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The Princess Diarist

Carrie Fisher

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

The Miracle of Mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

Selling the Invisible

Harry Beckwith

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

The Score Takes Care of Itself

Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Monday Morning Leadership

David Cottrell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

On Democracies and Death Cults

Douglas Murray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories About Racism

Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Great Contradiction

Joseph J. Ellis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Knots in My Yo-Yo String: The Autobiography of a Kid

Jerry Spinelli

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Confronting Evil

Bill O'Reilly, Josh Hammer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

True Facts That Sound Like Bullst

Shane Carley

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945

Ian Buruma

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Healing Back Pain

John E. Sarno

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1982

Scar Tissue

Anthony Kiedis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Rage

Bob Woodward

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Butler

Salena Zito

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The Wim Hof Method

Wim Hof

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Behind the Badge

Johnny Joey Jones

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

A Dying Colonialism

Frantz Fanon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

Duty, Honor, Country & Life

William H. Mcraven

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Bear Grylls

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Worth Dying For

Tim Marshall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

High Performance Habits

Brendon Burchard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Going There

Katie Couric

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Start With Yourself

Emma Grede

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Sacred Woman

Queen Afua

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Freedom

Orlando Patterson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The Philosopher in the Valley

Michael Steinberger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

The JFK Conspiracy

Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

Who Needs Friends

Andrew McCarthy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Discipline Equals Freedom

Jocko Willink

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

A Cook's Tour

Anthony Bourdain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Multiple Intelligences

Howard Gardner

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Letter to His Father

Franz Kafka

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1919

The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

Jason Fung

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

What Is Life?

Erwin Schrödinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1944

Iron & Silk

Mark Salzman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2002

Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion

George J. Thompson, Jerry B. Jenkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Richard Holmes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Homo Ludens

Johan Huizinga

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1938

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman

James Gleick

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

97 Orchard

Jane Ziegelman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Guests of the Ayatollah

Mark Bowden

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Body

Charles W. Colson, Ellen Santilli Vaughn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Principles of Geology

Charles Lyell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1830

Spiritual Leadership

J. Oswald Sanders

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Alito

Mollie Hemingway

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2026

Apple

David Pogue

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

James C. Scott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

What to Make of a Life

Jim Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...

Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Take Me to Your Leader

Neil Degrasse Tyson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Jump and Find Joy

Hoda Kotb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

A Theory of Human Motivation

Abraham Maslow

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1943

The Danish Way of Parenting

Iben Sandahl, Jessica Joelle Alexander

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Planet Money

Alex Mayyasi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon - Survival of Bodily Death

Raymond A. Moody Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

I Choose Me

Jennie Garth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Only God Can Judge Me

Jeff Pearlman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies

John W. Kingdon

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1984

Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood

Gary Paulsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Klemp

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

When We See You Again

Rachel Goldberg-Polin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Mother Tongue

Sara Novic

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Unbound

Tarana Burke

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Inside the Box

David Epstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

The Way of Excellence

Brad Stulberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026