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Shakespeare: The World As A Stage

By Bryson, Bill

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Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Greenblatt, Stephen

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Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East

By Fawaz A. Gerges

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

By Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Vincent Carretta

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

By Howard W. French (Columbia University)

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

By David Treuer

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

By Linda M. Heywood

Roses from the Earth: The Biography of Anne Frank

By carol ann Lee, Buddy Elias

The Girl in the Painted Caravan: Memories of a Romany Childhood

By Eva Petulengro

The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

By McBride, James

Night

By Wiesel, Elie, Wiesel, Marion, Elie Wiesel

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By Barack Obama

Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia

By Tracey Thorn

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

By Jean Sasson

Muhammad

By Maxime Rodinson, Anne Carter

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

By Melissa Fleming

Tears of the Desert: One woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur

By Halima Bashir

Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilisation

By Stourton, James

Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet

By Armstrong, Karen

Jacob's Gift: A Journey into the Heart of Belonging

By Freedland, Jonathan

The Real Deal: My Story from Brick Lane to the Dragons' Den

By James Caan, Caan, James

Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter

By Angela Hui

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): The Sunday Times Music Book of the Year

By Sly Stone

Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings

By Howard Jacobson

Make It Count: An extraordinary 100-year-old man's 9 lessons for living a life to be proud of

By Benjamin Ferencz

The Jew Store

By Stella Suberman

Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate

By Baldwin, Neil

Will In The World

By Greenblatt, Stephen

The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club

By Julie Welch