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Crown The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, by 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 Pulitzer Prize for Biography in , and it’s only a matter of time before a filmmaker turns it into a big-screen blockbuster.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, by Craig Brown
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Few biographies are as genuinely fun to read as this barnburner from the irreverent English critic Craig Brown. Princess Margaret may have been everyone’s favorite charact
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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 $
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The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters. [HC] Joanna Gaines. Harper Select. ISBN $
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Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman. [HC] Alan Rickman. Henry Holt. ISBN $
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Beyond the Wand: The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard. [HC] Tom Felton