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Rabbit Hole: A Satanic Ritual Abuse Survivor's Story
David Shurter

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Carry on Warrior
Glennon Doyle (Melton)

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Hostage
Carolyn Wren

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Quiet Strength
Tony Dungy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

American Heiress
Jeffrey Toobin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Code Girls
Liza Mundy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
David McCullough

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

In the Kingdom of Ice
Hampton Sides

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

River of Shadows
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

China's Second Continent
Howard W. French

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

My Life in France
Julia Child

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Prairie Fires
Caroline Fraser

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Bronx Primitive
Kate Simon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1961

The Mapmakers
John Noble Wilford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
Matt Ridley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Inside the Third Reich
Albert Speer

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1969

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Black Edge
Sheelah Kolhatkar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

How Music Got Free
Stephen Richard Witt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Love Warrior
Glennon Doyle (Melton)

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Move Your Shadow
Joseph Lelyveld

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Indecency
Justin Phillip Reed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Game Change
John Heilemann, Mark Halperin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Noonday Demon
Andrew Solomon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

They Marched into Sunlight
David Maraniss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Priestdaddy
Patricia Lockwood

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Holy Feast and Holy Fast
Caroline Walker Bynum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

When You Are Engulfed in Flames
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2008

Green Hills of Africa
Ernest Hemingway

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1935

It's Not about the Bike
Lance Armstrong, Sally Jenkins

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

Out of Our Past
Carl Degler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

The Freud Reader
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron
Nicholas Fraser

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

I Shall Not Hate
Izzeldin Abuelaish

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Lucky
Alice Sebold

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing History of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe
Erik Loomis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Songs of Innocence and of Experience
William Blake

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1789

Why?: What Makes Us Curious
Mario Livio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Education of Kevin Powell
Kevin Powell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Joseph Anton: A Memoir
Salman Rushdie

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

The Quest
Daniel Yergin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Memory Palace
Mira Bartok

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Rising Strong
Brené Brown

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Rules Do Not Apply
Ariel Levy

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

The Only Story
Julian Barnes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

Play Their Hearts Out
George Dohrmann

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

In Defense of Elitism
William A. Henry III

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Paris to the Moon
Adam Gopnik

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Sticks and Stones
Lynn Hall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Aquarium
David Vann

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Crooked River
Shelley Pearsall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Aviator's Wife
Melanie Benjamin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Winner Takes All
Christina Binkley

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

To the End of June
Cris Beam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

A Walker in the City
Alfred Kazin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1951

Richistan
Robert Frank

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
Rosemary Mahoney

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Darkness in El Dorado
Patrick Tierney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Ghosts of the Tsunami
Richard Lloyd Parry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Anxiety of Influence
Harold Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

Logicomix
Apostolos Doxiadis

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Longitudes and Attitudes
Thomas Friedman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The River of Consciousness
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

Roll, Jordan, Roll
Eugene D. Genovese

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

Showdown at Gucci Gulch
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum, Alan S. Murray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1987

The Coming Anarchy
Robert D. Kaplan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Fly Girls
Keith O'Brien

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

Rescuing Jeffrey
Richard Galli

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

The International Bank of Bob
Bob Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Big Sea
Langston Hughes

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1940

Why Football Matters
Mark Edmundson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Religio Medici
Sir Thomas Browne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1642

When China Rules the World
Martin Jacques

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Prince of Frogtown
Rick Bragg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Midnight Assassin
Patricia L. Bryan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Agent Zigzag
Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Glass Universe
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Alex & Me
Irene Pepperberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

John Milton
Thomas N. Corns

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

Every Man in This Village Is a Liar
Megan K. Stack

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Ground Zero
Andrew Holleran

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1977

The Evolution of Beauty
Richard O. Prum

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Invisible Woman
Claire Tomalin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

A World Made New
Mary Ann Glendon

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2001

Speak Now
Kenji Yoshino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

All God's Dangers
Theodore Rosengarten

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1974

A Whole New Life
Reynolds Price

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Rebecca West

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1941

Necessary Losses
Judith Viorst

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Eye of Conscience
Milton Meltzer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Jesus Land
Julia Scheeres

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

I, Tina
Tina Turner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1986

To a Mountain in Tibet
Colin Thubron

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Bearing the Cross
David J. Garrow

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1986

The Fatal Shore
Robert Hughes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

State of the Union
Nelson Lichtenstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Rise Again!
Robert J. Morgan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

A Story Teller's Story
Sherwood Anderson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1924

Small Fry
Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

The Arcades Project
Walter Benjamin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927