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101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think
Brianna Wiest

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2016

102 Minutes
Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
Steven M. Gillon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
Jordan B. Peterson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

1491
Charles C. Mann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
Charles C. Mann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

1776
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

23 Things they don't tell you about Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

8 Rules of Love: How to Find it, Keep it, and Let it Go
Jay Shetty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

Abraham Lincoln and the Second American Revolution
James M. Mcpherson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1983

A Brief History Of Neoliberalism
David Harvey

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2005

A Brief History Of Time
Stephen Hawking

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

A Chance in the World
Steve Pemberton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

A Child Called It: One Child’s Courage to Survive
Dave Pelzer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

A Civil Action
Jonathan Harr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

A Confession
Leo Tolstoy

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1880

A Cup of Water Under My Bed
Daisy Hernandez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

A Deadly Wandering
Matt Richtel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

A Defence of Poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1840

A Different Mirror
Ronald Takaki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

A Dream Called Home
Reyna Grande

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Affluenza
John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas Naylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

A Fierce Discontent
Michael McGerr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
Alasdair MacIntyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

Agricola
Tacitus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 98

A Grief Observed
C. S. Lewis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1961

A History of the World in 6 Glasses
Tom Standage

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

A History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1945

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea
Melissa Fleming

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Ain't I A Woman
Sojourner Truth

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1851

AI Superpowers
Kai-Fu Lee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
Brittany Barnett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
Hanif Abdurraqib

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Alive
Piers Paul Read

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

All about Love: Love Song to the Nation Book 1
bell hooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1972

Allegory Of The Cave
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | BCE

All Over but the Shoutin'
Rick Bragg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

All Souls: A Family Story From Southie
Michael Patrick MacDonald

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

All the President's Men
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
Nicole Chung

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Almost a Woman
Esmeralda Santiago

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solider
Ishmael Beah

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

A Long Way Home
Saroo Brierley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

A Lucky Child
Thomas Buergenthal

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Always Running
Luis Rodriguez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

A Mathematician's Apology
G. H. Hardy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1940

America and I
Anzia Yezierska

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1922

America is in the Heart
Carlos Bulosan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1946

American Colonies: The Settling of North America
Alan Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

American Creation
Joseph J. Ellis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

American History: A Survey
Alan Brinkley

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

American Like Me
America Ferrera

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2018

American Sniper
Jim DeFelice

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

A Message to Garcia
Elbert Hubbard

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1899

A Mind Spread Out on the Ground
Alicia Elliott

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

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

A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1964

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 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 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