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- 100 times : a memoir of sexism
- 13 American women who changed the world
- 13 women who changed history
- 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 carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A child's introduction to African American history : the experiences, people, and events that shaped our country
- A coastline is an immeasurable thing : a memoir across three continents
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A death on W Street : the murder of Seth Rich and the age of conspiracy
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A drop of midnight : a memoir
- 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 place in the world : finding the meaning of home
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A portrait of the scientist as a young woman
- 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 spy in plain sight : the inside story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen - America's most damaging Russian spy
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A take-charge girl blazes a trail to Congress : the story of Jeannette Rankin
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A truck full of money
- A voice that could stir an army : Fannie Lou Hamer and the rhetoric of the Black freedom movement
- A wild idea
- A world to win : the life and works of Karl Marx
- AOC : Fighter, phenom, change maker
- Aaron Judge
- Aaron Rodgers
- Ablaze with color : a story of painter Alma Thomas
- 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
- Against the wind
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : an elusive woman
- 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 creatures great and small
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the frequent troubles of our days : the true story of the American woman at the heart of the German resistance to Hitler
- 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
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- 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 daughter : a memoir
- American queenmaker : how Missy Meloney brought women into politics
- An aristocracy of critics : Luce, Hutchins, Niebuhr, and the committee that redefined freedom of the press
- 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
- And there was light : Abraham Lincoln and the American struggle
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Anna : the biography
- Anne Frank
- Arthur Miller : American witness
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- Bad fat black girl : notes from a trap feminist
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Beastie Boys book
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Because Claudette
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Before I grew up
- Before they were authors : famous authors as kids
- Bei Bei goes home : a panda story
- 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 Spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Black baseball, 1858-1900 : a comprehensive record of the teams, players, managers, owners and umpires
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Blessed are the bank robbers : the true adventures of an evangelical outlaw
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Blue sky kingdom : an epic family journey to the heart of the Himalayas
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Boy oh boy
- Boys enter the house : the victims of John Wayne Gacy and the lives they left behind
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking history : a White House memoir
- Bridge to the sun : the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Building Zaha : the story of architect Zaha Hadid
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Burning man : the trials of D.H. Lawrence
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- By the grace of the game : the Holocaust, a basketball legacy, and an unprecedented American dream
- Calder : the conquest of space : the later years : 1940-1976
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era
- 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
- Changes : an oral history of Tupac Shakur
- Charlotte and the Nutcracker : the true story of a girl who made ballet history
- Chasin' the bird : Charlie Parker in California
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Choosing brave : how Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till sparked the civil rights movement
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Chuck Berry : an American life
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
- Clara Lemlich
- Classified : the secret career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee aerospace engineer
- Claudette Colvin
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coach K : the rise and reign of Mike Krzyzewski
- 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
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Concepcion : an immigrant family's fortunes
- Control freak : my epic adventures making video games
- Coretta Scott King
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Covered in color : Christo & Jeanne-Claude's fabrics of freedom
- 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 & sceptre : a new history of the British monarchy, from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II
- 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.
- Damn Lucky : one man's courage during the bloodiest military campaign in aviation history
- 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
- Derek Jeter and the New York Yankees
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diana Taurasi
- Diana, William, and Harry
- Diderot and the art of thinking freely
- Dilla time : the life and afterlife of J Dilla, the hip-hop producer who reinvented rhythm
- Dinner for one : how cooking in Paris saved me
- Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Do let's have another drink! : the dry wit and fizzy life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
- Dog flowers : a memoir
- 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
- Dragon bones : the fantastic fossil discoveries of Mary Anning
- Dragonfly : a daughter's emergence from autism: a practical guide for parents
- Duke Kahanamoku
- ER nurses : true stories from America's greatest unsung heroes
- Easy street : a story of redemption from myself
- Eat your mind : the radical life and work of Kathy Acker
- 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 & Margaret : the intimate world of the Windsor sisters
- Elizabeth : Renaissance prince
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elizabeth Taylor : the grit & glamour of an icon
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth Warren's big, bold plans
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
- 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
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- Ethel Rosenberg : an American tragedy
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- 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
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Freedom : a cook's story; remaking a life from scratch
- Finding Narnia : the story of C. S. Lewis and his brother
- Finding freedom : Harry and Meghan and the making of a modern royal family
- Finding home : the journey of immigrants and refugees
- 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
- First principles : what America's founders learned from the Greeks and Romans and how that shaped our country
- First to fall : Elijah Lovejoy and the fight for a free press in the age of slavery
- Five days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child
- Flash : the making of Weegee the Famous
- Flashes of creation : George Gamow, Fred Hoyle, and the great Big bang debate
- 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
- Fortune's many houses : a Victorian visionary, a noble Scottish family, and a lost inheritance
- Forty autumns : a family's story of courage and survival on both sides of the Berlin Wall
- Four hundred souls : a community history of African America, 1619-2019
- Francis Bacon : revelations
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Free thinker : sex, suffrage, and the extraordinary life of Helen Hamilton Gardener
- 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
- Full speed ahead! : America's first admiral : David Glasgow Farragut
- Furious hours : murder, fraud, and the last trial of Harper Lee
- G-man : J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century
- Game : an autobiography
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Garbo
- George Washington : the first president
- George Washington : the political rise of America's founding father
- Georgia O'Keeffe : she saw the world in a flower
- 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
- Going places : Victor Hugo Green and his glorious book
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden boy : a murder among the Manhattan elite
- Golem girl : a memoir
- Good morning, sunshine! : the Joey Moss story
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 200 tales of extraordinary women, Books 1-2
- 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
- Hannibal : Rome's greatest enemy
- Harriet Tubman
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- Heiresses : the lives of the million dollar babies
- Hello darkness : my doctor said, "son, you will be blind tomorrow." / Sanford D. Greenberg
- Hello neighbor! : the kind and caring world of Mister Rogers
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Her honor : my life on the bench ... what works, what's broken, and how to change it
- 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 holiness the fourteenth Dalai Lama : an illustrated biography
- His masterly pen : a biography of Jefferson the writer
- 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
- His very best : Jimmy Carter, a life
- 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
- Hitler and Stalin : the tyrants and the Second World War
- 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
- Home sweet road : finding love, making music, and building a life one city at a time
- House of Glass : the story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family
- How I saved the world
- How to build a hug : Temple Grandin and her amazing squeeze machine
- I am Ruby Bridges
- I begin with spring : the life and seasons of Henry David Thoreau
- I just wanted to save my family : a memoir
- I keep trying to catch his eye : a memoir of loss, grief, and love
- I used to live here once : the haunted life of Jean Rhys
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- I'll build a stairway to paradise : a life of Bunny Mellon
- I'll take your questions now : what I saw at the Trump White House
- I've had to think up a way to survive : on trauma, persistence, and Dolly Parton
- I.W. Colburn : emotion in modern architecture
- Ian McKellen : a biography
- If : the untold story of Kipling's American years
- If you lived here you'd be famous by now : true stories from Calabasas
- If you're a kid like Gavin
- Immortal valor : the black Medal of Honor winners of World War II
- In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
- In her footsteps : where trailblazing women changed the world
- In love : a memoir of love and loss
- In search of Al Howie
- In the days of rain : a daughter, a father, a cult
- In the garden of beasts : [love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin]
- In the garden of the righteous : the heroes who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- In the shadow of the empress : the defiant lives of Maria Theresa, mother of Marie Antoinette, and her daughters
- In the shadow of the gods : the emperor in world history
- In the weeds : around the world and behind the scenes with Anthony Bourdain
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
- Inter state : essays from California
- Into the forest : a Holocaust story of survival, triumph, and love
- Into the wild
- Into the wild
- Inventing the it girl : how Elinor Glyn created the modern romance and conquered early Hollywood
- 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
- JFK : coming of age in the American century, 1917-1956
- Jack Montgomery : World War II : gallantry at Anzio
- James Baldwin : living in fire
- James Purdy : life of a contrarian writer
- James Wright : a life in poetry
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane Goodall : a champion of chimpanzees
- Janis : her life and music
- 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 Constable : a portrait
- John F. Kennedy the brave
- John Lewis
- John Quincy Adams
- Jonathan Franzen : the comedy of rage
- José Altuve
- Just like me : 40 neurologically and physically diverse people who broke stereotypes
- Kamala's way : an American life
- Kamala's way : an American life
- Katie Ledecky
- Keats : a brief life in nine poems and one epitaph
- Kendrick Lamar : rap titan
- 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
- Killing the legends : the lethal danger of celebrity
- King of the blues : the rise and reign of B.B. King
- Kiss myself goodbye : the many lives of Aunt Munca
- Kissinger, v. 1, 1923-1968: the idealist
- Krazy : George Herriman, a life in black and white
- Lady Bird Johnson : hiding in plain sight
- 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
- Last call at the Hotel Imperial : reporters who took on a world at war
- LeBron James
- LeBron James
- Left on Tenth : a second chance at life : a memoir
- Lenin on the train
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Lessons from the edge : a memoir
- Let 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion
- Let your voice be heard : the life and times of Pete Seeger
- 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
- Lift as you climb : the story of Ella Baker
- Lightning down : a World War II story of survival
- Lilyville : mother, daughter, and other roles I've played
- 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 weirds
- Little wonder : the fabulous story of Lottie Dod, the worlds first female sports superstar
- Lives of the great gardeners
- Lives of the wives : five literary marriages
- 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
- Lorraine Hansberry : the life behind A raisin in the sun
- Lou Reed : a life
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- MBS : the rise to power of Mohammed Bin Salman
- Mad at the world : a life of John Steinbeck
- Madam Speaker : Nancy Pelosi and the lessons of power
- Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler
- Magnificent rebels : the first Romantics and the invention of the self
- Making darkness light : a life of John Milton
- 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 Chase Smith
- Margaret Thatcher : the authorized biography : at her zenith: in London, Washington and Moscow
- Maria Tallchief
- Marian Anderson
- Marie Curie
- Martin Luther King Jr
- Martin Luther King Jr. : a peaceful leader
- Master slave husband wife : an epic journey from slavery to freedom
- Max Perkins : editor of genius
- Maya Lin : artist-architect of light and lines
- Me
- Me and sister Bobbie : true tales of the family band
- 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
- Midnight in broad daylight : a Japanese American family caught between two worlds
- Miss Dior : a story of courage and couture