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- "Subtle is the Lord-- " : the science and the life of Albert Einstein
- "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" : adventures of a curious character
- 100 of the world's most beautiful paintings
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- A Miles Davis reader
- A beautiful mind : a biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, 1994
- A bed of red flowers : in search of my Afghanistan
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A consequential president : the legacy of Barack Obama
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A general's life : an autobiography
- A history of African-American artists : from 1792 to the present
- A history of women photographers
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A knight at the opera
- A life of John Calvin : a study in the shaping of Western culture
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A nation of nations : a great American immigration story
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A picture book of George Washington
- A place to remember : using history to build community
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A question of character : a life of John F. Kennedy
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A splendid savage : the restless life of Frederick Russell Burnham
- A taste of power : a Black woman's story
- A time of change : a reporter's tale of our time
- A truck full of money
- A very English scandal : sex, lies and a murder plot in the houses of parliament :
- A woman on paper : Georgia O'Keeffe
- Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years
- Abraham Lincoln : the prairie years and the war years
- Abraham Lincoln, the man behind the myths
- Abu Nidal : a gun for hire
- Accidental saints : finding God in all the wrong people
- Ada Lovelace, poet of science : the first computer programmer
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- African-American sports greats : a biographical dictionary
- Afro-American poets since 1955
- Afro-American writers after 1955 : dramatists and prose writers
- Afro-American writers before the Harlem renaissance
- Afro-American writers from the Harlem Renaissance to 1940
- Against type : the biography of Burt Lancaster
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Albert Speer : his battle with truth
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : the outsider
- Alexander Pope : a life
- Alexander of Macedon, 356-323 B.C. : a historical biography
- Alexander von Humboldt, colossus of exploration
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Alfred Russel Wallace : a life
- Alfred Stieglitz : a biography
- Algren : a life
- Ali : a life
- Alice Paul and the fight for women's rights : from the vote to the equal rights amendment
- All over but the shoutin'
- All the wild that remains : Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West
- Am I a murderer? : testament of a Jewish ghetto policeman
- Amelia lost : the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart
- America reborn : a twentieth-century narrative in twenty-six lives
- American Caesar : Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964
- American Cassandra : the life of Dorothy Thompson
- 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 classicist : the architecture of Philip Trammell Shutze
- American composers : a biographical dictionary
- American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst
- American hunger
- American leaders, 1789-1987 : a biographical summary
- American musicians : fifty-six portraits in jazz
- American national biography
- American philosophy : a love story
- American places : encounters with history : a celebration of Sheldon Meyer
- American reformers : an H.W. Wilson biographical dictionary
- American traveler : the life and adventures of John Ledyard, the man who dreamed of walking the world
- American writers : a collection of literary biographies
- American writers for children, 1900-1960
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- An American vision : three generations of Wyeth art : N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth
- An eye on the world : Margaret Bourke-White, photographer
- An unfinished life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
- An unfinished life : John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
- And no birds sang
- Andrew Jackson and the course of American democracy, 1833-1845
- Angela's ashes : a memoir
- Anne Boleyn
- Anne Boleyn
- Ansel Adams and the American landscape : a biography
- Ansty Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Antebellum writers in New York and the South
- Antoine Watteau
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Approaching Ali : a reclamation in three acts
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Arthur Miller : his life and work
- Arthur and Sherlock : Conan Doyle and the creation of Holmes
- Ashley's war : the untold story of a team of women soldiers on the Special Ops battlefield
- Asimov's biographical encyclopedia of science and technology : the lives and achievements of 1510 great scientists from ancient times to the present chronologically arranged
- At the broken places : a mother and trans son pick up the pieces
- Audubon : life and art in the American wilderness
- Audubon,
- Autobiographical tightropes : Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Condé
- Autobiography of a people : three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it
- Balkan Odyssey
- Bandit : a daughter's memoir
- Barry Goldwater
- Basquiat : a quick killing in art
- 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
- Bear : the life and times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III
- Becoming Babe Ruth
- Becoming Steve Jobs : the evolution of a reckless upstart into a visionary leader
- Beethoven
- Beethoven : the first biography, 1827
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Believe me : a memoir of love, death, and jazz chickens
- Benjamin Franklin
- Benjamin Franklin : the religious life of a founding father
- Benjamin Franklin and his enemies
- Berlioz
- Berthe Morisot
- Better git it in your soul : an interpretive biography of Charles Mingus
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Beyond the sea of ice : the voyages of Henry Hudson
- Big-enough Anna : the little sled dog who braved the Arctic
- Bill Clinton
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Biographical dictionary of American sports, Football
- Biographical directory of the United States executive branch, 1774-1989
- Birth mother : the story of America's first legal surrogate mother
- Bitter waters : life and work in Stalin's Russia : a memoir
- Black Americans in autobiography : an annotated bibliography of autobiographies and autobiographical books written since the Civil War
- Black Elk : the Life of an American Visionary
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black boy (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth
- Black leaders of the twentieth century
- Black pearls : blues queens of the 1920s
- Black writers : a selection of sketches from contemporary authors
- Blood and oil : memoirs of a Persian prince
- Blood brother : Jonathan Daniels and his sacrifice for civil rights
- Blood brothers : the fatal friendship of Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
- Blood, bone, and marrow : a biography of Harry Crews
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Boomer nation : the largest and richest generation ever and how it changed America
- Born survivors : three young mothers and their extraordinary story of courage, defiance, and hope
- Born to run
- Buckminster Fuller
- Buckminster Fuller : anthology for the new millennium
- BuckyWorks : Buckminster Fuller's ideas for today
- Buffett : the making of an American capitalist
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- Buster Keaton remembered
- Calamity Jane : the woman and the legend
- Calculated risk : the supersonic life and times of Gus Grissom
- Calder; an autobiography with pictures
- Caligula : the corruption of power
- Cambridge biographical dictionary
- Cancer vixen : a true story
- Cary Grant : a class apart
- Casey Stengel : baseball greatest character
- Catherine the Great : life and legend
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Chaplin, his life and art
- Chaplin, the mirror of opinion
- Charles Ives : a life with music
- Charles Schulz
- Charlie Chaplin
- Charlie Mike : a true story of heroes who brought their mission home
- Charlotte Bronte : a fiery heart
- Chester B. Himes : a biography
- Chester Himes : a life
- Chinua Achebe : a biography
- Chopin : the man and his music
- Christopher Columbus, mariner
- Christopher Marlowe : poet & spy
- Chronicles
- Churchill : a biography
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coco and the little black dress
- Coleman Hawkins
- Comrade Chiang Chʻing : Roxane Witke
- Concise dictionary of American literary biography
- Contemporary Japanese film
- Contemporary art glass
- Contemporary artists
- Contemporary heroes and heroines
- Contemporary poets
- Coretta Scott King
- Coubertin's Olympics : how the games began
- Count Basie
- Creating minds : an anatomy of creativity seen through the lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, Graham, and Gandhi
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Critical survey of drama, English language series
- Critical survey of poetry : English language series
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Crusade in Europe
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Cyclopedia of world authors II
- Dadland
- Daisy Turner's kin : an African American family saga
- Damn good dog
- Damned to fame : the life of Samuel Beckett
- Darwin : discovering the tree of life
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- Daughters of the samurai : a journey from East to West and back
- David Bowie : a life
- David Lloyd George : a political life
- DeGaulle
- Deaf persons in the arts and sciences : a biographical dictionary
- Dean Smith : a basketball life
- Death dealer : the memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz
- Desertion : in the time of Vietnam
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Dickens of London
- Dictionary of American medical biography
- Dirt & deity : a life of Robert Burns
- Discovering Christopher Columbus : how history is invented
- Disraeli
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Doing battle : the making of a skeptic
- Dorothy Hamill on and off the ice
- Double vision : reflections on my heritage, life, and profession
- Dr. Seuss
- Dreamer of Dune : the biography of Frank Herbert
- Dreaming : hard luck and good times in America
- Dreaming in Indian : contemporary Native American voices
- Dreams in the mirror : a biography of E.E. Cummings
- Dreams of trespass : tales of a harem girlhood
- Duarte : my story
- Duke Ellington
- Duke, the life and times of John Wayne
- Dumbing us down : the hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling
- Dylan : a biography
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Education of a wandering man
- Edward Kennedy and the Camelot legacy
- Eisenhower
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor and Franklin : the story of their relationship based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers
- Eleanor and Franklin : the story of their relationship, based on Eleanor Roosevelt's private papers
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliot's new life
- Elizabeth Bishop : life and the memory of it
- Elizabeth I
- Elizabeth and Michael : the Queen of Hollywood and the King of Pop : a love story
- Elizabeth the Great
- Elle s'appelle Sabine : Her name is Sabine
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elon Musk and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elvis and me
- Emerson : the mind on fire : a biography
- Emmanuel's dream : the true story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah
- Empire made : my search for an outlaw uncle who vanished in British India
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of self : a life of Gore Vidal
- Empire of the air : the men who made radio
- Encyclopedia of American poetry, The nineteenth century
- England and its aesthetes : biography and taste
- Enormous SMALLNESS : a story of E.E. Cummings
- Enough for one lifetime : Wallace Carothers, inventor of nylon
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway; a life story,
- Errol Flynn : the untold story
- Erskine Caldwell reconsidered
- Escalante : the best teacher in America
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Eudora Welty : a biography
- Eudora Welty and Walker Percy : the concept of home in their lives and literature
- Eugene Odum : ecosystem ecologist & environmentalist
- Evelyn Waugh
- Events leading up to my death : the life of a twentieth-century reporter
- Exit right : the people who left the Left and reshaped the American century
- Failure is impossible : Susan B. Anthony in her own words
- Famous American women : a biographical dictionary from colonial times to the present
- Fancy party gowns : the story of fashion designer Ann Cole Lowe
- Fearless Flyer : Ruth Law and Her Flying Machine
- Federer and me : a story of obsession
- Fight like a girl : 50 feminists who changed the world
- Fighter pilots of World War II
- Film flam : essays on Hollywood
- Finding Fibonacci : the quest to rediscover the forgotten mathematical genius who changed the world
- First Lady from Plains
- First ladies
- First women : the grace and power of America's modern First Ladies
- Flannery O'Connor : a life
- Flaubert : a biography
- Flying crooked : a story of accepting cancer
- Football's greatest stars
- Ford, the men and the machine
- Foreign correspondence
- Founding brothers : the revolutionary generation
- Four pictures by Emily Carr
- Fractured lands : how the Arab world came apart
- Fragments of my fleece
- Francis Crick : discoverer of the genetic code
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Frank Lloyd Wright, an autobiography
- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Free within ourselves : African-American artists in the collection of the National Museum of American Art
- Freedom in exile : the autobiography of the Dalai Lama
- Freedom writer : Virginia Foster Durr, letters from the civil rights years
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo at home
- Friends & family : true stories of gay America's straight allies
- From Holmes to Sherlock : the story of the men and women who created an icon
- Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women
- Fulbright : a biography
- Funny bones : Posada and his Day of the Dead calaveras
- García Márquez : the man and his work
- Gene Roddenberry : the myth and the man behind Star trek
- Genius in disguise : Harold Ross of the New Yorker
- George Gershwin : his life and work
- George Washington : the making of an American symbol
- George Washington Carver : a life
- Gerald Ford and the future of the presidency
- Gertrude Weil : Jewish progressive in the New South
- Getting into the game : women and sports
- Ghetto brother : warrior to peacemaker
- Goat Man 2 : more stories of the American folklore legend
- Gobi : a little dog with a big heart
- God's wolf : the life of the most notorious of all crusaders, scourge of Saladin
- Goebbels : a biography
- Good Friday on the Rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey
- Gordon Parks : how the photographer captured black and white America
- Gosnell : the untold story of America's most prolific serial killer
- Graham Greene : the enemy within
- Grant
- Grant Wood : a study in American art and culture
- Great economists before Keynes : an introduction to the lives & works of one hundred great economists of the past
- Great economists since Keynes : an introduction to the lives & works of one hundred modern economists
- Great scientific experiments : 20 experiments that changed our view of the world
- Great women writers : the lives and works of 135 of the world's most important women writers, from antiquity to the present
- Growing up Jewish in America : an oral history
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Gustav Stickley, the craftsman
- Gustave Caillebotte
- H.H. Holmes : the true history of the White City Devil
- Hadrian : the restless emperor
- Hammer
- Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams
- Hannibal's oath : the life and wars of Rome's greatest enemy
- Harriet Beecher Stowe : a biography
- Harry Partch : a biography
- Harry S. Truman : fair dealer and cold warrior
- Haydn : his life and music
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- He is risen : the Easter story
- Hemingway
- Henri Cartier Bresson, photographer
- Henry Adams
- Henry Clay : America's greatest statesman
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: portrait of an American humanist
- Henry and Clare : an intimate portrait of the Luces
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Herbert Hoover : a life
- Herman Melville : a biography
- Hero of the empire : the Boer War, a daring escape and the making of Winston Churchill
- Herod : king of the Jews and friend of the Romans
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
- Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space
- Hidden human computers : the black women of NASA
- Hillary Rodham Clinton : Some Girls are Born to Lead
- Hillbilly elegy : a memoir
- His final battle : the last months of Franklin Roosevelt
- Hitler's last days : the death of the Nazi regime and the world's most notorious dictator
- Hitler's war
- Holy terror : Andy Warhol close up
- Home and exile
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- Horatio Alger is alive and well and living in America : success stories of the under-30 generation
- Hot pink : the life & fashions of Elsa Schiaparelli
- How I wrote Jubilee and other essays on life and literature
- How Kate Warne saved President Lincoln : a story about the nation's first woman detective
- How to survive hearing loss
- Howard W. Odum's folklore odyssey : transformation to tolerance through African American folk studies
- Hubert Humphrey : a biography
- Hunger makes me a modern girl : a memoir
- Hurricane : the miraculous journey of Rubin Carter
- I am Abraham Lincoln
- I am Amelia Earhart
- I am Jackie Robinson
- I am Lucille Ball
- I dissent : Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes her mark
- I was a child of Holocaust survivors
- Icons of architecture : the 20th century
- Ike and McCarthy : Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
- Immigrant women
- In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In code : a mathematical journey
- In search of J.D. Salinger
- In search of Nella Larsen : a biography of the color line
- In search of memory : the emergence of a new science of mind
- In search of our mothers' gardens : womanist prose
- In the Black : a history of African Americans on Wall Street
- In the belly of the beast : letters from prison
- In the company of women : inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs
- In the darkroom
- In the days of rain : a daughter, a father, a cult
- In the great green room : the brilliant and bold life of Margaret Wise Brown
- In the midnight hour : the life & soul of Wilson Pickett
- Incendiary : the psychiatrist, the mad bomber, and the invention of criminal profiling
- Indestructible : one man's rescue mission that changed the course of WWII
- Inside the Third Reich : memoirs
- Inside the kingdom : my life in Saudi Arabia
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
- Invented lives : F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald
- Invisible writer : a biography of Joyce Carol Oates
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Irrepressible : the Jazz Age life of Henrietta Bingham
- Italian days
- J. Robert Oppenheimer : shatterer of worlds
- J.K. Rowling
- J.W. Waterhouse
- JFK : a vision for America in words and pictures
- JFK, reckless youth
- Jack : straight from the gut
- Jack Kennedy : the education of a statesman
- Jack London and the Klondike gold rush
- James Joyce
- James Joyce's Odyssey : a guide to the Dublin of Ulysses
- James Madison : a biography
- James Monroe, the quest for national identity
- Jane Austen
- Jane Austen : her life
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jasper Johns : privileged information
- Jazz : the rough guide
- Jean-Philippe Rameau: his life and work
- Jeff Kinney
- Jefferson : architect of American liberty
- Jefferson and Monticello : the biography of a builder
- Jelly's blues : the life, music, and redemption of Jelly Roll Morton
- Jimmy Carter : a character portrait
- Jimmy Carter, American moralist
- Joe Gould's teeth
- Johann Sebastian Bach : the learned musician
- Johann Sebastian Bach as his world knew him
- John Foster Dulles : the road to power
- John Hughes : a life in film
- John James Audubon : the making of an American
- John Milton : man, poet, polemist
- John Steinbeck : a biography
- John Wayne : American
- John Wilkes : the scandalous father of civil liberty
- Jonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel
- Journeys of the great explorers
- Judy Blume
- Julius Chambers : a life in the legal struggle for civil rights
- Kafka, the decisive years
- Kate Chopin
- Katharine Hepburn
- Katherine Anne Porter : a life
- Katherine Anne Porter : a sense of the times
- Keeping faith : memoirs of a president
- Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights
- Kick : the true story of JFK's sister and the heir to Chatsworth
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- King Charles III : a biography
- King John : and the road to Magna Carta
- King of ragtime : Scott Joplin and his era
- Kings of the road : a portrait of racers and racing
- Kissinger, Volume I, 1923-1968: the idealist
- Knowing herself : women tell their stories in psychotherapy
- Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
- Lady Queen Anne : a biography of Queen Anne of England
- Langston Hughes, before and beyond Harlem
- Last girl before freeway : the life, loves, losses, and liberation of Joan Rivers
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Lawrence Durrell : a biography
- Lay bare the heart : an autobiography of the civil rights movement
- Leaders
- Leadership
- Left to tell : discovering God amidst the Rwandan holocaust
- Leo Durocher : baseball's prodigal son
- Leonard : my fifty-year friendship with a remarkable man
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Let Newton be!
- Let the trumpet sound : the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Let your voice be heard : the life and times of Pete Seeger
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Letters of a Portuguese nun : uncovering the mystery behind a seventeenth-century forbidden love, a historical mystery
- Lewis Carroll : an illustrated biography
- Lewis Mumford, a life
- Life notes : personal writings by contemporary Black women
- Light come shining : the transformations of Bob Dylan
- Lincoln
- Lincoln : an illustrated biography
- Lincoln shot! : a president's life remembered
- Lincoln's spymaster : Allan Pinkerton, America's first private eye
- Lindbergh alone
- Lion of Hollywood : the life and legend of Louis B. Mayer
- Listen : how Pete Seeger got America singing
- Living architecture : a biography of H.H. Richardson
- Living history
- Lloyd on Lloyd
- Long live The King : a biography of Clark Gable
- Looking for my country : finding myself in America / Robert MacNeil
- Lord Byron
- Losing it all to sprawl : how progress ate my cracker landscape
- Lost honor
- Lou Reed : a life
- Louis Armstrong, an American genius
- Louis Comfort Tiffany
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Love from Boy : Roald Dahl's letters to his mother
- Love lives of the great composers : from Gesualdo to Wagner
- Love warrior : a memoir
- Love wins : the lovers and lawyers who fought the landmark case for marriage equality
- Love x style x life
- Lovers on the Nile : the incredible African journeys of Sam and Florence Baker
- Lucky 666 : the impossible mission
- Lucky man : a memoir
- Lucy Maud Montgomery : a writer's life
- Lucy Maud Montgomery : the author of Anne of Green Gables
- Lucy's child : the discovery of a human ancestor
- M train
- Macy's, Gimbels, and me : how to earn $90,000 a year in retail advertising
- Madame Curie, a biography
- Madison's gift : five partnerships that built America
- Maggie Smith : a biography
- Mahatma Gandhi : nonviolent power in action
- Mailer, his life and times
- Majestic failure : the fall of the Shah
- Major 20th-century writers : a selection of sketches from Contemporary authors
- Making the invisible woman visible
- Maligned master : the real story of Antonio Salieri
- Man of the century : the life and times of Pope John Paul II
- Man of the people : a life of Harry S. Truman
- Manderley forever : a biography of Daphne Du Maurier
- Manderley forever : a biography of Daphne du Maurier
- Mankiller : a chief and her people
- Mao : the unknown story
- Marcel Proust
- Margaret Mead, a life
- Margaret and the Moon : how Margaret Hamilton saved the first lunar landing
- Marie Antoinette
- Marie Antoinette : the last queen of France
- Marie Curie : a brillant life
- Mario Lemieux
- Marshall, hero for our times
- Martin Luther : renegade and prophet
- Martin Luther : the man who rediscovered God and changed the world
- Martin Luther King, Jr. : a man to remember
- Martina
- Matisse in Morocco : the paintings and drawings, 1912-1913
- Matisse, Picasso, Miró : as I knew them
- Matisse, the man and his art, 1869-1918
- Maugham
- Maverick with a paintbrush : Thomas Hart Benton
- Maya Angelou
- Maybe : a story
- Me : stories of my life
- Melville : his world and work
- Memoirs
- Memories of Anne Frank : reflections of a childhood friend
- Memory's last breath : field notes on my dementia
- Men of mathematics
- Mencken : the American iconoclast
- Michael J. Fox
- Michael Moore : a biography
- Mickey Cohen : the life and crimes of L.A.'s notorious mobster
- Mirror to America : the autobiography of John Hope Franklin
- Miss Moore thought otherwise : how Anne Carroll Moore created libraries for children
- Miss O'Keeffe
- Mitterrand : a political biography
- Monet in the '90s : the series paintings
- Moscow and beyond, 1986-1989
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Mother Teresa
- Mountbatten
- Mountbatten
- Mozart : a life
- Mozart : the early years, 1756-1781
- Muhammad Ali
- Munch
- Murder cases of the twentieth century : biographies and bibliographies of 280 convicted or accused killers
- Mussolini
- My journey
- My time at Tiffany's
- My young years
- Nadia
- Nelson Mandela : the man and the movement
- Nelson Mandela speaks : forging a Democratic, nonracial South Africa
- Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge
- Newton's rainbow : the revolutionary discoveries of a young scientist
- Nineteenth-century British literary biographers
- Nitty gritty : a white editor in black journalism
- Nixon
- No escape : my young years under Hitler's shadow
- No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in World War II
- No quarter : the three lives of Jimmy Page
- Noam Chomsky : a life of dissent
- Nobel laureates in chemistry, 1901-1992
- Nobody's son : a memoir
- Nora : the real life of Molly Bloom
- Not Pretty Enough : the Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
- Not even my name : from a death march in Turkey to a new home in America, a young girl's true story of genocide and survival
- Notable American women, 1607-1950 : a biographical dictionary
- Notable twentieth-century scientists
- Nothing is impossible : reflections on a new life
- Notorious : the life of Ingrid Bergman
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Obama : the call of history
- Of arms and artists : the American Revolution through painters' eyes
- Off the radar : a father's secret, a mother's heroism, and a son's quest
- On Reagan : the man & his presidency
- On Sunset Boulevard : the life and times of Billy Wilder
- Once they moved like the wind : Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache wars
- Once upon a time : a true story
- One matchless time : a life of William Faulkner
- Orson Welles, a biography
- Orwell : wintry conscience of a generation
- Otis Redding : an unfinished life
- Out of thin air : the brief wonderful life of network news
- Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
- Pablo Escobar, my father
- Pasteur and modern science
- Pathfinders : the journeys of 16 extraordinary Black souls
- Patient H.M. : a story of memory, madness, and family secrets
- Patient encounters : the experience of disease
- Patriarch : George Washington and the new American nation
- Paul Celan : poet, survivor, Jew
- Paul Klee
- Paul McCartney : many years from now
- Paul McCartney : the life
- Pavarotti, my world
- People & events of the American Revolution
- Personal history
- Peter the Great : his life and world
- Picasso, the last years, 1963-1973
- Picturing Frederick Douglass : an illustrated biography of the nineteenth century's most photographed American
- Pierre Bonnard
- Piet Mondrian in the USA : the artist's life and work
- Pioneers of American landscape design
- Pissarro, his life and work
- Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
- Power and principle : memoirs of the national security adviser, 1977-1981
- Preaching To The Chickens : The story of young John Lewis
- President Kennedy : profile of power
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Prince of darkness : the untold story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's first black millionaire
- Princes at war : the bitter battle inside Britain's royal family in the darkest days of WWII
- Profiles in courage
- Projection : encounters with my runaway mother
- Promise and power : the life and times of Robert McNamara
- Psychiatrist of America, the life of Harry Stack Sullivan
- Putin : his downfall and Russia's coming crash
- Queen of bebop : the musical lives of Sarah Vaughan
- Queens of England
- Queer, there, and everywhere : 23 people who changed the world
- Quicksand : what it means to be a human being
- Rad American women A-Z
- Raging bull
- Rakhmaninov
- Ramblin' man : the life and times of Woody Guthrie
- Rapid Ray : the story of Ray Lewis
- Ravel remembered
- Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
- Reagan : the life
- Rebel mother : my childhood chasing the revolution
- Red Cloud : a Lakota story of war and surrender
- Reds
- Rest in power : the enduring life of Trayvon Martin
- Revolutionary characters : what made the founders different
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Richard Strauss : an intimate portrait
- Richard Wright : ordeal of a native son
- Richard Wright, daemonic genius : a portrait of the man, a critical look at his work
- Rickenbacker
- Rimbaud
- Ringo : with a little help
- Rise of the rocket girls : the women who propelled us, from missiles to the moon to Mars
- Rising star : the making of Barack Obama
- Rising star : the making of Barack Obama
- Roald Dahl
- Robert Frost : a biography
- Robert Lowell : setting the river on fire : a study of genius, mania, and character
- Rodin : a biography
- Romero : a life
- Ronald Reagan
- Roots
- Rosa Bonheur : the artist's (auto)biography
- Rosalind Franklin : the dark lady of DNA
- Rosebud : the story of Orson Welles
- Rosemary : the hidden Kennedy daughter
- Rossini
- Rousseau, Confessions
- Royal Charles : Charles II and the Restoration
- Rumi : past and present, east and west : the life, teaching and poetry of Jalâl al-Din Rumi
- Rumi's secret : the life of the Sufi poet of love
- Russian and Soviet painting : an exhibition from the museums of the USSR presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : fire and steel on the Supreme Court
- Ruthless : scientology, my son David Miscavige, and me
- Sacajawea
- Sachiko : a Nagasaki bomb survivor's story
- Saint Joan of Arc
- Sally Ride : a photo biography of America's pioneering woman in space
- Sam Phillips : the man who invented rock 'n' roll
- Sam Shepard : a life
- Samuel Johnson
- Samurai rising : the epic life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
- Schlesinger : the imperial historian
- Schubert and his Vienna
- Scott Fitzgerald
- Scott Joplin
- Scriabin : a biography
- Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets
- Self-consciousness : memoirs
- Self-portrait of the other
- Sergei Prokofiev : a biography
- Shakespeare : a biographical handbook
- Shakespeare : his life, work, and era
- Shalom, friend : the life and legacy of Yitzhak Rabin
- Shania Twain
- Shannadoah : a journey of discovery about Dandy Walker, Joubert syndrome, helpful resources and more
- Shark lady : the true story of how Eugenie Clark became the ocean's most fearless scientist
- Shattered : inside Hillary Clinton's doomed campaign
- She made me laugh : my friend Nora Ephron
- She persisted : 13 American women who changed the world
- Shel Silverstein
- Shirley Jackson : a rather haunted life
- Shocking Paris : Soutine, Chagall and the outsiders of Montparnasse
- Shooting star : the brief arc of Joe McCarthy
- Showboat : the life of Kobe Bryant
- Sideshow : Kissinger, Nixon and the destruction of Cambodia
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Simone de Beauvoir, a life of freedom
- Sinatra : the chairman
- Sinatra's century : one hundred notes on the man and his world
- Sinclair Lewis : an American life
- Sinclair Lewis : rebel from Main Street
- Sing for your life : a story of race, music, and family
- Six dots : a story of young Louis Braille
- Sky lantern : the story of a father's love for his children and the healing power of the smallest act of kindness
- Slave narratives
- Smash cut : a memoir of Howard & art & the '70s & the '80s
- So great a prince : the accession of Henry VIII: 1509
- So much things to say : the oral history of Bob Marley
- Some writer! : the story of E. B. White
- Someone to watch over me : a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt and the tortured father who shaped her life
- Soul survivor : a biography of Al Green
- Southern daughter : the life of Margaret Mitchell
- Southern writers : a biographical dictionary
- Spectacle : the astonishing life of Ota Benga
- Sports star : Sugar Ray Leonard
- Spreadin' rhythm around : Black popular songwriters, 1880-1930
- Spycatcher : the candid autobiography of a senior intelligence officer
- Stalin : man and ruler
- Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America
- Stan Lee : the man behind Marvel
- Stanton : Lincoln's war secretary
- Steal this dream : Abbie Hoffman and the countercultural revolution in America
- Steve Jobs : the man who thought different : a biography
- Sting like a bee : Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971
- Stories, essays, & memoir : a curtain of green, and other stories ; The wide net, and other stories ; The golden apples ; The bride of the innisfallen, and other stories ; Other stories ; Selected essays ; One writer's beginnings
- Stravinsky in pictures and documents
- Street poison : the biography of Iceberg Slim
- Subjects of slavery, agents of change : women and power in Gothic novels and slave narratives, 1790-1865
- Suzanne's children : a daring rescue in Nazi Paris
- Swimming across : a memoir
- Swing sisters : the story of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm
- Symphony for the City of the Dead : Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
- T.S. Eliot : the man and his work: a critical evaluation by twenty-six distinguished writers
- Talking at the gates : a life of James Baldwin
- Tamara de Lempicka : Art Deco icon
- Teaching equality : Black schools in the age of Jim Crow
- Team of rivals : the political genius of Abraham Lincoln
- Tennessee Williams : an intimate biography
- Testimony
- Texas blood : seven generations among the outlaws, ranchers, Indians, missionaries, soldiers, and smugglers of the borderlands
- The Age of Caravaggio
- The American journey of Eric Sevareid
- The American slave : a composite autobiography : supplement, series 1
- The American slave : a composite autobiography : supplement, series 2
- The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
- The Art of Paul Gauguin
- The Audubon reader
- The Bartók companion
- The Baseball Whisperer : a small-town coach who shaped Big League dreams
- The Black Calhouns : from Civil War to civil rights, with one African American family
- The Civitas anthology of African American slave narratives
- The Cooperstown casebook : who's in the baseball hall of fame, who should be in, and who should pack their plaques
- The Curies : a biography of the most controversial family in science
- The Discoverers : an encyclopedia of explorers and exploration
- The Doles : unlimited partners
- The Eden express
- The Encyclopedia of American comics
- The Faustian bargain : the art world in Nazi Germany
- The French chef in America : Julia Child's second act
- The Genius of Shaw : a symposium
- The Great White shark scientist
- The Jewish Confederates
- The Kelloggs : the battling brothers of Battle Creek
- The Mannings : the fall and rise of a football family
- The Mighty chieftains
- The Nazi officer's wife : how one Jewish woman survived the Holocaust
- The Netanyahu years
- The Oliver Stone experience
- The Olympic Games : complete track and field results, 1896-1988
- The Oxford companion to Irish literature
- The Oxford companion to twentieth-century poetry in English
- The Oxford dictionary of music
- The Oxford dictionary of saints
- The Oxford illustrated history of the British monarchy
- The Parker sisters : a border kidnapping
- The Peabody sisters : three women who ignited American romanticism
- The Pope of Physics : Enrico Fermi and the birth of the Atomic Age
- The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
- The President's kitchen cabinet : the story of the African Americans who have fed our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas
- The Pura Belpré Awards : celebrating Latino authors and illustrators
- The Queen : the life of Elizabeth II
- The Schomburg Center guide to black literature : from the eighteenth century to the present
- The Scribner encyclopedia of American lives
- The Senator : my ten years with Ted Kennedy
- The Slave's narrative
- The Supreme Court : how it was, how it is
- The Supreme Court of the United States : its beginnings & its justices, 1790-1991
- The Thames and Hudson encyclopaedia of Impressionism
- The Underground Railroad : an encyclopedia of people, places, and operations
- The Warren Buffett way : investment strategies of the world's greatest investor
- The Washingtons : George and Martha, "join'd by friendship, crown'd by love"
- The William Hoy story : how a deaf baseball player changed the game
- The Wright brothers
- The Wright brothers
- The adventures of Roberto Rossellini
- The art of teaching ballet : ten twentieth-century masters
- The astronomers
- The audacious crimes of Colonel Blood : the spy who stole the crown jewels and became the king's secret agent
- The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin : with related documents
- The autobiography of Cecil B. DeMille
- The ballerinas, from the court of Louis XIV to Pavlova
- The billion dollar spy : a true story of Cold War espionage and betrayal
- The book of Isaias : a child of Hispanic immigrants seeks his own America
- The book of Joan : tales of mirth, mischief, and manipulation
- The boss : J. Edgar Hoover and the Great American Inquisition
- The broken tower : a life of Hart Crane
- The butcher's trail : how the search for Balkan war criminals became the world's most successful manhunt
- The camera never blinks : adventures of a TV journalist
- The case of Terri Schiavo : ethics at the end of life
- The civil wars of Julia Ward Howe : a biography
- The close encounters man : how one man made the world believe in UFOs
- The curious Mister Catesby : a "truly ingenious" naturalist explores new worlds
- The dark side of Camelot
- The death of a president : November 20-November 25, 1963
- The demon under the microscope : from battlefield hospitals to Nazi labs, one doctor's heroic search for the world's first miracle drug
- The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
- The dynamite fiend : the chilling tale of a Confederate spy, con artist, and mass murderer
- The eagle in splendour : Napoleon I and his court
- The education of a coach
- The electrifying fall of Rainbow City : spectacle and assassination at the 1901 World's Fair
- The end of your life book club
- The escape of Oney Judge : Martha Washington's slave finds freedom
- The exile : the stunning inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in flight
- The facts : a novelist's autobiography
- The fall of the Romanovs : political dreams and personal struggles in a time of revolution
- The far side of paradise : a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The fellowship : the literary lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams
- The final season : the perseverance of Pat Summitt
- The firebrand and the First Lady : portrait of a friendship : Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the struggle for social justice
- The first American : the life and times of Benjamin Franklin
- The first scientific American : Benjamin Franklin and the pursuit of genius
- The football book
- The founder : Cecil Rhodes and the pursuit of power
- The future is history : how totalitarianism reclaimed Russia
- The gatekeeper : Missy LeHand, FDR, and the untold story of the partnership that defined a presidency
- The girl in the picture : the story of Kim Phuc, the photograph, and the Vietnam War
- The glorious flight : across the Channel with Louis Blériot, July 25, 1909
- The glory of their times; : the story of the early days of baseball told by the men who played it
- The grand tour : the life and music of George Jones
- The great Nadar : the man behind the camera