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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
David Brooks
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1940
How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Thomas C. Foster
Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2003
How to Read Poetry Like a Professor: A Quippy and Sonorous Guide to Verse
Thomas C. Foster
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
Safiya Sinclair
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays
Kiese Laymon
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2013
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed
Slavenka Drakulić
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1992
How Will You Measure Your Life?
Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, Karen Dillon
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Allie Brosh
Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2013
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Christina Lamb, Malala Yousafzai
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009
I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond
Michael Oher
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011
If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
James Baldwin
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1979
If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
Tim O'Brien
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1973
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
Gregg Olsen
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1969
I Love Yous are For White People
Lac Su
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009
Imagined Communities: Reflections On The Origin And Spread Of Nationalism
Benedict Anderson
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
Vladimir Lenin
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1916
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
Mae M. Ngai
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Austin Channing Brown
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018
In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development
Carol Gilligan
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Harriet Jacobs
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1861
Indian Givers: How the Indians of the Americas Transformed the World
Jack Weatherford
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Dani Shapiro
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Amy Bloom
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
Irene Gut Opdyke, Jennifer Armstrong
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom
Yeonmi Park, Maryanne Vollers
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015
In Praise of Shadows
Jun’Ichirō Tanizaki, Transl. Thomas J. Harper, Transl. Edward G. Seidensticker
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1933
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens
Alice Walker
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1983
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
Philippe Bourgois
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
Diane Guerrero, Michelle Burford
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016
In the Dream House
Carmen Maria Machado
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Nathaniel Philbrick
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000
Into That Darkness: An Examination of Conscience
Gitta Sereny
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974
Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon’s Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart
James R. Doty
Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City
Andrea Elliott
Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Caroline Criado Perez
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019
I, Pencil: My Family Tree as Told to Leonard E. Read
Leonard E. Read
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1958
I've Been to the Mountaintop
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1968
I Will Teach You To Be Rich: No Guilt. No Excuses. No BS. Just a 6-Week Program That Works
Ramit Sethi
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009
John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
John F. Kennedy
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1961
Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations
Michael Walzer
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976
Justice and The Politics of Difference
Iris Marion Young
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990
Just Like Us: The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America
Helen Thorpe
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009
Just Us: An American Conversation
Claudia Rankine
Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2020
Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot
Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Dorothy Roberts
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997