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A Million Miles In A Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
Donald Miller

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Alicia Elliott

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Eliza Griswold

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

A Model of Christian Charity
John Winthrop

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1838

A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1729

Among School Children
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
Max Marshall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Jeanne Theoharis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America's First All-Black High School Rowing Team
Arshay Cooper

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1964

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

An Actor Prepares
Constantin Stanislavski

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

Analects of Confucius
Confucius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

An American Childhood
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back
Elisabeth Rosenthal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Anarchy, State and Utopia
Robert Nozick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

An Army at Dawn
Rick Atkinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Andrew Carnegie And The Rise Of Big Business
Harold C. Livesay

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1975

And Still We Rise: The Trials and Triumphs of Twelve Gifted Inner-City High School Students
Miles Corwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

And The Band Played On
Randy Shilts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

An Economic Theory of Democracy
Anthony Downs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

An Edible History of Humanity
Tom Standage

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1748

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1690

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
John Dryden

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1668

An Essay on the Principle of Population
Thomas Malthus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1798

A New Earth: Create a Better Life
Eckhart Tolle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood
Jimmy Carter

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

A Night to Remember
Walter Lord

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1955

An Image of Africa
Chinua Achebe

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1975

Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals
Peter Singer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
Laura Schroff, Alex Tresniowski

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Annihilation of Caste
B. R. Ambedkar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

An Ordinary Man
Paul Rusesabagina

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2024

An Unquiet Mind
Kay Redfield Jamison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity
Nicholas D. Kristof , Sheryl WuDunn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Edmund Burke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1756

A Piece Of Cake: A Memoir
Cupcake Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

A Place to Stand
Jimmy Santiago Baca

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

A Plea for Captain John Brown
Henry David Thoreau

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1859

Apology
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult

Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
Charles B. Dew

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

A Promised Land
Barack Obama

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

A Quilt of a Country
Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2001

A Random Walk Down Wall Street
Burton G. Malkiel

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

Arc of Justice
Kevin Boyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Areopagitica
John Milton

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1644

Are Prisons Obsolete?
Angela Y. Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea (1922)
Bronislaw Malinowski

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1922

A Rip in Heaven
Jeanine Cummins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Transl. Martin Brown, Masaji Ishikawa, Transl. Risa Kobayashi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1929

Ars Poetica
Horace

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1991

A Rumor of War
Philip Caputo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 269

A Secular Age
Charles Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

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

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815–1837
Paul E. Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Bartolome de Las Casas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1552

A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

A Short History of Progress
Ronald Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed
Maureen Callahan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2024

A Small Place
Jamaica Kincaid

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1988

As Nature Made Him
John Colapinto

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

Aspects of the Novel
E. M. Forster

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

Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

A Stolen Life: A Memoir
Jaycee Dugard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil Degrasse Tyson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
David Foster Wallace

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1997

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
George Saunders

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

A Talk to Teachers
James Baldwin

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1963

A Theory of Justice
John Rawls

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Atlanta Exposition Speech
Booker T. Washington

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1895

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brené Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
James Clear

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
George Berkeley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1710

A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1739

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
Rachel S.F. Heller, Amir Levine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
Danielle L. McGuire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Autobiography Of A Face
Lucy Grealy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1791

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World
Anne Applebaum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Virginia Eubanks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Ava's Man
Rick Bragg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

A Very Easy Death
Simone de Beauvoir

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1964