So Long, See you Tomorrow by William Maxwell (a gem)
Giving up the Ghost by Hilary Mantell (brilliant and an insider view of the French Revolution)
Frida in America by Celia Stahr
I’ll Build A Stairwell to Paradise by Max Griswold (Bunny Mellon’s gardens and life)
How to Live or A Life of Montaigne in one question and 20 attempts by Sarah Bakewell
Horse by Geraldine Brooks
The Bad-Ass Librarian from Timbuktou by Joshua Hammer
Educated by Tara Westover (Amazing memoir)
The Rose of Martinique – A Life of Napleon’s Josephine by Andrea Stuart
Camera Girl by Carl Sferrazza Anthony (interesting but he refers to the MLB team in the 50’s as “the Nats!!!” They were Senators! Major fact-check error)
Peggy Guggenheim, The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
