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15 biographies and memoirs I'd recommend

I'm sure there are more! 

  1. The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney
  2. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
  3. Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson 
  4. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
  5. The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
  6. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan
  7. I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom
  8. The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici by Catherine Fletcher
  9. Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez
  10. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  11. I am Spock by Leonard Nimoy
  12. Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World by Alison Weir
  13. Geronimo’s Story of His Life by Geronimo
  14. Yes Please by Amy Poehler
  15. Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder by Kent Nerburn

(Prompt kinda by ChatGPT)

"Sappho's Stylus & Papyrus (Washington, DC)" by takomabibelot


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