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The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation
Avner Offer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

The Afterlife
Donald Antrim

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
Chuck Klosterman

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2003

Fifth Chinese Daughter
Jade Snow Wong

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1945

On Immunity: An Inoculation
Eula Biss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
Mark Seal

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Blue Nights
Joan Didion

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Rabelais and His World
Mikhail Bakhtin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1965

Beware of the Dog
Brian Moore (Pitbull)

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1976

A Song Flung Up to Heaven
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

A Taste of Power
Elaine Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Mary Mccarthy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1957

The Art of the Commonplace
Wendell Berry

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
Leo Damrosch

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett
David Crockett

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1834

Finding George Orwell in Burma
Emma Larkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Jesus Through the Centuries
Jaroslav Pelikan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Land of Desire
William R. Leach

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

A Diary from Dixie
Mary Boykin Chestnut

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1866

To End All Wars
Adam Hochschild

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Golden Arches East
James L. Watson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

From Dawn to Decadence
Jacques Barzun

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Scars of Sweet Paradise
Alice Echols

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

When a Crocodile Eats the Sun
Peter Godwin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Walking Since Daybreak
Modris Eksteins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Culture of Narcissism
Christopher Lasch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

A Tribe Apart
Patricia Hersch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Brave Companions
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Cross Creek
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1942

The Broken Cord
Michael Dorris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1989

The Concubine's Children
Denise Chong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

The Lost Continent
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Notorious RBG
Irin Carmon, Shana Knizhnik

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Dickens
Peter Ackroyd

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

The Eaves of Heaven
Andrew X. Pham

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Steve Coll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler
John Hendrix

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Jeffrey C. Stewart

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality
Jo Ann Allen Boyce, Debbie Levy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Toxic Silence: Race, Black Gender Identity, and Addressing the Violence Against Black Transgender Women in Houston
William T. Hoston

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

We Play a Game
Duy Doan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Ordeal of the Longhouse
Daniel K. Richter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Freedom's Mirror
Ada Ferrer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Sacred Balance
David Suzuki

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Scoreboard Baby
Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Faraway Nearby
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

The Game of My Life
Jason J-Mac Mcelwain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Tolstoy: A Biography
A. N. Wilson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988

Cripple Creek Days
Mabel Barbee Lee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1958

Journey Through Genius
William Dunham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1990

JFK: Reckless Youth
Nigel Hamilton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1992

Jack London: An American Life
Earle G. Labor

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Wilfred Owen
Jon Stallworthy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
Elaine Pagels

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Seeing Voices
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Samuel Johnson
John Wain

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

Mary Chesnut's Civil War
C. Vann Woodward

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Full Circle
Gloria Killian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
Sally Mann

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Stones into Schools
Greg Mortenson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

How Culture Shapes the Climate Change Debate
Andrew J. Hoffman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship
Nadine Strossen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Teach Yourself How to Learn
Saundra Yancy McGuire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

I Choose to be Happy
Missy Jenkins, William Croyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Never Stop Walking
Christina Rickardsson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Ledge
Jim Davidson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Sam Walton: Made in America
Sam Walton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1992

Philip Larkin
Andrew Motion

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

Baudelaire
Joanna Richardson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1964

George Eliot
Rosemary Ashton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1978

Herman Melville
Hershel Parker

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Eudora Welty
Suzanne Marrs

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1984

The Autobiography of Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

My Life in Dog Years
Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1998

Give Us This Day
Helena Wisniewska Brow

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Discreet Hero
Mario Vargas Llosa

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Dirty Little Secrets
Kerry Cohen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Searching For Zion
Emily Raboteau

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Thomas Wyatt
Susan Brigden

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2002

Beyond God the Father
Mary Daly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

The Postmodern Condition
Jean-François Lyotard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Man of the People
Alonzo L. Hamby

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1992

Shelley
Richard Holmes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan
Cathy Davidson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

All Our Kin
Carol B. Stack

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

Bearskin
James A. Mclaughlin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Bettyville
George Hodgman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam
Elizabeth Partridge

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Losing My Cool
Thomas Chatterton Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Mercies in Disguise
Gina Kolata

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Radical Evolution
Joel Garreau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Captive Mind
Czesław Miłosz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1953

Not on Our Watch
John Prendergast

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Primo Levi: A Life
Ian Thomson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

All the Devils are Here
David Seabrook

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Sisters in the Wilderness
Charlotte Gray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography
Robert E. Hemenway

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1977

Take Me With You
Carlos Frías

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019