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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
1995
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1965
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
1996
Same Kind of Different as Me
2005
Black Like Me
1960
An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny
2010
A Piece of Cake
2006
The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
2010
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
2016
Up from Slavery
1900
Yes, Chef
2012
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
1993
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
2011
Letter to My Daughter
2008
The Story of Ruby Bridges
1995
Into the Wild
1996
The Glass Castle
2005
Steve Jobs
2011
Tuesdays with Morrie
1997
The Poisonwood Bible
1998
Bossypants
2011
Me Talk Pretty One Day
2000
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
2010
Deception Point
2001
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
2012
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2010
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
2005
Sarah's Key
2007
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
2003
Running with Scissors
2002
The Sun Also Rises
1926
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1969
Yes Please
2014
Beloved
1987
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1971
John Adams
2001
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
2012
Naked
1997
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
2004
A Million Little Pieces
2003
Their Eyes Were Watching God
1937
Man's Search for Meaning
1946
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
2000
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
1974
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
2000
Everything Is Illuminated
2002
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
1999
Invisible Man
1952
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
1976
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
2013
When Breath Becomes Air
2016
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
2007
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
2013
Seabiscuit: An American Legend
1999
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
2006
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
2011
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
1894
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
2009
The Story of My Life
1902
Just Kids
2010
Wait for You (Wait for You, #1)
2013
Sh*t My Dad Says
2010
A Beautiful Mind
1998
The Year of Magical Thinking
2005
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
2012
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
1984
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned
2014
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
2004
Holidays on Ice
1997
The Snowy Day
1962
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
2013
The Amityville Horror
1977
The Testament
1999
Lucky
1999
Seriously... I'm Kidding
2011
Between the World and Me
2015
Why Not Me?
2015
Cleopatra: A Life
2006
Bud, Not Buddy
1999
A Stolen Life
2011
The Underground Railroad
2016
The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
1998
Einstein: His Life and Universe
2007
Dry
2003
How to Be a Woman
2011
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
2003
A Moveable Feast
1964
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol 2
1914
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
2011
Native Son
1940
The Broker
2005
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
1972
My Life in France
2006
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
2012
The Agony and the Ecstasy
1958
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
2007
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
1991
Song of Solomon
1977
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
2015
Infidel
2006
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