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Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Tom Holland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Charles Wheelan

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath, Ed. Karen V. Kukil

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald
John U. Bacon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Read People Like A Book: How to Analyze, Understand, and Predict People's Emotions, Thoughts, Intentions, and Behaviors
Patrick King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

American Sniper
Chris Kyle

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

That's a Great Question, I'd Love to Tell You
Elyse Myers

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Inventing Human Rights: A History
Lynn Hunt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Lindsey Fitzharris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
Brian Goldstone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Stop, in the Name of God: Why Honoring the Sabbath Will Transform Your Life
Charlie Kirk

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA
Liza Mundy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Bread of Angels: A Memoir
Patti Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
Neil Howe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

As A Man Thinketh
James Allen

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1902

Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
Maryanne Wolf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage
Belle Burden

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2026

The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
David McWilliams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir
Anthony Hopkins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Physics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 341

Homeschooled
Stefan Merrill Block

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail
Andrea Lankford

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2023

Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World
Niall Ferguson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Enough: Your Health, Your Weight, and What It's Like to Be Free
Oprah Winfrey, Ania M. Jastreboff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Why The West Rules – For Now
Ian Morris

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
Annie Jacobsen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus
Elaine Pagels

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood
Nina Willner

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

Notes on Grief
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

You with the Sad Eyes: A Memoir
Christina Applegate

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic
Bunnie Xo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Sue Prideaux

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

The Ego and the Id
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1923

The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It
Tilar J Mazzeo

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

The American Revolution: A History
Gordon S. Wood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Harold Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
John Fugelsang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Islam: A Short History
Karen Armstrong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew
Emmanuel Acho, Noa Tishby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
John Eldredge

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
Margaret Mead

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1928

Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
Mike Michalowicz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies
Jason Fagone

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

84, Charing Cross Road
Helene Hanff

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1970