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- Eig, Johnathan. Ali: A Life. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.
- Federman, Adam. Fasting and feasting : the life of visionary food writer Patience Gray. Chelsea Green Publishing, [2017].
- Gordon, Meryl. Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend. Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
- Hagan, Joe. Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine. Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
- Markel, Howard. The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek. Pantheon Books, 2017].
- Sebestyen, Victor. Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror. Pantheon Books, 2017.
- Stewart, Jeffrey C. The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke . Oxford University Press, [2018].
- Taubman, William. Gorbachev: His Life and Times. W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2017].
- Van Haaften, Julia. Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography W.W. Norton & Company, [2018].
- Veevers, Marian. Jane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility; the Lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth. Pegasus Books, 2018.