15 biographies and memoirs I'd recommend

I'm sure there are more!

The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut's Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt by Kara Cooney
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson
Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom
The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici by Catherine Fletcher
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII by Chester Nez
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
I am Spock by Leonard Nimoy
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World by Alison Weir
Geronimo’s Story of His Life by Geronimo
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
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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