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- Anderson, Verily, Spam Tomorrow
- Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Aslan, Reza, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
- Aubrey, John, Brief Lives
- Bailey, Catherine, The Secret Rooms
- Barchus, Janine and Isabel Greenberg, The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography
- Batuman, Elif, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
- Beaton, Kate, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
- Briggs, Raymond, Ethel & Ernest
- Broom, Sarah M., The Yellow House
- Bryson, Bill, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
- Byrne, Paula, Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
- Callow, Simon, Charles Dickens
- Carrington, Leonora, Down Below
- Chernow, Ron, Alexander Hamilton, Grant
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- Currey, Stella Martin, One Woman’s Year
- Crawford, Arlo, A Farm Dies Once a Year
- Dedman, Bill, and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of an American Fortune
- Dench, Judi, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
- Didion, Joan, The Year of Magical Thinking
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- Durrell, Gerald, Birds, Beasts, and Relatives, The Garden of the Gods, My Family and Other Animals
- Ebert, Roger, Life Itself
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- Foreman, Amanda, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
- Forster, Margaret, Daphne du Maurier: The Secret Life of a Renowned Storyteller
- Fraser, Flora, Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire
- Freeman, Mini Aodla, Life Among the Qallunaat
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- Graves, Robert, Goodbye to All That
- Grenan, Conor, Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
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- Heaney, Christopher, Cradle of Gold
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- Holton, Woody, Abigail Adams
- Hughes, Langston, The Big Sea
- Hurston, Zora Neale, Dust Tracks on a Road
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- Kaysen, Susanna, Girl, Interrupted
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- Logevall, Fredrik, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956
- Lovell, Mary S., Straight On Till Morning
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- Mantel, Hillary, Giving Up the Ghost
- Markham, Beryl, West with the Night
- McBride, James, Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
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- Morison, Elizabeth and Frances Lamont, An Adventure
- Morley, Sheridan, Oscar Wilde
- Nabokov, Vladimir, Speak, Memory
- Nichols, Beverley, Merry Hall
- O’Crohan, Tomás, The Islandman
- Peacock, Francesca, Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish
- Powell, Margaret, Below Stairs
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- Schenkar, Joan, The Talented Miss Highsmith
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- Seward, Desmond, Richard III: England’s Black Legend
- Somerset, Anne, Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion
- Strachey, Lytton, Elizabeth and Essex
- Strayed, Cheryl, Wild
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- Sutherland, Kathryn, Jane Austen in 41 Objects
- Teffi, Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea
- Tóibín, Colm, Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush
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- Tomlinson, David, Luckier Than Most
- Twain, Mark, Life on the Mississippi
- Von Bremzen, Anya, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
- Weir, Alison, The Marriage Game, Mary Boleyn, Queens of the Conquest: England’s Medieval Queens, Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster
- Westover, Tara, Educated
- Whipple, Dorothy, The Other Day
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- Wiesel, Elie, Night
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- Winn, Raynor, The Salt Path
- Woolf, Jenny, The Mystery of Lewis Carroll
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