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The Vow: The Kim and Krickitt Carpenter Story

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Girl Singer: An Autobiography

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Tom Jones

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Frank W. Abagnale

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Open: An Autobiography

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Flags of our Fathers

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Michelle Obama

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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

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Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : Reflections on Sixty and Beyond

Larry McMurtry

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The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (The W.E.B. Dubois Institute Series)

Wole Soyinka

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I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.

Michael Eric Dyson

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Lieutenant Nun

Catalina de Erauso

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Susan Tucker

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Dakota: A Spiritual Geography

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The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir

Aminatta Forna

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Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica

Gerald Horne

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The Turkish Lover

Esmeralda Santiago

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Anything We Love Can Be Saved

Alice Walker

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We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

Dorothy Sterling

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Barrio Boy

Ernesto Galarza

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Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature

Dorothy Allison

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Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past

Peter Balakian

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Brother to a Dragonfly

Will D. Campbell

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The Classic Slave Narratives

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: On Leadership

Donald T. Phillips

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How to Be an Antiracist

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A Promised Land

Barack Obama

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Donald J. Trump

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Just Kids

Patti Smith

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Broken (In the Best Possible Way)

Jenny Lawson

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Maus. A Survivor's Tale

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Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife

Eben Alexander

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Actes and Monuments of these latter and perilous days, touching matters of the Church, wherein are comprehended and described the great persecutions and horrible troubles that have been wrought and pr

John Foxe

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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Michelle McNamara

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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

James McBride

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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

Frank McCourt

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Bonhoeffer

Eric Metaxas

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Maus II : And Here My Troubles Began

Art Spiegelman

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I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Rebecca Skloot

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The Year of Magical Thinking

Joan Didion

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Cheryl Strayed

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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Stephen King

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1776

David McCullough

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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Trevor Noah

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself

Frederick Douglass

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Alex Haley

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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Anthony Bourdain

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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Bryan Stevenson

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Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Mein Kampf

Adolf Hitler

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Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

Art Spiegelman

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Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

Jon Krakauer

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When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

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All Creatures Great and Small

James Herriot

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Walden; or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau

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Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey

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The Splendid and the Vile

Erik Larson

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John Adams

David McCullough

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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

Erik Larson

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A Child Called "It"

Dave Pelzer

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The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Many Lives, Many Masters

Brian L. Weiss

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Black Elk Speaks

John G. Neihardt

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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Malala Yousafzai

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Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

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Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

Brené Brown

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Undaunted Courage

Stephen E. Ambrose

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Travels with Charley: In Search of America

John Steinbeck

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

S.C. Gwynne

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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Cheryl Strayed

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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction

David Sheff

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Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

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Truman

David McCullough

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Diana: Her True Story

Andrew Morton

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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

Bill O'Reilly

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

Marcus Luttrell

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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself

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The Wright Brothers

David McCullough

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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

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My Life in France

Julia Child

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tom Wolfe

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American Prometheus

Kai Bird

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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Joseph J. Ellis

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Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

Bill O'Reilly

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

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Mornings on Horseback

David McCullough

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Einstein: His Life and Universe

Walter Isaacson

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A Long Way Gone. Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah

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84, Charing Cross Road

Helene Hanff

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The Journals of Lewis and Clark

Meriwether Lewis

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One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

Richard Proenneke

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March: Book One

John Lewis

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Letter to My Daughter

Maya Angelou

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What I Talk about When I Talk about Running [Hashiru koto ni tsuite kataru toki ni boku no kataru koto]

Haruki Murakami

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Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

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Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

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Reading Lolita in Teheran

Azar Nafisi

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The Writing Life

Annie Dillard

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The Anthropocene Reviewed

John Green

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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

Ann Patchett

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World of Wonders

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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These Precious Days: Essays

Ann Patchett

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The Cloud of Unknowing: and The Book of Privy Counseling

Anonymous

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Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

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The Solace of Open Spaces

Gretel Ehrlich

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