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The Laws of Medicine
Siddhartha Mukherjee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

You Better Believe I'm Gonna Talk About It
Lisa Rinna

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs
Karen Berman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Dark Renaissance
Stephen Greenblatt

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

Best Laid Plans
Sarah Hart-Unger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Dick Hebdige

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Greetings From Bury Park: A Memoir
Sarfraz Manzoor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Under the Bridge
Rebecca Godfrey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times
Odd Arne Westad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Competitive Strategy
Michael E. Porter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Fight Oligarchy
Bernie Sanders

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The Empty Space
Peter Brook

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

Broken Horses
Brandi Carlile

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

All In
Billie Jean King

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Lit
Mary Karr

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Praying Like Monks, Living Like Fools
Tyler Staton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Betty Edwards

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1979

The Score
C. Thi Nguyen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Original Sin
Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

America, América
Greg Grandin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Find Your People
Jennie Allen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Counterweights
Shannan Martin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Elements of the Philosophy of Right
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1821

Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
Lisa Genova

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Streetwise
Lloyd Blankfein

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

The Zorg
Siddharth Kara

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The Sea Around Us
Rachel Carson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Annie Duke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Vagabond
Tim Curry

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

The Writer's Journey
Christopher Vogler

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1992

The Office Bffs: Tales of the Office From Two Best Friends Who Were There
Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

The Power of a Praying Woman
Stormie Omartian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Christian Theology
Millard J. Erickson

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1983

The Unfinished Journey
William H. Chafe

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1986

What Is Art?
Leo Tolstoy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1897

The Nature of the Gods
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 46

What Is History?
Edward Hallett Carr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

What Happened
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Against the Machine
Paul Kingsnorth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The ADHD Field Guide for Adults
Cate Osborn, Erik Gude

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
Olivia Fox Cabane

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Light and Thread
Han Kang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Heartland
Keith O'Brien

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2026

Attention Seeker
Darcy Michael

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Word Power Made Easy
Norman Lewis

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1949

High Achiever
Tiffany Jenkins

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Ethics
Simon Blackburn

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2009

JFK
J. Randy Taraborrelli

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

It Girl
Marisa Meltzer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
Gay Hendricks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Knowledge of the Holy
A.W. Tozer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
Austin Kleon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles
Bruce H. Lipton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope for and Believe
Richard Rohr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

How to Love
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How We Get Free
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

How the South Won the Civil War
Heather Cox Richardson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Franz Kafka
Max Brod

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1937

It's Complicated
Danah Boyd

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Experience Machine
Andy Clark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Why Not Me?
Mindy Kaling

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949
Ian Kershaw

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

My Dog Skip
Willie Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1995

The Ragamuffin Gospel
Brennan Manning

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

People Love Dead Jews
Dara Horn

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Making Globalization Work
Joseph Stiglitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
Stephen Fry

Nonfiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 2017

The Inheritance of Rome
Chris Wickham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology
Leah Remini, Rebecca Paley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump
Tim Alberta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

I Just Wish I Had a Bigger Kitchen
Kate Strickler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Non-Violent Resistance
Mahatma Gandhi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Born Lucky
Leland Vittert

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2025

Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle Against Dupont
Robert Bilott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
David Pears, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, Brian McGuinness

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1921

Awakenings
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1973

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
Charles Darwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1872

The Image of the City
Kevin Lynch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

Religion and the Decline of Magic
Keith Thomas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

Pedagogy of Hope
Paulo Freire

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
Anne Glenconner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Economics Rules
Dani Rodrik

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Statesman
Plato

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | BCE

We the Women
Norah O'Donnell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Who Are We?
Samuel P. Huntington

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

London Falling
Patrick Radden Keefe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Toyota Production System
Taiichi Ohno

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Getting Naked
Valerie Bertinelli

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Good Strategy / Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Nobody Wants Your Sh*t
Messie Condo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The Five Love Languages for Singles
Gary Chapman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Women and Economics
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1898

Kyoto Protocol
United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence
Daniel Goleman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
Graham Allison

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

We Have Never Been Modern
Bruno Latour

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

#girlboss
Sophia Amoruso

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Data Feminism
Catherine D’ignazio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Digital Disconnect
Robert W. Mcchesney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Rework
Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010