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Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
Rosemary Mahoney

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
David Sedaris

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2004

Dust Bowl
Donald Worster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Eagle Blue
Michael D'Orso

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Ebony and Ivy
Craig Steven Wilder

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Econometrics
Fumio Hayashi

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

Edgar Allan Poe
Harry Lee Poe

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Edith Wharton: A Biography
R.W.B. Lewis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1975

Edmund Burke: The First Conservative
Jesse Norman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Eleanor's Story
Eleanor Ramrath Garner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1961

Elizabeth and Hazel
David Margolick

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2002

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A Biography
Margaret Forster

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1988

Embers of War
Fredrik Logevall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Emily Dickinson
Cynthia Griffin Wolff

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1986

Eminent Victorians
Lytton Strachey

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1918

Emotional First Aid
Guy Winch

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Travis Bradberry, Jean Greaves

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Empty Mansions
Bill Dedman, Paul Clark Newell Jr.

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Encounters at the Heart of the World
Elizabeth A. Fenn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Endurance
Scott Kelly

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Etched In Sand
Regina Calcaterra

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Ethics
Aristotle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult

Ethics for the New Millennium
Dalai Lama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Ethnic Groups in Conflict
Donald Horowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Eudora Welty
Suzanne Marrs

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1984

Everybody Lies
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Everyday Ambassador
Kate Otto

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Every Man in This Village Is a Liar
Megan K. Stack

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Everything in Its Path
Kai T. Erikson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Evita: The Real Life of Eva Peron
Nicholas Fraser

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Exiting Nirvana
Clara Claiborne Park

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Expecting Adam
Martha Beck

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Experience
Martin Amis

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2000

Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter
Tom Bissell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Eye of Conscience
Milton Meltzer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Factory Girls
Leslie T. Chang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
Mark Salter, John McCain

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Far and Away
Andrew Solomon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Far from the Tree
Andrew Solomon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Fates Worse Than Death
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Fatherless America
David Blankenhorn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Feeding on Dreams: Confessions of an Unrepentent Exile
Ariel Dorfman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Felix Longoria's Wake
Patrick J. Carroll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Fiasco
Thomas E. Ricks

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Fierce Attachments
Vivian Gornick

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1987

Fifth Chinese Daughter
Jade Snow Wong

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1945

Fight of the Century
Ayelet Waldman, ed., Michael Chabon, ed.

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021

Final Days
Susan Orpett Long

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Final Gifts
Patricia Kelley, Maggie Callanan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Finding George Orwell in Burma
Emma Larkin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Finding Zoe
Brandi Rarus

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Fire and Fury
Michael Wolff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

Fire at Sea
Thomas Gallagher

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1969

Fire Season
Philip Connors

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

First, Break All the Rules
Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

First Farmers
Peter Bellwood

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

First in Their Hearts
Thomas James Fleming

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1985

Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
Laura Cumming

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2019

Fixing Patriarchy
Donald E. Hall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Flags of Our Fathers
James Bradley, Ron Powers

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2000

Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1990

Fly Girls
Keith O'Brien

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
Doris Pilkington

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Forced Founders
Woody Holton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Fordlandia
Greg Grandin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

For Love of Country
Howard Schultz, Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

For the Time Being
Annie Dillard

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1999

Forty Autumns
Nina Willner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Founding Faith
Steven Waldman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Frankenstein's Cat
Emily Anthes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Freedom's Mirror
Ada Ferrer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Freedom Summer
Bruce Watson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Free Will
Sam Harris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Free Your Mind
Cortez R Rainey

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

From Bauhaus to Our House
Tom Wolfe

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1981

From Counterculture to Cyberculture
Fred Turner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

From Dawn to Decadence
Jacques Barzun

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

From Heaven Lake
Vikram Seth

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1983

Full Circle
Gloria Killian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995

Furious Love
Sam Kashner

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Galileo's Daughter
Dava Sobel

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Game Change
Mark Halperin, John Heilemann

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire
Rajmohan Gandhi

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2008

Garbage Land
Elizabeth Royte

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Garlic and Sapphires
Ruth Reichl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

Gatekeepers
Franca Iacovetta

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Gateway to Freedom
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Gather Together in My Name
Maya Angelou

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

Generation Kill
Evan Wright

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

Generation We
Eric Greenberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

George Eliot
Rosemary Ashton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1978

George Washington's Secret Six
Don Yaeger, Brian Kilmeade

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
Allen C. Guelzo

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Ghetto Klown
John Leguizamo

Nonfiction | Graphic Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Ghosts of Mississippi
Maryanne Vollers

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Ghosts of the Tsunami
Richard Lloyd Parry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Ghost Wars
Steve Coll

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Girl, Wash Your Face
Rachel Hollis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018