Americans

• Ron Chernow. Washington: A Life (2011); Joseph J. Ellis. His Excellency: George Washington (2005). 

• David McCullough. John Adams (2002); 1776 (2005).

• Jay Cost. James Madison: America's First Politician (2021).

• Jesse Norman. Edmund Burke: The First Conservative (2015)

• David Herbert Donald. Lincoln (1996).

• Allen Guelzo. Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment (2024).

• Allen C. Guelzo. Robert E. Lee: A Life.  (2021).

• Robert Caro. Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson.

• Beverly Gage. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century (2023).
  
  

World Leaders

• Ian Kershaw. Hitler: A Biography (2010)

• Andrew Roberts. Churchill: Walking with Destiny (2018)

• Andrew Roberts. Napoleon: A Life (2015).

• Paul Cartledge. Alexander the Great: the Hunt For a New Past (2004).
  
  

Religious Figures

• George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life.

• Roland Baiton. Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther.

• Heiko Oberman. Luther: Man Between God and Devil.

• Bruce Gordon. Calvin (2009).

• D.G. Hart. Defending the Faith: J. Gresham Machen and the Crisis of Conservative Protestantism in Modern America (2003).

• Alister McGrath. C. S. Lewis—A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet.

• Peter Brown. Augustine of Hippo.

• James D. Bratt. Abraham Kuyper: Modern Calvinist, Christian Democrat.

• Harry S. Stout. A Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism (1991).

• Iain Murray. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: The First Forty Years, 1899-1939 and D. Marty Lloyd Jones: The Fight of Faith, 1939-1981.

• Richard S. Westfall. Never at Rest: A Biography of Isaac Newton (1980).
  
  

Other

• John Valliant. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (2011).

• Debby Applegate. The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher.

• Richard Bushman. Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling.