Favorite Biographies and Non-Fiction (A Partial List)

1. Galileo’s Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
   (Dave Sobel)
2. A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Nash Jr.
   (Sylivia Nasar)
3. Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography
   (William Miller)
4. Oscar Wilde
   (Richard Ellman)
5. The Man Who Knew Infinity: The Life of Genius Ramanujam
   (Robert Kanigel)
6. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter
   (Benjamin Wooley)
7. Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer
   (Michael White)
8. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
   (Joseph Ellis)
9. The Life of Thomas Moore
   (Peter Ackroyd)
10. The Roosevelts: An American Saga
    (Peter Collier and David Horowitz)
11. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
    (Walter Isaacson)
12. Einstein: His Life and Universe
    (Walter Isaacson)
13. The Life of Elizabeth I
    (Alison Weir)
14. The Life of Mahatma Gandhi
    (Louis Fisher)
15. John Marshall: Definer of a Nation
    (Jean E. Smith)
16. Alexander Hamilton: A Biography
    (Forrest McDonald)
17. John Adams: A Life
    (John Ferling)
18. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
    (Simon Winchester)
19. Fermat’s Enigma
    (Simon Singh)
20. Longitude
    (Dava Sobel)
21. The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life
    (Harlow Giles Unger)
22. Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gun Powder Plot
    (Antonio Fraser)
23. The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
    (Basil Mahon)
24. 1776
    (David McCullough)
25. Copernicus’ Secret: How the Scientific Revolution Began
    (Jack Repcheck)