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Boy Erased
Garrard Conley

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Cider with Rosie
Laurie Lee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1959

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Edmund Morris

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1979

Guerrilla Warfare
Che Guevara

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

The Third Plate
Dan Barber

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

All Joy and No Fun
Jennifer Senior

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Here I Stand
Roland Bainton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1950

Havana Nocturne
T. J. English

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Dancing Wu Li Masters
Gary Zukav

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Grinding It Out
Ray Kroc

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

If the Oceans Were Ink
Carla Power

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Boy Kings of Texas
Domingo Martinez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Giving up the Ghost
Hilary Mantel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Ebony and Ivy
Craig Steven Wilder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Annals of the Former World
John McPhee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Beautiful Side of Evil
Johanna Michaelsen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1982

Glitter and Glue
Kelly Corrigan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Fatherless America
David Blankenhorn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Stand Up That Mountain
Jay Erskine Leutze

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Black Apollo of Science
Kenneth R. Manning

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1983

The Best And The Brightest
David Halberstam

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1972

Dark Money
Jane Mayer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Laughing Without An Accent
Firoozeh Dumas

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

The Burn Journals
Brent Runyon

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
Christopher Cokinos

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Laughing At My Nightmare
Shane Burcaw

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Why Buddhism is True
Robert Wright

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
Chris Hedges

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Why We Do What We Do
Edward L. Deci, Richard Flaste

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

For Love of Country
Howard Schultz, Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Visual Intelligence
Amy E. Herman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Year of Living Biblically
A.J. Jacobs

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Positive
Paige Rawl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Sickened
Julie Gregory

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

A Wolf at the Table
Augusten Burroughs

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

She's Not There
Jennifer Finney Boylan

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

Chronicles of the Crusades
Jean de Joinville

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1309

Black Privilege
Charlamagne Tha God

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Letter to My Son
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2015

River Town
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Men to Match My Mountains
Irving Stone

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1943

Sprint
Jake Knapp

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Heart of Everything That Is
Bob Drury, Tom Clavin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

The Island at the Center of the World
Russell Shorto

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Leadership without Easy Answers
Ronald Heifetz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Pirate Hunters
Robert Kurson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Another Day in the Death of America
Gary Younge

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Emerald Mile
Kevin Fedarko

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

How We Got to Now
Steven Johnson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The New Science of Learning
Terry Doyle, Todd Zakrajsek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Mockingbird Next Door
Marja Mills

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Solve for Happy
Mo Gawdat

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

The Industries of the Future
Alec Ross

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Deep Economy
Bill McKibben

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Dereliction of Duty
H.R. McMaster

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

The Runaway Species
Anthony Brandt, David Eagleman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Garlic and Sapphires
Ruth Reichl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life
Brian Grazer, Charles Fishman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Life and Death of Adolf Hitler
James Cross Giblin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2002

Mindfulness in Plain English
Henepola Gunaratana

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Rejection Proof
Jia Jiang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Anti-Politics Machine
James Ferguson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Understanding Media
Marshall McLuhan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1964

UnSelfie
Michele Borba

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Social Conquest of Earth
Edward O. Wilson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Fates Worse Than Death
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
Timothy Egan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

The Work
Wes Moore

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Moral Politics
George Lakoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1996

The Lightless Sky
Gulwali Passarlay

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Dear Marcus
Jerry McGill

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Living and Dying in Brick City
Sampson Davis, Lisa Frazier Page

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Dorothy Day
Kate Hennessy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Carrie Brownstein

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

It's What I Do
Lynsey Addario

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Mind Hacking
John Hargrave

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Lenin's Tomb
David Remnick

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

The Evolution of Cooperation
Robert Axelrod

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1984

House
Tracy Kidder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Tribe of Mentors
Timothy Ferris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Econometrics
Fumio Hayashi

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2000

My Thirteenth Winter
Samantha Abeel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

All Who Go Do Not Return
Shulem Deen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

The Book That Changed America
Randall Fuller

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

All the Answers
Michael Kupperman

Nonfiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Bermuda Triangle
Charles Berlitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1974

The Creative Habit
Twyla Tharp

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

The End of White Christian America
Robert P. Jones

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Peter the Great
Robert K. Massie

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1980

The Last Castle
Denise Kiernan

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Free Will
Sam Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Stonewall's Gold
Robert J. Mrazek

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The John Carlos Story
John Carlos, Dave Zirin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2011

The Underground Girls of Kabul
Jenny Nordberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

The Innovators
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

Brothers and Keepers
John Edgar Wideman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1984

Bobos in Paradise
David Brooks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

High Price
Carl Hart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013