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A

14 books

A Full Life by Jimmy Carter A Life Decoded by J. Craig Venter A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard A River in Darkness by Masaji Ishikawa Alex & Me by Irene Pepperberg Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman Ali by Jonathan Eig American Lion by Jon Meacham An Autobiography by M. K. Gandhi An Invisible Thread by Laura Schroff and Alex Tresniowski And the Good News Is... by Dana Perino Arise, Awake by Rashmi Bansal

B

10 books

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay Becoming Steve Jobs by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Black Edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Boy Erased by Garrard Conley Buffett by Roger Lowenstein

C

5 books

CONSPIRACY by Ryan Holiday Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale and Stan Redding Charlie Munger by Tren Griffin Chasing Hillary by Amy Chozick

D

2 books

Do the KIND Thing by Daniel Lubetzky Dogfight by Fred Vogelstein

E

2 books

Emergency by Neil Strauss Epic Measures by Jeremy N. Smith

F

5 books

Faith by Jimmy Carter Finding My Virginity by Richard Branson First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight Furious Hours by Casey Cep

G

3 books

Gang Leader For A Day by Sudhir Venkatesh Genius by James Gleick Ghost in the Wires by Kevin Mitnick

H

10 books

Hack Attack by Nick Davies Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton Harriet Tubman by Catherine Clinton Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Hit Refresh by Satya Nadella How Not To Be a Boy by Robert Webb How To Be Black by Baratunde Thurston How to Fail by Elizabeth Day Howard Hughes by Donald L. Barlett & James B. Steele Hunger by Roxane Gay

I

3 books

If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look On My Face? by Alan Alda Imagine It Forward by Beth Comstock with Thal Raz Isaac Newton by James Gleick

L

4 books

Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood Life, on the Line by Grant Achatz & Nick Kokonas Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson

M

9 books

Maid by Stephanie Land Make Trouble by Cecile Richards (with Lauren Peterson) Martin Luther by Heinz Schilling Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb Mighty Be Our Powers by Leymah Gbowee with Carol Mithers Millionaire by Janet Gleeson Moore’s Law by Arnold Thackray, David Brock and Rachel Jones My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor

N

3 books

Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick

O

1 book

On His Own Terms by Richard Norton Smith

P

1 book

Personal History by Katharine Graham

Q

1 book

Queen of Fashion by Caroline Weber

R

5 books

Raven by Tim Reiterman with John Jacobs Red Notice by Bill Browder Rise Up, Women! by Diane Atkinson Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt Rocket Men by Robert Kurson

S

7 books

Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton with John Huey Say Nothing by Patrick Keefe Sea Stories by William H. McRaven Small Animals by Kim Brooks Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder String Theory by David Foster Wallace

T

40 books

Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan Tesla by Margaret Cheney The Airbnb Story by Leigh Gallagher The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley, Malcolm X The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin The Desert and the Sea by Michael Scott Moore The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson The First Muslim by Lesley Hazleton The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn The House of Rothschild by Niall Ferguson The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot The Intel Trinity by Michael S. Malone The Man Who Fed the World by Leon Hesser The Man Without A Face by Masha Gessen The Missionary Position by Christopher Hitchens The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum The Promise of a Pencil by Adam Braun The Radium Girls by Kate Moore The Run of His Life by Jeffrey Toobin The Snowball by Alice Schroeder The Spider Network by David Enrich The Story of My Life by Helen Keller The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton, Lara Love Hardin The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer The Threat by Andrew G. McCabe The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris The Virgin Way by Richard Branson The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Things a Little Bird Told Me by Biz Stone Thirst by Scott Harrison Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian Titan by Ron Chernow To Stop a Warlord by Shannon Sedgwick Davis Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger

U

1 book

Unstoppable by Maria Sharapova

W

7 books

Walden by Henry David Thoreau We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai We Are the Nerds by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin What Happened by Hillary Clinton Why Religion? by Elaine Pagels Wise Guy by Guy Kawasaki Writing My Wrongs by Shaka Senghor