The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved IsraelUri Bar-Joseph★★★★★4.3(636)Review “Trenchant, serpentine…. Packed with jaw-dropping and intimate details…. Bar-Joseph has done a laudable...
The Wordy ShipmatesSarah Vowell★★★★★4.3(630)From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Essayist and public radio regular Vowell ( Assassination Vacation ) revisits...
The Richard Burton DiariesRichard Burton★★★★★4.3(628)Come to this volume for the love story, stay for the lit talk. . . . Burton’s diaries, published now for the first...
Sleepwalk with Me: and Other Painfully True StoriesMike Birbiglia★★★★★4.3(613)About the Author Mike Birbiglia is a comedian, author, actor, and director. His one person shows Sleepwalk with Me and...
Stalin: New Biography of a DictatorO. V. Khlevni︠u︡k★★★★★4.3(598)A] beautifully constructed, lucid, and brief new life of the dictator. . . . Written with fluent sobriety and humour...
Bloom: Finding Beauty in the Unexpected--A Memoir (P.S.)Kelle Hampton★★★★★4.3(590)“Bloom is one of the most emotionally stirring books I’ve ever read…. This story is a reminder that perfect, when...
Hurry up Nurse 2: London CallingDawn Brookes★★★★★4.3(588)I would recommend this book to any reader interested in the development of health care An excellent read after the...
Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at WarHelen Thorpe★★★★★4.3(574)A breakthrough work... What Thorpe accomplishes in SOLDIER GIRLS is something far greater than describing the...
The Road from CoorainJill Ker Conway★★★★★4.3(547)Sheer delight." --Washington Post"A small masterpiece of scene, memory and very stylish English. I've been several...
Who Killed My Daughter?: The True Story of a Mother's Search for Her Daughter's MurdererLois Duncan★★★★★4.3(540)“Duncan’s anguish and frustration surface on practically every page of this sad but intriguing mystery. Her forays...
Farewell to PragueMiriam Darvas★★★★★4.3(540)Life," Darvas writes, is "the history of individual tragedies" not such a surprising sentiment from an author who first...
Marco Polo: From Venice to XanaduLaurence Bergreen★★★★★4.3(527)“Sumptuous. . . . A full-blooded rendition of Polo's astonishingh journey. . . . Richly researched and vividly...
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and LongingAnya Von Bremzen★★★★★4.3(509)“Delightful . . . The culinaryxa0memoir has lately evolved into a genre of its own, what is now known as a...
The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World.Jennifer Baggett★★★★★4.3(508)From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Friends Pressner, Baggett, and Corbett were all busy climbing the corporate...
Socrates: A Man for Our TimesPaul Johnson★★★★★4.3(496)Praise for Socrates by Paul Johnson: “An admirably concise view of a remarkable life whose influence remains central...
How I Won the Yellow Jumper: Dispatches from the Tour De France (Yellow Jersey Cycling Classics)Ned Boulting★★★★★4.3(496)Candid, insightful and often hilarious. . . . Anyone who likes France, cycling, media coverage of sport, obsessives and...
Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken HeartsJulian Rubinstein★★★★★4.3(494)A story of the sort that would make even the most dry-mouthed journalist slobber. Sometimes sad, often hilarious and...
Breaking DadWarren FitzGerald★★★★★4.3(478)Few stories are quite as extraordinary as this...As well as a story of a descent it's also a story of a rebirth."...
Hillbilly Heart: A MemoirTodd Gold★★★★★4.3(474)Review “The first time I met Billy Ray I felt like I had known him all of my life. I still feel the same way today....
A Forger's Tale: Confessions of the Bolton ForgerShaun Greenhalgh★★★★★4.3(461)A masterpiece of masquerade...a brilliantly wily reflection on the seductions of art and corruptions of the art world."...
Arms Wide Open: A Midwife's JourneyPatricia Harman★★★★★4.3(451)Praise for Arms Wide Open "There are more honest, revealing moments here than in many memoirs. Harman, whose prose is...
Churchill: A Biography Part 1Roy Jenkins★★★★★4.3(427)As a veteran politician and administrator, Jenkins is well placed to evaluate Churchill's strengths and weaknesses as a...
Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the PoseParis Hilton★★★★★4.3(426)From Publishers Weekly Heiress, socialite, model, actress, singer and media darling Hilton loves her life, knows how to...
Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time (with "I LOVE LUCY's Lost Scenes" Audio CD)Gregg Oppenheimer★★★★★4.3(424)From The New Yorker If you love Lucy, you'll love this book (and CD). If you love Lucy, you'll love this book (and CD)....