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Nonfiction Favorites
A periodically updated selection of our staff's favorite nonfiction books.
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Vintage Departures) (Paperback)
By
David Grann
$17.95
ISBN:
9781400078455
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Published:
Vintage - January 26th, 2010
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Paperback)
By
Olivia Laing
$19.00
ISBN:
9781250118035
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Published:
Picador - June 6th, 2017
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Men We Reaped: A Memoir (Paperback)
By
Jesmyn Ward
$17.00
ISBN:
9781608197651
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Published:
Bloomsbury USA - September 16th, 2014
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Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic (Paperback)
By
Sam Quinones
$18.00
ISBN:
9781620402528
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Published:
Bloomsbury Publishing - April 5th, 2016
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In the Dream House: A Memoir (Hardcover)
By
Carmen Maria Machado
$26.00
ISBN:
9781644450031
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Published:
Graywolf Press - November 5th, 2019
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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey (Hardcover)
By
Mark Dery
$35.00
ISBN:
9780316188548
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Published:
Little, Brown and Company - November 6th, 2018
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The Argonauts (Paperback)
By
Maggie Nelson
$16.00
ISBN:
9781555977351
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Graywolf Press - January 26th, 2016
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (Paperback)
By
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
$21.99
ISBN:
9780061253713
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Published:
Harper Perennial Modern Classics - August 7th, 2007
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The Year of Magical Thinking (Vintage International) (Paperback)
By
Joan Didion
$17.00
ISBN:
9781400078431
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Published:
Vintage - February 13th, 2007
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The Songlines (Paperback)
By
Bruce Chatwin
,
Rory Stewart
(Introduction by)
$18.00
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ISBN:
9780142422571
Published:
Penguin Classics - June 26th, 2012
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration (Paperback)
By
David Wojnarowicz
$17.00
ISBN:
9780679732273
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Published:
Vintage - May 7th, 1991
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Paperback)
By
Isabel Wilkerson
$18.95
ISBN:
9780679763888
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Published:
Vintage - October 4th, 2011
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Just Kids (Paperback)
By
Patti Smith
$16.99
ISBN:
9780060936228
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Published:
Ecco - November 2nd, 2010
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Heavy: An American Memoir (Paperback)
By
Kiese Laymon
$16.00
ISBN:
9781501125669
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Published:
Scribner - March 5th, 2019
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History (Paperback)
By
S. C. Gwynne
$18.00
ISBN:
9781416591061
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Scribner - May 10th, 2011
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Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Paperback)
By
Jill Leovy
$18.00
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ISBN:
9780385529990
Published:
One World - October 27th, 2015
1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Paperback)
By
Charles C. Mann
$19.00
ISBN:
9781400032051
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Published:
Vintage - October 10th, 2006
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Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Paperback)
By
Samantha Irby
$15.95
ISBN:
9780525563488
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Published:
Vintage - March 31st, 2020
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No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters (Paperback)
By
Ursula K. Le Guin
$15.99
ISBN:
9781328507976
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Published:
Harper Perennial - January 15th, 2019
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The Library Book (Paperback)
By
Susan Orlean
$17.99
ISBN:
9781476740195
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Published:
Simon & Schuster - October 1st, 2019
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The Autobiography of Gucci Mane (Paperback)
By
Gucci Mane
,
Neil Martinez-Belkin
$17.00
ISBN:
9781501165344
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Published:
Simon & Schuster - September 4th, 2018
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The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made (Paperback)
By
Greg Sestero
,
Tom Bissell
$16.00
ISBN:
9781476730400
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Simon & Schuster - October 7th, 2014
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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Paperback)
By
Hanif Abdurraqib
,
Eve L. Ewing
(Foreword by)
$16.99
ISBN:
9781937512651
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Published:
Two Dollar Radio - November 7th, 2017
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Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (Paperback)
By
Jia Tolentino
$18.00
ISBN:
9780525510567
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Published:
Random House Trade Paperbacks - July 14th, 2020
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