Fatah ul Bari by imam ibn hajar asqalani [sunni]
Qamus al rijal by Muhammad Taqi tustari [shiite]
*Musnad *of Ahmed ibn hanbal [sunni]
Kitab sulaym b qays by sulam b qays hilali [shiite]
Akhbar al tiwal by ahmed b dawod dinwari [sunni]
Tarikh al-islam al kabir by Imam Dhahabi [sunni ]
Mustadrak ala sahihain by Imam Hakim Nishapuri [sunni]
Futuh al-sham by ibn Atham al kufi [sunni]
*Mao sooa’t al-Imam Ali volume 11] *by Ayatullah Ray’Shehri.[shiite]
even partial translations will help greatly as most of these books have multiple volumes