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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Jon Krakauer
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003
Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life
Annette Lareau
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
Devon Price
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Deborah Feldman
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012
Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
Will Guidara
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022
Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind
David Berreby
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005
Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There
Rutger Bregman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021
Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson
Adrienne Rich
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Laura Mulvey
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
Svetlana Alexievich
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997
Walking with the Wind
John Lewis, Mike D'Orso
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998
War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust
Doris L. Bergen
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
John W. Dower
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Saidiya Hartman
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
Samra Habib
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019
We Shall Fight on the Beaches
Winston Churchill
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1940
We Should All Be Feminists
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2014
We Should Hang Out Sometime: Embarassingly, A True Story
Josh Sundquist
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
Bettina Love
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Philip Gourevitch
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Randall Munroe
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014
What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen
Kate Fagan
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
Michael J. Sandel
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022
What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City
Mona Hanna-Attisha
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1852
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Harold S. Kushner
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981
When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016
When Broken Glass Floats
Chanrithy Him
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
Le Ly Hayslip
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989
When I Was Puerto Rican
Esmeralda Santiago
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Gabor Maté
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003
When They Call You a Terrorist
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Pema Chödrön
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
Jon Krakauer
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994
White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race
Ian Haney-López
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robin DiAngelo
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era (P.S.)
Shelby Steele
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006
Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race
Matthew Frye Jacobson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Peggy McIntosh
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1989
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Carol Anderson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
Nancy Isenberg
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race
Beverly Daniel Tatum
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress Related Diseases, and Coping
Robert M. Sapolsky
Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1993
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Cheryl Strayed
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Anand Giridharadas
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
Winning the War in Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life
Craig Groeschel
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Katherine May
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020
Witness: Cold War Classics
Whittaker Chambers
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1952
Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing As We Age
Mary Pipher
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court
John Wooden, Steve Jamison
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2020
World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History
Henry Kissinger
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014
Writing with Style: Conversations on the Art of Writing
John Trimble
Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1975