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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

The Survivors: The Story of the Belsen Remnant

By Leslie H Hardman, Cecily Goodman

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

By Mathabane, Mark

Shakespeare: The Biography

By Peter Ackroyd

Christmas at the Palace: The heartwarming, feel-good read

By Charika, Jeevani

Shakespeare's Wife

By Germaine Greer

King of the World (hb): Muhammad Ali and the Rise of the American Hero

By Remnick, David

Shakespeare's Language

By Frank Kermode

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

By Jonathan Freedland

The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)

By Sarah M Broom

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

By Harriet Jacobs

Commander of the Exodus

By Yoram Kaniuk, Seymour Simckes

One Bright Child

By Patricia Cumper

Call the Nurse: True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (the Country Nurse Series, Book One)

By Mary J MacLeod, Lady Claire MacDonald of MacDonald

The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World

By Lucette Lagnado

Freud: A Life in Our Time

By Peter Gay

Rathcormick: A Childhood Recalled

By Homan Potterton