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Armstrong, Karen. The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts.
Bair, Deirdre. Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir.
Basinger, Jeanine. The Movie Musical!
Betts, Reginald Dwayne. Felon: Poems.
Betz-Hamilton, Axton. The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity.
Brickell, Francesca Cartier. The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire.
Brodeur, Adrienne. Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me.
Buccola, Nicholas. The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America.
Cahalan, Susannah. The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission that Changed Our Understanding of Madness.
Case, Molly. How to Treat People: A Nurse’s Notes.
Chang, Jung. Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China.
Cohen, Lizabeth. Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age.
Collins, Gail. No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History.
Dekel, Mikhal. Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey.
Díaz, Jaquira. Ordinary Girls: A Memoir.
The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle. Ed. by Saskia Hamilton.
Edmondson, Sarah. Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped Nxivm, the Cult That Bound My Life.
The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison. Ed. by John F. Callahan.
Feaver, William. The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922-1968.
Flea. Acid for the Children: A Memoir.
Foer, Jonathan Safran. We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast.
Frenkel, Francoise. A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman’s Harrowing Escape from the Nazis.
Gaul, Gilbert M. The Geography of Risk: Epic Storms, Rising Seas, and the Cost of America’s Coasts.
George-Warren, Holly. Janis: Her Life and Music.
Gioia, Ted. Music: The Subversive History.
Goodman, Matthew. The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team.
Grayling, A.C. The History of Philosophy.
Greenidge, Kerri K. Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter.
Hendrickson, Paul. Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright.
Holt, Nathalia. The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History.
Ivereigh, Austen. Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church.
Jones, Saeed. How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir.
Keith, Phil. All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard--Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy.
Kleinman, Arthur. The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor.
Konner, Melvin. Believers: Faith in Human Nature.
Krakauer, Jon. Classic Krakauer: Essays on Wilderness and Risk.
Lancon, Philippe. Disturbance: Surviving Charlie Hebdo.
Lemay, Mimi. What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation.
Lichtblau, Eric. Return to the Reich: A Holocaust Refugee’s Secret Mission to Defeat the Nazis.
Lockwood, Matthew. To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe.
Machado, Carmen Maria. In the Dream House: A Memoir.
Maiklem, Lara. Mudlark: In Search of London’s Past Along the River Thames.
Mann, William J. The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando.
Marantz, Andrew. Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation.
Miles, Jack. Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story.
Miller, Donald L. Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy.
Moorer, Allison. Blood: A Memoir.
Myint-U, Thant. The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy.
Pickert, Kate. Radical: The Science, Culture and History of Breast Cancer in America.
Pico, Tommy. Feed. (poetry)
Pinckney, Darryl. Busted in New York and Other Essays.
Raza, Azra. The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last.
Rice, Susan. Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For.
Rippon, Adam. Beautiful on the Outside: A Memoir.
Russell, Gareth. The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era.
Sagan, Sasha. For Small Creatures Such as We: Finding Wonder and Meaning in Our Unlikely World.
Sandoval-Strausz, A. K. Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City.
Shahani, Aarti Namdev. Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares.
Stein, Sarah Abrevaya. Family Papers: A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century.
Theroux, Paul. On the Plain of Snakes.
Thomson, Mike. Syria’s Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege.
Vanasco, Jeannie. Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir.
Weingarten, Gene. One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America.
Weller, Sheila. Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge.
Williams, Terry Tempest. Erosion: Essays of Undoing.
Williams, Thomas Chatterton. Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race.
Wright, Charles. Oblivion Banjo: The Poetry of Charles Wright.