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- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- A Sand County almanac & other writings on ecology and conservation
- A casebook on Dylan Thomas
- A childhood, the biography of a place
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A feminist in the White House : Midge Costanza, the Carter years, and America's culture wars
- A fighting chance
- A great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival
- A life of Gwendolyn Brooks
- A life of John Keats
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A reader's guide to Walt Whitman
- A surprised queenhood in the new Black sun : the life & legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks
- Abraham Lincoln traveled this way : the America Lincoln knew
- Act one : an autobiography
- Ada's algorithm : how Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace launched the digital age
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alexander Hamilton and the Constitution
- Alfred Wegener : science, exploration, and the theory of continental drift
- Alibaba : the house that Jack Ma built
- All creatures great and small
- All the Kremlin's men : inside the court of Vladimir Putin
- Ambrose Bierce : alone in bad company
- Ambrose Bierce; : a biography
- American kingpin : the epic hunt for the criminal mastermind behind the Silk Road
- An outside chance : essays on sport
- Anaïs Nin : a biography
- André Malraux
- Anne Sexton : a biography
- Anton Chekhov : a life
- Anything that burns you : a portrait of Lola Ridge, radical poet
- Archibald MacLeish : an American life
- Ariel; the life of Shelley.
- At the existentialist café : freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others
- Auden
- Baudelaire
- Baudelaire the damned : a biography
- Be free or die : the amazing story of Robert Smalls' escape from slavery to Union hero
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Becoming Dickens : the invention of a novelist
- Becoming Leonardo : an exploded view of the life of Leonardo da Vinci
- Beethoven : anguish and triumph : a biography
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Better git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus
- Between the world and me
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Bitter fame : a life of Sylvia Plath
- Bizet
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Blake
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Building Poe biography
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bush
- Butler's Lives of the saints
- Call me Burroughs : a Life
- Carl Sandburg : a biography
- Carl Sandburg, Lincoln of our literature: : a biography
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Charlotte Brontë, a passionate life
- Clemente : the passion and grace of baseball's last hero
- Cocteau, a biography
- Concussion
- Creativity, Inc. : overcoming the unseen forces that stand in the way of true inspiration
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- D.H. Lawrence : a biography
- Dear me
- Disturber of the peace : the life of H.L. Mencken
- Doughboys on the Western Front : memories of American soldiers in the Great War
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Dreams of exile : Robert Louis Stevenson, a biography
- Dust bowl girls : the inspiring story of the team that barnstormed its way to basketball glory
- Dylan : a biography
- E.E. Cummings : a life
- E.M. Forster : a biography
- Edgar A. Poe : mournful and never-ending remembrance
- Edgar Allan Poe : the fever called living
- Edith Wharton : a biography
- Einstein : his space and times
- Einstein, profile of the man
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt : The War Years and After, 1939-1962
- Ella Baker : community organizer of the Civil Rights movement
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Emerson : the mind on fire : a biography
- Emily Brontë : a biography
- Emily Dickinson
- Emily Dickinson: : an interpretive biography
- Ernest Hemingway : a life story
- Erskine Caldwell : the journey from Tobacco Road : a biography
- Eternity's sunrise : the imaginative world of William Blake
- Eureka : how invention happens
- Evelyn Waugh : a biography
- Ever the winds of chance
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Failure is impossible : Susan B. Anthony in her own words
- Federico GarcÃa Lorca : a life
- Fit for the presidency? : winners, losers, what-ifs, and also-rans
- Florence Nightingale, feminist
- For the love of the game : my story
- Forgotten : the untold story of D-Day's Black heroes, at home and at war
- Franz Liszt : biography of a superstar
- Frederick the Great : King of Prussia
- Freud in his time and ours
- From noon to starry night : a life of Walt Whitman
- Gandhi : the man, his people, and the empire
- Genghis Khan : his conquests, his empire, his legacy
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- George Eliot, voice of a century : a biography
- George Eliot; a biography
- George Lucas : a life
- George W. Bush
- George Washington Carver : a life
- Gerard Manley Hopkins : a very private life
- Gogol : his life and works
- Going clear : Scientology, Hollywood, and the prison of belief
- Grand Hotel Abyss : the lives of the Frankfurt School
- Great soul : Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India
- Greatness in the shadows : Larry Doby and the integration of the American League
- Groucho Marx : the comedy of existence
- H.G. Wells; : a biography,
- H.H. Holmes : the true history of the White City Devil
- Harriet Beecher Stowe : a life
- Harry S. Truman
- Headstrong : 52 women who changed science-- and the world
- Hemingway : a life without consequences
- Hemingway : the 1930s
- Henry Miller : a life
- Herbert Hoover : a life
- Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hitler
- Hitler's art thief : Hildebrand Gurlitt, the Nazis, and the looting of Europe's treasures
- I am a memory come alive : autobiographical writings
- Igor Stravinsky
- Imbeciles : the Supreme Court, American eugenics, and the sterilization of Carrie Buck
- Immunity : how Elie Metchnikoff changed the course of modern medicine
- In search of Frankenstein
- Indelible ink : the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America's free press
- Into Africa : the epic adventures of Stanley & Livingstone
- Invisible writer : a biography of Joyce Carol Oates
- Isabella : the warrior queen
- Jack : a biography of Jack London
- James Baldwin : artist on fire : a portrait
- James K. Polk, Jacksonian, 1795-1843
- James Thurber : his life and times
- Jane Austen, obstinate heart : a biography
- Jazz masters of the forties
- Jean Renoir.
- Jerzy Kosinski : a biography
- Jimmy Carter : elected President with pocket change and peanuts
- Joan of Arc : a history
- John Donne, a life
- John Quincy Adams : militant spirit
- John Steinbeck : a biography
- Johnny Cash : the life
- Jonas Salk : a life
- Jonathan Edwards : a life
- Jonathan Franzen : the comedy of rage
- Jonathan Swift
- Kahlil Gibran, his life and world
- Katherine Anne Porter : a life
- Keats
- Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights
- Kepler and the universe : how one man revolutionized astronomy
- Khubilai Khan : his life and times
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- Killing machine : the American presidency in the age of drone warfare
- King John : and the road to Magna Carta
- Lenin on the Train
- Lennon : the definitive biography
- Lewis Carroll : a biography
- Light come shining : the transformations of Bob Dylan
- Lincoln : an illustrated biography
- Listening to stone : the art and life of Isamu Noguchi
- Looking for the stranger : Albert Camus and the life of a literary classic
- Lords of the sky : fighter pilots and air combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16
- Lost puritan : a life of Robert Lowell
- Louis Armstrong : the offstage story of Satchmo
- Louis Sullivan
- Love becomes a funeral pyre : a biography of The Doors
- Lytton Strachey; a critical biography
- M.C. Escher, his life and complete graphic work : with a fully illustrated catalogue
- MJ : the genius of Michael Jackson
- MacArthur at war : World War II in the Pacific
- Madam President : the secret presidency of Edith Wilson
- Madison's gift : five partnerships that built America
- Magritte : the mystery of the ordinary, 1926-1938
- Making contact : Jill Tarter and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
- Manson : the life and times of Charles Manson
- Margaret Thatcher : the authorized biography : at her zenith : in London, Washington and Moscow
- Mark Twain : the bachelor years : a biography
- Martin Luther : visionary reformer
- Mary Shelley : romance and reality
- Masters of sex : the life and times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the couple who taught America how to love
- Maya Angelou : adventurous spirit : from I know why the caged bird sings (1970) to Rainbow in the cloud, the wisdom and spirit of Maya Angelou (2014)
- Missing man : the American spy who vanished in Iran
- Mountain Man : John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the call of the American West
- Nabokov, his life in part
- Nagasaki : life after nuclear war
- Napoleon : a life
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, a biography
- Nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- Nature's allies : eight conservationists who changed our world
- Nelson Algren : a life on the wild side
- Neruda : an intimate biography
- Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge
- Nina Simone : break down & let it all out
- No simple highway : a cultural history of the Grateful Dead
- Obama : the call of history
- Octavia E. Butler
- One man against the world : the tragedy of Richard Nixon
- One whaling family
- Orwell : the authorized biography
- Papa : a personal memoir
- Players : the story of sports and money--and the visionaries who fought to create a revolution
- Plutarch and his times,
- Popular American composers from Revolutionary times to the present; : a biographical and critical guide
- Portraits of pioneers in psychology
- Prometheus; : the life of Balzac.
- Pulitzer
- Ralph Waldo Emerson : a profile
- Rasputin : faith, power, and the twilight of the Romanovs
- Rasputin : the untold story
- Ravensbrück : life and death in Hitler's concentration camp for women
- Rebel souls : Walt Whitman and America's first Bohemians
- Remembered laughter : the life of Noel Coward
- Republic of spin : an inside history of the American presidency
- Requiem : the decline and demise of Mayor Daley and his era
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Richard Wright : ordeal of a native son
- Richter's scale : measure of an earthquake, measure of a man
- Rise of the rocket girls : the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars
- Roald Dahl : a biography
- Robert Frost : a biography
- Robert Frost himself
- Robert Frost,
- Robert Louis Stevenson and romantic tradition
- Ronald Reagan
- Rousseau and the spirit of revolt; : a psychological study,
- Salem is my dwelling place : a life of Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Sally Ride : America's first woman in space
- Sam Phillips : the man who invented rock 'n' roll
- Samuel Johnson
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge : a bondage of opium
- Savage beauty : the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Scott Fitzgerald : a biography
- Scratch : writers, money, and the art of making a living
- Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets
- Shelley and his circle, 1773-1822
- Showdown : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court nomination that changed America
- Sisters in law : how Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and changed the world
- Something in the Blood : the Untold Story of Bram Stoker, the Man Who Wrote Dracula
- Songs my mother taught me : stories, plays, and memoir
- Stalin : new biography of a dictator
- Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America
- Stanley : the impossible life of Africa's greatest explorer
- Stop-time
- Striking distance : Bruce Lee & the dawn of martial arts in America
- Swami in a strange land : how Krishna came to the West : the biography of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- Sybil
- T.H. White; a biography
- T.S. Eliot : a literary life
- T.S. Eliot : a short biography
- Talking at the gates : a life of James Baldwin
- Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln
- Tesla : inventor of the electrical age
- Thank you for your service
- The American President : from Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton
- The Baseball Whisperer : a small-town coach who shaped Big League dreams
- The Black Count : glory, revolution, betrayal, and the real Count of Monte Cristo
- The Bolt supremacy : inside Jamaica's sprint factory
- The Brontës
- The Brothers Vonnegut : science and fiction in the house of magic
- The Crane log : a documentary life of Stephen Crane, 1871-1900
- The Life of Saul Bellow : to fame and fortune, 1915-1964
- The Philosophy Book : From the Vedas to the New Atheists : 250 Milestones in the History of Philosophy
- The Pope of Physics : Enrico Fermi and the birth of the atomic age
- The Romanovs : ruling Russia, 1613-1917
- The Sitwells : a family's biography
- The Wes Anderson collection
- The Wright brothers
- The adventures of Henry Thoreau : a young man's unlikely path to Walden Pond
- The age of Caesar : five Roman lives
- The art and inventions of Max Fleischer : American animation pioneer
- The book, the ring, & the poet; : a biography of Robert Browning
- The bright twenties: : being the third book of an autobiography, 1920-1929
- The broken cord
- The classic slave narratives
- The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
- The devil's diary : Alfred Rosenberg and the stolen secrets of the Third Reich
- The double life of Stephen Crane
- The electrifying fall of Rainbow City : spectacle and assassination at the 1901 World's Fair
- The everything store : Jeff Bezos and the age of Amazon
- The fall of heaven : the Pahlavis and the final days of imperial Iran
- The fellowship : the literary lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
- The gatekeepers : how the White House Chiefs of Staff define every presidency
- The generals : Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, and the winning of World War II
- The heart of a woman
- The hidden lives of Tudor women : a social history
- The historic Whitman
- The hour of land : a personal topography of America's national parks
- The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
- The inkblots : Hermann Rorschach, his iconic test, and the power of seeing
- The invention of nature : Alexander von Humboldt's new world
- The lance and the shield : the life and times of Sitting Bull
- The life & times of Chaucer
- The life of Geoffrey Chaucer : a critical biography
- The life of Langston Hughes
- The life of Lewis Carroll (Victoria through the looking glass)
- The life of Samuel Johnson;
- The life of William Blake
- The lives of Norman Mailer : a biography
- The magic lantern : an autobiography
- The man in the monster : an intimate portrait of a serial killer
- The man who saved the union : Ulysses Grant in war and peace
- The naturalist : Theodore Roosevelt, a lifetime of exploration, and the triumph of American natural history
- The perfect theory : a century of geniuses and the battle over general relativity
- The plots against Hitler
- The political life of Abraham Lincoln
- The portable Malcolm X reader
- The presidency in black and white : my up-close view of three presidents and race in America
- The president's first year : none were prepared, some never learned--why the only school for presidents is the presidency
- The private lives of the Tudors : uncovering the secrets of Britain's greatest dynasty
- The private science of Louis Pasteur
- The quartet : orchestrating the second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- The rest I will kill : William Tillman and the unforgettable story of how a free black man refused to become a slave
- The short and tragic life of Robert Peace : a brilliant young man who left Newark for the Ivy League
- The speechwriter : a brief education in politics
- The statesman and the storyteller : John Hay, Mark Twain, and the rise of American imperialism
- The sun & the moon & the Rolling Stones
- The thirties : from notebooks and diaries of the period
- The train to Crystal City : FDR's secret prisoner exchange program and America's only family internment camp during World War II
- The undiscovered Paul Robeson : an artist's journey, 1898-1939
- The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds
- The unfinished quest of Richard Wright.
- The unwinding : an inner history of the new America
- The weather experiment : the pioneers who sought to see the future
- The woman warrior : memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts
- The woman who would be king
- The world of Charles Dickens
- The worlds of Robert E. Sherwood : mirror to his times, 1896-1939
- Theodore Rex
- Theodore Roosevelt in the field :
- There's a mystery there : the primal vision of Maurice Sendak
- They call heroes mister : the Jesse White story
- This Muslim American life : dispatches from the War on Terror
- Thomas Carlyle
- Thomas Mann : a biography
- Thornton Wilder : a life
- To hell and back : the last train from Hiroshima
- Tolkien : a biography
- Toussaint Louverture : a revolutionary life
- Trans/portraits : voices from transgender communities
- Trump talk : Donald Trump in his own words
- Ty Cobb : a terrible beauty
- Updike
- Valiant ambition : George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the fate of the American Revolution
- Van Gogh and Gauguin : the studio of the south
- Virginia Woolf; a biography
- W.B. Yeats : a life
- Walt Disney : the triumph of the American imagination
- Walt Whitman
- Walt Whitman.
- We are never meeting in real life : essays
- We could not fail : the first African Americans in the Space Program
- William Blake, his life
- William Faulkner, American writer : a biography
- William Styron, a life
- William Wordsworth : a biography
- Wilson
- With Hemingway : a year in Key West and Cuba
- Word by word : the secret life of dictionaries
- Wrestling with his angel : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II, 1849-1856
- Young Thomas Hardy
- Young adult novelists, Second series
- Young man Thoreau
- Young radicals : in the war for American ideals
- Zelda; : a biography
- Zionism : the birth and transformation of an ideal
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