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Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
Peter Stark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Empress Dowager Cixi
Jung Chang

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
Paul Theroux

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1975

The Stories We Tell
Joanna Gaines

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Rise and Kill First
Ronen Bergman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Black Earth
Timothy Snyder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Leading With Cultural Intelligence
David Livermore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Work Rules!
Laszlo Bock

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Rich AF
Vivian Tu

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
Michael J Behe

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution (the American Revolution Series)
Nathaniel Philbrick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Hero of the Empire
Candice Millard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

A Common Struggle
Patrick J. Kennedy, Stephen Fried

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Worst Journey in the World
Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1922

The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor (columbia Business School Publishing)
Howard Marks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Language in Thought and Action
S. I. Hayakawa, Alan R. Hayakawa

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1939

My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile
Isabel Allende

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1917

Get a Financial Life
Beth Kobliner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

A Colony in a Nation
Chris Hayes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Longevity Project
Howard S. Friedman, Leslie R. Martin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Way of Zen
Alan W. Watts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

The Braindead Megaphone
George Saunders

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2007

The Woman Who Would Be King
Kara Cooney

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

The Automatic Millionaire: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich
David Bach

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Unfamiliar Fishes
Sarah Vowell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

My Body Is a Book of Rules
Elissa Washuta

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

The Antidote
Oliver Burkeman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self-Assurance – What Women Should Know
Katty Kay, Claire Shipman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

View From the East Wing
Jill Biden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Checkmate
Ben Mezrich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Karen Armstrong

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Immune
Philipp Dettmer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Demagoguery and Democracy
Patricia Roberts-Miller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Patient Zero: Solving the Mysteries of Deadly Epidemics
Marilee Peters

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Resisting Happiness
Matthew Kelly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Age of Spiritual Machines
Ray Kurzweil

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Dream Hoarders
Richard V. Reeves

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Three Signs of a Miserable Job
Patrick Lencioni

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel
Douglas Brunt

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2026

The White Darkness
David Grann

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Language, Truth and Logic
Alfred Jules Ayer

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1936

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Sarah Hepola

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

America, U.S.A.
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

This Is Your Brain on Food: An Indispensable Guide to the Surprising Foods That Fight Depression, Anxiety, Ptsd, OCD, Adhd, and More
Uma Naidoo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Life Force
Tony Robbins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

At the Existentialist Café
Sarah Bakewell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Who Owns the Future?
Jaron Lanier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man
Paul Newman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Factory Man
Beth Macy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
Alan W. Watts

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1966

Lanterns on the Levee
William Alexander Percy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1941

The Men Who Stare at Goats
Jon Ronson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Walking With Sam
Andrew McCarthy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2023

Revenge
Tom Bower

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2022

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Soldier's Heart
Elizabeth D. Samet

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

When the Heart Waits
Sue Monk Kidd

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1990

With Winning in Mind
Lanny Bassham

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

A Terrible Thing to Waste
Harriet A. Washington

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Misquoting Jesus
Bart D. Ehrman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Means of Ascent
Robert A. Caro

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

The Carnivore Code
Paul Saladino

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Anthony Bourdain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Bruce Schneier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
David Sinclair

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Land and Its People
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2026

A Briefer History of Time
Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Revolution
Eric Metaxas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Kill All Normies
Angela Nagle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

I Moved Your Cheese
Deepak Malhotra

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Jason Stanford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
Sojourner Truth, Olive Gilbert

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1850

Natasha's Dance
Orlando Figes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Who Gets in and Why
Jeffrey Selingo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Best Dog in the World
Alice Hoffman

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2026

Dark Emu
Bruce Pascoe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
James Rebanks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Redhead of Auschwitz
Nechama Birnbaum

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

The Invisible Bridge
Rick Perlstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Padmasambhava, Karma-Glin-Pa, Transl. Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup, Ed. Walter Evans-Wentz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1927

Cloudbuster Nine
Anne R. Keene

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe’s Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It
Arthur Herman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Sacred Hoops
Phil Jackson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The Art of Happiness
Epicurus

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1 BCE

Models: Attract Women Through Honesty
Mark Manson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Effortless Mastery
Kenny Werner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence
Sarah Young

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
William L. Shirer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1941

That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row
Jarvis Jay Masters

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

April 1865: The Month That Saved America
Jay Winik

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

The Power of Showing Up
Tina Payne Bryson, Daniel J. Siegel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Nowhere for Very Long
Brianna Madia

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Tunde Oyeneyin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

2024
Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager, Isaac Arnsdorf

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

1873
Liaquat Ahamed

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Escaping the Build Trap
Melissa Perri

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
David D. Burns

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and You Too!
Chelsea Handler

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019