by Elie Wiesel (1956)
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel’s searing autobiographical masterpiece recording the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and the death of his family and innocence at the hands of the Nazis.
Mahatma Gandhi
The autobiography of Mohandas K. Gandhi, covering his life from early childhood through to 1921. It recounts his experiments with satyagraha (non-violent resistance), vegetarianism, brahmacharya, and his spiritual and political evolution fighting for human rights in South Africa and independence in India.
Jung Chang
An international publishing phenomenon telling the true story of three generations in twentieth-century China: a warlord’s concubine grandmother, a communist revolutionary mother, and Jung Chang growing up in the Cultural Revolution.
Andrew Roberts
Widely acclaimed as the single best one-volume biography of Winston Churchill, utilizing newly released royal diaries and wartime cabinet records to depict the man who saved Western democracy.
Louis Fischer
The monumental, globally acclaimed biography of Mahatma Gandhi by American journalist Louis Fischer, which served as the primary basis for Richard Attenborough Academy Award-winning film Gandhi.