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Frida: a biography by Hayden Herrera
Assata: an autobiography by Assata Shakur
I'll Never Write My Memoirs by Grace Jones
Child of the Dark by Carolina Maria de Jesus ( This has been published under the title Beyond All Pity in the UK. I bought Beyond All Pity within the last month, thinking it was another collection of diaries. It's simply Child of the Dark for the UK reader.)
Dare I Disturb the Universe? by Charlise Lyles
Billie Holiday: Wishing on the Moon by Donald Clarke
Chernow's Washington: A Life is a very good presidential biography.
Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: A Biography by Edward Rice is a terrific narrative of a marvelously complex and talented man.
Kershaw's excellent two-part Hitler bio is probably the final word on the Nazi dictator.
For an exhaustive work that covers everything about another dictator (unlike Hitler in many ways, yet in many others not so unlike him) there's Stephen Kotkin's three-part work on Stalin. The last book is not yet published but should be out in the next year or so. The first two (through 1941) span 2100+ pages. It's a slog, but it's also an example of a bio that leaves nothing uncovered.
Finally, W.L. Warren's King John is a simple biography (there's only so much information available from the 12th and 13th centuries) of a curious individual of a monarch. It remains one of my favorites.
Personal History, by Katherine Graham. One of my all time favorites.
Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah - not as extensive as I would have liked, but he has such a fascinating perspective on race.
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
Mama's Boy by Dustin Lance Black
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