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Biography
Real lives, stranger than fiction.

Green Hills of Africa
Ernest Hemingway

Italienische Reise
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Travels with Charley
John Steinbeck

Saint Thomas Aquinas
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Robert M. Pirsig

En route
Joris-Karl Huysmans

A memoir of S. S. Prentiss
George Lewis Prentiss

The cannibal islands
Robert Michael Ballantyne

The making of an American
Jacob A. Riis

Andersonville; a story of rebel military prisons
John McElroy

Thurber Carnival
James Thurber

The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
John Addington Symonds

On heroes, hero-worship and the heroic in history
Thomas Carlyle

The natural history of Selborne
Gilbert White

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou

Abraham Lincoln
Carl Sandburg

Diary of a provincial lady
E. M. Delafield

Facundo, or, civilization and barbarism
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

Correspondence
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Confessions of an English opium eater
Thomas De Quincey