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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
All Creatures Great and Small
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
The Glass Castle
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
What Now?
The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life
Between the World and Me
The End of Your Life Book Club
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Tiny Beautiful Things
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Rising Strong
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Zeitoun
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
A Circle of Quiet
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Women, Food, and God
Hidden Figures
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian’s Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life
Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Educated: A Memoir
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Night
In Cold Blood
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
The Boys of My Youth
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
When Breath Becomes Air
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Brown Girl Dreaming
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz
From the Corner of the Oval
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
I Was Told There’d Be Cake: Essays
A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
My Flag Grew Stars: World War II Refugees’ Journey to America
Calypso
How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship
Becoming
This Messy Magnificent Life
Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World
Where the Angels Lived: One Family’s Story of Exile, Loss, and Return
I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: A Memoir
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Into the Tangle of Friendship: A Memoir of the Things That Matter
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
Lab Girl
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Remember
Wintering
The Best of Me
Untamed
So You Want to Talk About Race
Open Book
Everything Is Figureoutable
I’ll Be There for You: the One about Friends
Good Boy
Why We Can’t Sleep
Know My Name
I’m Still Here
The Boys in the Boat
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Crying in H Mart
Mom & Me & Mom
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
The Next Everest
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
Crying in the Bathroom
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Have I Told You This Already? Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings
How to Think Like a Woman
How to Keep House While Drowning
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
The Life Council
Quietly Hostile
It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway
All the Gold Stars
Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
Happy-Go-Lucky
Everyone But Myself
This American Ex-Wife
The Many Lives of Mama Love
Over the Influence
Briefly Perfectly Human
Everything Is Tuberculosis
El Deafo
The Hiding Place