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Poetics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Apology
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

Fear And Trembling
Søren Kierkegaard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1843

Metaphysics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1759

Travels With Charley
John Steinbeck

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1962

Second Treatise of Government
John Locke, C. B. Macpherson, ed.

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1689

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Joe Simpson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988

Crito
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

West with the Night
Beryl Markham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Gorgias
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Running With Scissors: A Memoir
Augusten Burroughs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X, Alex Haley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1965

Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
William James

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1907

On Liberty
John Stuart Mill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1859

Preface to Lyrical Ballads
William Wordsworth

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1800

Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1861

Symposium
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 380

The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1942

Dead Man Walking
Helen Prejean

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

The Republic
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Constitution of United States of America
Constitutional Convention

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1787

The Philosophy of Composition
Edgar Allan Poe

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1846

Das Kapital
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1867

The History of Sexuality: Volume 1
Michel Foucault

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Meditation 17
John Donne

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1630

I Have A Dream Speech
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1973

Killing Patton
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Professor And The Madman
Simon Winchester

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1853

Novum Organum
Francis Bacon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1620

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Getting to Yes
Roger Fisher, William Ury

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Start With Why
Simon Sinek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Rick Warren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Art of War
Sun Tzu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas Carr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

In the Shadow of Man
Jane Goodall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Gordon S. Wood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

On the Sublime
Longinus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 100

We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarassingly, A True Story
Josh Sundquist

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Beyond Freedom and Dignity
B. F. Skinner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
Amy Chua

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Born on a Blue Day
Daniel Tammet

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Globalization and Its Discontents
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt
Michael Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

No Future Without Forgiveness
Desmond Tutu

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
Daniel Yergin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1972

The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
Gabriel García Márquez

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1955

Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1929

Alive
Piers Paul Read

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

Neither Wolf Nor Dog
Kent Nerburn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Red Azalea
Anchee Min

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
James L. Swanson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Machete Season
Jean Hatzfeld

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Mahabharata
Anonymous

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | BCE

Teacher Man
Frank McCourt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

The Age Of Reason
Thomas Paine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1794

The End of History and the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Once More to the Lake
E. B. White

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941

Manchild in the Promised Land
Claude Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1965

Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Aron Ralston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

The Orchid Thief
Susan Orlean

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
Alasdair MacIntyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

The Great Influenza
John M. Barry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Elephant Whisperer
Lawrence Anthony

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir
Ruth Wariner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Aspects of the Novel
E. M. Forster

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1927

Gift From The Sea
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1955

A Severe Mercy: A Story of Faith, Tragedy and Triumph
Sheldon Vanauken

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

Shadow Divers
Robert Kurson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Walking with the Wind
John Lewis, Mike D'Orso

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Illness As Metaphor
Susan Sontag

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

The Writing Life
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989