Start with high-confidence political lives books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
Peter the Great
Robert K. Massie
My Autobiography
Benito Mussolini
Unfettered
John Fetterman
Coming Up Short
Robert B. Reich
We Don't Know Ourselves
Fintan O'Toole, Fintan O'Toole
Illuminations
Walter Benjamin
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
Konstantin Kisin, Peter Lloyd
Rasputin
Frances Welch
Becoming
Michelle Obama
A River in Darkness
Masaji Ishikawa, Risa Kobayashi
Kissinger's Shadow
Greg Grandin
Truth, Lies, and the Questions in Between
L. M. Elliott
The Afterlife of Malcolm X
Mark Whitaker, David Sadzin
Detained
D. Esperanza, Gerardo Iván Morales
Under Siege
Eric Trump, Donald J. Trump - introduction
107 Days
Kamala Harris