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How to Solve It
G. Pólya

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1945

Tremors in the Blood
Amit Katwala

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Citizenship
Daisy Hernández

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Nir Eyal, Julie Li

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Looking at Women Looking at War
Victoria Amelina

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2025

Where We Keep the Light
Josh Shapiro

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

You Owe You: Ignite Your Power, Your Purpose, and Your Why
Eric Thomas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

How to See
Thich Nhat Hanh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

A Long Game
Elizabeth McCracken

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

In His Own Write
John Lennon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

Based on a True Story: A Memoir
Norm Macdonald

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Anne Frank
Melissa Müller

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

Clear Thinking
Shane Parrish

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Getting Naked
Patrick Lencioni

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Feeding the Soul (because It's My Business)
Tabitha Brown

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Trejo
Danny Trejo, Donal Logue

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Art of Learning
Josh Waitzkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
Karl Marx

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1844

The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Nathaniel Philbrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Great Reset
Alex Jones

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Practice of Groundedness
Brad Stulberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Three Ordinary Girls
Tim Brady

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Summa Contra Gentiles: Volumes 1-4 in Five Books
Thomas Aquinas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1264

The Element
Ken Robinson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
James P. Carse

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Tools of Titans
Timothy Ferriss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Hero Next Door
Martha Raddatz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Dark Psychology and Manipulation
William Cooper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

All We Say
Ben Rhodes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Freedom at Midnight
Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

How Highly Effective People Speak
Peter Andrei

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Procrastination
Jane B. Burka

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

How to Blow up a Pipeline
Andreas Malm

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

See You at the Top
Zig Ziglar

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon Lechter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
Julie Zhuo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Buy Back Your Time
Dan Martell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Evolve Your Brain
Joe Dispenza

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

A History of Warfare
John Keegan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Nazi and the Psychiatrist
Jack El-Hai

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Acid for the Children
Flea

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Imagine the God of Heaven
John Burke

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Black Fortunes
Shomari Wills

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
Carlos Castaneda

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

This Vast Enterprise
Craig Fehrman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

The Daily Laws
Robert Greene

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (austin Kleon)
Austin Kleon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Motive
Patrick Lencioni

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling
Jeb Blount

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Social Justice Fallacies
Thomas Sowell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The End of Everything
Victor Davis Hanson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Ghost Stories
Siri Hustvedt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Becoming Bulletproof
Evy Poumpouras

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (pmbok® Guide)
Project Management Institute

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

Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter
Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2020

The Algebra of Happiness: Notes on the Pursuit of Success, Love, and Meaning
Scott Galloway

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Right Call
Sally Jenkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah
Charles King

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

The Glorians
Terry Tempest Williams

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2026

Positive Intelligence
Shirzad Chamine

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—friends
Marisa G. Franco

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
Rory Sutherland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar
Jessie Inchauspé

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

How Women Rise
Sally Helgesen, Marshall Goldsmith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The New Emotional Intelligence
Travis Bradberry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Faith Still Moves Mountains
Harris Faulkner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure
Grant Cardone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Gambler
Billy Walters

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

The 36-Hour Day
Nancy L. Mace, Peter V. Rabins

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1981

The Beautiful Ones
Prince

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Peter Elkind, Bethany McLean

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Us
Terrence Real

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

The King of Diamonds
Rena Pederson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

All That Remains
Sue Black

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Exactly What to Say
Phil Jones

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Win Every Argument
Mehdi Hasan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Write for Your Life
Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Joby Warrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

When Mckinsey Comes to Town
Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Karma
Sadhguru

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Daily Wisdom for Why Does He Do That?
Lundy Bancroft

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Song of the Dodo
David Quammen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

It Takes What It Takes
Trevor Moawad

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Irreversible Damage
Abigail Shrier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography
Karen Blumenthal

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Welcome Home
Najwa Zebian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Astronaut Wives Club
Lily Koppel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
Lysa TerKeurst

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Somebody's Daughter
Ashley C. Ford

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Great Reset
Glenn Beck, Justin Trask Haskins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding
Kristin Newman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

How Successful People Think
John C. Maxwell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Nine
Gwen Strauss

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
Francis Fukuyama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
Rebecca Henderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Animals in Translation
Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Source
Tara Swart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Diary of a CEO
Steven Bartlett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Dusk, Night, Dawn
Anne Lamott

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021