Creatives, Scientists, Philosophers
A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
Surely you’re Joking, Mr. Feynman – Richard P. Feynman
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big – Scott Adams
Becoming Beauvoir – Kate Kirkpatrick
The Narrow Road to the Deep North – Matsuo Basho
In Search of the Free Individual – Svetlana Alexievich
Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Political Leaders
Patel: A Life – Rajmohan Gandhi
Half Lion (P.V. Narasimha Rao) – Vinay Sitapaty
The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
Lincoln – David Herbert Donald
Dreams from my Father – Barack Obama
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life – Walter Isaacson
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Business Leaders
Beyond the Last Blue Mountain (JRD Tata) – R.M. Lala
The Snowball (Warren Buffett) – Alice Schroeder
The Man who Solved the Market (Jim Simons) – Gregory Zuckerman
Sports Leaders
Mind Master – Viswanathan Anand
Mortal Games: The Turbulent Genius of Garry Kasparov – Fred Waitzkin
Bobby Fischer vs. Rest of the World – Brad Darrach
Searching for Bobby Fischer – Fred Waitzkin
The Art of Learning – Joshua Waitzkin
Moonwalking with Einstein – Joshua Foer
Others
Caffeine: A Biography – Michael Pollan
Marriage Story – Richard Russo
Writing into the Wound – Roxane Gay
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