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- #DoNotDisturb : how I ghosted my cell phone to take back my life
- 'Over the hills and far away' : the life of Beatrix Potter
- 100 folk heroes who shaped world history
- 1924 : the year that made Hitler
- 1960 : the last pure season
- 83 minutes : the doctor, the damage, and the shocking death of Michael Jackson
- A boy named FDR : how Franklin D. Roosevelt grew up to change America
- A different kind of daughter : the girl who hid from the Taliban in plain sight
- A doctor in the house : my life with Ben Carson
- A horse named Seabiscuit
- A kids' guide to America's first ladies
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A lady has the floor : Belva Lockwood speaks out for women's rights
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A picture book of Davy Crockett
- A picture book of John F. Kennedy
- A picture book of Louis Braille
- A picture book of Patrick Henry
- A slave in the White House : Paul Jennings and the Madisons
- A time to act : John F. Kennedy's big speech
- A truck full of money : one man's quest to recover from great success
- A very expensive poison : the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's war with the West
- A walk through Paris
- A woman's place is at the top : a biography of Annie Smith Peck, queen of the climbers
- Abigail Adams : witness to a revolution
- Above suspicion
- Abraham Lincoln
- Abraham Lincoln
- Ada Byron Lovelace : the lady and the computer
- Adnan's story : the search for truth and justice after Serial
- Adolf Hitler
- Adventures of a ballad hunter
- African princess : the amazing lives of Africa's royal women
- Agatha Christie : a mysterious life
- Agent 110 : An American spymaster, and the German underground in World War II
- Akhenaten, Egypt's false prophet
- Alan Turing : the enigma : the book that inspired the film The Imitation Game
- Albert Einstein
- Albert Einstein : a life of genius
- Albert Pujols
- Alex Haley and the books that changed a nation
- Alexander Graham Bell for kids : his life and inventions, with 21 activities
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alfred Hitchcock : a brief life
- Ali
- All of me
- All star! : Honus Wagner and the most famous baseball card ever
- Almost gone : twenty days and one chance to save our daughter
- Amelia : the centennial biography of an aviation pioneer
- Amelia Earhart
- Amelia Earhart : the legend of the lost aviator
- 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 titan : searching for John Wayne
- American warlords : how Roosevelt's high command led America to victory in World War II
- An autobiography
- And no birds sang
- And then what happened, Paul Revere?
- Andrea Mantegna
- Andy Warhol
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Angry optimist : the life and times of Jon Stewart
- Annie Oakley of the Wild West
- Ansel Adams : selected letters and images, 1916-1984
- Antonio Vivaldi and the Baroque tradition
- Apache resistance : causes and effects of Geronimo's Campaign
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Artists : from Michelangelo to Maya Lin
- As good as anybody : Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march toward freedom
- As good as dead : the daring escape of American POWs from a Japanese Death Camp
- As nature made him : the boy who was raised as a girl
- Asking for a friend : three centuries of advice on life, love, money, and other burning questions from a nation obsessed
- Autumn
- Bannon : always the rebel
- 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
- Becoming
- Becoming Madeleine : a biography of the author of A wrinkle in time by her granddaughters
- Before & after Alexander : the legend and legacy of Alexander the Great
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Being Martha : the inside story of Martha Stewart and her amazing life
- Being Wagner : the story of the most provocative composer who ever lived
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Best wishes
- Betsy Ross : American patriot
- Betsy Ross : the American flag and life in a young America
- Billie Holiday : the musician and the myth
- Billion dollar whale : the man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the world
- Black Elk : the life of an American visionary
- Black wings : courageous stories of African Americans in aviation and space history
- Blood brothers : the story of the strange friendship between Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill
- Blue Monday : Fats Domino and the lost dawn of rock 'n' roll
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Booker T. Washington : leader and educator
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Bruce Coville : an author kids love
- Bruce Springsteen and the promise of rock 'n' roll
- Buffalo Bill Cody : Western legend
- Building art : the life and work of Frank Gehry
- Bullies : a friendship
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Bush
- Captain Fantastic : Elton John's stellar trip through the '70s
- Cardinal Richelieu and the making of France
- Carry on : a story of resilience, redemption, and an unlikely family
- Casey Stengel : baseball greatest character
- Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman
- Catholics in America : a history
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Cezanne from A to Z
- Charlemagne : father of a continent
- Charles Darwin : Victorian Mythmaker
- Charlie Chaplin : a brief life
- Charlotte Bronte : a fiery heart
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Charlton Heston : Hollywood's last icon
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chasing light : Michelle Obama through the lens of a White House photographer
- Chef Roy Choi and the street food remix
- Children of the atomic bomb : an American physician's memoir of Nagasaki, Hiroshima, and the Marshall Islands
- Chin : the life and crimes of Mafia boss Vincent Gigante
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill on the home front, 1900-1955
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Coach Wooden and me : our 50-year friendship on and off the court
- Colorful dreamer : the story of artist Henri Matisse
- Committed : a skeptic makes peace with marriage
- Compassionate soldier : remarkable true stories of mercy, heroism, and honor from the battlefield
- Confucius
- Considering Doris Day
- Conversations with Major Dick Winters : Life Lessons from the Commander of the Band of Brothers
- Coretta Scott King
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Cronkite
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Da Vinci : the painter who spoke with birds
- Dangerous ground
- Daniel Webster : the man and his time
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Dark midnight when I rise : the story of the Jubilee Singers, who introduced the world to the music of Black America
- Darkest hour : how Churchill brought England back from the brink
- Darwin : discovering the tree of life
- Daughters of the Samurai : a journey from East to West and back
- Death in a prairie house : Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin murders
- Decades of dioxin : limelight on a molecule
- Desolate angel : Jack Kerouac, the Beat generation, and America
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Diana : her true story - in her own words
- Diego Rivera
- Discover America's favorite architects
- Discovering the hidden wisdom of the Little prince : in search of Saint-Exup©â™ry's lost child
- Django
- Doc Holliday
- Dodge City : Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the wickedest town in the American West
- Doing battle : the making of a skeptic
- Douglas MacArthur : American warrior
- Douglas MacArthur : [American warrior]
- Dreams of Obama
- Dwight Eisenhower
- Earnhardt nation : the full-throttle saga of NASCAR's first family
- Edgar Degas
- Edward Hopper
- Edward Jenner : conqueror of smallpox
- Edward VII : the Prince of Wales and the women he loved
- Einstein and the rabbi : searching for the soul
- Einstein's greatest mistake : the life of a flawed genius
- El Greco
- Eleanor
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eleanor Roosevelt, fighter for justice : her impact on the civil rights movement, the White House, and the world
- Eleanor of Aquitaine : the richest queen in Medieval Europe
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Blackwell : girl doctor
- Elizabeth's rival : the tumultuous life of the Countess of Leicester : the romance and conspiracy that threatened Queen Elizabeth's court
- Elon Musk : and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elvis day by day
- Empire of deception : the incredible story of a master swindler who seduced a city and captivated the nation
- Empire of imagination : Gary Gygax and the birth of Dungeons & Dragons
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Escape to Miami : an oral history of the Cuban rafter crisis
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Eudora Welty : a biography
- Eunice : the Kennedy who changed the world
- Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
- Exit through the gift shop
- Failure is impossible : Susan B. Anthony in her own words
- Fasting and feasting : the life of visionary food writer Patience Gray
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Fear
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fifty-nine in '84 : old Hoss Radbourn, barehanded baseball, and the greatest season a pitcher ever had
- Finding Amelia : the true story of the Earhart disappearance
- First founding father : Richard Henry Lee and the call to independence
- First kids
- First we read, then we write : Emerson on the creative process
- Flags of our fathers
- Flora and Tiger : 19 very short stories from my life
- Florence Nightingale : avenging angel
- Florentine drawings of the sixteenth century
- For the glory : Eric Liddell's journey from Olympic champion to modern martyr
- Fortunate son : the life of Elvis Presley
- France is a feast : the photographic journey of Paul and Julia Child
- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Frederick Douglass
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frida Kahlo : the artist who painted herself
- Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos / by Monica Brown ; illustrated by John Parra
- From Cold War to hot peace : an American ambassador in Putin's Russia
- From Holmes to Sherlock : the story of the men and women who created an icon
- From cradle to stage : stories from the mothers who rocked and raised rock stars
- From the ground up : a food grower's education in life, love, and the movement that's changing the nation
- Frontier grit : the unlikely true stories of daring pioneer women
- Full disclosure
- Gandhi
- Gather together in my name
- Gathering of sisters : a year with my old order Mennonite family
- Genghis Khan and the quest for God : how the world's greatest conqueror gave us religious freedom
- George Armstrong Custer : the Indian Wars and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
- George III : a personal history
- George Lucas : a life
- George Washington : an illustrated biography
- George Washington : soldier, hero, president
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude is Gertrude
- Girls think of everything : stories of ingenious inventions by women
- Gladys Aylward : the adventure of a lifetime
- Glimmer of hope : how tragedy sparked a movement
- Go show the world : a celebration of Indigenous heroes
- Goebbels : a biography
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Golden : the miraculous rise of Steph Curry
- Good Friday on the Rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey
- Gotti's rules : the story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the demise of the American Mafia
- Grandma Moses
- Great painters
- Greg Maddux
- Groucho : the life and times of Julius Henry Marx
- Growth company : Dow Chemical's first century
- Gunslinger : the remarkable, improbable, iconic life of Brett Favre
- H. H. Holmes : the true history of the White City Devil
- Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams
- Hank Aaron : brave in every way
- Hank and Jim : the fifty-year friendship of Henry Fonda and James Stewart
- Hannah Senesh : her life and diary
- Hannibal
- Harper Lee : a twentieth-century life
- Harpo speaks-- about New York
- Harriet Beecher Stowe : author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Harriet Tubman : a woman of courage
- Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
- Harry : life, loss, and love
- Harry : life, loss, and love
- Harry Houdini : a magical life
- Heinrich Himmler : the sinister life of the head of the SS and Gestapo
- Helen Keller
- Helen Keller : toward the light
- Hemingway at eighteen : the pivotal year that launched an American legend
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Henry VIII : the king, his six wives, and his court
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- HerStory : 50 women and girls who shook up the world
- Herbert Hoover in the White House : the ordeal of the presidency
- Hernando de Soto and the Spanish search for gold in world history
- Hero of the Pacific : the life of legendary Marine John Basilone
- Heroes of the Revolution
- 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
- His father's son : the life of General Ted Roosevelt Jr.
- His final battle : Franklin Roosevelt in the last months
- His promised land : the autobiography of John P. Parker, former slave and conductor on the underground railroad
- Hitler : ascent, 1889-1939
- Home game : big-league stories from my life in baseball's first family
- Homer and the holiday miracle : a true story
- Honest Abe Lincoln : easy-to-read stories about Abraham Lincoln
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- How I got this way
- Hunger makes me a modern girl : a memoir
- Hunting El Chapo : the inside story of the American lawman who captured the world's most-wanted drug lord
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I didn't say goodbye
- I remember Dale Earnhardt : personal memories and testimonials to stock car racing's most beloved driver, as told by the people who knew him best
- I'm staying with my boys : the heroic life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC
- Impressionism : art, leisure, and Parisian society
- In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- In search of Pharrell Williams
- In the darkroom
- In the days of rain : a daughter, a father, a cult
- In the footsteps of Paul : experience the journey that changed the world
- In the wilderness with the Red Indians : German missionary to the Michigan Indians, 1847-1853
- In their own words : Abraham Lincoln
- Indestructible : one man's rescue mission that changed the course of WWII
- Inferno : a doctor's Ebola story
- Inside out : a personal history of Pink Floyd
- Into the deep : the life of naturalist and explorer William Beebe
- Introducing Chopin
- Introducing Stravinsky
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Irena's children : the extraordinary story of the woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
- Isaac : the alchemist, secrets of Isaac Newton, reveal'd
- Isaac Newton
- Isabella of Castile : Europe's first great queen
- Island of hope, island of tears
- It gets worse : a collection of essays
- J.M. Barrie : the magic behind Peter Pan
- J.R.R. Tolkien : a biography
- JFK's last hundred days : the transformation of a man and the emergence of a great president
- Jack Gantos : an author kids love
- Jackie Robinson
- Jacques Cousteau and the undersea world
- James Joyce
- James Madison
- James Madison and the making of America
- Jefferson : architect of American liberty
- Jefferson's daughters : three sisters, white and black, in a young America
- Jennie Carter : a Black journalist of the early West
- Jim Thorpe's bright path
- Jimmy Buffett : a good life all the way
- Jimmy Carter, American moralist
- Joan Chittister : her journey from certainty to faith
- Joan Rivers confidential : the unseen scrapbooks, joke cards, personal files, and photos of a very funny woman who kept everything
- Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years War
- Joe Gould's teeth
- John Adams : a life
- John Brown : his fight for freedom
- John James Audubon : the making of an American
- John Lennon : the New York years
- John McCain : American maverick
- John McCain : an American hero
- John Muir : America's first environmentalist
- John Quincy Adams : American visionary
- John Sutter : Sutter's Fort and the California Gold Rush
- Johnny Carson
- Johnny Cash : the life and legacy of the Man in Black
- Jonathan Ive : designer of the iPod
- Josef Albers : to open eyes : the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale
- José! : born to dance : the story of José Limón
- Journey through genius : the great theorems of mathematics
- Journeys of women in science and engineering : no universal constants
- Judy and I : my life with Judy Garland
- Just a lucky so and so : the story of Louis Armstrong
- Just call me Lopez : getting to the heart of Ignatius Loyola
- Kate : Kate Middleton : princess in waiting
- Keiko's story : a killer whale goes home
- Khubilai Khan : his life and times
- 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
- Kobe Bryant : star guard
- L. Frank Baum, creator of Oz : [a biography]
- Ladies of liberty : the women who shaped our nation
- Langston's train ride
- Last act : the final years and emerging legacy of Ronald Reagan
- Learning about fairness from the life of Susan B. Anthony
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Let truth be the prejudice : W. Eugene Smith, his life and photographs
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Life among the savages
- Life and death in the Andes : on the trail of bandits, heroes, and revolutionaries
- Liftoff : a photobiography of John Glenn
- Lightfoot
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Linus Pauling : scientist and advocate
- Living architecture : a biography of H.H. Richardson
- Living large in our little house : thriving in 480-square feet with six dogs, a husband and one remote--and more stories of how you can, too
- Look at you now : my journey from shame to strength
- Looking back : a book of memories
- Lost childhood : my life in a Japanese prison camp during World War II : a memoir
- Lost destiny : Joe Kennedy, Jr., and the doomed WWII mission to save London
- Lost in the Pacific, 1942 : not a drop to drink
- Lou Reed : a life
- Louis D. Brandeis : American prophet
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Love from Boy : Roald Dahl's letters to his mother
- Love me, hate me : Barry Bonds and the making of an antihero
- Luba : the angel of Bergen-Belsen
- Lucie Aubrac : the French resistance heroine who outwitted the Gestapo
- Lucy Maud Montgomery : a writer's life
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Mae Jemison
- Maeve Binchy : the biography
- Maggie Smith : a biography
- Magnifico : the brilliant life and violent times of Lorenzo de' Medici
- Making contact : Jill Tarter and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
- Malala : activist for girls' education
- Malcolm X
- Mama Africa! : how Miriam Makeba spread hope with her song
- Manderley forever
- Manjiro : the boy who risked his life for two countries
- Marcel Proust
- Margaret Mead : the making of an American icon
- Margaret and the Moon : the computer scientist who saved the first lunar landing
- Marilyn Monroe : the private life of a public icon
- Martin Luther : renegade and prophet
- Martin Luther : the man who rediscovered God and changed the world
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Martin Van Buren : our eighth president
- Mary
- Mary Tudor : princess, bastard, queen
- Mastermind : the many faces of the 9/11 architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
- Maya Lin : artist-architect of light and lines
- Meghan : a Hollywood princess
- Men of mathematics
- Mercies in disguise : a story of hope, a family's genetic destiny, and the science that rescued them
- Mia Hamm : striking superstar
- Michael Jordan : the life
- Michelangelo
- Mission : Jimmy Stewart and the fight for Europe
- Mockingbird songs : my friendship with Harper Lee
- Monet
- Monopoly mastermind : Charles B. Darrow
- Montaigne in barn boots : an amateur ambles through philosophy
- Montana : the biography of football's Joe Cool
- Mornings with Mailer : a recollection of friendship
- Moses
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Mountain chef : how one man lost his groceries, changed his plans, and helped cook up the National Park Service
- Mozart
- Mozart : the man revealed
- Mozart's starling
- Mrs. Sherlock Holmes : the true story of New York's City's greatest female detective and the 1917 missing girl case that captivated a nation
- Munch
- Murdering McKinley : the making of Theodore Roosevelt's America
- My Einstein : essays by twenty-four of the world's leading thinkers on the man, his work, and his legacy
- My brain is open : the mathematical journeys of Paul Erdős
- My dream of Martin Luther King
- My famous evening : Nova Scotia sojourns, diaries & preoccupations
- My father, my president : a personal account of the life of George H.W. Bush
- My heart glow : Alice Cogswell, Thomas Gallaudet, and the birth of American sign language
- My journey
- My journey to the stars
- My name is Henry Bibb : a story of slavery and freedom
- My own two feet : a memoir
- My own words
- My story
- My team : choosing my dream team from my forty years in baseball
- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
- Nathan Bedford Forrest : a biography
- Nelson Mandela
- Never caught : the Washingtons' relentless pursuit of their runaway slave, Ona Judge
- Never in finer company : the men of the Great War's lost battalion
- Never too young! : 50 unstoppable kids who made a difference
- Newton : the making of genius
- Nina : jazz legend and civil-rights activist Nina Simone
- Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret
- No limits : the will to succeed
- Noah Webster : weaver of words
- Noah Webster and the first American dictionary
- Norman Rockwell : storyteller with a brush
- Not pretty enough : the unlikely triumph of Helen Gurley Brown
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- O. Winston Link, life along the line : a photographic portrait of America's last great steam railroad
- Obama : the call of history
- Ojibwa warrior : Dennis Banks and the rise of the American Indian Movement
- One L : the turbulent true story of a first year at Harvard Law School
- Opening Mexico : the making of a democracy
- Opening day : the story of Jackie Robinson's first season
- Option B : facing adversity, building resilience, and finding joy
- Orphan train rider : one boy's true story
- Orwell : wintry conscience of a generation
- Otis Redding : an unfinished life
- Our country's presidents : a complete encyclopedia of the U.S. presidency
- Our year of war : two brothers, Vietnam, and a nation divided
- Parental discretion is advised : the rise of N.W.A and the dawn of gangsta rap
- Paterno
- Patrick Henry : champion of liberty
- Patton : blood, guts, and prayer
- Paul Klee
- Paul Revere
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Peter the Great
- Peter the Great : a biography
- Petty : the biography
- Picasso : creator and destroyer
- Piero della Francesca
- Pierre Auguste Renoir
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir : paintings that smile
- Pontius Pilate : deciphering a memory
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Prairie fires : the American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Preaching to the chickens : the story of young John Lewis
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life
- Prince Harry : the inside story
- Promise me Dad : a year of hope, hardship, and purpose
- Putin : his downfall and Russia's coming crash
- Queen Victoria's matchmaking : the royal marriages that shaped Europe
- Queen Victoria's mysterious daughter : a biography of Princess Louise
- Queen of bebop : the musical lives of Sarah Vaughan
- Queen of spies : Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War spy master
- Queen of thieves : the true story of "Marm" Mandelbaum and her gangs of New York
- RFK Jr. : Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the dark side of the dream
- Rachel : the story of Rachel Carson
- Randolph Caldecott : the man who could not stop drawing
- Reagan : the life
- Reds
- Republic of spin : an inside history of the American presidency
- Rest in power : the enduring life of Trayvon Martin
- Revolution
- Revolution song : a story of American freedom
- Revolutionary science : transformation and turmoil in the age of the guillotine
- Rhett & Link's book of mythicality : a field guide to curiosity, creativity, & tomfoolery
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Richard Nixon : the life
- Rising star : the making of Barack Obama
- Robert Fulton
- Robert Fulton and the development of the steamboat
- Robert Goddard
- Ronald Reagan : a twentieth-century life
- Rosa Parks
- Royal renegades : the children of Charles I and the English Civil Wars
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life
- Sacagawea
- Sachiko : a Nagasaki bomb survivor's story
- Sally Ride : the first American woman in space
- Salvador Dali
- Same kind of different as me : a modern-day slave, an international art dealer, and the unlikely woman who bound them together
- Save the date : the occasional mortifications of a serial wedding guest
- Saving Charlotte : a mother and the power of intuition
- Scars of sweet paradise : the life and times of Janis Joplin
- Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets
- Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees : over thirty years of conversations with Robert Irwin
- Sergeant Reckless : the true story of the little horse who became a hero
- Shakespeare's friends
- 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
- Shirley Temple : American princess
- Sisters first : stories from our wild and wonderful life
- Sky lantern : the story of a father's love for his children and the healing power of the smallest act of kindness
- Sleeping with cats : a memoir
- Slowhand : the life and music of Eric Clapton
- So great a prince : the accession of Henry VIII: 1509
- So much things to say : the oral history of Bob Marley
- Sojourner Truth : from slave to activist for freedom
- Some writer!: the story of E. B. White
- Sophie Germain
- Space heroes
- Spectacle : the astonishing life of Ota Benga
- Speedbumps : flooring it through Hollywood
- Speer : Hitler's architect
- Spymistress : the life of Vera Atkins, the greatest female secret agent of World War II
- Stalin, Volume II, Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
- Stan Lee : the man behind Marvel
- Stanton : Lincoln's war secretary
- Star stuff : Carl Sagan and the mysteries of the cosmos
- State of the onion
- Step right up : how Doc and Jim Key taught the world about kindness
- Stephen Hawking : breaking the boundaries of time and space
- Stories I tell myself : growing up with Hunter S. Thompson
- Story painter : the life of Jacob Lawrence
- Sub 4:00 : Alan Webb and the quest for the fastest mile
- Sweet dreams are made of this : a life in music
- Switched on : a memoir of brain change and emotional awakening
- T.S. E