books by subject
Historical Biographies by Country

Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah (Jewish Lives)

The Goddess Pose: The Audacious Life of Indra Devi, the Woman Who Helped Bring Yoga to the West

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History (Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Winner)

The Jew Store

The Men Who Ruled India

Broadcasts From the Blitz: How Edward R. Murrow Helped Lead America into War

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

The Greatest Games: The ultimate book for football fans inspired by the #1 podcast

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

The Wright Brothers

Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick

The Eye: An Insider's Memoir of Masterpieces, Money, and the Magnetism of Art

Walt Disney: The Biography

Neither Wolf Nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder

Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story (Collins Classics)

The Autobiography of Solomon Maimon: The Complete Translation

Killing Reagan: The Violent Assault That Changed a Presidency (Bill O'Reilly's Killing)

Diana: Closely Guarded Secret

The Wright Brothers

History's People: Personalities and the Past (CBC Massey Lectures)

Love and War

"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination

Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization

Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

Charlie Chaplin: A Brief Life (Ackroyd's Brief Lives)
