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The Strange Career of William Ellis
Karl Jacoby

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2006

West of the Revolution
Claudio Saunt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Slavery at Sea
Sowande M. Mustakeem

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

The Black Count
Tom Reiss

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

The Art of Choosing
Sheena Iyengar

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Give Us the Ballot
Ari Berman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Concept of Law
H. L. A. Hart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1961

Far from the Tree
Andrew Solomon

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

The Long Walk
Brian Castner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Endurance
Scott Kelly

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Everything in Its Path
Kai T. Erikson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Children Of The Dust
Jerry Stanley

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

Your Erroneous Zones
Wayne Dyer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Frankenstein's Cat
Emily Anthes

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

The Bottom Billion
Paul Collier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The True American
Anand Giridharadas

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Amazing Grace
Kathleen Norris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

What This Cruel War Was Over
Chandra Manning

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 2007

Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Adam Smith
Nicholas Phillipson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

A Splendid Exchange
William J. Bernstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Sister Citizen
Melissa V. Harris-Perry

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Mighty Be Our Powers
Leymah Gbowee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

Building a Bridge to the 18th Century
Neil Postman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Book of Ages
Jill Lepore

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Something New Under the Sun
John Robert Mcneill

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Revenge of Geography
Robert D. Kaplan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Behind the Mask of Chivalry
Nancy Maclean

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

In the Shadow of Liberty
Kenneth C. Davis

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2016

The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness
Joel Ben Izzy

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2003

The Great Divergence
Kenneth Pomeranz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

The Sleepwalkers
Christopher Clark

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Suburban Warriors
Lisa Mcgirr

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

Rise of the Robots
Martin Ford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Descartes
Stephen Gaukroger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

Writing My Wrongs
Shaka Senghor

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2016

Class Matters
The New York Times

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

The American Way of Death Revisited
Jessica Mitford

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Dawkins

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Defying Hitler
Sebastian Haffner

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1939

Letters to His Son
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Lord Chesterfield

Nonfiction | Collection of Letters | Adult | Published in 1774

Sin in the Second City
Karen Abbott

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2007

Scratch Beginnings
Adam Shepard

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2008

Uncle Tungsten
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Option B
Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

In Search of the Promised Land
John Hope Franklin, Loren Schweninger

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2005

Forced Founders
Woody Holton

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Huck's Raft
Steven Mintz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

The Unlikely Disciple
Kevin Roose

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Gateway to Freedom
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Spinoza
Steven Nadler

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2018

Agatha Christie
Gillian Gill

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1990

Concussion
Jeanne Marie Laskas

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

The Second Machine Age
Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew Mcafee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

Swimming to Antarctica
Lynne Cox

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2004

A Human Being Died That Night
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Brother to a Dragonfly
Will D. Campbell

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1977

Colors of the Mountain
Da Chen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Once Upon a Quinceanera
Julia Alvarez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

The Drunkard's Walk
Leonard Mlodinow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

The Long Shadow of Little Rock
Daisy Bates

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1962

Finding Zoe
Brandi Rarus

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

When Smoke Ran Like Water
Devra Davis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Beyond Katrina
Natasha Trethewey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

The Victorian Internet
Tom Standage

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

A Nervous Splendor
Frederic Morton

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1979

Girl, Wash Your Face
Rachel Hollis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

First, Break All the Rules
Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Boyhood
J. M. Coetzee

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Dust Bowl
Donald Worster

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Smarter Faster Better
Charles Duhigg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

You Are a Badass
Jen Sincero

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Hitler
Volker Ullrich

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2013

Fire and Fury
Michael Wolff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2018

The Signal and the Noise
Nate Silver

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Sex at Dawn
Cacilda Jethá, Christopher Ryan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Death Be Not Proud
John Gunther

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1949

The Dorito Effect
Mark Schatzker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

The Better Angels of Our Nature
Steven Pinker

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
Caroline Alexander

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1998

The Liberator
John L. Thomas

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1963

The Longest Day
Cornelius Ryan

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

A Chorus of Stones
Susan Griffin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

A Fort of Nine Towers
Qais Akbar Omar

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

A Higher Loyalty
James Comey

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2018

A Man of Good Hope
Jonny Steinberg

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2014

A Murder in Virginia
Suzanne Lebsock

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

A New Religious America
Diana Eck

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001

A Train in Winter
Caroline Moorehead

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Adventures in the Anthropocene
Gaia Vince

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

American Reckoning
Christian G. Appy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

An Empire for Slavery
Randolph B. Campbell

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

The Secret
Rhonda Byrne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

And Then All Hell Broke Loose
Richard Engel

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

Asking for It
Kate Harding

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Bento Box in the Heartland
Linda Furiya

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Politics and the English Language
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1946

Born Standing Up
Steve Martin

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2007

Disunity in Christ
Christena Cleveland

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013