Literary biographies

The Man Who Made Lists

Joshua Kendall

The Lodger Shakespeare

Charles Nicholl

Driving with Dead People : A Memoir

Monica Holloway

When I Was a Loser : True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School

A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson

Miracles of Life

J. G. Ballard

Touch and Go

Sydney Lewis, Studs Terkel

Early Bird : A Memoir of Premature Retirement

Rodney Rothman

Leonard Woolf : A Biography

Victoria Glendinning

Without You : A Memoir of Love, Loss, and the Musical Rent

Anthony Rapp

Shakespeare

Bill Bryson

Shakespeare : The World as a Stage

Running for the Hills: Growing Up on My Mother's Sheep Farm in Wales

Horatio Clare

Peeling the Onion

Gunter Grass

Hillbilly Gothic : A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood

Adrienne Martini

My Father's Secret War : A Memoir

Lucinda Franks

The Bill from My Father: A Memoir

Bernard Cooper

American Bloomsbury

Susan Cheever