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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
I Was Told There’d Be Cake: Essays
Underland: A Deep Time Journey
Mom & Me & Mom
The Life Council
Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness
Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
Remember
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Quietly Hostile
We Can Do Hard Things: Answers to Life’s 20 Questions
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Night
My Flag Grew Stars: World War II Refugees’ Journey to America
Wintering
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway
Notes to John
All Creatures Great and Small
Rising Strong
In Cold Blood
Calypso
The Best of Me
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
All the Gold Stars
Who Is Government: The Untold Story of Public Service
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
How to Be Loved: A Memoir of Lifesaving Friendship
Untamed
The Next Everest
Cunk on Everything: The Encyclopedia Philomena
El Deafo
Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between)
Zeitoun
The Boys of My Youth
Becoming
So You Want to Talk About Race
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
Eating Dirt: Deep Forests, Big Timber, and Life with the Tree-Planting Tribe
The Hiding Place
The Glass Castle
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
This Messy Magnificent Life
Open Book
Crying in the Bathroom
Happy-Go-Lucky
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
A Circle of Quiet
When Breath Becomes Air
Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World
Everything Is Figureoutable
I’m Glad My Mom Died
Everyone But Myself
What Now?
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Where the Angels Lived: One Family’s Story of Exile, Loss, and Return
I’ll Be There for You: the One about Friends
Have I Told You This Already? Stories I Don’t Want to Forget to Remember
This American Ex-Wife
The Gratitude Diaries: How a Year Looking on the Bright Side Can Transform Your Life
Women, Food, and God
Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship
I Miss You When I Blink: Essays
Good Boy
Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation
The Many Lives of Mama Love
Between the World and Me
Hidden Figures
The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Meet the Frugalwoods: Achieving Financial Independence Through Simple Living
Why We Can’t Sleep
Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
Over the Influence
The End of Your Life Book Club
Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks: A Librarian’s Love Letters and Breakup Notes to the Books in Her Life
Brown Girl Dreaming
My Glory Was I Had Such Friends: A Memoir
Know My Name
The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Briefly Perfectly Human
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say
The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
I’m Still Here
My First Popsicle: An Anthology of Food and Feelings
Everything Is Tuberculosis
Tiny Beautiful Things
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz
Into the Tangle of Friendship: A Memoir of the Things That Matter
The Boys in the Boat
How to Think Like a Woman
On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It Matters
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
From the Corner of the Oval
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
How to Keep House While Drowning
Is a River Alive?
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
Educated: A Memoir
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
Lab Girl
Crying in H Mart
You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Bad Friend: How Women Revolutionized Modern Friendship
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