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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Eric Hoffer
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951
The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative
Thomas King
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003
The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?
Michael J. Sandel
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
The Undocumented Americans
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Michael Lewis
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016
The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You
Dina Nayeri
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 368
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
John Putnam Demos
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America
George Packer
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
Bruno Bettelheim
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
William James
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1902
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David Grann
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023
The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World
Jamil Zaki
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle
Steven Pressfield
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002
The Water Is Wide: A Memoir
Pat Conroy
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1972
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
Wade Davis
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009
The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self
Martha Beck
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021
The Way to Rainy Mountain
N. Scott Momaday
Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 1969
The Wealth of Nations. The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1776
The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
William Easterly
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
bell hooks
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003
The Will to Power
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ed. Walter Kaufmann, Transl. R.J. Hollingdale
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1901
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Alan W. Watts
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1951
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
Kate Moore
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1976
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1935
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Thomas L. Friedman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005
The World of Yesterday: An Autobiography
Stefan Zweig
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942
They Cage the Animals at Night
Jennings Michael Burch
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1984
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Abdurraqib
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2017
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005
They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein
Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2006
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
Thick: And Other Essays
Tressie Mcmillan Cottom
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
Adam Grant
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021
Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism
Temple Grandin
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995
Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life
Avinash K. Dixit
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991
Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day
Jay Shetty
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Cherrie Moraga, ed., Gloria Anzaldua, ed.
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult
This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism
Don Lemon
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
George Berkeley
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1713
Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder
Arianna Huffington
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Cheryl Strayed
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult
Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything
B. J. Fogg
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Chernow
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
Vivek Murthy
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020
To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War
Tera W. Hunter
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Joe Simpson
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988
Tradition and the Individual Talent
T. S. Eliot
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1919
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019
Triumph of The City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier (2011)
Edward L. Glaeser
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011
Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
Carla Shalaby
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
Mark Salzman
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003