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An Immense World Top of the Pile
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A Heart That Works Top of the Pile
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Top of the Pile
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Haley Cohen Gilliland

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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World Top of the Pile
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Jonathan Freedland

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How to Say Babylon Top of the Pile
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Safiya Sinclair

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The Uncool Top of the Pile
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Cameron Crowe

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Memorial Days Top of the Pile
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Geraldine Brooks

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Raising Hare: A Memoir Top of the Pile
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Raising Hare: A Memoir

Chloe Dalton

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Things in Nature Merely Grow Top of the Pile
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Yiyun Li

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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Top of the Pile
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

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King: A Life Top of the Pile
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Jonathan Eig

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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space Top of the Pile
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Adam Higginbotham

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Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir Top of the Pile
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Natasha Trethewey

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Solito Top of the Pile
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Javier Zamora

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Top of the Pile
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad

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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland Top of the Pile
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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Fintan O'Toole

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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance Top of the Pile
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy Top of the Pile
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Nathan Thrall

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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted Top of the Pile
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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted

Suleika Jaouad

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Crying in H Mart Top of the Pile
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Michelle Zauner

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In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss Top of the Pile
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In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

Amy Bloom

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Baldwin: A Love Story Top of the Pile
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Baldwin: A Love Story

Nicholas Boggs

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures Top of the Pile
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent Top of the Pile
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Judi Dench, Brendan O'Hea

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Joyride: A Memoir Top of the Pile
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Susan Orlean

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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America Top of the Pile
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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America Top of the Pile
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There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

Brian Goldstone

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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis Top of the Pile
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Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer

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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America Top of the Pile
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Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America

Ijeoma Oluo

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Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy Top of the Pile
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Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy

Julia Ioffe

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The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi Top of the Pile
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Wright Thompson

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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Top of the Pile
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Heather McGhee

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Real Estate: A Living Autobiography Top of the Pile
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Deborah Levy

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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History Top of the Pile
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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

Lea Ypi

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I'm Glad My Mom Died Top of the Pile
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Jennette McCurdy

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Mother Mary Comes to Me Top of the Pile
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Mother Mary Comes to Me

Arundhati Roy

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Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts Top of the Pile
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Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

Margaret Atwood

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V13: Chronicle of a Trial Top of the Pile
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V13: Chronicle of a Trial

Emmanuel Carrère, trans. by John Lambert

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Pastoral Song: A Farmer's Journey Top of the Pile
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James Rebanks

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How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future Top of the Pile
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How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future

Maria Ressa

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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide Top of the Pile
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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

Tahir Hamut Izgil, trans. by Joshua L. Freeman

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Rough Sleepers Top of the Pile
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Tracy Kidder

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G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century Top of the Pile
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Beverly Gage

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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle Top of the Pile
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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

Jon Meacham

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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Top of the Pile
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

Erik Larson

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On Morrison Top of the Pile
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Namwali Serpell

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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them Top of the Pile
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet Top of the Pile
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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

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Notes on Grief Top of the Pile
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women Top of the Pile
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Our Bodies, Their Battlefields: War Through the Lives of Women

Christina Lamb

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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East Top of the Pile
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Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

Kim Ghattas

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Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist Top of the Pile
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Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner

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The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I Top of the Pile
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The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

Lindsey Fitzharris

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Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People Top of the Pile
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Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

Imani Perry

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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension Top of the Pile
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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Top of the Pile
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Isabel Wilkerson

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The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 Top of the Pile
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The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

Peter Baker and Susan Glasser

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The Showman Top of the Pile
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Simon Shuster

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Is a River Alive? Top of the Pile
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Robert MacFarlane

Nature

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool Top of the Pile
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James Kaplan

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Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir Top of the Pile
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Lacy Crawford

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Consent Top of the Pile
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Vanessa Springora, tr. Natasha Lehrer

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Punch Me Up to the Gods Top of the Pile
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Brian Broome

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Unprotected: A Memoir Top of the Pile
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Billy Porter

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Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice Top of the Pile
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Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

Virginia Roberts Giuffre

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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy Top of the Pile
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David Zucchino

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Cuba: An American History Top of the Pile
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Ada Ferrer

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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human Top of the Pile
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The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia Top of the Pile
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38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England, and a Nazi in Patagonia

Philippe Sands

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Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China Top of the Pile
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Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China

Jonathan C Slaght

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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement Top of the Pile
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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

Tarana Burke

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Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation Top of the Pile
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Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

Linda Villarosa

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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation Top of the Pile
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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation

Scott Anderson

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Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath Top of the Pile
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Heather Clark

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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family Top of the Pile
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Robert Kolker

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Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling Top of the Pile
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Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling

Danny Funt

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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest Top of the Pile
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Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Suzanne Simard

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All In: An Autobiography Top of the Pile
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Billie Jean King

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Cher - The Memoir (The Cher Memoir, #1) Top of the Pile
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We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution Top of the Pile
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We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

Jill Lepore

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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Top of the Pile
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Rachel Aviv

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Everybody: A Book About Freedom Top of the Pile
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Olivia Laing

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Mike Nichols: A Life Top of the Pile
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Mark Harris

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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes Top of the Pile
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Zachary D Carter

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Hadley Freeman House Of Glass-The Story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family Top of the Pile
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Hadley Freeman

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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins Top of the Pile
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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins

Barbara Demick

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Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball Top of the Pile
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Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s Top of the Pile
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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

John Ganz

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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future Top of the Pile
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Elizabeth Kolbert

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The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World Top of the Pile
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Robin Wall Kimmerer

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The Place of Tides Top of the Pile
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James Rebanks

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Question 7 Top of the Pile
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Richard Flanagan

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All Down Darkness Wide Top of the Pile
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Seán Hewitt

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Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness Top of the Pile
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Catherine Cho

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A Promised Land Top of the Pile
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Barack Obama

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Somebody's Daughter Top of the Pile
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Ashley C. Ford

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Lost & Found: A Memoir Top of the Pile
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Lost & Found: A Memoir

Kathryn Schulz

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Stay True Top of the Pile
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Hua Hsu

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Bread of Angels: A Memoir Top of the Pile
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Patti Smith

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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages Top of the Pile
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Dan Jones

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Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad Top of the Pile
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Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

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