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The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Wright Brothers
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Writing Life
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

They Cage the Animals at Night
Jennings Michael Burch

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1984

They Called Us Enemy
George Takei

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2019

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

The Year We Disappeared
Cylin Busby

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing
Gerald Graff, Cathy Birkenstein

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
Diane Ackerman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Thick: And Other Essays
Tressie Mcmillan Cottom

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

Thicker than Water: A Memoir
Kerry Washington

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know
Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1937

Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Thinking in Pictures: My Life With Autism
Temple Grandin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

Think Like a Freak
Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Thirteen Days
Robert F. Kennedy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1968

This Changes Everything
Naomi Klein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Adam Kay

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism
Don Lemon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

This is Water
David Foster Wallace

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2009

This Is Your Mind on Plants
Michael Pollan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
George Berkeley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1713

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1905

Three Guineas
Virginia Woolf

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1938

Three Women
Lisa Taddeo

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Through Gates of Splendor
Elisabeth Elliot

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1957

Thunderstruck
Erik Larson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Tightrope
Sheryl WuDunn, Nicholas D. Kristof

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

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

Too Big To Fail
Andrew Ross Sorkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Too Much and Never Enough
Mary L. Trump

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

Total Eclipse
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1982

To the Public
William Lloyd Garrison

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1831

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
Joe Simpson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988

Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
Robyn Davidson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1980

Tradition and the Individual Talent
T. S. Eliot

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1919

Tragedy and the Common Man
Arthur Miller

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1949

Transgender Warriors
Leslie Feinberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Travels With Charley
John Steinbeck

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1962

T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
Walter Álvarez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Triangle: The Fire That Changed America
David Von Drehle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Sebastian Junger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
Seth Godin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Jia Tolentino

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019

True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall
Mark Salzman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Truman
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1992

Truman Doctrine
Harry Truman

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1947

Trump: The Art of the Deal
Donald J. Trump

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
Nic Sheff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Twelve Years a Slave
Solomon Northup

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1853

Twenty Years at Hull House
Jane Addams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1910

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
Dorothy Allison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

Unbowed
Wangari Maathai

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Unbroken
Laura Hillenbrand

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
Anna Wiener

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
Emmanuel Acho

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Under a Cruel Star: A Life In Prague, 1941-1968
Heda Margolius Kovály

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1973

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Elizabeth Kolbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Jon Krakauer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Undoing Gender
Judith Butler

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

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

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Unflattening
Nick Sousanis

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
Robin Gaby Fisher, Paul Holes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Deborah Feldman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Untamed
Glennon Doyle (Melton)

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Up From Slavery
Booker T. Washington

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1901

Upstairs at the White House: My Life with the First Ladies
J. B. West, Mary Lynn Kotz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1973

Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind
David Berreby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1861

Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There
Rutger Bregman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014