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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

The Outrun: A Memoir
Amy Liptrot

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

You Can Win
Shiv Khera

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Do Nothing
Celeste Headlee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

In the FLO
Alisa Vitti

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Anne Helen Petersen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Boys
Ron Howard, Clint Howard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Amp It Up
Frank Slootman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Gregory Zuckerman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade
Robert B. Cialdini

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Mrs. Kennedy and Me
Clint Hill, Lisa Mccubbin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

All the Living and the Dead
Hayley Campbell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

All in Her Head
Elizabeth Comen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2024

Mastering the Market Cycle
Howard Marks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life Without Losing Its Soul
Howard Schultz, Joanne Gordon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
Matthew Dicks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist
John Piper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

The Inner Life of Animals
Peter Wohlleben, Transl. Ewa Kochanowska

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
Maria Bamford

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

The Informant
Kurt Eichenwald

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
Bruce Feiler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Heaven
Randy Alcorn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Daniel J. Levitin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Money Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom
Tony Robbins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Kicking Away the Ladder
Ha-Joon Chang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Decluttering at the Speed of Life
Dana K. White

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Roland Barthes, Richard Howard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Good Economics for Hard Times
Esther Duflo, Abhijit V. Banerjee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Art of Travel
Alain de Botton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Life Among the Savages
Shirley Jackson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1953

Agent Sonya
Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers
David Perlmutter, Kristin Loberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Private Equity Playbook
Adam Coffey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Den of Thieves
James B. Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way
Wayne W. Dyer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
Brian Greene

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude
Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young
Zayd Ayers Dohrn

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

No More Mr. Nice Guy
Dr. Robert A. Glover

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Hug Your Haters
Jay Baer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Chariots of the Gods
Erich von Däniken

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1968

Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World
Anthony Doerr

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Anna Quindlen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

How to Break up With Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life
Catherine Price

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Conscience of a Conservative
Barry Goldwater

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1960

Conversations on Love
Natasha Lunn

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
Terence McKenna

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Give People Money
Annie Lowrey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Art of Fiction
Henry James

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1884

Do the Work
Steven Pressfield

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Everything Bad Is Good for You
Steven Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 and the Astronauts Who Made Man's First Journey to the Moon
Robert Kurson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up
Marie Kondō

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2012

My Side of the River
Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2024

The Wounded Healer
Henri J.M. Nouwen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1971

The World's Religions
Huston Smith

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1991

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Sam Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Leadership Moment
Michael Useem

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Neil Strauss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

If I Am Coming to Your Town, Something Terrible Has Happened
Justin Glawe

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Steve Blank

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Coming Apart
Charles Murray

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity
Lilliana Mason

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Eat to Live
Joel Fuhrman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The Hero Code
William H. Mcraven

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources
Martin Lings

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1983

The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
Andrew Yang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

How to Argue With a Cat
Jay Heinrichs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Visual Thinking
Temple Grandin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader
Herminia Ibarra

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Master Your Emotions
Thibaut Meurisse

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Black Ops
Ric Prado

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit
Seth Godin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Gratitude
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives
Gretchen Rubin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

From the Ashes of Sobibor
Thomas Toivi Blatt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

The Code of the Extraordinary Mind: 10 Unconventional Laws to Redefine Your Life and Succeed on Your Own Terms
Vishen Lakhiani

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
Christina Thompson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Unshakeable
Tony Robbins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

To Sell Is Human
Daniel H. Pink

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

A Voyage Long and Strange
Tony Horwitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World
Howard G. Buffett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage
Elizabeth Gilbert

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009