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Adventure Stories
- The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton 364.66 HIN
- The Wonder Crew by Susan Saint Sing 797.12 SAI
- Swimming to Antarctica by Lynne Cox 797.21 COX
- Wild by Cheryl Strayed 813.6 STR
- In the Kingdom of Ice by Hampton Sides 910.4 SID
- The Endurance by Caroline Alexander 919.98 ALE
- Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder 921 FARMER
- The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger 974.45 JUN
Fuzzy Animal Stories
- The Cowboy and His Elephant by Malcolm MacPherson 599.61 MAC
- Marley and Me by John Gorgan 636.7 GOR
- Merle’s Door by Ted Kerasote 636.7 KER
- A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen 636.8 BOW
Food Stories
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay 305.4 GAY
- The Man Who Ate Too Much by John Birdsall 641.5092 BIR
- Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl 641.5092 REI
- Vegetable Kingdom by Bryant Terry 641.5636 TER
History Fans
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson 304.8 WIL
- Killing King by Stuart Wexler 323.092 WEX
- Our Time is Now by Stacey Abrams 324.609 ABR
- And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts 362.1 SHI
- Mistress of the Vatican by Eleanor Herman 945.6 HER
- The Secret History of the Mongol Queens by Jack Weatherford 950.2 WEA
- Becoming by MIchelle Obama 973.93 OBA
Science
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 305.8 KIM
- Packing for Mars by Mary Roach 523 ROA
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil de Grasse Tyson 523 TYS
- A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking 523.1 HAW
- The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean 546 KEA
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot 616.0277 SKl
- The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddartha Mukherjee 616.042 MUK
Something for Everyone
- Dispatches from the Edge by Anderson Cooper 070.92 COO
- Of Mess and Moxie by Jen Hatmaker 248 HAT
- Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari 306.73 ANS
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson 353.48 STE
- Compassionate Soldier by Jerry Borrowman 355.0092 BOR
- Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Greely 362.1 GRE
- Truth and Beauty by Ann Patchett 362.196 PAT
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls 362.82 WAL
- Orange is the New Black by Piper Kerman 365.43 KER
- Eats, Shoots, and Leaves by Lynne Truss 428.2 TRU
- Crying in H Mart by MIchelle Zauner 782.4126 ZAU
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah 791.45 NOA
- Second Wind by Nathaniel Philbrick 797.1092 PHI
- No Barriers by Erik Weihenmayer 797.122 WEI
- True Notebooks by Mark Salzman 808.042 SAL
- The Lover by Marguerite Duras 848 DUR
- The Pug Who Bit Napoleon by Mimi Matthews 909 MAT
- The Lost City of Z by David Grann 918.11 GRA
- Odd Girl Out by Laura E. James 920 JAM
- Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam 921 HIC
- The Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love by Per Andersson 921 KUMAR
- Nightingales by Gillian Gill 921 NIGHTINGALE
- Dead Wake by Erik Larson 940.45 LAR
- Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand 940.54 HIL
- Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile 958.104 CRI
- A Girl Named Zippy by Haven Kimmel 977.2 KIM