295 Books, According to 172 “Best of” Lists
This list is generated from 172 book polls & top lists from a variety of great sources. The books is ranked based on how many lists a particular book appears on.⇣
- Little Failure: a Memoir by Shteyngart, Gary (25 Lists: a3,b3,b4,c4,e1,e2,g1,h1,i5,k1,k2,n1,n5,n6,n9,n14,p1,p8,r4,s2,s6,s7,t1,t3,w2)
- Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: a Brilliant Young Man who Left Newark for the Ivy League, The by Hobbs, Jeff (18 Lists: a1,b4,b8,b15,c4,e4,g1,h1,k1,l9,m11,n1,n5,p1,p6,s6,s7,w2)
- Yes Please by Poehler, Amy (18 Lists: a1,a3,b8,b11,b18,b19,e7,g1,g5,h1,h7,l6,m11,n2,r7,s11,s13,t2)
- Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by Lahr, John (15 Lists: b2,b15,d2,f10,i5,k1,k2,n3,n9,n15,p1,s6,t3,u1,w2)
- Updike by Begley, Adam (15 Lists: a1,b3,b7,b15,b19,c4,d2,e1,g6,l9,m1,n15,s7,t3,w2)
- Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned" by Dunham, Lena (14 Lists: a1,b6,b8,d2,g1,g5,h7,i5,l1,l6,m10,m11,p2,s1)
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Stevenson, Bryan (12 Lists: a2,a15,b2,b4,f3,i4,k1,l9,n1,s3,t1,w2)
- Napoleon: a Life by Roberts, Andrew (11 Lists: a1,b8,e2,g6,i5,k2,l9,n1,n15,r4,t3)
- Thrown by Howley, Kerry (11 Lists: b6,e7,k2,l7,m10,m11,n1,n5,s2,s4,t1)
- Factory Man: How One Furniture Making Battled Off-Shoring, Stayed Local--and Helped Save an American Town by Macy, Beth (9 Lists: a2,b8,c1,f3,g1,k1,n1,p1,s7)
- My Life in Middlemarch by Mead, Rebecca (9 Lists: b3,b19,c6,g5,h2,i5,k1,l1,s7)
- Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War by Gates, Robert (8 Lists: b8,d2,g1,k2,l1,n1,n5,w2)
- Not My Father's Son: a Memoir by Cumming, Alan (8 Lists: a1,b8,b19,d2,f1,g1,i5,s11)
- Penelope Fitzgerald: a Life by Lee, Hermione (8 Lists: b13,b15,c6,m10,n1,p1,s3,v1)
- Rebel Yell: the Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by Gwynne, S.C. (8 Lists: a1,b3,b5,b8,n9,n14,s3,s7)
- Spy among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal, A by Macintyre, Ben (8 Lists: a1,b5,g1,i3,k1,n1,s2,w2)
- Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys by Albertine, Viv (7 Lists: b6,b8,f10,g6,i5,l6,r6)
- Good Spy: the Life and Death of Robert Ames, The by Bird, Kai (7 Lists: c1,d2,g1,k2,m10,n5,w2)
- Limonov: the Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet who Became a Bum in New York, a Sensation in France, and a Political Antihero in Russia by Carrère, Emmanuel (7 Lists: b8,d2,g2,g5,n1,p1,w2)
- My Salinger Year by Smith-Rakoff, Joanna (7 Lists: b3,b11,b18,g1,n13,s1,s2)
- Soldier Girls: the Battles of Three Women at Home and at War by Thorpe, Helen (7 Lists: b2,k1,n5,p1,s2,t1,w2)
- Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph by Swafford, Jan (6 Lists: c1,d2,f10,n5,s3,t3)
- H Is for Hawk by Macdonald, Helen (6 Lists: c8,f10,g6,i5,n15,t3)
- Iceberg: a Memoir, The by Coutts, Marion (6 Lists: c8,e1,f10,g6,i5,t3)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story by Bragg, Rick (6 Lists: a1,a2,g6,i5,p1,r6)
- My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind by Stossel, Scott (6 Lists: b7,g6,i3,k1,s3,w2)
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: and Other Lessons from the Crematory by Doughty, Caitlin (6 Lists: b3,d2,e4,g1,k2,l1)
- Stalin. Volume 1, Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928 by Kotkin, Stephen (6 Lists: d2,f8,f10,k1,l9,p12)
- Unremarried Widow: a Memoir by Henderson, Artis (6 Lists: a1,c1,k1,n8,s2,s7)
- Liar, Temptress, Solder, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Abbott, Karen (5 Lists: a1,c1,f3,g1,l1)
- Man Alive: a True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man by McBee, Thomas Page (5 Lists: b6,k1,l4,n5,p1)
- Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line by Gibney, Michael (5 Lists: a1,b17,g1,s2,t1)
- Things I've Learned from Dying: a Book about Life by Dow, David R. (5 Lists: b19,k2,l1,n5,p5)
- Boy on Ice: the Life and Death of Derek Boogaard by Branch, John (4 Lists: d4,g5,k1,p1)
- Charlie Chaplin: a Brief Life by Ackroyd, Peter (4 Lists: b4,c4,f10,i5)
- Fire Shut up in My Bones by Blow, Charles M. (4 Lists: a7,b6,n1,p1)
- Getting Schooled: the Reeducation of an American Teacher by Keizer, Garret (4 Lists: b8,k1,k2,s2)
- Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld, The by Hocking, Justin (4 Lists: h1,k1,l1,s2)
- Hard Choices by Clinton, Hilary Rodham (4 Lists: b8,g1,n15,w2)
- Living with a Wild God: a Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything by Ehrenreich, Barbara (4 Lists: b3,k2,l1,t3)
- Love, Nina: a Nanny Writes Home by Stibbe, Nina (4 Lists: b11,d2,p2,s2)
- Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography by Harris, Neil Patrick (4 Lists: a1,b8,g1,s13)
- On His Own Terms: a Life of Nelson Rockefeller by Smith, Richard Norton (4 Lists: b2,b8,k1,r5)
- Other Side, The by Johnson, Lacy (4 Lists: e3,k1,l1,n9)
- Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space by Sherr, Lynn (4 Lists: b4,g1,s7,w2)
- Splendid Things We Planned: a Family Portrait, The by Bailey, Blake (4 Lists: b2,b8,n5,n9)
- There Was and There Was Not: a Journey through Hate and Possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and Beyond by Toumani, Meline (4 Lists: k1,n9,p5,s2)
- Trigger: Hunting the Assassin who Brought the World to War, The by Butcher, Tim (4 Lists: b4,g6,k1,t3)
- Victoria: a Life by Wilson, A. N. (4 Lists: b4,g6,i5,t3)
- Without You There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite by Kim, Suki (4 Lists: b5,b19,s2,s4)
- Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, The by Palmer, Amanda (3 Lists: b7,b10,r7)
- Becoming Freud: The Making of a Psychoanalyst by Phillips, Adam (3 Lists: b15,g6,m10)
- Becoming Richard Pryor by Saul, Scott (3 Lists: b5,b15,s13)
- Bulletproof Vest: the Ballad of an Outlaw and His Daughter by Venegas, Maria (3 Lists: b8,l1,s7)
- Crusades of Cesar Chavez, The by Pawel, Miriam (3 Lists: b4,n9,s7)
- E. E. Cummings: a Life by Cheever, Susan (3 Lists: b7,e2,s7)
- Eating Wildly: Foraging for Life, Love and the Perfect Meal by Chin, Ava (3 Lists: g1,l1,l4)
- Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief by McPherson, James M. (3 Lists: b8,d2,n1)
- Epilogue: A Memoir by Boast, Will (3 Lists: b6,m10,s7)
- Finding Me: a Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: a Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings by Knight, Michelle & Burford, Michelle (3 Lists: a1,c4,g1)
- Gandhi before India by Guha, Ramachandra (3 Lists: d2,n1,s7)
- Glitter and Glue: a Memoir by Corrigan, Kelly (3 Lists: a1,a5,g1)
- Glow: the Autobiography of Rick James by James, Rick & Ritz, David (3 Lists: d2,n13,r6)
- Gone Feral: Tracking My Dad through the Wild by Carpenter, Novella (3 Lists: a1,l1,s7)
- I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Short, Martin & Kamp, David (3 Lists: b18,b19,s11)
- I'll Take You There: Mavis Staples, The Staple Singers, and the March up Freedom's Highway by Kot, Greg (3 Lists: b6,b15,m10)
- Internal Medicine: a Doctor's Stories by Holt, Terrence (3 Lists: b3,h1,k1)
- Isabella: the Warrior Queen by Downey, Kirstin (3 Lists: h1,k1,l9)
- Literchoor Is My Beat: a Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions by MacNiven, Ian S.(3 Lists: k2,n9,s2)
- Man Called Destruction: the Life and Music of Alex Chilton, from Box Tops to Big Star to Backdoor Man, A by George-Warren, Holly (3 Lists: a1,b6,k1)
- Michael Jordan: the Life by Lazenby, Roland (3 Lists: a1,g1,i3)
- Philip Larkin: Life, Art, and Love by Booth, James (3 Lists: b15,i5,n5)
- Sea Inside, The by Hoare, Philip (3 Lists: b19,k1,s2)
- Tibetan Peach Pie: a True Account of an Imaginitive Life by Robbins, Tom (3 Lists: a1,b3,g1)
- Woman I Wanted to Be, The by Von Furstenberg, Diane (3 Lists: a1,b8,i5)
- Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life, The by Miller, Andy (3 Lists: b7,l7,s11)
- 41: a Portrait of My Father by Bush, George W. (2 Lists: b8,s6)
- Another Man's War by Phillips, Barnaby (2 Lists: n5,t3)
- Badluck Way: a Year on the Ragged Edge of the West by Andrews, Bryce (2 Lists: a1,d2)
- Brando's Smile: His Life, Thought and Work by Mizruchi, Susan L. (2 Lists: b4,f10)
- Brothas Be, Yo like George, Ain't that Funkin' Kinda Hard on You?: a Memoir by Clinton, George & Greenman, Ben (2 Lists: n5,r6)
- Call Me Burroughs: a Life by Miles, Barry (2 Lists: a1,s6)
- Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes across America by Waters, John (2 Lists: a1,c4)
- Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History, The by Johnson, Boris (2 Lists: g6,i5)
- Cinderland by Burns, Amy Jo (2 Lists: m10,s2)
- Cup of Water under My Bed, A by Hernandez, Daisy (2 Lists: k1,s2)
- Dear Leader: Poet, Spy, Escapee--A Look inside North Korea by Jang, Jin-Sung (2 Lists: g1,k1)
- Delancey: a Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage by Wizenberg, Molly (2 Lists: g1,n5)
- Different Every Time: the Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt by O'Dair, Marcus & Coe, Jonathan(2 Lists: g6,i5)
- Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery by Marsh, Henry (2 Lists: c8,e2)
- Eichmann before Jerusalem: the Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer by Stangneth, Bettina (2 Lists: f8,n1)
- Eleanor Marx: A Life by Holmes, Rachel (2 Lists: g6,t3)
- Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero by Perry, Douglas (2 Lists: n13,s6)
- Fighting Chance, A by Warren, Elizabeth (2 Lists: g1,p1)
- For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind by Mahoney, Rosemary(2 Lists: b8,b19)
- Grandma Gatewood's Walk: the Inspiring Story of the Woman who Saved the Appalachian Trail by Montgomery, Ben (2 Lists: g1,n11)
- History Lessons: a Memoir of Madness, Memory and the Brain by Crais, Clifton (2 Lists: k1,l1)
- How to Succeed in Business without Really Crying: Lessons from a Life in Comedy by Leifer, Carol(2 Lists: b5,s13)
- I'll Drink to That: a Life in Style with a Twist by Halbreich, Betty (2 Lists: a1,i5)
- Invisible Front: Love and Loss in an Era of Endless War, The by Dreazen, Yochi (2 Lists: a1,n1)
- Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: the Untold Story by Leaming, Barbara (2 Lists: b8,r5)
- John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Kaplan, Fred (2 Lists: b4,w2)
- Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours by Mutch, Maria (2 Lists: g5,p11)
- Lady Parts by Martin, Andrea (2 Lists: b18,s11)
- Life, Animated: a Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism by Suskind, Ron (2 Lists: g1,u1)
- Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones, The by Loh, Sandra Tsing (2 Lists: b19,n1)
- Michelangelo: a Life in Six Masterpieces by Unger, Miles J. (2 Lists: b4,p11)
- Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening: How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart by Wall, Carol (2 Lists: a10,u1)
- Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee, The by Mills, Marja (2 Lists: b8,g1)
- My Life as a Foreign Country by Turner, Brian (2 Lists: p6,t3)
- My Two Italies by Luzzi, Joseph (2 Lists: p11,s2)
- Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) without a Date by Keaney, Katie (2 Lists: b6,g1)
- Outpost: Life on the Frontlines of American Diplomacy: a Memoir by Hill, Christopher R. (2 Lists: d2,p11)
- Pete Rose: an American Dilemma by Kennedy, Kostya (2 Lists: a1,f9)
- Pioneer Girl: the Annotated Autobiography by Wilder, Laura Ingalls & Hill, Pamela Smith (2 Lists: m1,s2)
- Please, Mister Postman by Johnson, Alan (2 Lists: i5,n15)
- Prince of Los Cocuyos: a Miami Childhood, The by Blanco, Richard (2 Lists: b3,d2)
- Respect: the Life of Aretha Franklin by Ritz, David (2 Lists: k1,r6)
- Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Volume 2: The Man Who Learned Better: 1948-1988 by Patterson, William H. Jr. (2 Lists: l3,s8)
- Romanov Sisters: the Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra, The by Rappaport, Helen (2 Lists: g1,r4)
- Roosevelts: an Intimate History, The by Ward, Geoffrey C. (2 Lists: b8,m1)
- Royal Experiment: the Private Life of King George III, A by Hadlow, Janice (2 Lists: b4,n15)
- So Anyway… by Cleese, John (2 Lists: c4,i5)
- Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynastyby Schulman, Daniel (2 Lists: d2,m3)
- Take This Man: a Memoir by Skyhorse, Brando (2 Lists: k1,n13)
- There Goes Gravity: a Life in Rock and Roll by Robinson, Lisa (2 Lists: b6,p5)
- Werner Herzog: a Guide for the Perplexed by Cronin, Paul (2 Lists: b7,i5)
- Why Footbal Matters: My Education in the Game by Edmundson, Mark (2 Lists: p11,s6)
- Wild Truth, The by McCandless, Carine (2 Lists: n2,s11)
- Will Not Attend: Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation by Resnick, Adam (2 Lists: a7,s13)
- William Wells Brown: An African American Life by Greenspan, Ezra (2 Lists: k1,n9)
- Worthy Fights: a Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace by Panetta, Leon & Newton, Jim (2 Lists: b8,w2)
- In My Skin: My Life on and off the Basketball Court by Griner, Brittney & Hovey, Sue (1 Lists: b2)
- Agent Storm: My Life inside Al-Qaeda and the CIA by Storm, Morten et al. (1 Lists: f8)
- American Cardinal: The Biography of Cardinal Timothy Dolan, An by Boyle, Christina (1 Lists: l1)
- American Cocktail: A "Colored Girl" in the World by Reynolds, Anita (1 Lists: p6)
- American Mirror: the Life and Art of Norman Rockwell by Solomon, Deborah (1 Lists: n1)
- Andy Cohen Diaries: a Deep Look at a Shallow Year, The by Cohen, Andy (1 Lists: b17)
- Andy Kaufman: The Truth, Finally by Zmuda, Bob & Margulies, Lynne (1 Lists: s13)
- Anger Is an Energy: My Life Uncensored by Lydon, John (1 Lists: i5)
- Answer to the Riddle Is Me: a Memoir of Amnesia, The by MacLean, David Stuart (1 Lists: k1)
- Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, An by Hadfield, Chris (1 Lists: b10)
- Autobiography by Morrissey (1 Lists: b8)
- Big Midweek: Life inside The Fall, The by Hanley, Steve & Piekarski, Olivia (1 Lists: g6)
- Billy Joel by Schruers, Fred (1 Lists: b8)
- Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure, The by Rose, C.D., ed. (1 Lists: b8)
- Blood Aces: the Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster who Created Las Vegas Pokerby Swanson, Doug J. (1 Lists: s6)
- Bolano: a Biography in Conversations by Maristain, Monica (1 Lists: n5)
- Box Girl: My Part-Time Job as an Art Installation by Snellings, Lilibet (1 Lists: d2)
- Breaking In: the Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice by Biskupic, Joan (1 Lists: k2)
- Broken Road: from the Iron Gates to Mount Athos, The by Fermor, Patrick Leigh (1 Lists: n5)
- Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good: a Memoir of Food and Love from an American Midwest Family by Flinn, Kathleen (1 Lists: g1)
- Calling: a Life Rocked by Mountains, The by Blanchard, Barry (1 Lists: a1)
- Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age by Wright, Alex (1 Lists: b7)
- Cathedral of the Wild: an African Journey Home by Varty, Boyd (1 Lists: a1)
- Cecil B. DeMille: the Art of the Hollywood Epic by de Mille Presley, Celia & Vieira, Mark A. (1 Lists: d4)
- Charity and Sylvia: a Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Cleves, Rachel Hope (1 Lists: m12)
- Clouds of Glory: the Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee by Korda, Michael (1 Lists: b2)
- Cosby: His Life and Times by Whitaker, Mark (1 Lists: a1)
- Cycle of Lies: the Fall of Lance Armstrong by Macur, Juliet (1 Lists: a1)
- Dancing with Myself by Idol, Billy (1 Lists: r6)
- Dead Giveaway: The Rescue, Hamburgers, White Folks, and Instant Celebrity…What You Saw on TV Doesn't Begin to Tell the Story by Ramsey, Charles (1 Lists: c4)
- Diary of a Mad Diva by Rivers, Joan (1 Lists: d2)
- Distant Neighbors: the Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder by Wriglesworth, Chad, ed. (1 Lists: n15)
- Doctored: The Disillusionment of an American Physician by Jauhar, Sandeep (1 Lists: n13)
- Double Life of Paul De Man, The by Barish, Evelyn (1 Lists: k1)
- Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero by Romm, James (1 Lists: n1)
- Easy Street (the Hard Way): a Memoir by Perlman, Ron (1 Lists: a1)
- Edgar Degas: Drawings and Pastels by Lloyd, Christopher (1 Lists: f10)
- Edgewise: a Picture of Cookie Mueller by Griffin, Chloe (1 Lists: b8)
- Elsa Schiaparelli: a Biography by Secrest, Meryle (1 Lists: p5)
- Empress Dowager Cixi: the Concubine who Launched Modern China by Chang, Jung (1 Lists: n5)
- Essays after Eighty by Hall, Donald (1 Lists: p5)
- Eugene O'Neill: a Life in Four Acts by Dowling, Robert M. (1 Lists: l9)
- Even This I Get to Experience by Lear, Norman (1 Lists: b8)
- Ever Yours: The Essential Letters by Van Gogh, Vincent, et al. (1 Lists: b7)
- Everybody's Got Something by Roberts, Robin (1 Lists: g1)
- Excavation: a Memoir by Ortiz, Wendy C. (1 Lists: l4)
- Exodus: a Memoir by Feldman, Deborah (1 Lists: b18)
- Faisal I of Iraq by Allawi, Ali A. (1 Lists: e2)
- Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip: A Memoir of the Seventh Grade, A by Brockmeier, Kevin (1 Lists: s1)
- Fierce Patriot: the Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman by O'Connell, Robert O. (1 Lists: g1)
- Food: a Love Story by Gaffigan, Jim (1 Lists: g1)
- George Frideric Handel: a Life with Friends by Harris, Ellen T. (1 Lists: p11)
- Grace's Guide: the Art of Pretending to Be a Grown-Up by Helbig, Grace (1 Lists: s13)
- Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat the New Majority, The by Buchanan, Patrick J. (1 Lists: n10)
- Greg Egan by Burnham, Karen (1 Lists: l3)
- Group f.64: Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and the Community of Artists who Revolutionized American Photography by Alinder, Mary Street (1 Lists: k2)
- Harry Harrison! Harry Harrison! by Harrison, Harry (1 Lists: l3)
- Havel: a Life by Zantovsky, Michael (1 Lists: g6)
- Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS by Duberman, Martin (1 Lists: n5)
- Home Grown: Adventures in Parenting off the Beaten Path, Unschooling, and Reconnecting with the Natural World by Hewitt, Ben (1 Lists: p11)
- Hope: Entertainer of the Century by Zoglin, Richard (1 Lists: k1)
- I Said Yes to Everything: a Memoir by Grant, Lee (1 Lists: a1)
- I Stand Corrected: How Teaching Western Manners in China became Its Own Unforgettable Lesson by Collinsworth, Eden (1 Lists: h1)
- If Only You People Could Follow Directions: A Memoir by Nelson, Jessica Hendry (1 Lists: k1)
- Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World, The by Prochnik, George (1 Lists: n15)
- In Plain Sight: The Life and Lies of Jimmy Savile by Davies, Dan (1 Lists: e1)
- In the Slender Margin: the Intimate Strangeness of Dying by Joseph, Eve (1 Lists: g5)
- Insatiable: Porn--a Love Story by Akira, Asa (1 Lists: n13)
- Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke, The by Bromwich, David (1 Lists: c6)
- Ivan Pavlov: a Russian Life in Science by Todes, Daniel P. (1 Lists: m10)
- Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page by Page, Jimmy (1 Lists: a1)
- John Wayne: the Life and Legend by Eyman, Scott (1 Lists: p1)
- Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words by Marom, Malka (1 Lists: b7)
- Joss Whedon: the Biography by Pascale, Amy (1 Lists: g1)
- Kaiser Wilhelm II: a Concise Biography by Rohl, John C. G. (1 Lists: e2)
- Kid: the Immortal Life of Ted Williams, The by Bradlee, Ben Jr. (1 Lists: g1)
- Lady in the Dark: Iris Barry and the Art of Film by Sitton, Robert (1 Lists: p5)
- Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times, The by Taylor, Barbara (1 Lists: g6)
- Lenin Lives Next Door: Marriage, Martinis, and Mayhem in Moscow by Eremeeva, Jennifer (1 Lists: b18)
- Leonardo's Brain: Understanding da Vinci's Creative Genius by Shlain, Leonard (1 Lists: b7)
- Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1, The by Sheehy, Donald, ed. (1 Lists: p5)
- Life in Motion: an Unlikely Ballerina by Copeland, Misty (1 Lists: a1)
- Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity by Appiah, Kwame Anthony (1 Lists: b4)
- Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Hebron by Klein, Menachem (1 Lists: n7)
- Lonely War: One Woman's Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran, The by Fathi, Nazila (1 Lists: v1)
- Long Way Home: a Memoir, A by Brierley, Saroo (1 Lists: n5)
- Lost and Found in Johannesburg: a Memoir by Gevisser, Mark (1 Lists: n2)
- Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News-- and Divided a Country by Sherman, Gabriel (1 Lists: n5)
- Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism by Brothers, Thomas David (1 Lists: p12)
- Love Life by Lowe, Rob (1 Lists: g1)
- Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History by Garelick, Rhonda K. (1 Lists: a1)
- Maeve's Times: In Her Own Words by Binchy, Maeve (1 Lists: b19)
- Man Most Driven: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Founding of America, A by Firstbrook, P.L. (1 Lists: p11)
- Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s by Doyle, Tom (1 Lists: a1)
- Map Thief: the Gripping Story of an Esteemed Rare-Map Dealer who Made Millions Stealing Priceless Maps, The by Blanding, Michael (1 Lists: n5)
- Margot Asquith's Great War Diary 1914-1916 by Brock, Michael & Brock, Eleanor, eds. (1 Lists: i5)
- Marianne Faithful: a Life on Record by Faithfull, Marianne & Ravard, Francois (1 Lists: a1)
- Measure of a Man: from Auschwitz Survivor to Presidents' Tailor by Greenfield, Martin & Hall, Wynton (1 Lists: n13)
- Mona Lisa: a Life Discovered by Hales, Dianne (1 Lists: a1)
- More Fool Me by Fry, Stephen (1 Lists: i5)
- Most Dangerous Man in America: the Making of Douglas MacArthur, The by Perry, Mark (1 Lists: b2)
- Mr. Hockey: My Story by Howe, Gordie (1 Lists: i3)
- Music at Midnight: the Life and Poetry of George Herbert by Drury, John (1 Lists: e2)
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