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All, 2022 (8), 2021 (9), 2020 (6), 2019 (11), 2018 (21), 2017 (20), 2016 (18), 2014 (19)
WorkYear
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
2022
Easy Beauty: A Memoir by Chloé Cooper Jones
2022
A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
2022
High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez
2022
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
2022
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly
2022
Unti Conversations with Stephen Sondheim by D.T. Max
2022
Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir by Erika L. Sánchez
2022
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
2021
One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival by Donald Antrim
2021
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
2021
Things I Have Withheld by Kei Miller
2021
What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller
2021
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke
2021
Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes by Albert Samaha
2021
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by Dawn Turner
2021
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
2021
Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains by Kerri Arsenault
2020
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
2020
This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together by Jon Mooallem
2020
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
2020
Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel
2020
How to Make a Slave and Other Essays (21st Century Essays) by Jerald Walker
2020
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
2019
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
2019
Homesick by Jennifer Croft
2019
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis
2019
Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family by Mitchell Jackson
2019
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
2019
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
2019
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
2019
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh Levin
2019
In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado
2019
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
2019
I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé by Michael Arceneaux
2018
Insomnia by Marina Benjamin
2018
Red Card: How the U.S. Blew the Whistle on the World's Biggest Sports Scandal by Ken Bensinger
2018
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
2018
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee
2018
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
2018
Sharp by Michelle Dean
2018
Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir by Liana Finck
2018
Would You Rather?: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out by Katie Heaney
2018
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Zora Neale Hurston
2018
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
2018
Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
2018
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee
2018
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
2018
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
2018
Impossible Owls: Essays by Brian Phillips
2018
Never Ran, Never Will: Boyhood and Football in a Changing American Inner City by Albert Samaha
2018
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
2018
Retablos: Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border by Octavio Solis
2018
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman
2018
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
2018
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib
2017
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman Alexie
2017
Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone by Juli Berwald
2017
Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
2017
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2017
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
2017
Sunshine State: Essays by Sarah Gerard
2017
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
2017
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
2017
Mean by Myriam Gurba
2017
We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays by Samantha Irby
2017
One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays by Scaachi Koul
2017
The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by Ariel Levy
2017
Priestdaddy: A Memoir by Patricia Lockwood
2017
All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers by Alana Massey
2017
Afterglow (a dog memoir) by Eileen Myles
2017
Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
2017
New People by Danzy Senna
2017
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty
2017
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin Young
2017
Bullies: A Friendship by Alex Abramovich
2016
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
2016
The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood by Belle Boggs
2016
Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley
2016
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
2016
Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders by Joshua Foer
2016
How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France
2016
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin
2016
Time Travel: A History by James Gleick
2016
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
2016
March: Book Three by John Lewis
2016
The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation by Natalie Y. Moore
2016
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil
2016
Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live by Peter Orner
2016
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly
2016
Born to Run: The Autobiography by Bruce Springsteen
2016
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward
2016
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
2016
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
2014
Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow
2014
Epilogue: A Memoir by Will Boast
2014
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned by Lena Dunham
2014
X vs. Y: A Culture War, a Love Story by Eve Epstein
2014
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
2014
Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay
2014
India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking by Anand Giridharadas
2014
Never Have I Ever: My Life (So Far) Without a Date by Katie Heaney
2014
The Empathy Exams: Essays by Leslie Jamison
2014
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
2014
The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures by Christine Kenneally
2014
Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man by Thomas Page McBee
2014
Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves by James Nestor
2014
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan by Jenny Nordberg
2014
Demon Camp: A Soldier's Exorcism by Jennifer Percy
2014
Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema by Anne Helen Petersen
2014
Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
2014
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar
2014

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