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Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science
Atul Gawande

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2002

Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1850

Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Wassily Kandinsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1911

Concluding Unscientific Postscript
Søren Kierkegaard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1846

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
Laila Lalami

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

Confessions
Saint Augustine

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 400

Consider The Lobster
David Foster Wallace

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2004

Consilience
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Consolation Of Philosophy
Boethius

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 524

Constitution of United States of America
Constitutional Convention

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1787

Cosmopolitanism
Kwame Anthony Appiah

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Cosmos
Carl Sagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Counting the Cost
Jill Duggar, Derick Dillard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Courtroom 302
Steve Bogira

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Crazy Brave: A Memoir
Joy Harjo

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1781

Crito
Plato

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | BCE

Cross of Gold
William Jennings Bryan, Robert W. Cherny

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1896

Crying in H Mart
Michelle Zauner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Amanda Montell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Culture and Imperialism
Edward Said

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Dare to Lead
Brené Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Darkness Visible
William Styron

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Das Kapital
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1867

Day of Infamy Speech
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1941

Dead Man Walking
Helen Prejean

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Dead Wake: The Last Crossing Of The Lusitania
Erik Larson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen
Jose Antonio Vargas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Death Without Weeping
Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Debt: The First 5,000 Years
David Graeber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Declaration of Sentiments
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1848

Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why
Laurence Gonzales

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocqueville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1835

De Profundis
Oscar Wilde

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1905

Desert Exile
Yoshiko Uchida

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad
Waris Dirie

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1968

Destiny of the Republic
Candice Millard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
Robert M. Sapolsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Devil in the Grove
Gilbert King

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Dinners With Ruth
Nina Totenberg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Diplomacy
Henry Kissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century
Ed. Alice Wong

Nonfiction | Anthology/Varied Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

Discipline And Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Discourse on Colonialism
Aimé Césaire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1955

Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1755

Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo
Galileo Galilei

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1957

Dispatches
Michael Herr

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

Domestic Manners of the Americans
Frances Trollope

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1832

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
Naomi Klein

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Down The Rabbit Hole
Holly Madison

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Down These Mean Streets
Piri Thomas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1967

Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Sam Quinones

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

Dreams in a Time of War
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
Fatema Mernissi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Drinking: A Love Story
Caroline Knapp

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1996

Dry
Augusten Burroughs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Dust Tracks on a Road
Zora Neale Hurston

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

Eating Animals
Jonathan Safran Foer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Janisse Ray

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1843

Educated: A Memoir
Tara Westover

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Educating Esmé: Diary of a Teacher’s First Year
Esmé Raji Codell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement
Barbara Ransby

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Lincoln

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1863

Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
John W. Dower

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Emile: On Education
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1763