David Nasaw’s biography of William Randolph Hearst, “The Chief”
Christopher Hitchens’s “Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man”
Eric Jaffe’s “The King’s Best Highway”
Frank Langella’s memoir, “Dropped Names”
“Collected Stories” of Roald Dahl
Ellin Stein’s History of the National Lampoon, “That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick”
Hiram Maxim’s autobiography, “My Life” (he invented the Maxim gun in the 1880s, providing Hilaire Belloc with the couplet “Whatever happens, we have got / The Maxim Gun, and they have not”)
Edna O’Brien’s memoir, “Country Girl”;
John Keegan’s biography of Churchill,“Winston Churchill”
Bill Bryson’s biography of Shakespeare, “Shakespeare”
George H.W. Bush’s collection of letters, “All the Best.”