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To keep the list short, only books currently in print and available in English are included. This list is according to Esquire Magazine.
- The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
- Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
- Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
- Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera
- Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston
- Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani Perry
- Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
- A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
- The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius