My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson

Alfred Habegger

I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick

Emmanuel Carrère

Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man

Barbara Reynolds

Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time

Joseph Frank

Shakespeare: The World as Stage

Bill Bryson

Capote

Gerald Clarke

Virginia Woolf

Hermione Lee

Zelda

Nancy Milford

Jane Austen: A Life

Claire Tomalin

Manderley Forever

Tatiana de Rosnay

Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton

Nicholas McDowell

Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath

Heather Clark

Mark Twain

Ron Chernow

The Invention of Angela Carter

Edmund Gordon

Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Nancy Milford

Alice Walker: A Life

Evelyn C. White

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

Valerie Boyd

The Brontë Myth

Lucasta Miller

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

David W. Blight

Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott and Her Father

John Matteson

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Stephen Greenblatt

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Ruth Franklin

Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman

Lucy Worsley

The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us

Rachelle Bergstein

Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King

Caroline Bicks

Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching

Paula J. Giddings

Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane

Devoney Looser

Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Caroline Fraser

Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley

Charlotte Gordon