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Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
Rachel Simmons

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Oh, Beautiful
John Paul Godges

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Omoo
Herman Melville

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1847

Once Upon a Quinceanera
Julia Alvarez

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored
Clifton L. Taulbert

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1989

On China
Henry Kissinger

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

One-Bedroom Solo
Sheila Maldonado

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

One Child
Torey Hayden

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1980

One Day I Will Write About This Place
Binyavanga Wainaina

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2011

One Life: My Mother's Story
Kate Grenville

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

One of Us
Åsne Seierstad

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

One Shot at Forever
Chris Ballard

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2012

One Writer's Beginnings
Eudora Welty

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1984

On Gold Mountain
Lisa See

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1995

On Hitler's Mountain
Irmgard Hunt

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2005

On Immunity: An Inoculation
Eula Biss

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2014

On the Move: A Life
Oliver Sacks

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

On the Rez
Ian Frazier

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

On Trails
Robert Moor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2016

On Writing Well
William Zinsser

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1976

Operation Mincemeat
Ben Macintyre

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2010

Operation Nemesis
Eric Bogosian

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Option B
Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Oracle Bones
Peter Hessler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2006

Ordeal by Hunger
George R. Stewart

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1936

Ordinary Light
Tracy K. Smith

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2015

Oscar
Reva Marin

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2021

Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1987

Our Guys
Bernard Lefkowitz

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century
George Packer

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Our Posthuman Future
Francis Fukuyama

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2002

Our Savage Neighbors
Peter Silver

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2008

Out of Africa
Isak Dinesen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1937

Out of Our Past
Carl Degler

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1959

Out of Sight: The Long and Disturbing History of Corporations Outsourcing Catastrophe
Erik Loomis

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
Walt Odets

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Over the Edge of the World
Laurence Bergreen

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Packinghouse Daughter
Cheri Register

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1990

Palimpsest
Gore Vidal

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1953

Pandora's Lab
Paul A. Offit

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Paris to the Moon
Adam Gopnik

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Passing Strange
Martha A. Sandweiss

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2009

Pastrami on Rye
Ted Merwin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Pathologies of Power
Paul Farmer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Patrimony
Philip Roth

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1991

Paula
Isabel Allende

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Pauline Bonaparte: Venus of Empire
Flora Fraser

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2003

Paul Revere's Ride
David Hackett Fischer

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1994

Pearl Buck in China
Hilary Spurling

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Pearl Harbor: Warning And Decision
Roberta Wohlstetter

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1962

Pendragon: Arthur And His Britain
Joseph P. Clancy

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1972

Personal History
Katharine Graham

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1997

Peter the Great
Robert K. Massie

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1980

Philip Larkin
Andrew Motion

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2020

Phillis Wheatley: Complete Writings
Phillis Wheatley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1773

Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1953

Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Richard Rorty

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1979

Phineas Gage
John Fleischman

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2002

Pirate Hunters
Robert Kurson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2015

Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation
John Phillip Santos

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1999

Plain, Honest Men
Richard Beeman

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Playing for Keeps
David Halberstam

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1999

Playing for Time
Fania Fenelon

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1976

Play Their Hearts Out
George Dohrmann

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2010

Please Kill Me
Gillian McCain, Legs McNeil

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1996

Political Liberalism
John Rawls

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1993

Politics and the English Language
George Orwell

Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1946

Poor Economics
Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2011

Poor Richard's Almanack
Benjamin Franklin

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1732

Positive
Paige Rawl

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2014

Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Fredric Jameson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1991

Pour Your Heart Into It
Howard Schultz

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1997

Prairie Fires
Caroline Fraser

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2017

Priestdaddy
Patricia Lockwood

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Primo Levi: A Life
Ian Thomson

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 2019

Principia Mathematica
Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1910

Principles of Corporate Finance
Richard Brealey

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1978

Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Jacobo Timerman

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1981

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
Doris Lessing

Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1987

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Immanuel Kant

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1783

Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife
Eben Alexander

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2012

Quiet Strength
Tony Dungy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2007

Rabbit Hole: A Satanic Ritual Abuse Survivor's Story
David Shurter

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2012

Rabelais and His World
Mikhail Bakhtin

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1965

Race for Profit
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

Race in America
Mustafa Emirbayer, Matthew Desmond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America
Jonathan Kozol

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Radical Candor
Kim Scott

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Radical Evolution
Joel Garreau

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2005

Radioactive Boy Scout
Ken Silverstein

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1998

Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer
Warren St. John

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Real American
Julie Lythcott-Haims

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2017

Reaping the Whirlwind
Rosey Dow

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Reason for Hope
Jane Goodall

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Eric Foner

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Reefer Madness
Eric Schlosser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2003

Reinventing Government
Ted Gaebler, David Osborne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1992

Rejection Proof
Jia Jiang

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Religio Medici
Sir Thomas Browne

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1642

Renia's Diary
Renia Spiegel

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1944