Over Thirty Brilliant Biographies for All Tastes

In which I cover over thirty notable biographies in response to the "This or That" Book Tag created by Ros ‪@scallydandlingaboutthebooks‬ and Elisabeth ‪@bouquinsbooks‬. I was tagged directly by ‪@davidnovakreadspoetry‬. ---------------------- Join my Patreon (With Extra Videos Sometimes!):   / toreadersitmayconcern   Buy Me a Coffee (Thank You!): https://ko-fi.com/toreadersitmayconcern Surprise Me with a Book (Thank You!): https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls... Become a Channel Member (Thank You!):    / @toreadersitmayconcern   ---------------------- ---------------------- Chapters: ---------------------- 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:54 Q1 Big or Slim Bios? 00:24:23 Q2 Celebrity or Average Joe Bios? 00:39:59 Q3 Complete Correspondence or Selected Letters? 00:49:25 Q4 Fresh Memoirs or with Hindsight? 01:00:37 Q5 Gossipy or Scholarly Bios? 01:04:46 Q6 Diaries of Ordinary or Extraordinary Events? 01:07:52 Q7 Arty or Sporting Memoirs? 01:12:21 Q8 Gritty or Inspirational Bios? 01:26:10 Q9 Historical or Contemporary Bios? 01:30:32 Q10 Happy or Tragic Days? 01:35:01 Q11 Tag Others 01:35:31 Outro ---------------------- Books Featured (With Amazon Links): ---------------------- The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher: https://amzn.to/3xTUA3e Stalin by Stephen Kotkin: https://amzn.to/4aTzCA8 The Romanovs by Simon Sebag Montefiore: https://amzn.to/4dgDPQ8 Young Stalin by Simon Sebag Montefiore: https://amzn.to/4dgJjKm Hitler by Ian Kershaw: https://amzn.to/4dca2b7 Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years & The War Years by Carl Sandburg: https://amzn.to/4dgtLXi Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg: https://amzn.to/3UimdKH Time of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger: https://amzn.to/4dhHAF0 Wittgenstein’s Poker by David Edmonds & John Eidinow: https://amzn.to/49SrT48 At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell: https://amzn.to/3JzAZI7 A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman: https://amzn.to/4bdcIDG Stillwell and the American Experience in China by Barbara Tuchman: https://amzn.to/3UAMsOa The Last Empress by Hannah Pakula: https://amzn.to/3JzDpX9 The Norton Critical Edition of Keats’ Poetry and Prose: https://amzn.to/4bbw77R Steinbeck: A Life in Letters: https://amzn.to/44gpzm8 A Writer’s Diary: https://amzn.to/3UcIyJT A Moment’s Liberty: https://amzn.to/4bcIFM6 Mortality by Christopher Hitchens: https://amzn.to/4b9Bsg0 Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie: https://amzn.to/3UjoHZo Knife by Salman Rushdie: https://amzn.to/4aPNUl7 Late Admissions by Glenn Loury: https://amzn.to/3JCkMls Stalin: Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore: https://amzn.to/3Qk15Te The Unabridged Journals of Silvia Plath: https://amzn.to/3Qj8YbE Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov: https://amzn.to/3Qm2j0t The Confessions of Anthony Burgess 1: https://amzn.to/3Qk1rJy The Confessions of Anthony Burgess 2: https://amzn.to/3w8h4gu Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez: https://amzn.to/3WbT6vm It Calls You Back by Luis J. Rodriguez: https://amzn.to/3vYh1nu Freud: The Making of an Illusion by Frederick Crews: https://amzn.to/3UgEs3t Freud: A Life for Our Time by Peter Gay: https://amzn.to/3UhIA33 Night Falls Fast by Kay Redfield Jamison: https://amzn.to/4aSHfGZ An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison: https://amzn.to/4dg58K5 I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. I can create these links for any books I choose, so this does not affect my choice of what books to cover for this channel.