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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
2012

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
1997

Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
2006

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1969

A Million Little Pieces
2003

Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
1995

Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living
2005

When Breath Becomes Air
2016

The Story of My Life
1902

The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
2009

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
2007

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
1998

90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death and Life
2004

My Life in France
2006

Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World
2003

Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
2007

Open
2009

Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
2006

Alexander Hamilton
2004

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
1998

Prozac Nation
1994

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
2011

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
2006

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
2006

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
2016

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
2008

Boy: Tales of Childhood
1984

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
2009

The Cross and the Switchblade
1963

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
1999

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House
2008

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
2000

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
2005

I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
2006

The Story of My Experiments With Truth
1940

A Girl Named Zippy
2001

Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
1998

His Excellency: George Washington
2004

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
2008

Autobiography of a Yogi
1946

Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?
2007

Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
2005

Truth and Beauty
2004

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
2004

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
1997

Fever Pitch
1992

Shakespeare: The World as Stage
2007

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
2006

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
1861

The Middle Place
2005

My Story
2013

A Wolf at the Table
2008

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
2010

Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
2008

The Souls of Black Folk
1903

Love Warrior
2016

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
2010

The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
2002

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
2006

Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
2001

Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
2016

Up from Slavery
1900

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
2014

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
1974

The Monsters of Templeton
2008

I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
2009

Jesus Land
2005

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
2009

The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love
1999

Wildflower
2015

A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
2016

Drinking: A Love Story
1996

Yes, Chef
2012

Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
2003

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

Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
2005

Snowflake Bentley
1998

I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie
1987

Paris to the Moon
2000

Miracle in the Andes
2006

The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son On Life, Love, and Loss
2016

Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
2005

Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris
2003

Going Rogue: An American Life
2009

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
2013

Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter
2008

The Anti-Christ
1888

True Compass: A Memoir
2009

Happy, Happy, Happy
2013

Letter to My Daughter
2008

Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson
2007

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
1990

Sleepers
1995

The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal
2009

Restless
2006

Primates of Park Avenue
2015

The Map That Changed the World
2001

All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
1999

My Lobotomy
2007

Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever
2012
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