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Lies My Teacher Told Me
James W. Loewen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Heaven is for Real
Todd Burpo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

ABNKKBSNPLAko?!
Bob Ong

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Mao's Last Dancer
Li Cunxin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Elizabeth and Hazel
David Margolick

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2002

Creativity, Inc.
Edwin Catmull, Amy Wallace

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

There Are No Children Here
Alex Kotlowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Rocket Boys
Homer Hickam

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

The Peloponnesian War
Donald Kagan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1925

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Doris Pilkington

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

The Heart and the Fist
Eric Greitens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

My Family and Other Animals
Gerald Durrell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1956

The Sex Lives of Cannibals
J. Maarten Troost

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Waiting for Snow in Havana
Carlos Eire

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

A Hope In The Unseen
Ron Suskind

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
John Perkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Homage To Catalonia
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1938

The Enlightenment
Norman Hampson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

The Greatest Generation
Tom Brokaw

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

A Man Named Dave
Dave Pelzer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Survival In Auschwitz
Primo Levi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1947

Two Years Before the Mast
Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1840

No Easy Day
Kevin Maurer, Matt Bissonnette

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

Running in the Family
Michael Ondaatje

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Clayborne Carson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

This Boy's Life
Tobias Wolff

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire
Rajmohan Gandhi

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Magna Carta Libertatum
Stephen Langton

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1215

The Great Depression
Pierre Berton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

On Writing Well
William Zinsser

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Go Down Together
Jeff Guinn

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Flags of Our Fathers
James Bradley, Ron Powers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

Much Madness Is Divinest Sense
Kathleen J. Greider

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Acquainted With The Night
Christopher Dewdney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Mama Lola
Karen McCarthy Brown

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

The Apocalypse Now Book
Peter Cowie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

5 Levels Of Leadership
John C. Maxwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

4-Hour Work Week
Tim Ferriss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Confessions Of An English Opium Eater
Thomas De Quincey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1821

Algorithms To Live By
Brian Christian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Political Liberalism
John Rawls

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Whistling Vivaldi
Claude Steele

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
Allen C. Guelzo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Blind Watchmaker: Why The Evidence Of Evolution Reveals A Universe Without Design
Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

News of a Kidnapping
Gabriel García Márquez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Close To Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916
Michael Capuzzo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1916

The Age Of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848
Eric Hobsbawm

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

Achilles in Vietnam
Jonathan Shay

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
Rachel Simmons

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Moses and Monotheism
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1939

There Was a Country
Chinua Achebe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

In the Sea There are Crocodiles
Fabio Geda

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Until Tuesday
Luis Carlos Montalvan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

The Language Instinct
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution
Thomas L. Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Seven Pillars of Wisdom
T. E. Lawrence

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1926

Among the Thugs
Bill Buford

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Christ Stopped At Eboli
Carlo Levi

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1945

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Barbara W. Tuchman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

How Doctors Think
Jerome Groopman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

In The Sanctuary of Outcasts
Neil White

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

The Snow Leopard
Peter Matthiessen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

The Armies of the Night
Norman Mailer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

India After Gandhi
Ramachandra Guha

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Jarhead
Anthony Swofford

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Reefer Madness
Eric Schlosser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
Rinker Buck

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Stride Toward Freedom
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1958

Fordlandia
Greg Grandin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

The Summer of 1787
David O. Stewart

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Soul On Ice
Eldridge Cleaver

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1968

The Promise of a Pencil
Adam Braun

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

The Golden Spruce
John Vaillant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Lipstick Jihad
Azadeh Moaveni

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Pearl Harbor: Warning And Decision
Roberta Wohlstetter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

That Used to Be Us
Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Mexico: The Cookbook
Margarita Carrillo Arronte

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Audacity of Hope
Barack Obama

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

Killing The Rising Sun
Bill O'Reilly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Jon Meacham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources Of Love, Character, And Achievement
David Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Elements of Style
William Strunk Jr.

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1918

Galileo's Daughter
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Into the Woods
Anna Krien

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Half a Life
Darin Strauss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

George Washington's Secret Six
Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Nazi Officer's Wife
Edith Hahn Beer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

The Seven Daughters of Eve
Bryan Sykes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
Linda Gordon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

No Place to Hide
Glenn Greenwald

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

In a Sunburned Country
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

What It Is Like to Go to War
Karl Marlantes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

The Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1907

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Simone de Beauvoir

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1958