Good (auto)biographies/historical novels?

[kelltrill]

Pretty much what the title says. I'm starved for some good auto-/biographies and solid historical novels with at least some factual basis to them. I'm not going to get a chance to read them for a while still thanks to my thesis but I'm busy compiling a reading list to start making a dent in from December, which can't come soon enough. These are the ones I've lined up so far based on reading possible every customer review written about them on Amazon. As you can see I've become a bit jaded about my lack of knowledge on the four tyrants of modern history so I'm brushing up on some knowledge. I also love literature on ancient civilisations, specifically the classical Greek, Roman etc. ones. I watched Agora recently, the great "atheist film" about the philosopher Hypatia and the library of Alexandria as well, hence the last two entries on this list.

Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives â€" Allan Bullock
Stalin: A Biography â€" Robert Service
Mao: A Life â€" Philip Short
Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare â€" Philip Short
Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography â€" John Toland
Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil â€" Ron Rosenbaum
Hypatia of Alexandria (Revealing Antiquity, No 8.) â€" Maria Dzielska
The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World (Hellenistic Culture and Society) â€" Luciano Canfora (translated by Martin Ryle)

Read any decent biographies or historical novels recently? Please tell me about them, I'd love to hear what else is out there. My brain is stuck.

[Tank]

This guy http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/sch0bio-1 really interesting on the military and cultural front.