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True Color
Kory Stamper

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages
Guy Deutscher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Blue Rage, Black Redemption
Stanley Tookie Williams

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

The Sum of Our Days
Isabel Allende

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Lethal Passage
Erik Larson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Communion
J. D. Vance

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Martin & Malcolm & America
James H. Cone

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1991

Enough Already
Valerie Bertinelli

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

How to Be Alone
Jonathan Franzen

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2002

I Alone Can Fix It
Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
Ayn Rand

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Freedom From the Known
J. Krishnamurti

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive
Patrick Lencioni

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1782

Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1892

Judy Blume
Mark Oppenheimer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2026

How to Start
Jodi Kantor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

The History of Rome
Livy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1 BCE

Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
Jonathan Van Ness

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

The Grasmere Journal
Dorothy Wordsworth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

Killing the SS
Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Sales Management. Simplified.
Mike Weinberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age
Dale Carnegie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
Henri J.M. Nouwen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
Simu Liu

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2022

Come Fly the World
Julia Cooke

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
Bill Buford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

The American Revolution
Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
Julia Galef

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Essays
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1968

More Than a Carpenter
Josh McDowell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1977

12 Months to $1 Million
Ryan Daniel Moran

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.
Samantha Irby

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2017

What Got You Here Won't Get You There
Marshall Goldsmith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
Kelly Corrigan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

Profiles in Ignorance
Andy Borowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

Happy-Go-Lucky
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2022

Apocalypse Never
Michael Shellenberger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

The Price of Peace
Zachary D. Carter

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

Waiting 'til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America
Peniel E. Joseph

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Anatomy of Criticism
Northrop Frye

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1957

Make Time
Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Anatomy of an Epidemic
Robert Whitaker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Rules of Contagion
Adam Kucharski

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
Ira Berlin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

An African American and Latinx History of the United States
Paul Ortiz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Best of Me
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2020

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
Marty Cagan

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Lincoln
David Herbert Donald

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Be Your Future Self Now
Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Technofeudalism
Yanis Varoufakis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

The World as Will and Representation
Arthur Schopenhauer

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1818

The Critic as Artist: With Some Remarks on the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything (green Integer)
Oscar Wilde

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1891

Death by Black Hole
Neil Degrasse Tyson

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2006

The Now Habit
Neil Fiore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

The Game of Life and How to Play It
Florence Scovel Shinn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1978

A Short History of Myth
Karen Armstrong

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2005

I'm OK - You're OK
Thomas A. Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1967

Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
Ray Bradbury

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1973

Lighter
Yung Pueblo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Wisdom of Psychopaths
Kevin Dutton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1831

Silly Novels by Lady Novelists
George Eliot

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1856

Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America
Stacey Abrams

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Rebecca Solnit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life With OCD
Allison Britz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Case for America
Bret Baier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

The Fix
Barbara Mcquade

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

Africa Is Not a Country
Dipo Faloyin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022

The Mueller Report
The Washington Post, Robert S. Mueller Iii

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

The Great Crash 1929
John Kenneth Galbraith

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1954

Eternity in Their Hearts
Don Richardson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1980

Happiness
Heather Harpham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Hey Whipple, Squeeze This!
Luke Sullivan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life
Gary John Bishop

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
Giulia Enders, Jill Enders

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

My First Summer in the Sierra
John Muir

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1911

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
Matt Ridley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Barbara Ehrenreich

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

The Dying Citizen
Victor Davis Hanson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Seth Godin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul Han

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

My Inventions
Nikola Tesla

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1935

How I Built This
Guy Raz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2020

Liar's Kingdom
Andrew Weissmann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2026

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
Elizabeth Hinton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Self Reliance and Other Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1844

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
Edgar Allan Poe

Nonfiction | Short Story Collection | Adult | Published in 1843

The Five Love Languages of Children
Gary Chapman, D. Ross Campbell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Euclid's Elements
Euclid

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 291

Boundaries in Marriage
Henry Cloud

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Code Girls
Liza Mundy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

Principles for Dealing With the Changing World Order
Ray Dalio

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Dream School
Jeffrey Selingo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2025

Perspective Made Easy
Ernest R. Norling

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1939

Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Sigmund Freud

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1901

The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People
Rick Bragg

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2021

Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss
Margaret Renkl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

If I Don't Return
Mark Hertling

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2026

Belonging
Geoffrey L. Cohen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2022