Non-Fiction: Biographies

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Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself
by Alan Alda

Clapton: the Autobiography
by Eric Clapton

Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert

Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
by Daniel Tammet

The Pursuit of Happyness
by Chris Gardner with Quincy Troupe [bestseller]

Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson [bestseller]

Writing Your Life Story
by Michael Oke

Out of My Mind
by Andy Rooney

Treasure Islands: Sailing the South Seas in the Wake of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
by Pamela Stephenson

Elizabeth
by J. Randy Taraborrelli [biography of Elizabeth Taylor]

Being Martha: The Inside Story of Martha Stewart and Her Amazing Life
by Lloyd Allen

The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal
by Vicki Constantine Croke

Marley & Me: Life and Love and the World's Worst Dog
by John Grogan [bestseller]

Coming Home to Myself
by Wynonna Judd [autobiography]

Here's Johnny!: My Memories of Johnny Carson, the Tonight Show, and 46 Years of Friendship
by Ed McMahon

Barbra: the Way She Is
by Christopher Andersen [biography on Barbra Streisand]

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
by Barack Obama [bestseller]

Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold
by Jean Fritz [biography]

Blood and Thunder: an Epic of the American West
by Hampton Sides The true accounting of Kit Carson's flaws and virtues.

The Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid: a Memoir
by Bill Bryson

Saint Therese of Lisieux
by Kathryn Harrison [biography]

Running With the Bulls: My Years With the Hemingways
by Valerie Hemingway

It Seemed Important At The Time: a Romance Memoir
by Gloria Vanderbilt

If I Knew It Was Going To Be This Much Fun I Would Have Become a Grandparent First
by Willard Scott & Friends

The Soul of a Butterfly
by Muhammad Ali

No Mountain High Enough: Raising Lance, Raising Me
by Linda Armstrong Kelly with Joni Rodgers
Foreword by Lance Armstrong

By Myself and Then Some
by Lauren Bacall

Condi: The Condoleezza Rice Story: New Updated Edition
by Antonia Felix

Barbara Bush: Matriarch of a Dynasty
by Pamela Kilian

Shattered Love: a Memoir
by Richard Chamberlain

My Life So Far
by Jane Fonda

Memories Are Made of This: Dean Martin Through His Daughter's Eyes
by Deana Martin

A Life in Letters: Ann Landers' Letters to Her Only Child
by Margo Howard

Once Upon a Time: Behind the Fairy Tale of Princess Grace and Prince Rainier
by J. Randy Taraborrelli

Reflections: Life After the White House
by Barbara Bush
Barbara Bush discusses her and husband's inner lives through stories about their extensive travels, their hobbies, and their charity work.

My Life
by Bill Clinton [Bestseller]

Blindsided: Lifting a Life Above Illness: a Reluctant Memoir
by Richard M. Cohen

John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography By The Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best
by Michael Kranish

'Tis Herself: a Memoir
by Maureen O'Hara with John Nicoletti

An Enduring Love: My Life With the Shah
by Farah Pahlavi

Are You Hungry Dear?: Life, Laughs, and Lasagna
by Doris Roberts

Nancy: a Portrait of My Years With Nancy Reagan
by Michael K. Deaver

Bob Hope: My Life in Jokes
by Bob Hope with Linda Hope

Lauren's Story: An American Dog in Paris
by Kay Pfaltz

Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra
by George Jacobs and William Stadiem

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
by Cokie Roberts

An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
by Henry Wiencek

Yanni In Words
by Yanni with David Rensin
The critically acclaimed musician's personal odyssey: from his childhood under a Greek military dictatorship to success as a performer.

Nothing Is Impossible: Reflections On a New Life
by Christopher Reeve
Reeve teaches us that for able-bodied people, paralysis is a choice a choice to live with self-doubt and fear of taking risks - and that it is not an acceptable choice.

How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life
by Peter Robinson
In 1982, Peter Robinson was hired as a speechwriter in the Reagan White House. While there, Robinson absorbed not just the president's politics but his manner and way of carrying himself.

I Am The Central Park Jogger: a Story of Hope and Possibility
by Trisha Meili
Attacked, raped, savagely beaten and left for dead, a woman is found in Central Park. The doctors can't understand why she is still alive. For the first time since the 1989 assault, the jogger reveals her identity and tells a story of extraordinary healing and triumphant life.

Ask Me Again Tomorrow: a Life in Progress
by Olympia Dukakis
With honesty and humor, Dukakis talks about the years of hard work that came before her "Oscar." She speaks out about her struggles as a 1st generation Greek-American, her alienation from her mother, her battles with addiction and her personal relationships.

Ten Rings: My Championship Seasons
by Yogi Berra with Dave Kaplan
In more than a century of baseball, Yogi Berra has won the most championship rings. For the first time, he tells the stories behind each of those remarkable championship seasons.

For Spacious Skies: The Uncommon Journey of a Mercury Astronaut
by Scott Carpenter and Kris Stoever

Waiting For Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy
by Carlos Eire
In 1962 at the age of 11, Carlos was one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba, leaving his parents behind.

Catch Me If You Can
by Frank W. Abagnale
In the space of five years, Frank Abagnale passed $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in every state and 26 foreign countries. He did it by pioneering implausible and brazen scams, such as impersonating a Pan Am pilot, a pediatrician, a lawyer, and a college-level teacher.

Revenge: a Story of Hope
by Laura Blumenfeld
As the author sets out on revenge, her target turns out to be more complex and more threatening than she'd long imagined. Herself.

Ten Things I Learned From Bill Porter
by Shelly Brady
Bill was born with cerebral palsy and made a living as a door-to-door saleman in Portland ... changing the world one door at a time. As a teenager Shelly worked for Bill and realized that his story could inspire others the way it inspired her.

Just Lucky I Guess: a Memoir of Sorts
by Carol Channing
Written entirely by the conversational Channing, she delights in telling about her long and amazing life.

Merv: Making the Good Life Last
by Merv Griffin with David Bender
At a happy 77 years old, Merv Griffin continues his entrepreneurial powerhouse and multibillion-dollar business empire.

Geisha, A Life
by Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown
Mineko was only 5 years old when she left her parents' home for the world of the geisha. She tells her story beautifully and heroically of a time rarely revealed to the Western world.

Winston Churchill
by John Keegan
This is a powerful, insightful portrait of Churchill who Tom Clancy calls "the best military historian of the world."

Abraham Lincoln
by Thomas Keneally
This self-made man - the great orator, the Emancipator, the savior of the Union, the martyr - rose from obscurity to lead the nation through its most tumultuous time.

Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling
by Ross King
In 1508 Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel. With little experience as a painter, the master was reluctant. This is the story of his 4 years laboring while the rivalries of Rome swirled around him.

Knight: My Story
by Bob Knight with Bob Hammel
Few people in sports have had more books written about them, but this is his story - the first -person account of his full, rich life.

A Lawyer's Life
by Johnnie Cochran with David Fisher
In his 40-year career, Cochran has taken on dozens of groundbreaking cases and emerged as a pivotal figure in race relations in America.

Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed
by Patricia Cornwell
Cornwell applies the rigorous 21st Century police investigation to the 19th Century evidence of "Jack the Ripper" to deduce that the killer was the world-famous artist Walter Sickert.

A Thousand Days in Venice: an Unexpected Romance
by Marlena de Blasi
Within months of Marlena meeting Fernando, she sold her house, quit her job, gave away most of her possessions, kissed her grown children goodbye, and moved to Venice.

Sandy Koufax: a Lefty's Legacy
by Jane Leavy
When he refused to pitch the opening game of the 1965 World Series because it was Yom Kippur, he inadvertenetly became a religious icon and a public figure.

Elvis Presley
by Bobbie Ann Mason

Benjamin Franklin
by Edmund S. Morgan
Unraveling the enigma of Franklin's character, Morgan shows Franklin as the rare individual who consistently placed the public interest before his own desires.

An Unfinished Marriage
by Joan Anderson
Anderson's 1999 memoir, "A Year by the Sea," described her year-long break from marriage. In this sequel, she and her newly retired husband move to their cottage on Cape Cod.

Diana's Boys: William and Harry and the Mother They Loved
by Christopher Andersen
This is the story of a mother who died too young and the children who are her living legacy.

Hughes: the Private Diaries, Memos and Letters
by Richard Hack
This Howard Hughes biography is the complete and definitive story of a truly extraordinary life as aviator, film producer, inventor, eccentric.

Hello Darlin': Tall (and Absolutely True) Tales About My Life
by Larry Hagman with Todd Gold
Hagman finally shares his hilarious and scandalous behind-the-scenes life with the public.

Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Marshall Frady
"An inspiring...firsthand portrait of a civil rights icon by one of the best political biographers of our time." Los Angeles Times

Andy Warhol
by Wayne Koestenbaum
Painter, filmmaker, photographer, philosopher, Warhol was both celebrity and celebrant, the man who put the "Pop" in art.

Marlon Brando
by Patricia Bosworth
Bosworth writes about Brando from the farm boy to the man who wanted to change the world.

Natasha: the Biography of Natalie Wood
by Suzanne Finstad

Dante
by R.W. B. Lewis
Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Lewis writes insightfully about Dante Alighieri, Florence's famous son.

John Adams
by David McCullough
McCullough unfolds the adventurous life of John Adams, second President of the United States.

Jane Austen
by Carol Shields
A biography of one of the most popular and enduring English novelists

Theodore Roosevelt
by Louis Auchincloss
Here is the story of Roosevelt's celebrated military career and his ascent to national politics from New York City.

The Music of Silence: a Memoir
by Andrea Bocelli
Bocelli, world reknowned Italian, operatic tenor, talks as never before about his blindness and musical passion.

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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
by Antonia Fraser
This 18th-Century French queen was blamed for instigating the French Revolution, but Fraser reveals a woman of greater complexity and character.

Pope John XXIII
by Thomas Cahill
Known as the "People's Pope," John XXIII brought unprecedented change in the Catholic Church and its relationship to the world.

Lucky Man: a Memoir
by Michael J. Fox
With the same passion, humor and energy that Fox invests in his performances, he tells the story of his life, his career and campaign for Parkinson's research.

Bilko: Behind the Lines with Phil Silvers
by Mickey Freeman and Sholom Rubinstein
This is Freeman's (Private Fielding Zimmerman's) personal account of the making of a classic television show.

The Jami Goldman Story: Up and Running
by Jami Goldman and Andrea Cagan
Jami recounts her gripping story of the grievous loss of her legs and the fortitude to not only walk again but run like the wind.

The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice
by Bernard B. Kerik
On September 11, 2001, Kerik, NYPD 40th Police Commissioner, worked tirelessly to coordinate rescue efforts at ground zero.

Saving Milly: Love, Politics, and Parkinson's Disease
by Morton Kondracke
Kondracke tells his inspiring story about transforming his life from extreme careerist to loving caregiver of his wife with Parkinson's.

Under a Wing: a Memoir
by Reeve Lindbergh
A heartfelt recollection of a mother and father by the daughter of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by Nancy Milford
Millay was the first woman to win the Pulitzer for poetry. Her public affairs and private dramas make compelling reading.

When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan
by Peggy Noonan

A Song Flung Up to Heaven
by Maya Angelou
Another extension to Angelou's autobiographical series.

Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years
by Barbara Leaming
Eyewitness testimony, Jackie's letters, Secret Service records and recently declassified documents make this account sympathetic

A Beautiful Mind
by Sylvia Nasar
The book about the nobel prize winning mathematician that inspired the acclaimed film of the same name.

American Son: A Portrait of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
by Richard Blow

Martha Inc.: The Incredible Story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
by Christopher M. Byron

Kitchen Privileges: a Memoir
by Mary Higgins Clark
America's beloved Queen of Suspense, recounts the early experiences that shaped her as a person and as a writer.

Laura: America's First Lady, First Mother
by Antonia Felix

Vernon Can Read!: a Memoir
by Vernon E. Jordan
"To the memory of my mother and father who taught me so much, and to my grandchildren, who I hope will be instructed and inspired by this effort."

Still Woman Enough: A Memoir
by Loretta Lynn with Patsi Bale Cox
Lynn goes beyond "The Coal Miner's Daugher" to complete the tale of her rising star.

At The Altar of Speed: The Fast Life and Tragic Death of Dale Earnhardt
by Leigh Montville

My Twice-Lived Life: a Memoir
by Donald M. Murray
This Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist discovers more joy in growing old than he had ever imagined.

Lazy B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest
by Sandra Day O'Connor and H. Alan Day

Find Me
by Rosie O'Donnell
Told in Rosie's candid, moving voice, it is the story of a friendship between a troubled young woman and a celebrity obsessed with helping her.

Uncle Tungsten: Memoirs of a Chemical Boyhood
by Oliver Sacks
A biography from the "Awakenings" neurologist Sacks who treats people with Tourette's, autism, Parkinson's, musical hallucination, phantom limb syndrome, schizophrenia, retardation and Alzheimer's disease

Charles Dickens
by Jane Smiley
"His novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels."

An Irish Childhood
by Peter Somerville-Large
This beautifully written memoir takes the reader back to the sensations and excitements of childhood and paints a vivid picture of a vanished world.

Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man: a Memoir
by Eric Wright
Wright is well-known for his award-winning crime fiction. In this memoir, he writes about growing up poor in an English working-class family during the Depression.

America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918
by Richard Brookhiser
A century and a half of John, John Quincy, Charles Francis & Henry

Napoleon
by Paul Johnson
In Napoleon's insatiable hunger for power, Johnson sees a realist unfettered by patriotism or ideology.