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Dior by Dior: The autobiography of Christian Dior

By Christian Dior, Antonia Fraser

Lion: A Long Way Home

By Saroo Brierley

Smarvellous: More Musical Memories

By Tony Ireland

DONT LETS GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT : AFRICAN CHILDHOOD

By Alexandra Fuller

Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged

By Andrew Marr

Army Life in a Black Regiment

By Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Howard N. Meyer

Martin Luther King Jr

By Adam Fairclough

Laurie Lee Cider with Rosie

By Laurie Lee

Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir

By Amy Tan

Coltrane: The Story of a Sound

By Ben Ratliff

My Land and My People

By The Dalai Lama

Poetry of Seamus Heaney

By Elmer Andrews

I Belong to No One: Abused, afraid and alone. A young girl forced to make the ultimate sacrifice for her survival.

By Gwen Wilson

Revolutionary Suicide

By Huey P. Newton

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

By Michael Eric Dyson

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

By David W. Blight

'Tis

By frank McCourt

A Dutiful Boy: A memoir of secrets, lies and family love (Winner of the LAMBDA 2021 Literary Award for Best Gay Memoir/Biography)

By Zaidi, Mohsin

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Oxford World's Classics)

By Douglass, Frederick, McDowell, Deborah E.

The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk (Penguin Classics)

By Du Bois, W., Elbert, Monica, Gibson, Donald

Shemaron: A Beautiful Endeavor

By Malkin, Fiona

O Daughter of Babylon: Journey of an Iraqi Patriot and What Chilcot Didn't Say

By El-Taher, Riad

Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South

By Moody, Anne

Hogarth's China: Hogarth's Painting and 18th Century Ceramics

By Tharp, Lars

Allison Akene Ayida: Nigeria's Quintessential Public Servant

By Kayode, Femi, Otobo, Dafe

Home and Exile (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series)

By Achebe, Chinua

We'll Always Have Paris: Trying and Failing to Be French

By Emma Beddington

Autobiographies: v. 2

By Sean O'Casey

Blood, Sweat and Treason

By Henry Olonga

My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage

By Ingrid Seward