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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
1968
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
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
1996
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
Running with Scissors
2002
The Sun Also Rises
1926
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
Station Eleven
2014
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2007
The Brothers Karamazov
1880
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
2000
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
1974
Life After Life
2013
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
Interpreter of Maladies
1999
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
The Year of Magical Thinking
2005
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
The Woman in Cabin 10
2016
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
Luckiest Girl Alive
2015
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
The Girls
2016
Seriously... I'm Kidding
2011
Why Not Me?
2015
Cleopatra: A Life
2006
'Salem's Lot
2005
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
The Longest Ride
2012
Einstein: His Life and Universe
2007
Dry
2003
How to Be a Woman
2011
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
2003
A Moveable Feast
1964
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
2013
In a Dark, Dark Wood
2015
Notes from a Small Island
1995
A Little Life
2015
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
2011
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
1972
The Couple Next Door
2016
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
The Signature of All Things
2012
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
Ham on Rye
1982
The Bone Clocks
2014
Truman
1992
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