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- "My brothers have my back" : inside the November 1969 battle on the Vietnamese DMZ
- 12 rounds in Lo's Gym : boxing and manhood in Appalachia
- 19 minutes to live - : helicopter combat in Vietnam
- 42 is not just a number
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- A Titanic love story : Ida and Isidor Straus
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A child's introduction to African American history : the experiences, people, and events that shaped our country
- A dangerous woman : American beauty, noted philanthropist, Nazi collaborator : the life of Florence Gould
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A girl named Helen : the true story of Helen Keller
- 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 kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A matter of inches : how I survived in the crease and beyond
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A radical faith : the assassination of Sister Maura
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- 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 street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A thousand sisters : the heroic airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A truck full of money
- A woman like her : the story behind the honor killing of a social media star
- Abraham Lincoln's dueling words
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Ada Lovelace
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- 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
- Agatha Christie
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : [the outsider]
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexandra the Great : the story of the record-breaking filly who ruled the racetrack
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali : a life
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- All blood runs red : the legendary life of Eugene Bullard-- boxer, pilot, soldier, spy
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- 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
- 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
- Amazing football : stars, stats and facts
- Amazing women
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Pharoah : Triple Crown champion
- American Pharoah : the untold story of the Triple Crown winner's legendary rise
- American Sanctuary : Mutiny, Martyrdom, And National Identity In The Age of Revolution
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- American oligarchs : the Kushners, the Trumps, and the marriage of money and power
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- An Olympic dream : the story of Samia Yusuf Omar
- And how are you, Dr. Sacks? : a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Andrew Jackson
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Animal scientist and activist Jane Goodall
- Anne Frank
- Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Artist biographies
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Astrid Lindgren : the woman behind Pippi Longstocking
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audrey Hepburn
- Autumn
- Away with words : the daring story of Isabella Bird
- Bad princess : true tales from behind the tiara
- Bagehot : the life and times of the greatest Victorian
- Balderdash! : John Newbery and the boisterous birth of children's books
- Ballad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Époque Paris
- Barack Obama : our forty-fourth president
- Barbara Bush : a memoir
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you
- 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
- Beastie Boys book
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's journey to justice
- Being Nixon : a man divided
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Ben Franklin thinks big
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Bethany Hamilton
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Bibi : the turbulent life and times of Benjamin Netanyahu
- Bill Clinton
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Billie Jean! : how tennis star Billie Jean King changed women's sports
- Billy Graham : an ordinary man and his extraordinary God
- Black Detroit : a people's history of self-determination
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- 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 moon : an American epic of war and splendor in the Cherokee Nation
- Bloomberg : a billionaire's ambition
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
- Born to run
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Brave Jane Austen : reader, writer, author, rebel
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Breakthrough! : how three people saved "blue babies" and changed medicine forever
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- By women possessed : a life of Eugene O'Neill
- Candace Parker
- Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds : Princess Leia & Unsinkable Tammy in Hell
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Casanova : the world of a seductive genius
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Chalk : the art and erasure of Cy Twombly
- Champions of women's soccer
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chester Nez and the unbreakable code : a Navajo code talker's story
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Clementine. : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- 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-breaker and mathematician Alan Turing
- Compassionate soldier : remarkable true stories of mercy, heroism, and honor from the battlefield
- Confucius : great teacher of China
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Courage is contagious : and other reasons to be grateful for Michelle Obama
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Dangerous Jane
- Danica Patrick
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Daughters of chivalry : the forgotten princesses of King Edward Longshanks
- Daughters of the Winter Queen : four remarkable sisters, the crown of Bohemia, and the enduring legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots
- David Bowie : a life
- Debussy : a painter in sound
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Dinner with DiMaggio : memories of an American hero
- Dissenter on the bench : Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life & work
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Donald Trump : outspoken personality and president
- Down the up staircase : three generations of a Harlem family
- Dr. Seuss : the great doodler
- Dragonfly : a daughter's emergence from autism: a practical guide for parents
- Duke Kahanamoku
- Dutch girl : Audrey Hepburn and World War II
- Edison
- Einstein : his life and universe
- Einstein's greatest mistake : a biography
- Einstein's wife : the story of Mileva Einstein-Marić
- Eleanor Roosevelt : the war years and after, v. 3, 1939-1962
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliza Hamilton : founding mother
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Elizabeth and Michael : the Queen of Hollywood and the King of Pop : a love story
- Ella Baker and the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Emily Dickinson's gardening life : the plants & places that inspired the iconic poet
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- Empire made : my search for an outlaw uncle who vanished in British India
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empress of the east : how a European slave girl became queen of the Ottoman Empire
- Environmental activist Wangari Maathai
- Ernst Kantorowicz : a life
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Everything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- Exit right : the people who left the Left and reshaped the American century
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Extraordinary people : a semi-comprehensive guide to some of the world's most fascinating individuals
- Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs
- Fab four friends : the boys who became the Beatles
- Facing Frederick : the life of Frederick Douglass, a monumental American man
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Fancy party gowns : the story of fashion designer Ann Cole Lowe
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Figures in film and television : Lucille Ball, Walt Disney, Jim Henson, Alfred Hitchcock, Bruce Lee, George Lucas
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Zsa Zsa : the Gabors behind the legend
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- First generation : 36 trailblazing immigrants and refugees who make America great
- Five days gone : the mystery of my mother's disappearance as a child
- Flash : the making of Weegee the Famous
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- For small creatures such as we : rituals for finding meaning in our unlikely world
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- For the right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story
- Forgotten : the untold story of D-Day's Black heroes, at home and at war
- Founding martyr : the life and death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's lost hero
- Foursome : Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Francesco Tirelli's ice cream shop
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Free, Melania : the unauthorized biography
- Frenemies in the family : famous brothers and sisters who butted heads and had each other's backs
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Freud in his time and ours
- Frida Kahlo
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women
- Funny man : Mel Brooks
- 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 changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- George Sand
- George Washington : the wonder of the age
- George Washington Carver : a life
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
- Girls write now : two decades of true stories from young female voices
- Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- God bless America : the story of an immigrant named Irving Berlin
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Good Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey
- Good night stories for rebel girls : 100 tales of extraordinary women
- Good night stories for rebel girls, 2
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Grandad Mandela
- Grandma Gatewood hikes the Appalachian trail
- Grant
- Grant
- Growing up Pedro
- Guilty thing : a life of Thomas De Quincey
- Guitar genius : how Les Paul engineered the solid-body electric guitar and rocked the world
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Harriet Tubman
- Harvey Milk : his lives and death
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- Hedy Lamarr's double life
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Herbert Hoover : a life
- Here comes Exterminator! : the longshot horse, the Great War, and the making of an American hero
- Hero of the Empire : The Boer War, A Daring Escape And The Making of Winston Churchill
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- 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
- High school
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- Hit refresh : the quest to rediscover Microsoft's soul and imagine a better future for everyone
- Hockey
- Hockey's record breakers
- Holding the line : inside Trump's Pentagon with Secretary Mattis
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- House of Nutter : the rebel tailor of Savile Row
- How Jelly Roll Morton invented jazz
- How they croaked : the awful ends of the awfully famous
- How to become an accidental genius
- How to build a hug : Temple Grandin and her amazing squeeze machine
- Hundreds of interlaced fingers : a kidney doctor's search for the perfect match
- I am Lucille Ball
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I am yours : a shared memoir
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- Ian McKellen : a biography
- Identity unknown : rediscovering seven American women artists
- If : the untold story of Kipling's American years
- Impressionism : 13 artists children should know
- In Byron's wake : the turbulent lives of Lord Byron's wife and daughter : Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- In search of Mary Shelley
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- Indelible ink : the trials of John Peter Zenger and the birth of America's free press
- Inseparable : the original Siamese twins and their rendezvous with American history
- Invisible : the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who took down America's most powerful mobster
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Irving Berlin : New York genius
- Irving Berlin : the immigrant boy who made America sing
- J.C. Penney : the man, the store, and American agriculture
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Jane Goodall
- Jane and Dorothy : a true tale of sense and sensibility : the lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth
- Janis : her life and music
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Jo Malone : my story
- Joan Procter, dragon doctor : the woman who loved reptiles
- Joe Gould's teeth
- John McCain : an American hero
- John Quincy Adams : militant spirit
- Jonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel
- Josephine Baker
- Joy : poet, seeker, and the woman who captivated C. S. Lewis
- Junior Seau : the life and death of a football icon
- Juniper : the girl who was born too soon
- Karl Marx : greatness and illusion
- Kate Middleton
- Kate Warne : Pinkerton detective
- Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights
- Kids who are changing the world
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- Kissinger's shadow : the long reach of America's most controversial statesman
- Krazy : George Herriman, a life in black and white
- L. E. L. : the lost life and scandalous death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the celebrated "female Byron"
- La frontera : el viaje con papá = My journey with papa
- Labyrinths : Emma Jung, her marriage to Carl, and the early years of psychoanalysis
- Lady first : the world of first lady Sarah Polk
- Ladysitting : my year with nana at the end of her century
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- Last girl before freeway : the life, loves, losses, and liberation of Joan Rivers
- Lenin : the man, the dictator, and the master of terror
- Lenin on the train
- Leo Durocher : baseball's prodigal son
- Leonardo and the pen that drew the future
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Let 'er buck! : George Fletcher, the people's champion
- Let your voice be heard : the life and times of Pete Seeger
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Libba : the magnificent musical life of Elizabeth Cotten
- Library on wheels : Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's first bookmobile
- Life is short (no pun intended) : love, laughter, and learning to enjoy every moment
- Life undercover : coming of age in the CIA
- Like brothers
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Lion : a long way home
- Lioness : Golda Meir and the nation of Israel
- Listen : how Pete Seeger got America singing
- Little dreamers : visionary women around the world
- Little dreamers : visionary women around the world
- Little leaders : bold women in black history
- Living with a dead language : my romance with Latin
- Living with limericks
- Looking for Lorraine : the radiant and radical life of Lorraine Hansberry
- Looking for The Stranger : Albert Camus and the life of a literary classic
- Lost destiny : Joe Kennedy, Jr., and the doomed WWII mission to save London
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Love unknown : the life and worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
- Lucky 666 : the impossible mission
- Ma speaks up : and a first generation daughter talks back
- Madame Fourcade's secret war : the daring young woman who led France's largest spy network against Hitler
- Madame President : the extraordinary journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Maggie Smith : a biography
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Malala : activist for girls' education
- Malala Yousafzai
- Malala's magic pencil
- Mama Africa! : how Miriam Makeba spread hope with her song
- Man of destiny : FDR and the making of the American century
- Man of the hour : James B. Conant, warrior scientist
- Marconi : the man who networked the world
- Margaret Thatcher : A Life and Legacy
- Margaret Thatcher : the authorized biography : herself alone
- Margaret and the Moon : how Margaret Hamilton saved the first lunar landing
- Maria Montessori
- Maria Sibylla Merian : artist, scientist, adventurer
- Marie Curie
- Marie Curie
- Martin Buber : a life of faith and dissent
- Martin Luther : renegade and prophet
- Martin Luther : the man who rediscovered God and changed the world
- Martin Luther King Jr. : a peaceful leader
- Martí's song for freedom : Martí y sus versos por la libertad
- Maya Angelou
- Maya Lin : artist-architect of light and lines
- Mayor Harold Washington : champion of race and reform in Chicago
- Meet Cindy Sherman : artist, photographer, chameleon
- Meghan : a Hollywood princess
- Michelle Obama : first lady, going higher
- Midnight in broad daylight : a Japanese American family caught between two worlds
- Midnight teacher : Lilly Ann Granderson and her secret school
- Missing man : the American spy who vanished in Iran
- Monsoon mansion : a memoir
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Moth and wasp, soil and ocean : remembering Chinese scientist Pu Zhelong's work for sustainable farming
- Motor girls : how women took the wheel and drove boldly into the twentieth century
- Movie nights with the Reagans : a memoir
- Mr. Crum's potato predicament
- Muhammad Ali
- Muhammad Ali visual encyclopedia
- My father's wake : how the Irish teach us to live, love and die
- My friend Anna : the true story of a fake heiress
- My girls : a lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
- My journey
- My journey to the stars
- My life in progressive politics : against the grain
- My lovely wife in the psych ward : a memoir
- My parents : an introduction ; This does not belong to you
- My war criminal : personal encounters with an architect of genocide
- NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson
- Nabokov in America : on the road to Lolita
- Newton's rainbow : the revolutionary discoveries of a young scientist
- Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret
- Nixon's White House wars : the battles that made and broke a president and divided America forever
- Nobody's son : a memoir
- Not bad for Delancey Street : the rise of Billy Rose
- Not pretty enough : the unlikely triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
- Nothing stopped Sophie : the story of unshakable mathematician Sophie Germain
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Nuclear physicist Chien-Shiung Wu
- Obama : the call of history
- On the field with ... Tom Brady
- One breath : freediving, death, and the quest to shatter human limits
- One man against the world : the tragedy of Richard Nixon
- Oriana Fallaci : the journalist, the agitator, the legend
- Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century
- Pass the pandowdy, please : chewing on history with famous folks and their fabulous foods
- Patricia Bath and laser surgery
- Patrick Henry : champion of liberty
- Patriot number one : American dreams in Chinatown
- Paul McCartney : the life
- Paul Simon : the life
- Picasso and the painting that shocked the world
- Picturing America : Thomas Cole and the birth of American art
- Pilgrimage : my search for the real Pope Francis
- Places and names : on war, revolution, and returning
- Pontius Pilate : deciphering a memory
- Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
- Prairie boy : Frank Lloyd Wright turns the heartland into a home
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- President Carter : the White House years
- President McKinley : architect of the American century
- Pride : the story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- 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 bebop : the musical lives of Sarah Vaughan
- Queen of the world
- Queer, there, and everywhere : 23 people who changed the world
- RFK : his words for our times
- Rad girls can : stories of bold, brave, and brilliant young women
- Ray & Joan : the man who made the McDonald's fortune and the woman who gave it all away
- Reagan : an American journey
- Reagan : the life
- Reagan rising : the decisive years, 1976-1980
- Rebel mother: : my childhood chasing the revolution
- Reckless daughter : a portrait of Joni Mitchell
- Red Cloud : a Lakota story of war and surrender
- Renaissance woman : the life of Vittoria Colonna
- Renoir's dancer : the secret life of Suzanne Valadon
- Republic of spin : an inside history of the American presidency
- Reshma Saujani : Girls Who Code founder
- Rest in power : the enduring life of Trayvon Martin
- Revolution song : a story of American freedom
- Revolutionary brothers : Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the friendship that helped forge two nations
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Rising star : the making of Barack Obama
- River of time : my descent into depression and how I emerged with hope
- Robert Lowell, setting the river on fire : a study of genius, mania, and character
- Roberta Gibb
- Robin
- Rosalind Franklin : the dark lady of DNA
- Rumi's secret : the life of the Sufi poet of love
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : the case of R.B.G. vs. inequality
- Ruthless : scientology, my son David Miscavige, and me
- Sachiko : a Nagasaki bomb survivor's story
- Samurai rising : the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
- Sargent's women : four lives behind the canvas
- Save me the plums : my Gourmet memoir
- Scarface and the untouchable : Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the battle for Chicago
- Schlesinger : the imperial historian
- Schomburg : the man who built a library
- Schumann : the faces and the masks
- Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets
- Seduction : sex, lies, and stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood
- Serena : the littlest sister
- Serena Williams
- Shanghai grand : forbidden love and international intrigue in a doomed world
- Shark lady : the true story of how Eugenie Clark became the ocean's most fearless scientist
- Sharp : the women who made an art of having an opinion
- She came to slay : the life and times of Harriet Tubman
- She persisted : 13 American women who changed the world
- She stood for freedom : the untold story of a civil rights hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
- Sick : a memoir
- Silent days, silent dreams
- Silver, sword, and stone : three crucibles in the Latin American story
- Sing for your life : a story of race, music, and family
- Sing, don't cry
- Sisters and rebels : a struggle for the soul of America
- So much things to say : the oral history of Bob Marley
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