie Lou Hamer and the rhetoric of the Black freedom movement
- A world to win : the life and works of Karl Marx
- AOC : Fighter, phenom, change maker
- Aaron Judge
- Aaron Rodgers
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After Emily : two remarkable women and the legacy of America's greatest poet
- After the miracle : the lasting brotherhood of the 1969 Mets
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : a plan for America
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Ali : a life
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost nothing: the 20th century art and life of Józef Czapski
- Aly Raisman
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Sanctuary : Mutiny, Martyrdom, And National Identity In The Age of Revolution
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American princess : the love story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry
- American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And in the Vienna woods the trees remain : the heartbreaking true story of a family torn apart by war
- And in the end : the last days of the Beatles
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Andrew Johnson
- Anne Frank
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Beastie Boys book
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Before they were authors : famous authors as kids
- Ben Hecht : fighting words, moving pictures
- Bethany Hamilton
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Black baseball, 1858-1900 : a comprehensive record of the teams, players, managers, owners and umpires
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Blue sky kingdom : an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas
- Board game builder : Milton Bradley
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Boy oh boy
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- Calder : the conquest of space : the later years : 1940-1976
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Calvin Coolidge
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Cassius X : the transformation of Muhammad Ali
- Chalk : the art and erasure of Cy Twombly
- Champions of women's soccer
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chasing lost time : the life of C.K. Scott Moncrieff : soldier, spy, and translator
- Chester Arthur
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Crayola creators : Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Cubs in the tub : the true story of the Bronx Zoo's first woman zookeeper
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dave Brubeck : a life in time
- David Bowie : a life
- De Gaulle
- DeAndre Hopkins
- Demagogue : the life and long shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diderot and the art of thinking freely
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Donald Trump
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Down along with that devil's bones : a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy
- Down the up staircase : three generations of a Harlem family
- Dragonfly : a daughter's emergence from autism: a practical guide for parents
- Drew Brees
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Edison
- Edvard Munch : an inner life
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth : Renaissance prince
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elizabeth Warren
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan
- Enemy of all mankind : a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt
- Epic athletes: Alex Morgan
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernesto : the untold story of Hemingway in revolutionary Cuba
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Everything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- Extraordinary people : a semi-comprehensive guide to some of the world's most fascinating individuals
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Fay Wray and Robert Riskin : a Hollywood memoir
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fearless Flyer : Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Narnia : the story of C. S. Lewis and his brother
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First dads : parenting and politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
- First ladies of the Republic : Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, and the creation of an iconic American role
- Five days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child
- Flash : the making of Weegee the Famous
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Follow Chester! : a college football team fights racism and makes history
- For small creatures such as we : rituals for finding meaning in our unlikely world
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- Forty autumns : a family's story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franklin Pierce
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Free thinker : Helen Hamilton Gardener's audacious pursuit of equality and the vote
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- From cradle to stage : stories from the mothers who rocked and raised rock stars
- Fryderyk Chopin : a life and times
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- George H.W. Bush
- George Washington : the first president
- Gerald Ford
- Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- Go show the world : a celebration of Indigenous heroes
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golem girl : a memoir
- Good Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey
- Good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Good night stories for rebel girls, 2
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Goya : a portrait of the artist
- Grandma Gatewood hikes the Appalachian trail
- Grant
- Grinnell : America's environmental pioneer and his restless drive to save the West
- Handel in London : the making of a genius
- Harry S. Truman
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- Helen Keller
- Hello neighbor! : the kind and caring world of Mister Rogers
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Herbert Hoover
- Hesse : the wanderer and his shadow
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope
- His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life
- Hit refresh : the quest to rediscover Microsoft's soul and imagine a better future for everyone
- Hitler : a biography
- Hockey strong : stories of sacrifice from inside the NHL
- Holding the line : inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis
- Hollywood double agent : the true tale of Boris Morros, film producer turned cold war spy
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- House of dreams : the life of L. M. Montgomery
- House of glass : the story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family
- How to build a hug : Temple Grandin and her amazing squeeze machine
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- I.W. Colburn : emotion in modern architecture
- Ian McKellen : a biography
- If : the untold story of Kipling's American years
- Immunity : how Elie Metchnikoff changed the course of modern medicine
- In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In her footsteps : where trailblazing women changed the world
- In search of Al Howie
- In the darkroom
- In the days of rain : a daughter, a father, a cult
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Isabella of Castile : Europe's first great queen
- It began with a page : how Gyo Fujikawa drew the way
- It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree
- J. J. Watt
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- JFK : coming of age in the American century, 1917-1956
- James Baldwin : living in fire
- James Buchanan
- James Monroe
- James Wright : a life in poetry
- Jane Austen : writer in the world
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane Goodall : a champion of chimpanzees
- Janis : her life and music
- Jean Cocteau : a life
- Jim Brown : last man standing
- Joan Procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Joel Embiid
- Joey : the story of Joe Biden
- John Aubrey : my own life
- John F. Kennedy the brave
- John Quincy Adams
- John Tyler
- Jonathan Franzen : the comedy of rage
- José Altuve
- Judy and I : my life with Judy Garland
- Katie Ledecky
- Kendrick Lamar : rap titan
- Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights
- Kevin Durant
- Kids who are changing the world
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- Killing Crazy Horse : the merciless Indian wars in America
- Kissinger, v. 1, 1923-1968: the idealist
- Krazy : George Herriman, a life in black and white
- LEGO manufacturers : the Kristiansen family
- Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
- Lady Romeo: : the radical and revolutionary life of Charlotte Cushman, America's first celebrity
- Ladysitting : my year with nana at the end of her century
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- LeBron James
- LeBron James
- Lenin on the train
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Let 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion
- Let your voice be heard : the life and times of Pete Seeger
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Libba : the magnificent musical life of Elizabeth Cotten
- Library on wheels : Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's first bookmobile
- Life undercover : coming of age in the CIA
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Lionel Messi
- Lioness : Golda Meir and the nation of Israel
- Little dancer aged fourteen
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Little legends : exceptional men in black history
- Little weirds
- Little wonder : the fabulous story of Lottie Dod, the worlds first female sports superstar
- Lives of the great gardeners
- Living large in our little house : thriving in 480 square feet with six dogs, a husband, and one remote--plus more stories of how you can, too
- Long, tall Lincoln
- Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry
- Lou Reed : a life
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler
- Maggie Smith : a biography
- Malala's magic pencil
- Mamaskatch : a Cree coming of age
- Man of the hour : James B. Conant, warrior scientist
- Man of tomorrow : the relentless life of Jerry Brown
- Marcel's letters : a font and the search for one man's fate
- Margaret Thatcher : the authorized biography : at her zenith: in London, Washington and Moscow
- Marie Curie
- Martin Luther King Jr
- Martin Luther King Jr. : a peaceful leader
- Max Perkins : editor of genius
- Me
- Melania and me : the rise and fall of my friendship with the First Lady
- Mensch-marks : life lessons of a human rabbi - wisdom for untethered times
- Michael Phelps
- Midnight in broad daylight : a Japanese American family caught between two worlds
- Millard Fillmore
- Mockingbird songs : my friendship with Harper Lee
- Modern fabric : twenty-five designers on their inspiration and craft
- Monument man : the life and art of Daniel Chester French
- Moses : a human life
- Movie nights with the Reagans : a memoir
- Mozart : the man revealed
- Mr. Lear : a life of art and nonsense
- Mrs. Morhard and the boys
- My father's wake : how the Irish teach us to live, love and die
- My life in progressive politics : against the grain
- My parents : an introduction ; This does not belong to you
- My war criminal : personal encounters with an architect of genocide
- Napoleon : a life
- Never Caught, the story of Ona Judge : George and Martha Washington's courageous slave who dared to run away
- Newton's rainbow : the revolutionary discoveries of a young scientist
- Neymar : a soccer dream come true
- Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret
- Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret
- Nobody's son : a memoir
- Normal : a mother and her beautiful son
- Not pretty enough : the unlikely triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
- Nothing stopped Sophie : the story of unshakable mathematician Sophie Germain
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Obama : the call of history
- On the road & off the record with Leonard Bernstein : my years with the exasperating genius
- One fun day with Lewis Carroll : a celebration of wordplay and a girl named Alice
- Ordinary, extraordinary Jane Austen : the story of six novels, three notebooks, a writing box, and one clever girl
- Otis Redding : an unfinished life
- Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century
- Passionate spirit : the life of Alma Mahler
- Patriot number one : American dreams in Chinatown
- Patriot or traitor : the life and death of Sir Walter Ralegh
- Paul : a biography
- Paul McCartney : the life
- Paul Simon : the life
- Paul Simon : the life
- Peace and me
- Pelosi
- Petty : the biography
- Phil Spector : sound of the Sixties
- Picasso and the painting that shocked the world
- Pilgrimage : my search for the real Pope Francis
- Places and names : on war, revolution, and returning
- Planck : driven by vision, broken by war
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- President Carter : the White House years
- Prince Albert : the man who saved the monarchy
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Princes at war : the bitter battle inside Britain's royal family in the darkest days of WWII
- Proust's duchess : how three celebrated women captured the imagination of fin-de-siècle Paris
- Queen Victoria's matchmaking : the royal marriages that shaped Europe
- Queen of spies : Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War spy master
- Queen of the world
- Rad girls can : stories of bold, brave, and brilliant young women
- Rasputin : a short life
- Ray & Joan : the man who made the McDonald's fortune and the woman who gave it all away
- Reagan : an American journey
- Reagan : the life
- Rebel mother: : my childhood chasing the revolution
- Reckless daughter : a portrait of Joni Mitchell
- Relentless spirit : the unconventional raising of a champion
- Remembering the stars of the NFL glory years : an inside look at the golden age of football
- Republic of spin : an inside history of the American presidency
- Revolution song : a story of American freedom
- Revolutionary : George Washington at war
- Revolver : Sam Colt and the six-shooter that changed America
- Rising above, Inspiring women in sports
- Rising out of hatred : the awakening of a former white nationalist
- Rising star : the making of Barack Obama
- River of fire : my spiritual journey
- Robert Lowell, setting the river on fire : a study of genius, mania, and character
- Roberta Gibb
- Romantic outlaws : the extraordinary lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley
- Runnin' with the devil : a backstage pass to the wild times, loud rock, and the down and dirty truth behind the making of Van Halen
- Rush : revolution, madness, and the visionary doctor who became a founding father
- Russell Westbrook
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life
- Sargent's women : four lives behind the canvas
- Save me the plums : my Gourmet memoir
- Schlesinger : the imperial historian
- Schomburg : the man who built a library
- Schumann : the faces and the masks
- Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets
- Serena Williams
- Shark lady : the true story of how Eugenie Clark became the ocean's most fearless scientist
- She persisted : 13 American women who changed the world
- She persisted around the world : 13 women who changed history
- She persisted in sports : American Olympians who changed the game
- Shipwreck at the bottom of the world : the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the Endurance
- Shirley Jackson : a rather haunted life
- Sidney Crosby
- Sidney Lumet : a life
- Silver, sword, and stone : three crucibles in the Latin American story
- Simone Biles
- Simone Manuel
- Sing for your life : a story of race, music, and family
- Sisters and champions : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Sisters and rebels : a struggle for the soul of America
- Slinky innovators : the James family
- So much things to say : the oral history of Bob Marley
- Soldier for equality : José de la Luz Saénz and the Great War
- Solutions and other problems
- Some writer! : the story of E. B. White
- Something wonderful : Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway revolution
- Sound pictures : the life of Beatles producer George Martin : the later years, 1966-2016
- Space heroes
- Spring after spring : how Rachel Carson inspired the environmental movement
- Stalin : waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
- Stalin's scribe : literature, ambition, and survival : the life of Mikhail Sholokhov
- Stan Lee : the man behind Marvel
- Stay curious! : a brief history of Stephen Hawking
- Sticky fingers : the life and times of Jann Wenner and Rolling stone magazine
- Sting like a bee : Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
- Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson
- Stories for boys who dare to be different : true tales of amazing boys who changed the world without killing dragons
- Summertime : George Gershwin's life in music
- Suzanne's children : a daring rescue in Nazi Paris
- Sweet land of liberty : the forgotten struggle for civil rights in the North
- Swish! : the slam-dunking, alley-ooping, high-flying Harlem Globetrotters
- Talking as fast as I can : from Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, (and everything in between)
- Tears of battle : an animal rights memoir
- Ten Caesars : Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
- The Beatles anthology
- The Black Bruins : the remarkable lives of UCLA's Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett
- The Black Prince : England's greatest medieval warrior
- The Bohemians : the lovers who led Germany's resistance against the Nazis
- The Borgias : power and fortune
- The Browns of California : the family dynasty that transformed a state and shaped a nation
- The Club : Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age
- The Dalai Lama : an extraordinary life
- The Family Medici : the hidden history of the Medici dynasty
- The French chef in America : Julia Child's second act
- The Kids in the Hall : one dumb guy
- The Mannings : the fall and rise of a football family
- The Riviera set : glitz, glamour, and the hidden world of high society
- The Stranger In The Woods : The Extraordinary Story Of The Last True Hermit
- The United States of Trump : how the President really sees America
- The Virginia dynasty : four presidents and the creation of the American nation
- The Washingtons : George and Martha, "join'd by friendship, crown'd by love"
- The Wright brothers
- The accidental president : Harry S. Truman and the four months that changed the world
- The accidental veterinarian: : tales from a pet practice
- The adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt
- The allies : Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the unlikely alliance that won World War II
- The amazing age of John Roy Lynch
- The art of vanishing : a memoir of wanderlust
- The barefoot woman
- The blueprint : Lebron James, Cleveland's deliverance, and the making of the modern NBA
- The bluest of blues : Anna Atkins and the first book of photographs
- The book of Isaias : a child of Hispanic immigrants seeks his own America
- The book of gutsy women
- The book of gutsy women : favorite stories of courage and resilience
- The book of pride : LGBTQ heroes who changed the world
- The boy who followed his father into Auschwitz : a true story of family and survival
- The catalogue of shipwrecked books : Christopher Columbus, his son, and the quest to build the world's greatest library
- The collector of lives : Giorgio Vasari and the invention of art
- The contender : the story of Marlon Brando
- The cookie cure : a mother/daughter memoir of cookies and cancer
- The dead are arising : the life of Malcolm X
- The death of cancer : after fifty years on the front lines of medicine, a pioneering oncologist reveals why the war on cancer is winnable--and how we can get there
- The electrifying fall of Rainbow City : spectacle and assassination at the 1901 World's Fair
- The empire must die : Russia's revolutionary collapse, 1900-1917
- The escape artists : a band of daredevil pilots and the greatest prison break of the Great War
- The faith of Mike Pence
- The far away brothers : two young migrants and the making of an American life
- The father of American conservation : George Bird Grinnell, adventurer, activist, and author
- The girl who ran : Bobbi Gibb, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon
- The girl with the lower back tattoo
- The golden thread : a song for Pete Seeger
- The good neighbor : the life and work of Fred Rogers
- The grand escape : the greatest prison breakout of the 20th century
- The great Nadar : the man behind the camera
- The great quake : how the biggest earthquake in North America changed our understanding of the planet
- The great successor : the divinely perfect destiny of brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un
- The healing : one woman's journey from poverty to inner riches
- The heart is a shifting sea : love and marriage in Mumbai
- The house of Kennedy
- The impossible climb : Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the climbing life
- The inevitability of tragedy : Henry Kissinger and his world
- The ingenious Mr. Pyke : inventor, fugitive, spy
- The king of confidence : a tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an American monarch
- The lady from the black lagoon : Hollywood monsters and the lost legacy of Milicent Patrick
- The last 100 days : FDR at war and at peace
- The last American aristocrat : the brilliant life and improbable education of Henry Adams
- The last American hero : the remarkable life of John Glenn
- The last Englishmen : love, war, and the end of empire
- The last days of John Lennon
- The last goodnight : a World War II story of espionage, adventure, and betrayal
- The last love song : a biography of Joan Didion
- The last ocean : a journey through memory and forgetting
- The last pass : Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and what matters in the end
- The last temptation of Rick Pitino : a story of corruption, scandal, and the big business of college basketball
- The life and loves of E. Nesbit : Victorian iconoclast, children's author, and creator of The railway children
- The life of Mark Twain : the early years, 1835-1871
- The life of Mark Twain : the middle years, 1871-1891
- The little book of feminist saints
- The lost Gutenberg : the astounding story of one book's five-hundred-year odyssey
- The man who caught the storm : the life of legendary tornado chaser Tim Samaras
- The matriarch : Barbara Bush and the making of an American dynasty
- The mayor of Mogadishu : a story of chaos and redemption in the ruins of Somalia
- The meaning of Michelle : 16 writers on the iconic First Lady and how her journey inspires our own
- The miracle & tragedy of the Dionne quintuplets
- The monk of Mokha
- The most beautiful : my life with Prince
- The most dangerous man in America : Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the hunt for the fugitive king of LSD
- The music in George's head : George Gershwin creates Rhapsody in blue
- The naturalist : Theodore Roosevelt, a lifetime of exploration, and the triumph of American natural history
- The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke
- The new tsar : the rise and reign of Vladimir Putin
- The next next level : a story of rap, friendship, and almost giving up
- The perpetual motion machine : a memoir
- The polio pioneer : Dr. Jonas Salk and the polio vaccine
- The power of Adrienne Rich : a biography
- The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- The queens of animation : the untold story of the women who transformed the world of Disney and made cinematic history
- The race to save the Romanovs : the truth behind the secret plans to rescue the Russian imperial family
- The real Lolita : the kidnapping of Sally Horner and the novel that scandalized the world
- The red bandanna
- The red caddy : into the unknown with Edward Abbey
- The return : fathers, sons, and the land in between
- The ride of a lifetime : lessons learned from 15 years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
- The rival queens : Catherine De' Medici, her daughter Marguerite De Valois, and the betrayal that ignited a kingdom
- The road from Raqqa : a story of brotherhood, borders, and belonging
- The road not taken : Edward Lansdale and the American tragedy in Vietnam
- The road to Camelot : inside the Kennedy campaign
- The ruler's guide : China's greatest emperor and his timeless secrets of success/
- The saboteur : the aristocrat who became France's most daring anti-Nazi commando
- The scourge of war : the life of William Tecumseh Sherman
- The second most powerful man in the world : the life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's chief of staff
- The secret kingdom : Nek Chand, a changing India, and a hidden world of art
- The secrets of Tutankhamun : Egypt's boy king and his incredible tomb
- The shadow king : the life and death of Henry VI
- The shadow president : the truth about Mike Pence
- The silver swan : in search of Doris Duke
- The smallest lights in the universe
- The speed of sound : breaking the barrier between music and technology
- The splendid and the vile
- The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the Cold War
- The spy and the traitor : the greatest espionage story of the Cold War
- The sun does shine : how I found life and freedom on death row
- The totally unscientific study of the search for human happiness
- The tunnels : escapes under the Berlin Wall and the historic films the JFK White House tried to kill
- The undocumented Americans
- The volunteer : one man, an underground army, and the secret mission to destroy Auschwitz
- The white darkness
- The wilderness of ruin : a tale of madness, Fire, and the hunt for America's youngest serial killer
- The witch of Lime Street : séance, seduction, and Houdini in the spirit world
- The wizard of lies.
- The woman who stole Vermeer : the true story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House art heist
- The wonderful Mr Willughby : the first true ornithologist
- The world of Laura Ingalls Wilder : the frontier landscapes that inspired the Little House books
- The world's fastest man : the extraordinary life of cyclist Major Taylor, America's first Black sports hero
- The zookeeper's wife
- Their promised land : my grandparents in love and war
- There's a mystery there : the primal vision of Maurice Sendak
- They fought alone : the true story of the Starr Brothers, British secret agents in Nazi-occupied France
- This atom bomb in me
- This is what America looks like : my journey from refugee to Congresswoman
- Thomas Harriot : a life in science
- Those wild Wyndhams : three sisters at the heart of power
- Tiger Woods
- Time of the mag