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Biography & Memoir
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A Book of Americans
by Stepehen Vincent Benét
History
Biography & Memoir
A Marriage at Sea
by Sophie Elmhirst
Biography & Memoir
A Midwife’s Tale
by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
History
Biography & Memoir
A Royal Affair
by Stella Tillyard
History
Biography & Memoir
A Tale of Love and Darkness
by Amos Oz
Biography & Memoir
Fiction
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
by Theodore Rosengarten
Biography & Memoir
Race & Identity
History
All or Nothing
by Michael Wolff
Politics & Government
Biography & Memoir
All the Best, George Bush
by George H.W. Bush
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
An Hour Before Daylight
by Jimmy Carter
Biography & Memoir
An Unfinished Love Story
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Biography & Memoir
History
Augustine of Hippo
by Peter Brown
Biography & Memoir
Religion & Spirituality
Babi Yar
by Anatoly Kuznetsov
History
Biography & Memoir
Bad Blood
by John Carreyrou
Biography & Memoir
Business & Management
Barbarian Days
by William Finnegan
Biography & Memoir
Beautiful Country
by Qian Julie Wang
Biography & Memoir
Race & Identity
Becoming Ms. Burton
by Susan Burton and Cari Lynn
Biography & Memoir
Law & Justice
Benjamin Franklin
by Walter Isaacson
Biography & Memoir
History
Berlin Diary
by William L. Shirer
History
Biography & Memoir
Black Paper
by Teju Cole
Biography & Memoir
Race & Identity
Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs
by Kerry Howley
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
Breaking the Thermometer
by Leyla McCalla
Biography & Memoir
Buckley
by Sam Tanenhaus
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
Burn Book
by Kara Swisher
Media & Journalism
Science & Technology
Biography & Memoir
Carry Me Home
by Mavis Staples and Levon Helm
Biography & Memoir
Chagall
by Jackie Wullschlager
Biography & Memoir
Champlain's Dream
by David Hackett Fischer
History
Biography & Memoir
Classified
by David Bernstein
Biography & Memoir
Science & Technology
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
by Thomas De Quincey
Biography & Memoir
Health & Medicine
Confidence Man
by Maggie Haberman
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
Conundrum
by Jan Morris
Biography & Memoir
Gender & Feminism
Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner
Biography & Memoir
Race & Identity
Dilla Time
by Dan Charnas
Biography & Memoir
Society & Culture
Diplomats at War
by Charles Trueheart
History
Foreign Policy
Biography & Memoir
Disturbing the Universe
by Freeman Dyson
Biography & Memoir
Science & Technology
Empire and Revolution
by Richard Bourke
History
Philosophy
Biography & Memoir
Essays After Eighty
by Donald Hall
Biography & Memoir
Fei Xiaotong and Sociology in Revolutionary China
by R. David Arkush
Biography & Memoir
History
Forever Changes
by Love
Biography & Memoir
Free
by Lea Ypi
Biography & Memoir
History
Furious Hours
by Casey Cep
Biography & Memoir
Grant
by Ron Chernow
Biography & Memoir
History
H is for Hawk
by Helen Macdonald
Biography & Memoir
Heart of Fire
by Mazie Hirono
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
Hitler’s People
by Richard Evans
History
Biography & Memoir
Hope Against Hope
by Nadezhda Mandelstam
Biography & Memoir
History
I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This (But I’m Going to Anyway)
by Chelsea Devantez
Biography & Memoir
Media & Journalism
I’m Your Man
by Sylvie Simmons
Biography & Memoir
In Shock
by Dr. Rana Awdish
Health & Medicine
Biography & Memoir
Interviews with Francis Bacon
by David Sylvester
Biography & Memoir
Into the Bright Sunshine
by Samuel G. Freedman
History
Politics & Government
Biography & Memoir
John & Paul
by Ian Leslie
Biography & Memoir
Society & Culture
Kamala’s Way
by Dan Morain
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
Landings
by Arwen Donahue
Biography & Memoir
Less Than One
by Joseph Brodsky
Biography & Memoir
Fiction
Lincoln at Gettysburg
by Garry Wills
History
Biography & Memoir
Lorne
by Susan Morrison
Biography & Memoir
Media & Journalism
Love in Goon Park
by Deborah Blum
Psychology & Mind
Biography & Memoir
Manhunt
by James L. Swanson
History
Biography & Memoir
Master of the Game
by Martin Indyk
History
Foreign Policy
Biography & Memoir
Master of the Senate
by Robert Caro
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
History
Melting Point
by Rachel Cockerell
Biography & Memoir
History
Memoirs 1925-1950
by George F. Kennan
Biography & Memoir
Foreign Policy
Memorial Days
by Geraldine Brooks
Biography & Memoir
Memorial Drive
by Natasha Tretheway
Biography & Memoir
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir
by Natasha Trethewey
Biography & Memoir
Messiah in Sde Boker
by Hagai Segal
Biography & Memoir
History
Minor Feelings
by Cathy Park Hong
Biography & Memoir
Race & Identity
Mother Jones
by Elliot J. Gorn
Biography & Memoir
History
Mountains Beyond Mountains
by Tracy Kidder
Biography & Memoir
Health & Medicine
Mr. Churchill in the White House
by Robert Schmuhl
History
Biography & Memoir
My Century
by Aleksander Wat
Biography & Memoir
History
My Life in Full
by Indra Nooyi
Biography & Memoir
Business & Management
Naples ’44
by Norman Lewis
History
Biography & Memoir
Open
by Andre Agassi
Biography & Memoir
Orwell’s Roses
by Rebecca Solnit
Biography & Memoir
Our Man
by George Packer
Biography & Memoir
Foreign Policy
Pain
by Patrick Wall
History
Biography & Memoir
Health & Medicine
Patriotic Gore
by Edmund Wilson
History
Biography & Memoir
Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
by Ulysses Grant
Biography & Memoir
History
Pessoa: A Biography
by Richard Zenith
Biography & Memoir
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
Biography & Memoir
Philosophy
Ramones
by Ramones
Biography & Memoir
Romney
by McKay Coppins
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
Rosalind Franklin
by Brenda Maddox
Biography & Memoir
Science & Technology
Salmon P. Chase
by Walter Stahr
Biography & Memoir
History
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees
by Lawrence Weschler
Biography & Memoir
Shy
by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green
Biography & Memoir
Sir Vidia’s Shadow
by Paul Theroux
Biography & Memoir
Solito
by Javier Zamora
Biography & Memoir
Race & Identity
Southerners
by Marshall Frady
Biography & Memoir
Society & Culture
Spent
by Alison Bechdel
Biography & Memoir
Climate & Environment
Strangers in the House
by Raja Shehadeh
Biography & Memoir
Foreign Policy
String Theory
by David Foster Wallace
Biography & Memoir
Substance
by Peter Hook
Biography & Memoir
Team of Rivals
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
History
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
The Accidental President
by A. J. Baime
History
Biography & Memoir
The Apology
by V (formerly Eve Ensler)
Biography & Memoir
The Apology
by V
Biography & Memoir
Gender & Feminism
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
Biography & Memoir
Race & Identity
History
The Back Channel
by William J. Burns
Foreign Policy
Biography & Memoir
The Beatles
by The Beatles
Biography & Memoir
The Bond King
by Mary Childs
Biography & Memoir
Economics
The Brothers
by Stephen Kinzer
History
Foreign Policy
Biography & Memoir
The Bully Pulpit
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Biography & Memoir
History
Politics & Government
The Cancer Journals
by Audre Lorde
Biography & Memoir
Health & Medicine
The Defining Moment
by Jonathan Alter
History
Politics & Government
Biography & Memoir
The Final Days
by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
History
Politics & Government
Biography & Memoir
The Fractalist
by Benoit Mandelbrot
Biography & Memoir
Science & Technology
The Gatekeepers
by Chris Whipple
Politics & Government
Biography & Memoir
The India Trilogy
by V.S. Naipaul
Biography & Memoir
Society & Culture
The Invention of Nature
by Andrea Wulf
Biography & Memoir
Science & Technology
Climate & Environment
The Journal of a Disappointed Man
by W.N.P. Barbellion
Biography & Memoir
The Last Politician
by Franklin Foer
Politics & Government
Biography & Memoir
The Lincoln Miracle
by Edward Achorn
History
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
The Lost
by Daniel Mendelsohn
Biography & Memoir
History
The Man Who Ran Washington
by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
History
The Missing Peace
by Dennis Ross
Foreign Policy
Biography & Memoir
The Outermost House
by Henry Beston
Climate & Environment
Biography & Memoir
The Path to Power
by Robert Caro
Biography & Memoir
History
Politics & Government
The Power Broker
by Robert A. Caro
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
History
The Power Broker
by Robert Caro
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
History
The Price of Peace
by Zachary D. Carter
Economics
Biography & Memoir
History
The Price of Peace
by Zachary Carter
Economics
Biography & Memoir
History
The Profiteers
by Sally Denton
Biography & Memoir
Business & Management
The Rebel’s Clinic
by Adam Shatz
Biography & Memoir
Psychology & Mind
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
by Alison Bechdel
Biography & Memoir
Health & Medicine
The Sketchbooks Revealed
by Richard Diebenkorn
Biography & Memoir
The Splendid and the Vile
by Erik Larson
History
Biography & Memoir
The Spy and the Traitor
by Ben Macintyre
History
Biography & Memoir
The Surprise of Cremona
by Edith Templeton
Biography & Memoir
The Sword and the Shield
by Peniel E. Joseph
Biography & Memoir
Race & Identity
History
The Truths We Hold
by Kamala Harris
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
The Undoing Project
by Michael Lewis
Psychology & Mind
Biography & Memoir
The Wise Men
by Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas
History
Foreign Policy
Biography & Memoir
The Woman Behind the New Deal
by Kirstin Downey
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
History
The World of Yesterday
by Stefan Zweig
Biography & Memoir
History
The Years of Lyndon Johnson Series
by Robert A. Caro
Biography & Memoir
History
Politics & Government
These Precious Days
by Ann Patchett
Biography & Memoir
Thomas Jefferson
by Jon Meacham
Biography & Memoir
History
Politics & Government
Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century
by John A. Farrell
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
Tired of Winning
by Jonathan Karl
Politics & Government
Biography & Memoir
Tolstoy: A Russian Life
by Rosamund Bartlett
Biography & Memoir
Trance Frendz
by Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm
Biography & Memoir
Troubled Memory
by Lawrence N. Powell
History
Biography & Memoir
Truman
by David McCullough
Biography & Memoir
History
Unbought and Unbossed
by Shirley Chisholm
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government
Race & Identity
Wait Till Next Year
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Biography & Memoir
Walk, Ride, Paddle
by Tim Kaine
Biography & Memoir
Wave
by Sonali Deraniyagala
Biography & Memoir
What You Have Heard Is True
by Carolyn Forché
Biography & Memoir
Foreign Policy
History
Who By Fire
by Matti Friedman
Biography & Memoir
History
Why We Did It
by Tim Miller
Politics & Government
Biography & Memoir
You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
by Howard Zinn
Biography & Memoir
Politics & Government