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

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
2006

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

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

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
2003

Legend (Legend, #1)
2011

Running with Scissors
2002

The Time Machine
1895

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1969

Yes Please
2014

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

A Million Little Pieces
2003

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

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
1999

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

State of Wonder
2011

The Autobiography of Malcolm X
1965

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

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

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

The Invisible Man
1897

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

Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports (Maximum Ride, #3)
2006

Seriously... I'm Kidding
2011

Why Not Me?
2015

Cleopatra: A Life
2006

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

Dry
2003

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

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
1968

Truman
1992

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

Same Kind of Different as Me
2005

Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
1987

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
1959

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
2007

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
2006

Magic Study (Study, #2)
2006

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

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
1914

The Six Wives of Henry VIII
1980

The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
2016

The Time Machine/The Invisible Man
1968

Black Like Me
1960

Stories I Only Tell My Friends
2011

Open
2009

A Year in Provence
1989

Alexander Hamilton
2004

We Should All Be Feminists
2014

Travels with Charley: In Search of America
1962
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