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- 12 artists who changed the world
- 12 athletes who changed the world
- 12 chefs who changed the world
- 20 fun facts about Aaron Burr
- 20 fun facts about Alexander Hamilton
- 20 fun facts about Benjamin Franklin
- 20 fun facts about George Washington
- 20 fun facts about James Madison
- 20 fun facts about Thomas Jefferson
- 42 is not just a number : the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
- 4th and goal every day : Alabama's relentless pursuit of perfection
- A bold and dangerous family : the remarkable story of an Italian mother, her two sons, and their fight against fascism
- A boy, a mouse, and a spider : the story of E.B. White
- A brotherhood of spies : the U-2 and the CIA's secret war
- A disappearance in Damascus : friendship and survival in the shadow of war
- A guest of the Reich : the story of American heiress Gertrude Legendre's dramatic captivity and escape from Nazi Germany
- A honeybee heart has five openings : a year of keeping bees
- A kind of mirraculas paradise : a true story about schizophrenia
- A long time ago in a cutting room far, far away : my fifty years editing Hollywood hits-- Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's day off, Mission: impossible, and more
- A man and his presidents : the political odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.
- A mind at play : how Claude Shannon invented the information age
- A perfect union of contrary things
- A picture book of George Washington
- A poem for Peter : the story of Ezra Jack Keats and the creation of The snowy day
- A revolution in color : the world of John Singleton Copley
- A self-made man : the political life of Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1849
- A series of catastrophes & miracles : a true story of love, science, and cancer
- A sin by any other name : reckoning with racism and the heritage of the South
- A song for Gwendolyn Brooks
- A song for you : my life with Whitney Houston
- A spy named Orphan : the enigma of Donald Maclean
- A street cat named Bob : and how he saved my life
- A truck full of money
- A win for women : Billie Jean King takes down Bobby Riggs
- AOC : Fighter, phenom, change maker
- Abandon me : memoirs
- Abused : surviving sexual assault and a toxic gymnastics culture
- 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
- Agatha Christie
- Agent 110 : an American spymaster and the German resistance in WWII
- Al Capone : his life, legacy, and legend
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton
- Alexander Hamilton : the making of America
- Alexander Hamilton, revolutionary
- Alexander McQueen : blood beneath the skin
- Ali : a life
- Alice Adams : portrait of a writer
- All in a drop : how Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered an invisible world
- All that heaven allows : a biography of Rock Hudson
- All the lives we ever lived : seeking solace in Virginia Woolf
- All the things we never knew
- All-American murder : the rise and fall of Aaron Hernandez, the superstar whose life ended on murderers' row
- Almost American girl : an illustrated memoir
- Aly Raisman
- Amateur : a true story about what makes a man
- Amazing women
- Amazons, abolitionists, and activists : a graphic history of women's fight for their rights
- American Eden : David Hosack, botany, and medicine in the garden of the early republic
- American Gothic : the life of Grant Wood
- American Sanctuary : Mutiny, Martyrdom, And National Identity In The Age of Revolution
- American Ulysses : a life of Ulysses S. Grant
- Among the living and the dead : a tale of exile and homecoming on the war roads of Europe
- An American family : a memoir of hope and sacrifice
- An impeccable spy : Richard Sorge, Stalin's master agent
- An unlikely ballerina
- And then we danced : a voyage into the groove
- Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny
- Andy and Don : the making of a friendship and a classic American TV show
- Angela Merkel : Europe's most influential leader
- Animal scientist and activist Jane Goodall
- Anne Frank
- Anne Frank
- Answering the cry for freedom : stories of African Americans and the American Revolution
- Antsy Ansel : Ansel Adams, a life in nature
- Arnie : the life of Arnold Palmer
- Around the way girl : a memoir
- Arthur Ashe : a life
- Atticus Finch : the biography : Harper Lee, her father, and the making of an American icon
- Audrey Hepburn
- Autumn
- Autumn in Venice : Ernest Hemingway and his last muse
- Avedon : something personal
- Bad princess : true tales from behind the tiara
- Ballad of the anarchist bandits : the crime spree that gripped Belle Époque Paris
- Barbie developer : Ruth Handler
- Barracoon : the story of the last "black cargo"
- Be like the fox : Machiavelli's lifelong quest for freedom
- Beastie Boys book
- Beautiful on the outside : a memoir
- Become a leader like Michelle Obama
- Becoming
- Becoming Dr. Seuss : Theodor Geisel and the making of an American imagination
- Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
- Becoming Kim Jong Un : a former CIA officer's insights into North Korea's enigmatic young dictator
- Before you judge me : the triumph and tragedy of Michael Jackson's last days
- Being Elvis : a lonely life
- Belichick : the making of the greatest football coach of all time
- Between the world and me
- Between them : remembering my parents
- Big machines : the story of Virginia Lee Burton
- Big science : Ernest Lawrence and the invention that launched the military-industrial complex
- Bill O'Reilly's Legends & lies : the real West
- Black fortunes : the story of the first six African Americans who escaped slavery and became millionaires
- Blast off into space like Mae Jemison
- 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 letters : the untold story of Lin Zhao, a martyr in Mao's China
- Blood moon : an American epic of war and splendor in the Cherokee Nation
- Bloom : a story of fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli
- Board game builder : Milton Bradley
- Bobby Kennedy : a raging spirit
- Bobby Kennedy : the making of a liberal icon
- Bobby Kennedy: : a raging spirit/
- Boots on the ground : America's war in Vietnam
- Born Trump : inside America's first family
- Born to run
- Bowie's bookshelf : the hundred books that changed David Bowie's life
- Boys in the trees : a memoir
- Breaking and entering : the extraordinary story of a hacker called "Alien"
- Broad band : the untold story of the women who made the Internet
- Bunny Mellon : the life of an American style legend
- Buzz Aldrin : pioneer moon explorer
- Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940
- Captive : a mother's crusade to save her daughter from a terrifying cult
- Carrie Fisher : a life on the edge
- Cartoon county : my father and his friends in the golden age of make-believe
- Casey Stengel : baseball's greatest character
- Caught in the revolution : Petrograd, Russia, 1917--a world on the edge
- Charles Darwin : Victorian Mythmaker
- Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart
- Chasing Hillary : ten years, two presidential campaigns, and one intact glass ceiling
- Chasing King's killer : the hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassin
- Chasing the last laugh : Mark Twain's raucous and redemptive round-the-world comedy tour
- Chopin's piano : in search of the instrument that transformed music
- Churchill : walking with destiny
- Churchill and Orwell : the fight for freedom
- Clementine : the life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
- Code name : Lise : the true story of World War II's most highly decorated spy
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Code name : Lise : the true story of the woman who became WWII's most highly decorated spy
- Conversations with RBG : Ruth Bader Ginsburg on life, love, liberty, and law
- Counting on Katherine : how Katherine Johnson saved Apollo 13
- Courage is contagious : and other reasons to be grateful for Michelle Obama
- Crayola creators : Edwin Binney and C. Harold Smith
- Crisis of character : a White House Secret Service officer discloses his firsthand experience with Hillary, Bill, and how they operate
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young : the wild, definitive saga of rock's greatest supergroup
- Crossings : a doctor-soldier's story
- Crown of blood : the deadly inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Cuz : or, the life and times of Michael A.
- Dadland
- Dancing at the pity party : a dead mom graphic memoir
- Dancing hands : how Teresa Carreño played the piano for President Lincoln
- Dare not linger : the presidential years
- Darwin's backyard : how small experiments led to a big theory
- 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
- Defiance : the extraordinary life of Lady Anne Barnard
- Degas, painter of ballerinas
- Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush
- Dian Fossey : animal rights activist and protector of mountain gorillas
- 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
- Don't you ever : my mother and her secret son
- Dorothea's eyes : Dorothea Lange photographs the truth
- Dorothy Day : the world will be saved by beauty : an intimate portrait of my grandmother
- Double ace : the life of Robert Lee Scott Jr., pilot, hero, and teller of tall tales
- Dr. Seuss : the great doodler
- Edison
- Eleanor Roosevelt : the war years and after, v. 3, 1939-1962
- Eleanor and Hick : the love affair that shaped a First Lady
- Eliza Hamilton : the extraordinary life and times of the wife of Alexander Hamilton
- Elizabeth : Renaissance prince
- Elizabeth : the forgotten years
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast
- Elizabeth Warren : her fight, her work, her life
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Ella persistió : 13 mujeres Americanas que cambiaron el mundo
- Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the quest for a fantastic future
- Elon Musk : a mission to save the world
- Emily writes : Emily Dickinson and her poetic beginnings
- Emmeline Pankhurst
- 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
- Enemy child : the story of Norman Mineta, a boy imprisoned in a Japanese American internment camp during World War II
- Ernest Hemingway : a biography
- Ernest Hemingway : artifacts from a life/
- Escape North! : the story of Harriet Tubman
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- Esquivel! : space-age sound artist
- 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
- Everything is horrible and wonderful : a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss
- Expect great things : the life and search of Henry David Thoreau
- Explore with James Cook
- Famous father girl : a memoir of growing up Bernstein
- Farthest field : an Indian story of the Second World War
- Fatal discord : Erasmus, Luther, and the fight for the Western mind
- Fear : Trump in the White House
- Fighting for space : two pilots and their historic battle for female spaceflight
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Chika : a little girl, an earthquake, and the making of a family
- Finding Narnia : the story of C. S. Lewis and his brother
- First : Sandra Day O'Connor
- Florence Nightingale
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- Fly girls : how five daring women defied all odds and made aviation history
- For Audrey with love : Audrey Hepburn and Givenchy
- For colored girls who have considered politics
- For the right to learn : Malala Yousafzai's story
- 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
- Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom : wildlife conservation pioneers
- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Franklin D. Roosevelt : a political life
- Freddie Mercury, the great pretender : a life in pictures
- Frederick Douglass : prophet of freedom
- Frederick Douglass : the lion who wrote history
- Frederick the Great : King of Prussia
- Free, Melania : the unauthorized biography
- Freedom's detective : the Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan, and the man who masterminded America's first war on terror
- Freud : the making of an illusion
- Freud in his time and ours
- Frida Kahlo
- Frida Kahlo and her animalitos
- Frida Kahlo and the bravest girl in the world
- Friends divided : John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
- 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 an idea to Disney : how branding made Disney a household name
- Game changers : the story of Venus and Serena Williams
- Geronimo
- Girl running : Bobbi Gibb and the Boston Marathon
- Gloria's voice : the story of Gloria Steinem -- feminist, activist, leader
- Go ahead in the rain : notes to A Tribe Called Quest
- God bless America : the story of an immigrant named Irving Berlin
- God's wolf : the life of the most notorious of all crusaders, scourge of Saladin
- Goebbels : a biography
- Goethe : life as a work of art
- Gold dust woman : the biography of Stevie Nicks
- Good Friday on the rez : a Pine Ridge odyssey
- Gorbachev : his life and times
- Grace Hopper : advancing computer science
- Grace Murray Hopper
- Grant
- Grant
- Green Card STEM voices : stories from Minnesota immigrants working in science, technology, engineering, and math
- Grinnell : America's environmental pioneer and his restless drive to save the West
- Grover Cleveland, again! : a treasury of American presidents
- Growing up Fisher : musings, memories, and misadventures
- Growing up Pedro
- Gumption : relighting the torch of freedom with America's gutsiest troublemakers
- Hank : the short life and long country road of Hank Williams
- Hannibal
- Harriet Tubman
- Harriet Tubman's escape
- He calls me by lightning : the life of Caliph Washington and the forgotten saga of Jim Crow, southern justice, and the death penalty
- Hector : a boy, a protest, and the photograph that changed apartheid
- Hedy Lamarr : reimagining radio
- Hedy Lamarr's double life
- Helen Keller
- Hello neighbor! : the kind and caring world of Mister Rogers
- Henry David Thoreau : a life
- Her again : becoming Meryl Streep
- Herbert Hoover : a life
- Hero dogs : how a pack of rescues, rejects, and strays became America's greatest disaster-search partners
- 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
- 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
- Hollywood's Eve : Eve Babitz and the secret history of L.A.
- Homeward bound : the life of Paul Simon
- Hoover : an extraordinary life in extraordinary times
- Hope : a memoir of survival in Cleveland
- How Jelly Roll Morton invented jazz
- How Kate Warne saved President Lincoln : a story about the nation's first woman detective
- How the cookie crumbled : the true (and not-so-true) stories of the invention of the chocolate chip cookie
- I am Billie Jean King
- I am Gandhi
- I am Harriet Tubman
- I am Lucille Ball
- I am Neil Armstrong
- I am Sacagawea
- I am dynamite! : a life of Nietzsche
- I loved her in the movies : working with the legendary actresses of Hollywood
- I was told to come alone : my journey behind the lines of jihad
- Ian McKellen : a biography
- Ike and McCarthy : Dwight Eisenhower's secret campaign against Joseph McCarthy
- Imagine that! : how Dr. Seuss wrote The cat in the hat
- In Trump we trust : e pluribus awesome!
- In full flight : a story of Africa and atonement
- In my father's house : a new view of how crime runs in the family
- In praise of difficult women : life lessons from 29 heroines who dared to break the rules
- 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 enemy's house : the secret saga of the FBI agent and the code breaker who caught the Russian spies
- 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
- Insomniac City : New York, Oliver, and me
- Instrumental : a memoir of madness, medication, and music
- Intimate warfare : the true story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward boxing trilogy
- 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
- Isabella of Castile : Europe's first great queen
- It began with a page : how Gyo Fujikawa drew the way
- It's Trevor Noah : born a crime : stories from a South African childhood ; adapted for young readers
- It's all relative : adventures up and down the world's family tree
- 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
- Jackie, Janet & Lee : the secret lives of Janet Auchincloss and her daughters, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill
- Jackson Pollock : splashed paint and wasn't sorry
- Jane Austen at home : a biography
- Jane Crow : the life of Pauli Murray
- Janis : her life and music
- Jefferson : architect of American liberty
- 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 Paul Jones and the birth of the American Navy
- John Quincy Adams : militant spirit
- Jonathan Swift : the reluctant rebel
- Josephine Baker
- Junior Seau : the life and death of a football icon
- Katherine Johnson
- Katherine Johnson : guiding spacecraft
- Katie Ledecky
- Kennedy and King : the president, the pastor, and the battle over civil rights
- Kill 'em and leave : searching for James Brown and the American soul
- King Con : the bizarre adventures of the Jazz Age's greatest impostor
- Kissinger's shadow : the long reach of America's most controversial statesman
- Kissinger, v. 1, 1923-1968: the idealist
- Krazy : George Herriman, a life in black and white
- LEGO manufacturers : the Kristiansen family
- Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
- Lady first : the world of first lady Sarah Polk
- Lafayette in the somewhat United States
- Last girl before freeway : the life, loves, losses, and liberation of Joan Rivers
- LeBron James
- Lenin on the train
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Les Parisiennes : how the women of Paris lived, loved, and died under Nazi occupation
- Let your voice be heard : the life and times of Pete Seeger
- Letterman : the last giant of late night
- Letters to Vera
- Life undercover : coming of age in the CIA
- Lights! Camera! Alice! : the thrilling true adventures of the first woman filmmaker
- Like brothers
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Lincoln's last trial : the murder case that propelled him to the presidency
- Lion of the Senate : when Ted Kennedy rallied the Democrats in a GOP Congress
- Little weirds
- Locked in ice : Nansen's daring quest for the North Pole
- Lou Reed : a life
- Louisa : the extraordinary life of Mrs. Adams
- Love from Boy : Roald Dahl's letters to his mother
- Love unknown : the life and worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
- Love warrior : a memoir
- Lucky 666 : the impossible mission
- 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
- Malala Yousafzai
- Malala's magic pencil
- Mama Africa! : how Miriam Makeba spread hope with her song
- Man of the hour : James B. Conant, warrior scientist
- Manderley forever : a biography of Daphne Du Maurier
- Maria Montessori
- Marie Curie
- Martin Luther : renegade and prophet
- Martin Luther : the man who rediscovered God and changed the world
- Maya Angelou
- Maybe Esther : a family story
- Memory's last breath : field notes on my dementia
- Michael Phelps
- Midnight in broad daylight : a Japanese American family caught between two worlds
- Midnight teacher : Lilly Ann Granderson and her secret school
- Miss Mary reporting : the true story of sportswriter Mary Garber
- Missing man : the American spy who vanished in Iran
- Mockingbird songs : my friendship with Harper Lee
- Montaigne in barn boots : an amateur ambles through philosophy
- Most dangerous : Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War
- Mother Teresa
- Movie nights with the Reagans : a memoir
- Mrs. Morhard and the boys
- Muddy : the story of blues legend Muddy Waters
- Munch
- My Name Is James Madison Hemings
- My father's wake : how the Irish teach us to live, love and die
- My girls : a lifetime with Carrie and Debbie
- My journey to the stars
- My sister : how one sibling's transition changed us both
- Neruda : the poet's calling
- Newton's rainbow : the revolutionary discoveries of a young scientist
- Nine lessons I learned from my father
- Ninety-nine glimpses of Princess Margaret
- No better friend, no worse enemy : the life of General James Mattis
- 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
- Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Oliver Wendell Holmes : a life in war, law, and ideas
- One man against the world : the tragedy of Richard Nixon
- Oprah
- Ordinary people change the world
- Osceola
- Ostend : Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the summer before the dark
- Otis Redding : an unfinished life
- Our house is on fire : Greta Thunberg's call to save the planet
- Our man : Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American century
- Our year of war : two brothers, Vietnam, and a nation divided
- Out of this world: the surreal art of Leonora Carrington
- Papa is a poet : a story about Robert Frost
- Patient H.M. : a story of memory, madness and family secrets
- Patricia St. John : the story behind the stories
- Patricia's vision : the doctor who saved sight
- Patrick Henry : champion of liberty
- Patriot number one : American dreams in Chinatown
- Paul : a biography
- Paul Revere's ride
- Paul Simon : the life
- Pelosi
- Petty : the biography
- Picasso and the painting that shocked the world
- Pies from nowhere : how Georgia Gilmore sustained the Montgomery bus boycott
- Pilgrimage : my search for the real Pope Francis
- Play-Doh pioneer : Joseph McVicker
- Pocket full of colors : the magical world of Mary Blair, Disney artist extraordinaire
- Portraits of courage : a commander in chief's tribute to America's warriors
- President Carter : the White House years
- Pride : the story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag
- Prince Albert : the man who saved the monarchy
- 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
- Profiles in courage
- Proust's duchess : how three celebrated women captured the imagination of fin-de-siècle Paris
- Pudge : the biography of Carlton Fisk
- Putin : his downfall and Russia's coming crash
- Queen Victoria : twenty-four days that changed her life
- Queen Victoria's matchmaking : the royal marriages that shaped Europe
- Queen of bebop : the musical lives of Sarah Vaughan
- Queen of physics : how Wu Chien Shiung helped unlock the secrets of the atom
- Queen of spies : Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War spy master
- Queen of the world
- Quicksand : what it means to be a human being
- RFK : his words for our times
- Rasputin : a short life
- 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
- Rebel Cinderella : from rags to riches to radical, the epic journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
- Rebel mother: : my childhood chasing the revolution
- Reckless daughter : a portrait of Joni Mitchell
- Red Cloud
- Red Cloud : a Lakota story of war and surrender
- Redemption : Martin Luther King Jr.'s last 31 hours
- Relentless : a memoir
- Relentless pursuit : my fight for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein
- Relentless spirit : the unconventional raising of a champion
- Renoir's dancer : the secret life of Suzanne Valadon
- Republic of spin : an inside history of the American presidency
- Rest in power : the enduring life of Trayvon Martin
- Return from Siberia
- Revolution song : a story of American freedom
- Revolutionary : George Washington at war
- 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
- Rising above : how 11 athletes overcame challenges in their youth to become stars
- Rising out of hatred : the awakening of a former white nationalist
- Rising star : the making of Barack Obama
- Robert Lowell, setting the river on fire : a study of genius, mania, and character
- Roberta Gibb
- Robin
- Robin
- Roman Reigns
- Ronda Rousey
- Rosa Parks and civil disobedience
- Rosalind Franklin : unlocking DNA
- Running with Raven : the amazing story of one man, his passion, and the community he inspired
- Rush : revolution, madness, and the visionary doctor who became a founding father
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg : a life
- Ruthless : scientology, my son David Miscavige, and me
- Sally Ride : trailblazing astronaut
- Sam Phillips : the man who invented rock 'n' roll
- Sam Shepard : a life
- 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
- Scholars of mayhem : my father's secret war in Nazi-occupied France
- Schomburg : the man who built a library
- Secondhand time : the last of the Soviets
- Serving the servant : remembering Kurt Cobain
- Shark lady : the true story of how Eugenie Clark became the ocean's most fearless scientist
- She made me laugh : my friend Nora Ephron
- She persisted : 13 American women who changed the world
- She persisted : 13 American women who changed the world
- She persisted around the world : 13 women who changed history
- Shipwreck at the bottom of the world : the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the Endurance
- Shirley Jackson : a rather haunted life
- Shooting ghosts : a U.S. Marine, a combat photographer, and their journey back from war
- Silent days, silent dreams
- Silver, sword, and stone : three crucibles in the Latin American story
- Simone Biles
- Simone Manuel
- Sisters and rebels : a struggle for the soul of America
- Slinky innovators : the James family
- Slowhand : the life and music of Eric Clapton
- So much things to say : the oral history of Bob Marley