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- 100 times : a memoir of sexism
- 1000 years of joys and sorrows : a memoir
- 18 tiny deaths : the untold story of Frances Glessner Lee and the invention of modern forensics
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 50 women every Christian should know : learning from heroines of the faith
- A Carnival of Snackery : Diaries (2003-2020)
- A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away : My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits?Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More/
- A Spy called James : the True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
- A bigger sky : awakening a fierce feminine Buddhism
- A block in time : a New York City history at the corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Third street
- A boy named Beckoning : the true story of Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Native American hero
- A carnival of snackery : diaries (2003-2020)
- A computer called Katherine : how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
- A cowboy detective : a true story of twenty-two years with a world-famous detective agency
- A cup of water under my bed : a memoir
- A cure for darkness : the story of depression and how we treat it
- A delayed life : the true story of the Librarian of Auschwitz
- A farewell to Gabo and Mercedes : a son's memoir of Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha
- A ghost in the throat
- 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 great and terrible king : Edward I and the forging of Britain
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A killer by design : murderers, mindhunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A knock at midnight : a story of hope, justice, and freedom
- A lab of one's own : one woman's personal journey through sexism in science
- A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
- A little me
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A marvelous life : the amazing story of Stan Lee
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A plan for the people : Nelson Mandela's hope for his nation
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A promised land
- A prophet with honor : the Billy Graham story
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A sacred oath : memoirs of a Secretary of Defense during extraordinary times
- 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 series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A sporting chance : how Paralympics founder Ludwig Guttmann saved lives with sports
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A traitor to his species : Henry Bergh and the birth of the animal rights movement
- A very punchable face
- A very punchable face
- A voice named Aretha
- A whole world : letters from James Merrill
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- A woman of no importance : the untold story of the American spy who helped win World War II
- 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
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Abe : Abraham Lincoln in his times
- Above the rim : how Elgin Baylor changed basketball
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- Accidental Saints : Finding God in All the Wrong People
- Accidental Saints : Finding God in All the Wrong People/
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Across that bridge : a vision for change and the future of America
- Act like you got some sense : : and other things my daughters taught me
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Act like you got some sense : and other things my daughters taught me
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- African icons : ten people who shaped history
- African samurai : the true story of Yasuke, a legendary black warrior in feudal Japan
- After 9/11 : one girl's journey through darkness to a new beginning
- Aftershocks : a memoir
- Against all odds
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against all odds : a true story of ultimate courage and survival in World War II
- Against the hounds of hell : a life of Howard Thurman
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agatha Christie : first lady of crime
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Agent M : the lives and spies of MI5's Maxwell Knight
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agent Sonya : Moscow's most daring wartime spy
- Agnes Martin : Pioneer, Painter, Icon
- Agrippina : the most extraordinary woman of the Roman world
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Albert Einstein : a life of genius
- Albert and the whale : Albrecht Dürer and how art imagines our world
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander the Great : his life and his mysterious death
- Alfred Hair : heart of the Highwaymen
- Alfred Hitchcock : a life in darkness and light
- Ali : a life
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Ali's well that ends well : tales of desperation and a little inspiration
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- Alice across America : the story of the first women's cross-country road trip
- Alive still : Nell Blaine, American painter
- All about me! : my remarkable life in show business
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All creatures great and small : the warm and joyful memoirs of the world's most beloved animal doctor
- All in : an autobiography
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a Black family keepsake
- All that she carried : the journey of Ashley's sack, a black family keepsake
- 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 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 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 the young men
- All the young men : a memoir of love, AIDS, and chosen family in the American South
- Almighty : courage, resistance, and existential peril in the nuclear age
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals
- Always another country : a memoir of exile and home
- Always remember your name : a true story of family and survival in Auschwitz
- Always young and restless : my life on and off America's #1 daytime drama
- Aly Raisman
- Aly Raisman : born to tumble
- Amazon woman : facing fears, chasing dreams, and a quest to kayak the world's largest river from source to sea
- America's femme fatale : the story of serial killer Belle Gunness
- America's reluctant prince : the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
- America, the band : an authorized biography
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Sherlock : Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI/
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American baby : a mother, a child, and the shadow history of adoption
- American daughter : a memoir of intergenerational trauma, a mother's dark secrets, and a daughter's quest for redemption
- American fix : inside the opioid addiction crisis--and how to end it
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American predator : the hunt for the most meticulous serial killer of the 21st century
- American rebels : how the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy families fanned the flames of revolution
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- American workman : the life and art of John Kane
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- Amoskeag : life and work in an American factory-city
- An American marriage : the untold story of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd
- An Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An impossible life : the inspiring true story of a woman's struggle from within
- An onion in my pocket : my life with vegetables
- And in the End : The Last Days of The Beatles/
- And in the end : the last days of the Beatles
- And now I spill the family secrets : an illustrated memoir
- Andrea Dworkin : the feminist as revolutionary
- Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans : The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andy Warhol
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Anne Brigman : the photographer of enchantment
- Anne Frank : out of the shadows
- Anni & Josef Albers : equal and unequal
- Another life is possible : insights from 100 years of life together
- Anthem : Rush in the '70s
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir
- Apparently there were complaints : a memoir/
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Art in Cuba
- Art in turmoil : the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966-76
- Art is a tyrant : the unconventional life of Rosa Bonheur
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Artistas : su vida y sus obras
- Artists in residence : seventeen artists and their living spaces, from Giverny to Casa Azul
- At the center of all beauty : solitude and the creative life
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Author in chief : the untold story of our presidents, and the books they wrote
- Avedon : something personal
- Avery : the case against Steven Avery and what Making a Murderer gets wrong
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Back to the prairie : a home remade, a life rediscovered
- Bad Mexicans : race, empire, and revolution in the borderlands
- Bad news for outlaws : the remarkable life of Bass Reeves, deputy U.S. marshal
- Baggage : tales from a fully packed life
- Baker Mayfield : football superstar
- Barack and Joe : the making of an extraordinary partnership
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barking to the choir : the power of radical kinship
- Battle of brothers : William and Harry--the inside story of a family in tumult
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Beast : John Bonham and the rise of Led Zeppelin
- Beastie Boys book
- Beautiful Country : A Memoir/
- Beautiful Country : a memoir/
- Beautiful Things : A Memoir/
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful country : a memoir
- Beautiful things : a memoir
- Becoming
- Becoming : Meine Geschichte/
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Steve Jobs : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Becoming a hair stylist
- Becoming a man : the story of a transition
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Behind the lens : my life
- Behind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Belichick and Brady : two men, the Patriots, and how they revolutionized football
- Believe it : [how to go from underestimated to unstoppable]
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Below the edge of darkness : a memoir of exploring light and life in the deep sea
- Bending the arc : my journey from prison to politics
- Berenice Abbott : a life in photography
- Berlioz
- Berthe Morisot
- Bessie Smith : a poet's biography of a blues legend
- Better git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus
- Better to have gone : love, death, and the quest for utopia in Auroville
- Better, not bitter : living on purpose in the pursuit of racial justice
- Betty Ford : First Lady, women's advocate, survivor, trailblazer
- Between the world and me
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Between two kingdoms : A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
- Beyond : the astonishing story of the first human to leave our planet and journey into space
- Big Papi : the legend and legacy of David Ortiz / introduction by John Henry ; foreword by Pedro Martinez ; the Boston Globe
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Bill Cunningham was there : spring flings + summer soirées
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies : The Real West
- Billie
- Billie Eilish
- Billie Eilish
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Birth of a dancing star : from cradle Catholic to cyborg Christian
- Bitter medicine : a graphic memoir of mental illness
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Black ops : the life of a CIA shadow warrior
- Black radical : the life and times of William Monroe Trotter
- Black spartacus : the epic life of Toussaint Louverture
- Blind man's bluff : a memoir
- Blood : a memoir
- Blood and Treasure : Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier/
- Blood and treasure : Daniel Boone and the fight for America's first frontier
- Blood brother : Jonathan Daniels and his sacrifice for civil rights
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood orange night : my journey to the edge of madness
- Blood runs coal : the Yablonski murders and the battle for the United Mine Workers of America
- Blood, sweat, & tears : Jake Gaither, Florida A & M, and the history of Black college football
- Blow your house down : a story of family, feminism, and treason
- Bobby Kennedy : The Making of a Liberal Icon
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
- Body work : the radical power of personal narrative
- Bomb shelter : love, time, and other explosives
- Boomers : the men and women who promised freedom and delivered disaster
- 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
- Boston's Apollo : Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent
- Bourdain : The Definitive Oral Biography
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Bourdain : the definitive oral biography
- Box : Henry Brown mails himself to freedom
- Boys in the Trees : A Memoir/
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants
- Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants
- Brat : an '80s story
- Bravey : chasing dreams, befriending pain, and other big ideas
- Brazen : my unorthodox journey from long sleeves to lingerie
- Break point : the secret diary of a pro tennis player
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breaking barriers
- Breaking the ice : the Black experience in professional hockey
- Breathe : a life in flow
- Bright precious thing : a memoir
- Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays
- British writers
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Broken (in the best possible way)
- Brother & sister
- Brothers and Wives : Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan/
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Bruce Lee : a life
- Buckley and Mailer : the difficult friendship that shaped the Sixties
- Building a life worth living : a memoir
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Burn the page : a true story of torching doubts, blazing trails, and igniting change
- Bush
- Buster Keaton : a filmmaker's life
- Butch Cassidy : the true story of an American outlaw
- Buzz Aldrin
- Buzz Aldrin : pioneer moon explorer
- By honor bound : two Navy SEALs, the Medal of Honor, and a story of extraordinary courage
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Calhoun : American heretic
- Call me Miss Hamilton : one woman's case for equality and respect
- Camera man : Buster Keaton, the dawn of cinema, and the invention of the Twentieth Century
- Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era
- Captain Fantastic : Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Careless love : the unmaking of Elvis Presley
- Carpenters : the musical legacy
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Carrying my father's torch : from Holocaust trauma to transformation
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Cary Grant : a brilliant disguise
- Casey Stengel : : Baseball's Greatest Character/
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917-- a world on the edge
- Caught! : nabbing history's most wanted
- Chalk : the art and erasure of Cy Twombly
- Challenge accepted! : 253 steps to becoming an anti-it girl
- Charles Drew : revolutionized medical science
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Chasing Chopin : a musical journey across three centuries, four countries, and a half-dozen revolutions
- Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom
- Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom
- Chasing me to my grave : an artist's memoir of the Jim Crow South
- 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
- Chasing the light : writing, directing, and surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the movie game/
- Chester Himes : a rage in Harlem, internationally acclaimed writer
- Chihuly and architecture
- Child of the flower-song people : Luz Jiménez, daughter of the Nahua
- Children of the land
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Christian Dior : designer of dreams
- Christopher Pratt : six decades
- Chumps to champs : how the worst teams in Yankees history led to the '90's dynasty
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
- 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 World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Cokie : a life well lived
- Cold warriors : writers who waged the literary cold war
- Come fly the world : the jet-age story of the women of Pan Am
- Comeback season : my unlikely story of friendship with the greatest living Negro League baseball players
- Comedy comedy comedy drama : a memoir
- Comedy comedy comedy drama : a memoir
- Comedy comedy comedy drama : a memoir/
- Comics confidential : thirteen graphic novelists talk story, craft, and life outside the box
- Compassionate soldier : remarkable true stories of mercy, heroism, and honor from the battlefield
- Composers : their lives and works
- Concepcion : an immigrant family's fortunes
- Confident women
- Confident women : swindlers, grifters, and shapeshifters of the feminine persuasion
- Conquering the Pacific : an unknown mariner and the final great voyage of the Age of Discovery