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The Idea of a University
John Henry Newman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1873

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Yvon Chouinard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco
Paul Rabinow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Why Fish Don't Exist
Lulu Miller

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1881

The Rights of the Colonists
Samuel Adams

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1772

Everything's an Argument
Andrea A. Lunsford, John J. Ruszkiewicz

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1998

On Juneteenth
Annette Gordon-Reed

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Beautiful Country: A Memoir
Qian Julie Wang

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust
Doris L. Bergen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Speech to the Second Virginia Convention
Patrick Henry

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1775

Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Robert McKee

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1997

The Antichrist
Friedrich Nietzsche, Transl. H.L. Mencken

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1895

The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts
Gary Chapman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Tastes Like War: A Memoir
Grace M. Cho

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Three Women
Lisa Taddeo

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
John W. Dower

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

A Confession
Leo Tolstoy

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1880

Ninety-Five Theses
Martin Luther

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1517

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
Albert Camus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951

The Myth of the Eternal Return
Mircea Eliade, Transl. Willard R. Trask

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1949

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
B. J. Fogg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
Fiona Hill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Parallel Myths
J. F. Bierlein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing
John Trimble

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Musui's Story
Katsu Kokichi, Transl. Teruko Craig, Illustr. Hiroshige Utagawa

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1843

March: Book One
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
John Dryden

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1668

Notes on the State of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1785

Taste: My Life Through Food
Stanley Tucci

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Ain't I A Woman
Sojourner Truth

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1851

The Talented Tenth
W. E. B. Du Bois

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1903

The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1949

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

This is Water
David Foster Wallace

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2009

Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
Annette Lareau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Death of the Author
Roland Barthes

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1967

How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Gloria Anzaldua

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1987

Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Wilderness and the American Mind
Roderick Nash

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
Elizabeth I

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1588

A Defence of Poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1840

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Mira Jacob

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
Bernard Bailyn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Peasant Fires: The Drummer of Niklashausen
Richard M. Wunderli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
Galileo Galilei

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1615

Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Jill Bolte Taylor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

The Interpretation of Cultures
Clifford Geertz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Peter Singer

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1972

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Seth Godin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Black Death
Philip Ziegler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Vladimir Lenin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1916

Hope In The Dark: The Untold History of People Power
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
William Cronon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative
Ignatia Broker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Dare to Lead
Brené Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Charles C. Mann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Twenty Years at Hull House
Jane Addams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1910

Protagoras
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 390

The Story of American Freedom
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
David Goggins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Last Chance in Texas: The Redemption of Criminal Youth
John Hubner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
Elyn R. Saks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007