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- #Presidents : follow the leaders
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A boy from Tupelo : the complete 1953-1956 recordings
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A dog called hope : a wounded warrior and the service dog who saved him
- A girl called Vincent : the life of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay
- A girl named Hillary : the true story of Hillary D.R. Clinton
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A pope and a president : John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the extraordinary untold story of the 20th century
- 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 splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A truck full of money
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A woman on the edge of time : a son investigates his trailblazing mother's young suicide
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- A world ablaze : the rise of Martin Luther and the birth of the Reformation
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Fire Base Kate
- Abby Wambach
- Abraham
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alejandro Sanz : #vive
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Amelia Earhart
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Indian stories of success : new visions of leadership in Indian Country
- American Pharoah
- American Pharoah : Triple Crown champion
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Ulysses : A Life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American apostles : when evangelicals entered the world of Islam
- American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
- American kingpin : the epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road
- American philosophy : a love story
- Among heroes : a U.S. Navy Seal's true story of friendship, heroism, and the ultimate sacrifice
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- Angels on earth : inspiring stories of fate, friendship and the power of connections
- Animal scientist and activist Jane Goodall
- Anne Bancroft : a life
- Anne Bonny
- Artist biographies
- Artists : their lives and works
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Astrophysicist and space advocate Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Augustine : conversions to confessions
- Autobiografía
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Ballad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Époque Paris
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Be the one : six true stories of teens overcoming hardship with hope
- Becoming Billie Holiday
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Before she was Harriet
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bessie Coleman : trailblazing pilot
- Bethany Mota
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Black Detroit : a people's history of self-determination
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Blake Griffin
- 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
- Blood letters : the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Board game builder : Milton Bradley
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bon Jovi : the story
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born to fish : how an obsessed angler became the world's greatest striped bass fisherman
- Born to run
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Broad strokes : 15 women who made art and made history (in that order)
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bryce Harper
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- Buster Posey
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Byron's women
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Cam Newton
- Can I go now? : the life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood's first superagent
- Capital dames : the Civil War and the women of Washington, 1848-1868
- Carli Lloyd
- Caroline's comets : a true story
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Cazando a El Chapo : la historia contada desde adentro por el agente de la ley estadounidense que capturó al narcotraficante más buscado del mundo
- Cesar Chavez : champion for civil rights
- Charles Darwin : Victorian Mythmaker
- Charlotte Bronte : a fiery heart
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Clayton Kershaw
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Code-breaker and mathematician Alan Turing
- Cold case : Billy the Kid : investigating history's mysteries
- Colin Kaepernick
- Collapse and chaos : the story of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti
- Computer engineer Ruchi Sanghvi
- Craig Kielburger : champion for children's rights and youth activism
- Crayola creators : Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Critical survey of young adult literature
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Dangerous ground
- Danza! : Amalia Hernández and el Ballet Folklórico de México
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Daring Amelia
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- Daughters of the samurai : a journey from East to West and back
- David Bowie : a life
- Davy Crockett
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Dinner with DiMaggio : memories of an American hero
- Dirty Blvd. : the life and music of Lou Reed
- Disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Donald Trump : outspoken personality and president
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales
- Doughboys on the Western Front : memories of American soldiers in the Great War
- Dr. Seuss : the great doodler
- Dreaming the Beatles : the love story of one band and the whole world
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Einstein and the rabbi : searching for the soul
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliot Ness
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth's rival : the tumultuous life of the Countess of Leicester : the romance and conspiracy that threatened Queen Elizabeth's court
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Emma Stone
- Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of imagination : Gary Gygax and the birth of Dungeons & Dragons
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empress : the astonishing reign of Nur Jahan
- Enormous SMALLNESS : a story of E.E. Cummings
- Environmental activist Wangari Maathai
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway : a new life
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Evelyn Waugh : a life revisited
- Everything's bigger in Texas : the life and times of Kinky Friedman
- Exhibition on screen, Michelangelo, love and death
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- FDR
- Facebook founder and Internet entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg
- Failing up : how to take risks, aim higher, and never stop learning
- Family history of fear : a memoir
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Farthest field : an Indian story of the Second World War
- Federer and me : a story of obsession
- Fire on the track : Betty Robinson and the triumph of the early Olympic women
- First dads : parenting and politics from George Washington to Barack Obama
- First ladies
- First women : the grace and power of America's modern First Ladies
- Flash : the making of Weegee the Famous
- 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
- Fractured lands : how the Arab world came apart
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Frank Sinatra 100
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : the 32nd president
- Franz Liszt : musician, celebrity, superstar
- Freddie Mercury : a kind of magic
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Frederick the Great : King of Prussia
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Frida Kahlo
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women
- Funny bones : Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras
- Furnishing eternity : a father, a son, a coffin, and a measure of life
- Futureface : a family mystery, an epic quest, and the secret to belonging
- Game change : the life and death of Steve Montador and the future of hockey
- Gehrig & the Babe : the friendship and the feud
- Genetics expert Joanna L. Kelley
- Genghis Khan : his conquests, his empire, his legacy
- George Washington's journey : the President forges a new nation
- George and Barbara Bush : a great American love story
- Go slow : the life of Julie London
- GoPro inventor Nick Woodman
- Goddess of anarchy : the life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical
- Goebbels : a biography
- Goethe : life as a work of art
- Gold dust woman : a biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden : the miraculous rise of Steph Curry
- Google cybersecurity expert Parisa Tabriz
- Gorsuch : the judge who speaks for himself
- Grace Hopper : queen of computer code
- Grace Kelly : Hollywood dream girl
- Grant
- Guilty thing : a life of Thomas De Quincey
- H.H. Holmes : the true history of the White City Devil
- Hamilton : an American biography
- Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams
- Hank and Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Hannibal
- Hannibal's oath : the life and wars of Rome's greatest enemy
- Harry : life, loss and love
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- He's got rhythm : the life and career of Gene Kelly
- Hemingway at eighteen : the pivotal year that launched an American legend
- Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency
- Here comes Exterminator! : the longshot horse, the Great War, and the making of an American hero
- Heroes for my daughter
- Hidden figures : the true story of four Black women and the space race
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : a woman living history
- His father's son : the life of General Ted Roosevelt Jr.
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- Hitler's last days : the death of the Nazi regime and the world's most notorious dictator
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- How Bernie won : inside the revolution that's taking back our country-- and where we go from here
- Hunger makes me a modern girl : a memoir
- Hunting El Chapo : the inside story of the American lawman who captured the world's most-wanted drug lord
- I am Gandhi
- I am Sacagawea
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In search of Mary Shelley
- In search of Mozart
- In the darkroom
- In the days of rain : a daughter, a father, a cult
- In the footsteps of Jesus : a chronicle of his life and the origins of Christianity
- In the midnight hour : the life & soul of Wilson Pickett
- Indestructible : one man's rescue mission that changed the course of WWII
- Instrumental : a memoir of madness, medication, and music
- Is that Kafka? : 99 finds
- It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree
- J.R.R. Tokien : su vida, sus obras y su influencia
- Jackie Robinson : breaking the color line in baseball
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- James Harden
- James Wright : a life in poetry
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane Welsh Carlyle and her Victorian world : a story of love, work, friendship, and marriage
- Jean Cocteau : a life
- Jim Brown : last man standing
- Jimmy Buffett : a good life all the way
- Joan Procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Joe Gould's teeth
- John McCain : American maverick
- John Quincy Adams : militant spirit
- Jonathan Franzen : the comedy of rage
- Jose Altuve
- Juan Gabriel : un amor eterno : su vida en voz de sus amigos
- Julius Rosenwald : repairing the world
- Karl Marx : greatness and illusion
- Katie Luther, first lady of the Reformation : the unconventional life of Katharina von Bora
- Keith Richards : a life in pictures
- Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights
- Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights
- Kid athletes : true tales of childhood from sports legends
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- Kyrie Irving
- LEGO manufacturers : the Kristiansen family
- La frontera : el viaje con papá = My journey with papa
- Labyrinths : Emma Jung, her marriage to Carl, and the early years of psychoanalysis
- Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
- Lady in red : an intimate portrait of Nancy Reagan
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- Laila Ali
- Las horas más oscuras : cómo Churchill salvó al mundo del abismo
- Leading lady : Sherry Lansing and the making of a Hollywood groundbreaker
- Lebron James : basketball champion
- Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Letters to Vera
- Liam Hemsworth
- Life and death in the Andes : on the trail of bandits, heroes, and revolutionaries
- Life in motion : an unlikely ballerina
- Like brothers
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Lincoln's spymaster : Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye
- Lindsey Vonn
- Lionel Messi
- Lioness : Golda Meir and the nation of Israel
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Living with a dead language : my romance with Latin
- Looking back : a book of memories
- Looking for the stranger : Albert Camus and the life of a literary classic
- Losing isn't everything : the untold stories and hidden lessons behind the toughest losses in sports history
- Lost in the Pacific, 1942 : not a drop to drink
- Lou Reed : a life
- Louis Pasteur advances microbiology
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Love in a time of hate : the story of Magda and André Trocmé and the village that said no to the Nazis
- Love warrior : a memoir
- Love wins : the lovers and lawyers who fought the landmark case for marriage equality
- Lucky 666 : the impossible mission
- MJ : the genius of Michael Jackson
- MacArthur at war : World War II in the Pacific
- Madison's gift : five partnerships that built America
- Malala Yousafzai : champion for education
- Man of the hour : James B. Conant, warrior scientist
- Manderley forever : a biography of Daphne Du Maurier
- Manny Pacquiao
- Manson : the life and times of Charles Manson
- Marcel's letters : a font and the search for one man's fate
- Marching with Martin
- Marian Anderson
- Marie Curie advances the study of radioactivity
- Mars science lab engineer Diana Trujillo
- Martha Washington : loyal public servant
- Martin Luther : rebel in an age of upheaval
- Martin Luther : renegade and prophet
- Martin Luther : visionary reformer
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martí's song for freedom : Martí y sus versos por la libertad
- Mary Astor's purple diary : the great American sex scandal of 1936
- Mary's monster : love, madness, and how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein
- Mathematician and computer scientist Grace Hopper
- Maximum volume : the life of Beatles producer George Martin, the early years, 1926-1966
- Maya Lin : thinking with her hands
- Mayor Harold Washington : champion of race and reform in Chicago
- Meet Cindy Sherman : artist, photographer, chameleon
- Meet NASA inventor Robert Hoyt and his team's web-spinning space spiders
- Meet NASA inventor William "Red" Whittaker and his team's alien cave explorers
- Meghan : a Hollywood princess
- Melania Trump : champion for youth
- Memory's last breath : field notes on my dementia
- Michael Phelps
- Michelle Obama : health advocate
- Midnight in broad daylight : a Japanese American family caught between two worlds
- Mike Trout
- Mike Trout
- Mindhunter : inside the FBI's elite serial crime unit
- Miss D & me : life with the invincible Bette Davis
- Miss Mary reporting : the true story of sportswriter Mary Garber
- Missing man : the American spy who vanished in Iran
- Mockingbird songs : my friendship with Harper Lee
- Money, murder, and Dominick Dunne : a life in several acts
- More girls who rocked the world : heroines from Ada Lovelace to Misty Copeland
- Moses : a human life
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta : a personal portrait
- Mountain Man : John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the call of the American West
- Mozart : the man revealed
- Mr. Crum's potato predicament
- Mr. Matisse and his cutouts
- Mr. Mojo : a biography of Jim Morrison
- Muddy : the story of blues legend Muddy Waters
- My Name Is James Madison Hemings
- My confection : odyssey of a sugar addict
- My fellow soldiers : General John Pershing and the Americans who helped win the Great War
- My girls : a lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
- My grandfather would have shot me : a Black woman discovers her family's Nazi past
- My journey
- My mother's kitchen : breakfast, lunch, dinner, and the meaning of life
- NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson
- Napoleon
- Native : dispatches from an Israeli-Palestinian life
- Ned Christie : the creation of an outlaw and Cherokee hero
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Nemesis : one man and the battle for Rio
- Neruda : el llamado del poeta
- Nine lessons I learned from my father
- Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret
- Nintendo video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto
- No quarter : the three lives of Jimmy Page
- Noah Webster's fighting words
- Not Pretty Enough : the Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu
- Obama : the call of history
- Odell Beckham Jr.
- Of arms and artists : the American Revolution through painters' eyes
- Off the radar : a father's secret, a mother's heroism, and a son's quest
- On the road & off the record with Leonard Bernstein : my years with the exasperating genius
- Once upon a time in Russia : the rise of the oligarchs -- a true story of ambition, wealth, betrayal, and murder
- One man against the world : the tragedy of Richard Nixon
- Oriana Fallaci : the journalist, the agitator, the legend
- Ostend : Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the summer before the dark
- Otto Binder : the life and work of a comic book and science fiction visionary
- Our country's presidents : a complete encyclopedia of the U.S. presidency
- Paradise lost : a life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Pass the pandowdy, please : chewing on history with famous folks and their fabulous foods
- Pathfinders : the journeys of 16 extraordinary Black souls
- Patient H.M. : a story of memory, madness and family secrets
- Patrick Henry : champion of liberty
- Patriot number one : American dreams in Chinatown
- Paul : a biography
- Paul Simon : the life
- Peggy Guggenheim : the shock of the modern
- Peggy Seeger : a life of music, love, and politics
- Phil Gernhard : record man
- Philip Rivers
- Phyllis Tickle : a life
- Pontius Pilate : deciphering a memory
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Preaching To The Chickens : The story of young John Lewis
- President Carter : the White House years
- President McKinley : architect of the American century
- Presidents
- Prince : the man, the symbol, the music
- 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
- Putin : his downfall and Russia's coming crash
- Queen Victoria's matchmaking : the royal marriages that shaped Europe
- Queen of spies : Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War spy master
- Queer, there, and everywhere : 23 people who changed the world
- Quicksand : what it means to be a human being
- RFK : his words for our times
- Rachel Carson sparks the environmental movement
- Rad American women A-Z
- Radioactive! : how Irène Curie and Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world
- Ray & Joan : the man who made the McDonald's fortune and the woman who gave it all away
- Reckless daughter : a portrait of Joni Mitchell
- Reclaiming Gotham : Bill de Blasio and the movement to end America's tale of two cities
- Redemption : Martin Luther King Jr.'s last 31 hours
- Redemption at Hacksaw Ridge : the gripping true story that inspired the movie
- Renaissance woman : the life of Vittoria Colonna
- Renoir : an intimate biography
- Reset : my fight for inclusion and lasting change
- Revolution song : a story of American freedom
- Rhett & Link's book of mythicality : a field guide to curiosity, creativity, & tomfoolery
- Rob Gronkowski
- Rob Gronkowski
- Robin
- Robin Hood
- Robinson Cano
- Ronda Rousey
- Rosa Parks
- Ross Lynch : Disney Channel actor
- Rumi's secret : the life of the Sufi poet of love
- 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
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : iconic Supreme Court justice
- Ruthless : scientology, my son David Miscavige, and me
- Saban : the making of a coach
- Sacagawea
- Saga of Chief Joseph
- Saints & angels : a guide to heavenly help for comfort, support, and inspiration
- Salvation with a smile : Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity
- Sam Phillips : the man who invented rock 'n' roll
- Sam Shepard : a life
- San Pablo : el apóstol más incomprendido
- Schlesinger : the imperial historian
- Schomburg : the man who built a library
- Scratch : writers, money, and the art of making a living
- Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets
- Serena Williams
- Shailene Woodley
- Shakespeare retold
- She Persisted : 13 American Women Who Changed the World
- Shirley Jackson : a rather haunted life
- Shooting ghosts : a U.S. Marine, a combat photographer, and their journey back from war
- Showboat : the life of Kobe Bryant
- Sick : a memoir
- Silent days, silent dreams
- Simone Biles
- Sinatra's century : one hundred notes on the man and his world
- Sing, don't cry
- Sitting Bull : Lakota warrior and defender of his people
- So much things to say : the oral history of Bob Marley
- Sojourner Truth
- Some writer! : the story of E. B. White
- Something wonderful : Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway revolution
- Sophia Loren : movie star Italian style
- Soul survivor : a biography of Al Green
- Space odyssey : Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the making of a masterpiece
- Spartan warriors
- Spectacle : the astonishing life of Ota Benga
- Spies in the family : an American spymaster, his Russian crown jewel, and the friendship that helped end the Cold War
- St. Paul : the apostle we love to hate
- Stan Lee : the man behind Marvel
- Stand up and sing! : Pete Seeger, folk music, and the path to justice
- Stephen Curry
- Sting like a bee : Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
- Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson
- Stranger in a strange land : searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem
- Street of Eternal Happiness : big city dreams along a Shanghai road
- Studio of the South : Van Gogh in Provence
- Su nombre era Dolores : la Jenn que yo conocí
- Suzanne's children : a daring rescue in Nazi Paris
- Swan : the life and dance of Anna Pavlova
- Sweet dreams and flying machines : the life and music of James Taylor
- Swimming with sharks : the daring discoveries of Eugenie Clark
- Symphony for the City of the Dead : Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
- Ted Hughes : the unauthorised life
- Tesla : inventor of the modern
- Texas Ranger : the epic life of Frank Hamer, the man who killed Bonnie and Clyde
- Texas blood : seven generations among the outlaws, ranchers, Indians, missionaries, soldiers, and smugglers of the borderlands
- The Baseball Whisperer : a small-town coach who shaped Big League dreams
- The Bettencourt affair : the world's richest woman and the scandal that rocked Paris
- The Black Bruins : the remarkable lives of UCLA's Jackie Robinson, Woody Strode, Tom Bradley, Kenny Washington, and Ray Bartlett
- The Black Calhouns : from Civil War to civil rights, with one African American family
- The Black Prince of Florence : the spectacular life and treacherous world of Alessandro de' Medici
- The Bolt supremacy : inside Jamaica's sprint factory
- The Brontë cabinet : three lives in nine objects
- The Cooperstown casebook : who's in the baseball hall of fame, who should be in, and who should pack their plaques
- The Duchess : Camilla Parker Bowles and the love affair that rocked the crown
- The Falcon and the Snowman : a true story of friendship and espionage
- The Family Medici : the hidden history of the Medici dynasty
- The French chef in America : Julia Child's second act
- The House of Government : a saga of the Russian Revolution
- The Kelloggs : the battling brothers of Battle Creek
- The Kevin show : an Olympic athlete's battle with mental illness
- The Kinfolk entrepreneur : ideas for meaningful work
- The Lost Tudor Princess : The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas
- The Mayor of Mogadishu : A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia
- The Netanyahu years
- The Oliver Stone experience
- The Pope of Physics : Enrico Fermi and the birth of the Atomic Age
- The Swamp Fox : how Francis Marion saved the American Revolution
- The Washingtons : George and Martha, "join'd by friendship, crown'd by love"
- The William Hoy story : how a deaf baseball player changed the game
- The amazing story of the man who cycled from India to Europe for love
- The bonanza king : John Mackay and the battle over the greatest riches in the American West
- The book of heroes : tales of history's most daring dudes
- The book of heroines : tales of history's gutsiest gals
- The boy who became Buffalo Bill : growing up Billy Cody in bleeding Kansas
- The boy who runs : the odyssey of Julius Achon
- The boys in the boat : the true story of an American team's epic journey to win gold at the 1936 olympics
- The bridesmaid's daughter : from Grace Kelly's wedding to a women's shelter--searching for the truth about my mother
- The broken cord
- The bughouse : the poetry, politics, and madness of Ezra Pound
- The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine
- The chief : the life of William Randolph Hearst
- The children of Willesden Lane
- The chosen few : a company of paratroopers and its heroic struggle to survive in the mountains of Afghanistan
- The civil wars of Julia Ward Howe : a biography
- The close encounters man : how one man made the world believe in UFOs
- The clothes make the girl (look fat)? : adventures and agonies in fashion
- The collector of lives : Giorgio Vasari and the invention of art
- The cookie cure : a mother/daughter memoir of cookies and cancer
- The cost of courage
- The dangerous case of Donald Trump : 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts assess a president
- 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 education of a coroner : lessons in investigating death
- The enlightened Mr. Parkinson : the pioneering life of a forgotten surgeon and the mysterious disease that bears his name
- The essential Bernie Sanders and his vision for America
- The extraordinary Suzy Wright : a colonial woman on the frontier
- The fantastic Ferris Wheel : the story of inventor George Ferris
- The final race : the incredible World War II story of the Olympian who inspired Chariots of fire
- The firebrand and the First Lady : portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice
- The flight : Charles Lindbergh's daring and immortal 1927 transatlantic crossing
- The food explorer : the true adventures of the globe-trotting botanist who transformed what America eats
- The future is history : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia
- The gambler : how penniless dropout Kirk Kerkorian became the greatest deal maker in capitalist history
- The girl with the lower back tattoo
- The golden thread : a song for Pete Seeger
- The gourmands' way : six Americans in Paris and the birth of a new gastronomy
- The grand tour : the life and music of George Jones
- 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 hidden lives of Tudor women : a social history
- The hour of land : a personal topography of America's national parks
- The house that Jane built : a story about Jane Addams
- The hundred-year walk : an Armenian odyssey
- The huntress : the adventures, escapades, and triumphs of Alicia Patterson: aviatrix, sportswoman, journalist, publisher
- The immortal Irishman : the Irish revolutionary who became an American hero
- The inheritance : a family on the front lines of the battle against Alzheimer's disease
- The inkblots : Hermann Rorschach, his iconic test, and the power of seeing
- The invention of nature : Alexander Von Humboldt's new world
- The kid from Diamond Street : the extraordinary story of baseball legend Edith Houghton
- The king and queen of Malibu : the true story of the battle for paradise
- The kings of Big Spring : God, oil, and one family's search for the American dream
- The know-it-alls : the rise of Silicon Valley as a political powerhouse and social wrecking ball
- The lady with the Borzoi : Blanche Knopf, literary tastemaker extraordinaire
- The last Republicans : inside the extraordinary relationship between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush
- The last cowboys : a pioneer family in the new West
- The last goodnight : a World War II story of espionage, adventure, and betrayal
- The last man who knew everything : the life and times of Enrico Fermi, father of the nuclear age
- The last of the tsars : Nicholas II and the Russian Revolution
- The legendary Miss Lena Horne
- The life of Mark Twain : the early years, 1835-1871
- The light between us : stories from heaven. lessons for the living.
- The little book of feminist saints
- The lost founding father : John Quincy Adams and the transformation of American politics
- The lost pilots : the spectacular rise and scandalous fall of aviation's golden couple
- The loyal son : the war in Ben Franklin's house
- The making of Donald Trump
- The man who caught the storm : the life of legendary tornado chaser Tim Samaras
- The man who designed the future : Norman Bel Geddes and the invention of twentieth-century America
- The man who knew : the life and times of Alan Greenspan
- The mistresses of Cliveden : three centuries of scandal, power, and intrigue in an English stately home
- The moralist : Woodrow Wilson and the world he made
- The most beautiful : my life with Prince
- The music of life : Bartolomeo Cristofori and the invention of the piano
- The naturalist : Theodore Roosevelt, a lifetime of exploration, and the triumph of American natural history
- The new Negro : the life of Alain Locke
- The nine of us : growing up Kennedy
- The notorious Mrs. Clem : murder and money in the Gilded Age
- The oracle of oil : a maverick geologist's quest for a sustainable future
- The original Black elite : Daniel Murray and the story of a forgotten era
- The plots against Hitler
- The presidency in black and white : my up-close view of three presidents and race in America
- The price of valor : the life of Audie Murphy, America's most decorated hero of World War II
- The prisoner in his palace : Saddam Hussein, his American guards, and what history leaves unsaid
- The queen of Katwe : a story of life, chess, and one extraordinary girl
- The race to save the Romanovs : the truth behind the secret plans to rescue the Russian imperial family
- The rainbow comes and goes : a mother and son on life, love, and loss
- The real Peter Pan : J.M. Barrie and the boy who inspired him
- The rest I will kill : William Tillman and the unforgettable story of how a free black man refused to become a slave
- The return : fathers, sons, and the land in between
- The revolution of Robert Kennedy : from power to protest after JFK
- The road to Camelot : inside JFK's five-year campaign
- The road to dawn : Josiah Henson and the story that sparked the Civil War
- The royal art of poison : filthy palaces, fatal cosmetics, deadly medicine, and murder most foul
- The saboteur : the aristocrat who became France's most daring anti-Nazi commando
- The secret of golf : the story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus
- The simple faith of Franklin Delano Roosevelt : religion's role in the FDR presidency
- The song poet : a memoir of my father
- The songs we know best : John Ashbery's early life
- The speed of sound : breaking the barrier between music and technology
- The stowaway : a young man's extraordinary adventure to Antarctica
- The strange career of William Ellis : the Texas slave who became a Mexican millionaire
- The stranger in the woods : the extraordinary story of the last true hermit
- The streak : Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and baseball's most historic record
- The tale of Beatrix Potter
- The three lives of James Madison : genius, partisan, president
- The totally unscientific study of the search for human happiness
- The trauma cleaner : one woman's extraordinary life in the business of death, decay, and disaster
- The trial of Adolf Hitler : the Beer Hall Putsch and the rise of Nazi Germany
- The trials of a scold : the incredible true story of writer Anne Royall
- The trials of the King of Hampshire : madness, secrecy and betrayal in Georgian England
- The triumph of William McKinley : why the election of 1896 still matters
- The tunnels : escapes under the Berlin Wall and the historic films the JFK White House tried to kill
- The unfinished palazzo : life, love and art in Venice : the stories of Luisa Casati, Doris Castlerosse and Peggy Guggenheim
- The unpunished vice : a life of reading
- The voice of America : Lowell Thomas and the invention of 20th-century journalism
- The way it was : my life with Frank Sinatra
- The whole harmonium : the life of Wallace Stevens
- The wilderness of ruin : a tale of madness, fire, and the hunt for America's youngest serial killer
- The wine lover's daughter : a memoir
- The woman who says no : François Gilot on her life with and without Picasso : rebel, muse, artist
- The women who flew for Hitler : a true story of soaring ambition and searing rivalry
- The wonderful Mr Willughby : the first true ornithologist
- The working class Republican : Ronald Reagan and the return of blue-collar conservatism
- The world is not a rectangle : a portrait of architect Zaha Hadid
- The world of Laura Ingalls Wilder : the frontier landscapes that inspired the Little House books
- Their promised land : my grandparents in love and war
- Theoretical physicist Brian Greene
- Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking
- There's a mystery there : the primal vision of Maurice Sendak
- Thomas Edison and his bright idea
- Thomas Edison invents the light bulb
- Those wild Wyndhams : three sisters at the heart of power
- Three days in January : Dwight Eisenhower's final mission
- Through my father's eyes
- Ties that bound : founding first ladies and slaves
- Tiger Woods
- To the stars! : the first American woman to walk in space
- Tom Brady
- Tough mothers : amazing stories of history's mightiest matriarchs
- Trans/portraits : voices from transgender communities
- True believer : Stalin's last American spy
- Truevine : two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South
- Trump and me
- Trump revealed : an American journey of ambition, ego, money, and power
- Try not to suck : the exceptional, extraordinary baseball life of Joe Maddon
- Unbeaten : Rocky Marciano's fight for perfection in a crooked world
- Uncommon people : the rise and fall of the rock stars
- Under the lights and in the dark : untold stories of women's soccer
- Unlikeable : the problem with Hillary
- Urban biologist Danielle Lee
- Valiant ambition : George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
- Van Halen rising : how a Southern California backyard party band saved heavy metal
- Verdi : the man revealed
- Victoria the queen : an intimate biography of the woman who ruled an empire
- Vincent and Theo : the Van Gogh brothers
- Visionary women : how Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters changed our world
- Voice of freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement
- W is for Webster : Noah Webster and his American dictionary
- Walk through walls : a memoir
- Wallis in love : the untold life of the Duchess of Windsor, the woman who changed the monarchy
- Walt Disney : animator & founder