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The Dark Side
Jane Mayer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Alfred Kazin's Journals
Richard M. Cook

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Horse Soldiers
Doug Stanton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

The Female Imagination
Patricia Meyer Spacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Hitch-22
Christopher Hitchens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Palimpsest
Gore Vidal

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1953

Patrimony
Philip Roth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

A Tale of Love and Darkness
Amos Oz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Beneath Our Feet
R. H. Vernon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

A House of Trees
Joan Colebrook

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1988

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
Tom Bissell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Conundrum
Jan Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Wave
Sonali Deraniyagala

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Travels with Lizbeth
Lars Eighner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

Negroland
Margo Jefferson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

A Life's Work
Rachel Cusk

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

A Drinking Life
Pete Hamill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

An Unfinished Woman
Lillian Hellman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1969

Experience
Martin Amis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Slow Days, Fast Company
Eve Babitz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
Viv Albertine

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Kafka Was the Rage
Anatole Broyard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1975

Personal History
Katharine Graham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Minor Characters
Joyce Johnson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1983

The Memory Chalet
Tony Judt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Cockroaches
Scholastique Mukasonga

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Life
Keith Richards

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

A Life in the Twentieth Century
Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Ancient Light
John Banville

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Scoundrel Time
Lillian Hellman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1976

Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentent Exile
Ariel Dorfman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

My Lives
Edmund White

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

What You Have Heard Is True
Carolyn Forché

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
Hanif Abdurraqib

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Cartel
Don Winslow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
Greg Grandin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Burn the Place: A Memoir
Iliana Regan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Race for Profit
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Gatekeepers
Franca Iacovetta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Solace of Open Spaces
Gretel Ehrlich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Stuffed and Starved
Raj Patel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Life Is so Good
George Dawson, Richard Glaubman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Radioactive Boy Scout
Ken Silverstein

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

A Peace to End All Peace
David Fromkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

Tiger Woods
Jeff Benedict

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

The Good Soldiers
David Finkel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

The Great Mortality
John Kelly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

River of Memory: The Everlasting Columbia
William D. Layman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Fierce Attachments
Vivian Gornick

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

The Men in My Life
Vivian Gornick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Letters from Vietnam: Voices of War
Bill Adler, ed.

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1968

The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Steffens

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1931

Fixing Patriarchy
Donald E. Hall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Tyranny of Experts
William Easterly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Eichmann Trial
Deborah Lipstadt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

House of Stone
Anthony Shadid

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

When Death Takes Something from You Give it Back
Naja Marie Aidt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Half Empty
David Rakoff

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2010

The Poisoner
Stephen Bates

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Close to the Knives
David Wojnarowicz

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

"I": New and Selected Poems
Toi Derricotte

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Sight Lines
Arthur Sze

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Borrowed Finery
Paula Fox

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Hallucinations
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Alibis
André Aciman

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2011

Names for the Sea
Sarah Moss

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

The Life and Death of Crazy Horse
Russell Freedman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Staying Dry
Angelo J. Lucco, K. Lynette Pearce, Kathryn L. Burgio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

In Her Wake
Nancy Rappaport

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

First in Their Hearts
Thomas James Fleming

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1985

Please Kill Me
Gillian McCain, Legs McNeil

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Alchemy of the Mind
Diane Ackerman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

The Stones of Florence
Mary Mccarthy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

How to Read and Why
Harold Bloom

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Last Good War
Thomas Sanders

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Moving Among Strangers
Gabrielle Carey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

A Wilderness Within
David Backes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Real American
Julie Lythcott-Haims

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

A Step from Death
Larry Woiwode

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1978

On China
Henry Kissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

On the Rez
Ian Frazier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Book of Common Prayer
Thomas Cranmer

Nonfiction | Scripture | Adult | Published in 1549

Oracle Bones
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Medical Nemesis
Ivan Illich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

A Farewell to Alms
Gregory Clark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A Family by Any Other Name
Bruce Gillespie

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2014

What We Lost
Dale Peck

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Man Alive
Thomas Page McBee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Come Back to Afghanistan
Said Hyder Akbar, Susan Burton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

A Death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

A Pickpocket's Tale
Timothy J. Gilfoyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Nobody's Story
Catherine Gallagher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

The End of Detroit
Micheline Maynard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Boys of Summer
Roger Kahn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1972

The Signifying Monkey
Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

The Panda's Thumb
Stephen Jay Gould

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Unforgivable Blackness
Geoffrey C. Ward

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2004

My Life as a Traitor
Zarah Ghahramani

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007