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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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