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A

15 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 A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell 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

9 books

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 Billion Dollar Whale by Tom Wright and Bradley Hope Black Edge by Sheelah Kolhatkar Boy Erased by Garrard Conley Buffett by Roger Lowenstein

C

8 books

CONSPIRACY by Ryan Holiday Call Sign Chaos by Jim Mattis, Bing West Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale and Stan Redding Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow Charlie Munger by Tren Griffin Chasing Hillary by Amy Chozick Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker

D

2 books

Dear Girls by Ali Wong Dogfight by Fred Vogelstein

E

2 books

Emergency by Neil Strauss Epic Measures by Jeremy N. Smith

F

8 books

Faith by Jimmy Carter Finding Chika by Mitch Albom Finding My Virginity by Richard Branson First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung For Small Creatures Such as We by Sasha Sagan For the Record by David Cameron 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

12 books

Hack Attack by Nick Davies Happy Fat by Sofie Hagen Hard Choices by Hillary Clinton Harriet Tubman by Catherine Clinton Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker 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

4 books

IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD by Russ Imagine It Forward by Beth Comstock with Thal Raz Inside Out by Demi Moore Isaac Newton by James Gleick

J

2 books

JAY-Z by Michael Eric Dyson Jog On by Bella Mackie

K

1 book

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

L

6 books

Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson Leaving Microsoft to Change the World by John Wood Let Love Have the Last Word by Common Life, on the Line by Grant Achatz & Nick Kokonas Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson

M

11 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 Me by Elton John 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 More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor

N

5 books

Nanaville by Anna Quindlen Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts Nickel & Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik

O

1 book

On His Own Terms by Richard Norton Smith

P

3 books

Personal History by Katharine Graham Poor Charlie's Almanack by Peter D. Kaufman Poverty Safari by Darren McGarvey

Q

1 book

Queen of Fashion by Caroline Weber

R

6 books

Raven by Tim Reiterman with John Jacobs Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig 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

10 books

Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton with John Huey Say Nothing by Patrick Keefe Sea Stories by William H. McRaven She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey Small Animals by Kim Brooks Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs Songs of America by Jon Meacham, Tim McGraw Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark Strength in What Remains by Tracy Kidder String Theory by David Foster Wallace

T

54 books

Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan Tesla by Margaret Cheney The Airbnb Story by Leigh Gallagher The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book by Alice B. Toklas 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 Education of Brett Kavanaugh by Robin Pogrebin, Kate Kelly The First Muslim by Lesley Hazleton The Flight by Dan Hampton The Greater Freedom by Alya Mooro 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 Who Solved the Market by Gregory Zuckerman 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 Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger The Run of His Life by Jeffrey Toobin The Salt Path by Raynor Winn 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 Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams The Virgin Way by Richard Branson The Wright Brothers by David McCullough The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Thick by Tressie McMillan Cottom Things a Little Bird Told Me by Biz Stone Thirst by Scott Harrison This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay Three Women by Lisa Taddeo Tiger Woods by Jeff Benedict, Armen Keteyian Titan by Ron Chernow To Stop a Warlord by Shannon Sedgwick Davis Total Recall by Arnold Schwarzenegger Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay

U

4 books

Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener United by Cory Booker Unstoppable by Maria Sharapova Untamed by Glennon Doyle

W

10 books

Walden by Henry David Thoreau Warren Buffett's Ground Rules by Jeremy C. Miller 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 With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim Writing My Wrongs by Shaka Senghor

Y

1 book

You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe