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  1. 1A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and ShipwreckSophie Elmhirst · 2025 · 2 honors
  2. 2Mother Mary Comes to MeArundhati Roy · 2025 · 2 honors
  3. 3One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against ThisOmar El Akkad · 2025 · 2 honors
  4. 4There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in AmericaBrian Goldstone · 2025 · 2 honors
  5. 5A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of ChildrenHaley Cohen Gilliland · 2025 · 1 honor
  6. 6A Silent Treatment: A MemoirJeannie Vanasco · 2025 · 1 honor
  7. 7A Truce That Is Not PeaceMiriam Toews · 2025 · 1 honor
  8. 8AbundanceEzra Klein and Derek Thompson · 2025 · 1 honor
  9. 9Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight SuccessJeff Hiller · 2025 · 1 honor
  10. 10Alabama Village: Faith, Hope, and Survival in a Southern TownJ. Malcolm Garcia · 2025 · 1 honor
  11. 11American Grammar: Race, Education, and the Building of a NationJarvis R. Givens · 2025 · 1 honor
  12. 12American Kings: A Biography of the QuarterbackSeth Wickersham · 2025 · 1 honor
  13. 13Atmosphere: A Love StoryTaylor Jenkins Reid · 2025 · 1 honor
  14. 14Automatic NoodleAnnalee Newitz · 2025 · 1 honor
  15. 15Baldwin: A Love StoryNicholas Boggs · 2025 · 1 honor
  16. 16Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My PeopleImani Perry · 2025 · 1 honor
  17. 17Blessings and Disasters: A Story of AlabamaAlexis Okeowo · 2025 · 1 honor
  18. 18Bread of Angels: A MemoirPatti Smith · 2025 · 1 honor
  19. 19Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the FutureDan Wang · 2025 · 1 honor
  20. 20By Heart: Recipes to Hold Near and DearHailee Catalano · 2025 · 1 honor
  21. 21Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost IdealismSarah Wynn-Williams · 2025 · 1 honor
  22. 22Celebrate: Joyful Baking All Year RoundPaul Hollywood · 2025 · 1 honor
  23. 23Change the Recipe: Because You Can't Build a Better World Without Breaking Some EggsJosé Andrés, with Richard Wolffe · 2025 · 1 honor
  24. 24Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's TennisGiri Nathan · 2025 · 1 honor
  25. 25Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic WarfareEdward Fishman · 2025 · 1 honor
  26. 26Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women FreeElizabeth Evitts Dickinson · 2025 · 1 honor
  27. 27Coded Justice: A ThrillerStacey Abrams · 2025 · 1 honor
  28. 28Cry for Me, Argentina: My Life as a Failed Child StarTamara Yajia · 2025 · 1 honor
  29. 29CulpabilityBruce Holsinger · 2025 · 1 honor
  30. 30Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest RivalStephen Greenblatt · 2025 · 1 honor
  31. 31Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated TwinsBarbara Demick · 2025 · 1 honor
  32. 32Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever ToldJeremy Atherton Lin · 2025 · 1 honor
  33. 33Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented TelevisionTodd S. Purdum · 2025 · 1 honor
  34. 34Dinner: 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes for the Most Important Meal of the DayMeera Sodha · 2025 · 1 honor
  35. 35Dorie's Anytime CakesDorie Greenspan, illustrated by Nancy Pappas · 2025 · 1 honor
  36. 36Dream School: Finding the College That's Right for YouJeffrey Selingo · 2025 · 1 honor
  37. 37elseship: an unrequited affairTree Abraham · 2025 · 1 honor
  38. 38EndlingMaria Reva · 2025 · 1 honor
  39. 39Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest InfectionJohn Green · 2025 · 1 honor
  40. 40Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and BeautyKaila Yu · 2025 · 1 honor
  41. 41Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against ThemselvesSophie Gilbert · 2025 · 1 honor
  42. 42Glitz, Glam, and a Damn Good Time: How Mamie Fish, Queen of the Gilded Age, Partied Her Way to PowerJennifer Wright · 2025 · 1 honor
  43. 43Good Movies as Old Books: Films Reimagined as Vintage Book CoversMatt Stevens · 2025 · 1 honor
  44. 44Greyhound: A MemoirJoanna Pocock · 2025 · 1 honor
  45. 45How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and PlentyBonny Reichert · 2025 · 1 honor
  46. 46I Regret Almost Everything: A MemoirKeith McNally · 2025 · 1 honor
  47. 47I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A MemoirHala Alyan · 2025 · 1 honor
  48. 48Indignity: A Life ReimaginedLea Ypi · 2025 · 1 honor
  49. 49Is a River Alive?Robert Macfarlane · 2025 · 1 honor
  50. 50John & Paul: A Love Story in SongsIan Leslie · 2025 · 1 honor
  51. 51Joyride: A MemoirSusan Orlean · 2025 · 1 honor
  52. 52Kwéyòl / Creole: Recipes, Stories, and Tings from a St. Lucian Chef's JourneyNina Compton with Osayi Endolyn · 2025 · 1 honor
  53. 53Last Seen: The Enduring Search by Formerly Enslaved People to Find Their Lost FamiliesJudith Giesberg · 2025 · 1 honor
  54. 54Let's Party: Recipes and Menus for Celebrating Every DayDan Pelosi · 2025 · 1 honor
  55. 55Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an ArtistDaniel Pollack-Pelzner · 2025 · 1 honor
  56. 56Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped AmericaBridget Read · 2025 · 1 honor
  57. 57Long Day? Cook This. Easy East Asian Recipes with a TwistJustin Tsang · 2025 · 1 honor
  58. 58Looking at Women Looking at War: A War and Justice DiaryVictoria Amelina · 2025 · 1 honor
  59. 59Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night LiveSusan Morrison · 2025 · 1 honor
  60. 60Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding SchoolsMary Annette Pember · 2025 · 1 honor
  61. 61Memorial Days: A MemoirGeraldine Brooks · 2025 · 1 honor
  62. 62Milk Street Backroads Italy: Finding Italy's Forgotten RecipesChristopher Kimball and J.M. Hirsch · 2025 · 1 honor
  63. 63Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect PlaylistLiz Pelly · 2025 · 1 honor
  64. 64Mother EmanuelKevin Sack · 2025 · 1 honor
  65. 65Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston ChurchKevin Sack · 2025 · 1 honor
  66. 66Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial KillersCaroline Fraser · 2025 · 1 honor
  67. 67Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York CityMark Ronson · 2025 · 1 honor
  68. 68No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and DivorceHaley Mlotek · 2025 · 1 honor
  69. 69Not My Type: One Woman vs. a PresidentE. Jean Carroll · 2025 · 1 honor
  70. 70Notes to JohnJoan Didion · 2025 · 1 honor
  71. 71Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous IdentityJoseph Lee · 2025 · 1 honor
  72. 72Oceans of Time: The Musical Autobiography of Billy HartBilly Hart and Ethan Iverson · 2025 · 1 honor
  73. 73On Muscle: The Stuff That Moves Us and Why It MattersBonnie Tsui · 2025 · 1 honor
  74. 74Pakistan: Recipes and Stories from Home Kitchens, Restaurants, and Roadside StandsMaryam Jillani · 2025 · 1 honor
  75. 75Patchwork: A Sewist's DiaryMaddie Ballard · 2025 · 1 honor
  76. 76Perfect Victims: And the Politics of AppealMohammed El-Kurd · 2025 · 1 honor
  77. 77Persiana EasySabrina Ghayour · 2025 · 1 honor
  78. 78Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty CatsCourtney Gustafson · 2025 · 1 honor
  79. 79Raising Hare: A MemoirChloe Dalton · 2025 · 1 honor
  80. 80Recipes from the American SouthMichael W. Twitty · 2025 · 1 honor
  81. 81Salsa Daddy: A Cookbook: Dip Your Way Into Mexican CookingRick Martínez · 2025 · 1 honor
  82. 82Self-Sabotage: And Other Ways I've Spent My TimeJeffery Self · 2025 · 1 honor
  83. 83Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern AsiaSam Dalrymple · 2025 · 1 honor
  84. 84She's Under Here: A MemoirKaren Palmer · 2025 · 1 honor
  85. 85Something from Nothing: A CookbookAlison Roman · 2025 · 1 honor
  86. 86Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni MitchellPaul Lisicky · 2025 · 1 honor
  87. 87Spread MeSarah Gailey · 2025 · 1 honor
  88. 88Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private LifeTiffany Jenkins · 2025 · 1 honor
  89. 89The Art of Jacques Pépin: Favorite Recipes and Paintings from My Life in the KitchenJacques Pépin · 2025 · 1 honor
  90. 90The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage that Made an American IconLaurie Gwen Shapiro · 2025 · 1 honor
  91. 91The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired LifeSuleika Jaouad · 2025 · 1 honor
  92. 92The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden LiteratureCharlie English · 2025 · 1 honor
  93. 93The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic BombGarrett M. Graff · 2025 · 1 honor
  94. 94The Eyes of Gaza: A Diary of ResiliencePlestia Alaqad · 2025 · 1 honor
  95. 95The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780Rick Atkinson · 2025 · 1 honor
  96. 96The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie LaybourneChris Sweeney · 2025 · 1 honor
  97. 97The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of AfghanistanLyse Doucet · 2025 · 1 honor
  98. 98The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the WorldWilliam Dalrymple · 2025 · 1 honor
  99. 99The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A MemoirNeko Case · 2025 · 1 honor
  100. 100The Island of Last ThingsEmma Sloley · 2025 · 1 honor
  101. 101The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American NeighborhoodStacy Horn · 2025 · 1 honor
  102. 102The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse: A Memory of VietnamVinh Nguyen · 2025 · 1 honor
  103. 103The Place of TidesJames Rebanks · 2025 · 1 honor
  104. 104The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime StoryPagan Kennedy · 2025 · 1 honor
  105. 105The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the WestAlexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska · 2025 · 1 honor
  106. 106The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define UsJohn J. Lennon · 2025 · 1 honor
  107. 107The Uncool: A MemoirCameron Crowe · 2025 · 1 honor
  108. 108The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 1983-1994Thomas Mallon · 2025 · 1 honor
  109. 109The War of Art: A History of Artists' Protest In AmericaLauren O'Neill-Butler · 2025 · 1 honor
  110. 110The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and DaughtersSasha Bonét · 2025 · 1 honor
  111. 111Theater Kid: A Broadway MemoirJeffrey Seller · 2025 · 1 honor
  112. 112Things in Nature Merely GrowYiyun Li · 2025 · 1 honor
  113. 113To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident MovementBenjamin Nathans · 2025 · 1 honor
  114. 114Tomorrow Is Yesterday: Life, Death, and the Pursuit of Peace in Israel/PalestineHussein Agha and Robert Malley · 2025 · 1 honor
  115. 115Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary EditorshipDana A. Williams · 2025 · 1 honor
  116. 116Umma: A Korean Mom's Kitchen Wisdom and 100 Family RecipesSarah Ahn and Nam Soon Ahn · 2025 · 1 honor
  117. 117Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible WorldJessica Slice · 2025 · 1 honor
  118. 118Unpacking My Father's BookstoreLaurence Roth · 2025 · 1 honor
  119. 119Unshrunk: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment ResistanceLaura Delano · 2025 · 1 honor
  120. 120Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and GoddessesPeter Wolf · 2025 · 1 honor
  121. 121Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian AmericaJeff Chang · 2025 · 1 honor
  122. 122We Survived the NightJulian Brave NoiseCat · 2025 · 1 honor
  123. 123We the People: A History of the U.S. ConstitutionJill Lepore · 2025 · 1 honor
  124. 124What Debt Demands: Family, Betrayal, and Precarity in a Broken SystemKristin Collier · 2025 · 1 honor
  125. 125When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of MagazinesGraydon Carter with James Fox · 2025 · 1 honor
  126. 126Wild Dark ShoreCharlotte McConaghy · 2025 · 1 honor
  127. 127Wild ThingSue Prideaux · 2025 · 1 honor
  128. 128Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac ShakurDean Van Nguyen · 2025 · 1 honor
  129. 129You Didn't Hear This From Me: (Mostly) True Notes on GossipKelsey McKinney · 2025 · 1 honor