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The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
Brian Greene

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

What the Best College Teachers Do
Ken Bain

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
Brianna Wiest

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2016

M Train
Patti Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
Emily Oster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Of Grammatology
Jacques Derrida

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
Carla Shalaby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir
Sherry Turkle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Elizabeth Hinton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Gavin De Becker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

I've Been to the Mountaintop
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1968

The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
Matthew Dixon, Brent Adamson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Ilan Pappé

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815
Richard White

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The Fourth State of Matter
Jo Ann Beard

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1996

When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Gabor Maté

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Will
Will Smith, Mark Manson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

J'Accuse
Émile Zola

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1898

Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Timothy Egan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Judith Butler

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1993

The Greatest Salesman in the World
Og Mandino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism
Rachel Maddow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People
E.E. Evans-Pritchard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1940

A Plea for Captain John Brown
Henry David Thoreau

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1859

The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing
Lara Love Hardin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
Will Durant

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1926

Letters to a Young Scientist
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Paris: The Memoir
Paris Hilton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Counting the Cost
Jill Duggar, Derick Dillard, Craig Borlase

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Witness: Cold War Classics
Whittaker Chambers

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1952

Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s
Michael Omi, Howard Winant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Misbehaving
Richard H. Thaler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning
Liz Cheney

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Through Gates of Splendor
Elisabeth Elliot

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1957

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 2007

The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
Ibn Khaldun

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1377

Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
Robert B. Reich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Day of Infamy Speech
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Sonya Renee Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

My Name Is Barbra
Barbra Streisand

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

King: A Life
Jonathan Eig

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

The Cross and the Switchblade
David Wilkerson, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1963

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Amy Bloom

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Robert M. Sapolsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
Émile Durkheim

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1912

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

How Music Works
David Byrne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson
Adrienne Rich

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975

A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1973

How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
Safiya Sinclair

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
Michael Schur

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
Jonathan Rosen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
Jonathan Freedland

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

Closer to Freedom
Stephanie Camp

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The Tell-Tale Brain
V. S. Ramachandran

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Kathleen Belew

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Prepared: A Manual for Surviving Worst-Case Scenarios
Mike Glover

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
Stephanie Land

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
Vivek Murthy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
Michael Easter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Phenomenology of Spirit
G. W. F. Hegel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1807

The Undercover Economist
Tim Harford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
Michael J. Sandel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

One Native Life
Richard Wagamese

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The Cheese And The Worms: The Cosmos Of A Sixteenth-Century Miller
Carlo Ginzburg

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1980

Leading Change
John P. Kotter

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War
Craig Whitlock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
Geraldine Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
Will Guidara

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
Devon Price

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

An Edible History of Humanity
Tom Standage

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

On Being Sane in Insane Places
David L. Rosenhan

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1973

The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability
Roger Connors, Tom Smith, Craig Hickman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South
Anna Julia Cooper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1892

The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
Anderson Cooper, Gloria Vanderbilt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship
Don Miguel Ruiz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes
Tamim Ansary

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago
Laurence Ralph

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
Gabor Maté

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Midnight Rising
Tony Horwitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

My Broken Language: A Memoir
Quiara Alegría Hudes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Mustafa Suleyman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Rigoberto González

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Anarchy, State and Utopia
Robert Nozick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor
Yossi Klein Halevi

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 2018

Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough
Michael Easter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century
Dorothy Roberts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do
Judith Rich Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

A Talk to Teachers
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1963

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

The Sense of Style
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
Tim Alberta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023