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Running with Scissors
2002
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
2000
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)
2000
The Year of Magical Thinking
2005
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
2007
Dry
2003
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
1962
Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)
2001
Magical Thinking: True Stories
2004
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
2006
Possible Side Effects
2006
Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
2009
Down and Out in Paris and London
1933
H is for Hawk
2015
A Man Without a Country
2005
Desert Solitaire
1968
Walden & Civil Disobedience
1854
Fever Pitch
1992
A Wolf at the Table
2008
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
2011
Are You My Mother?
2012
Blue Nights
2011
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
1995
My Fair Lazy: One Reality Television Addict's Attempt to Discover If Not Being A Dumb Ass Is the New Black, or, a Culture-Up Manifesto
2010
Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son's First Son
2012
Letter to My Daughter
2008
The Snow Leopard
1978
Into the Wild
1996
The Glass Castle
2005
Steve Jobs
2011
Tuesdays with Morrie
1997
Bossypants
2011
Me Talk Pretty One Day
2000
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
2010
Great Expectations
1860
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
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
2003
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1969
Yes Please
2014
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
1971
'Salem's Lot
1975
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
A Million Little Pieces
2003
Man's Search for Meaning
1946
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
1974
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
2000
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
1999
Bag of Bones
1998
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
1995
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1965
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
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
Sh*t My Dad Says
2010
The History of Love
2005
A Beautiful Mind
1998
The Dark Half
1989
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
2012
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
1916
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
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
2013
The Amityville Horror
1977
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
1996
Lucky
1999
Seriously... I'm Kidding
2011
Why Not Me?
2015
Cleopatra: A Life
2006
'Salem's Lot
2005
A Stolen Life
2011
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
How to Be a Woman
2011
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
2003
A Moveable Feast
1964
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
2011
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
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
2015
Infidel
2006
All Things Bright and Beautiful (All Creatures Great and Small)
1973
Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
2015
Zeitoun
2008
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