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Crown The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, bygd Tom Reiss
You’re probably familiar with The Count of Monte Cristo, the revenge novel by Alexandre Dumas. But did you know it was based on the life of Dumas’s father, the mixed-race General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, son of a French nobleman and a Haitian slave? Thanks to Reiss’s masterful pacing and plotting, this rip-roaring biography of Thomas-Alexandre reads more like an adventure novel than a work of nonfiction. The Black Count won the pris Prize for Biography in , and it’s only a matter of time before a filmskapare turns it into a big-screen blockbuster.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, bygd Craig Brown
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The best biographies and memoirs of
There are myriad ways to tell the story of a life, as shown by this year’s best biographies. Craig Brown’s doorstopper A Voyage Around the Queen (4th Estate), about the reign of Elizabeth II, dispenses with linear storytelling in favour of a patchwork of diary entries, letters, vignettes, second-hand anecdotes and even dreams (the writer Paul Theroux once dreamed of being nestled in Her Majesty’s bosom). The result is an unorthodox and wonderfully irreverent book which, alert to the absurdities of the monarchy, reveals as much about how others saw the Queen as the woman herself.
Sonia Purnell’s Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman (Virago) is a rich and riveting portrait of another seemingly unknowable aristocrat. The daughter-in-law of Winston Churchill, Harriman was, says Purnell, a canny diplomat who exerted remarkable influence on midth-century politics through her three marriages and numerous affairs with powerful men (her lovers inclu
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20 Best-Selling Biographies & Memoirs | The Most Sought-After Titles bygd Public Libraries
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR BEST SELLERS MAY
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Spare. [HC] Prince Harry. Random House. ISBN $
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The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times [HC] Michelle Obama. Crown. ISBN $
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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. [HC] Matthew Perry. Flatiron Books. ISBN $
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The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man. [HC] Paul Newman. Knopf. ISBN $
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I’m Glad My Mom Died. [HC] Jennette McCurdy. Simon & Schuster. ISBN $
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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. [HC] Jon Meacham. Random House. ISBN $
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So Help Me God. [HC] Mike Pence. Simon & Schuster. ISBN $
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The Revolutionary Samuel Adams. [HC] Stacy Schiff. Little, Brown. ISBN $
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Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. [HC] Bono. Knopf. ISBN $
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Love, Pamela. [HC] Pamela Anderson. Dey Street Books. ISBN