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- #Presidents : follow the leaders
- 16 words : William Carlos Williams and "The red wheelbarrow"
- 3 kings : Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and hip-hop's multibillion-dollar rise
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 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 castle in wartime : one family, their missing sons, and the fight to defeat the Nazis
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- 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 forgotten hero : Folke Bernadotte, the Swedish humanitarian who rescued 30,000 people from the Nazis
- A future in ruins : UNESCO, world heritage, and the dream of peace
- 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 Misty : the true story of Misty Copeland
- A girl named Rosa : the true story of Rosa Parks
- A good American family : the Red Scare and my father
- A good provider is one who leaves : one family and migration in the 21st century
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre and her dramatic captivity and daring escape from Nazi Germany
- A journey to freedom : Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power movement
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A life discarded : 148 diaries found in the trash
- A light in the darkness : Janusz Korczak, his orphans, and the Holocaust
- 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 parrot in the painting : the story of Frida Kahlo and Bonito
- 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 prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- A queer history of the United States for young people
- 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 sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A spy called James : the true story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War double agent
- A state at any cost : the life of David Ben-Gurion
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A truck full of money
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of Parliament
- A well-read woman : the life, loves, and legacy of Ruth Rappaport
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win WWII
- 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
- Aaron Judge
- Aaron Rodgers
- Abandoned in hell : the fight for Vietnam's Fire Base Kate
- Abby Wambach
- Abigail Adams : champion for women
- Abraham
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Ada Lovelace
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Ada's ideas : the story of Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer
- Adam Smith : father of economics
- Adele : music sensation
- Adiós eterno : los últimos días del Divo
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson
- African American almanac : 400 years of triumph, courage and excellence
- 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
- 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
- Albert Einstein
- Alejandro Sanz : #vive
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alex Morgan
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the Equal Rights Amendment
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the powers of Earth : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1856-1860
- All the president's women : Donald Trump and the making of a predator
- 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
- Amelia Earhart
- America border culture dreamer : the young immigrant experience from A to Z
- America is immigrants
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- 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 : 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 cipher : Bowe Bergdahl and the U.S. tragedy in Afghanistan
- American eclipse : a nation's epic race to catch the shadow of the moon and win the glory of the world
- American heroes
- American kingpin : the epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road
- American pain : how a young felon and his ring of doctors unleashed America's deadliest drug epidemic
- American philosophy : a love story
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American radicals : how nineteenth-century protest shaped the nation
- American spirit : profiles in resilience, courage, and faith
- 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
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- 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
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank : a life in hiding
- Antarctica's Lost Aviator : The Epic Adventure to Explore the Last Frontier on Earth
- Antonio Brown
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- 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
- Astronaut and physicist Sally Ride
- Astrophysicist and space advocate Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audrey : my first Audrey Hepburn
- Audrey Hepburn
- Augustine : conversions to confessions
- Autobiografía
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barbara Bush : literacy champion
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barbra Streisand : redefining beauty, femininity, and power
- Barnum : an American life
- Barnum : an American life
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Be the one : six true stories of teens overcoming hardship with hope
- Beastie Boys book
- Beatles '66 : the revolutionary year
- Becoming Billie Holiday
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Emily : the life of Emily Dickinson
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming a hair stylist
- Before she was Harriet
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Being John Lennon : a restless life
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Ben Hecht : fighting words, moving pictures
- Beneath the tamarind tree : a story of courage, family, and the lost schoolgirls of Boko Haram
- Benjamin Banneker
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Bessie Coleman : trailblazing pilot
- Bethany Mota
- Betty Ford : women's rights and health advocate
- Between the lines : how Ernie Barnes went from the football field to the art gallery
- Beyoncé : the queen of pop
- Biddy Mason speaks up
- Bill Monroe : the life and music of the Blue Grass man
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Bing Crosby : swinging on a star, the war years, 1940-1946
- Bitcoin billionaires : a true story of genius, betrayal, and redemption
- Black Detroit : a people's history of self-determination
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Blackbeard
- Blake Griffin
- Blood : a memoir
- 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
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- 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
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to fish : how an obsessed angler became the world's greatest striped bass fisherman
- Born to run
- Boss of the grips : the life of James H. Williams and the Red Caps of Grand Central Terminal
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breanna Stewart
- Brigham Young and the expansion of the Mormon faith
- Bring it on home : Peter Grant, Led Zeppelin, and beyond --the story of rock's greatest manager
- 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
- Bryce Harper
- Buffalo Bill's America : William Cody and the Wild West Show
- Buffy Sainte-Marie : the authorized biography
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- Buster Posey
- Buzz Aldrin : pioneer moon explorer
- 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
- CSNY : Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- 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
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Cardi B
- Carl Sagan : celebrated cosmos scholar
- Carl Van Doren : a man of ideas
- 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
- Chalk : the art and erasure of Cy Twombly
- Charles Darwin
- Charles Darwin : Victorian Mythmaker
- Charles Drew
- Charlie Chaplin
- Charlotte Bronte : a fiery heart
- Chasing the Bear : how Bear Bryant and Nick Saban made Alabama the greatest college football program of all time
- 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
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Civil War barons : the tycoons, entrepreneurs, inventors, and visionaries who forged victory and shaped a nation
- Claiming my place : coming of age in the shadow of the Holocaust
- Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson : environmental protector
- Clayton Kershaw
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coco Chanel
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code talker stories
- 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
- Commander in cheat : how golf explains Trump
- Computer engineer Ruchi Sanghvi
- Condé Nast : the man and his empire
- Contact high : a visual history of hip-hop
- Craig Kielburger : champion for children's rights and youth activism
- Crayola creators : Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
- Critical survey of young adult literature
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Cruel to be kind : the life and music of Nick Lowe
- Custer : the making of a young general
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Dad's maybe book
- Dak Prescott