Biographers
The Life of a Stupid Man
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Slow days, fast company
Eve Babitz
Katherine
Anya Seton
Augustus
John Williams
I, Claudius
Robert Graves
The executioner's song
Norman Mailer
Ham on rye
Charles Bukowski
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
All about H. Hatterr
G. V. Desani
The cry and the covenant
Morton Thompson
Survivor
Chuck Palahniuk
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
Einstein's dreams
Alan P. Lightman
Measuring the World
Daniel Kehlmann
The Virgin's Lover
Philippa Gregory
Invisible cities
Italo Calvino
The Gates of Rome (Emperor, Book 1)
Conn Iggulden
Queen of this realm
Eleanor Burford
The heretic queen
Michelle Moran
Burial Rites
Hannah Kent
The Persian Boy
Mary Renault
The Grass Crown
Colleen McCullough
Hypatia, or, New foes with an old face
Charles Kingsley
Paths of Glory
Jeffrey Archer
Positions
Annie Ernaux
The Boleyn Inheritance
Philippa Gregory
The Other Boleyn Girl
Philippa Gregory
Any Human Heart
William Boyd
Musashi
Eiji Yoshikawa
Fifty famous stories retold
James Baldwin
The prince of darkness
Eleanor Burford
Eve's Hollywood
Eve Babitz
My Name is Aram
William Saroyan
The Hill of Dreams
Arthur Machen
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders
Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
The Seducer's Diary
Søren Kierkegaard
Summer Island
Kristin Hannah
White Queen
Philippa Gregory
The agony and the ecstasy
Irving Stone
