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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

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

The Way of Excellence
Brad Stulberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

A Flower Traveled in My Blood
Haley Cohen Gilliland

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People
G. Richard Shell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
Thomas Sowell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Israel
Omer Bartov

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

A Very Punchable Face
Colin Jost

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

We Should All Be Millionaires
Rachel Rodgers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
Donald J. Robertson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

American Kings
Seth Wickersham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Motherland
Julia Ioffe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Why We Swim
Bonnie Tsui

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Man the Moment Demands
Jason Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

What We Owe the Future
William MacAskill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Trial of Lizzie Borden
Cara Robertson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Eric Schlosser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Pale Rider
Laura Spinney

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
Seth Godin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Art of Communicating
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Agatha Christie
Lucy Worsley

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day
Michael J. Gelb

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Barbara W. Tuchman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

This Is Not About Running
Mary Cain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

My Body
Emily Ratajkowski

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

More Than Enough
Elaine Welteroth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Haben
Haben Girma

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
Maxwell King

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Dead and Alive
Zadie Smith

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2025

What to Say When You Talk to Yourself
Shad Helmstetter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Science of Storytelling
Will Storr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Feeling of What Happens
António R. Damásio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment
Steve Harvey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Resilience
Eric Greitens

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Ideas and Opinions
Albert Einstein

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1922

The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands
Laura Schlessinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Finding Freedom
Erin French

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Way of the Wildflower
Ruth Chou Simons

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Steve Krug

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

First Things First
Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill, A. Roger Merrill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

If There Is No God
Dennis Prager

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
Harvey Karp

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
V.S. Ramachandran, Sandra Blakeslee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Maintenance of Everything: Part One
Stewart Brand

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

How to Live a Meaningful Life
Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

The Gods of New York
Jonathan Mahler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The Undiscovered Country
Paul Andrew Hutton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Small Town Girls
Jayne Anne Phillips

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

The Gift of Failure
Jessica Lahey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

How to Make Money in Any Market
Jim Cramer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The Great Cholesterol Myth: Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won't Prevent Heart Disease-And the Statin-Free Plan That Will
Jonny Bowden, Stephen Sinatra

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

At Home: A Short History of Private Life
Bill Bryson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Accidental Superpower
Peter Zeihan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
Sanyika Shakur

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1993

The Power
Rhonda Byrne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
Helen Russell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015