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Munro, Alice
- Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage

Person, Cea Sunrise
- North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both

McDiarmid, Jessica
- Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

DeFede, Jim
- The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland

Grenfell, Wilfred T.
- Adrift on an Ice Pan

Bacon, John U.
- The Great Halifax Explosion: A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism

Palka, Kurt
- The Piano Maker

Erdrich, Louise
- Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of my Ancestors

Khan, Ausma Zehanat
- The Unquiet Dead
- The Language of Secrets

Thúy, Kim
- Ru

Person, Cea Sunrise
- North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both

Herrera, Yuri
- Signs Preceding the End of the World

McDougall, Christopher
- Born to Run

Sada, Daniel
- One Out of Two

Wariner, Ruth
- The Sound of Gravel: A Memoir

Various States

Abbott, Karen
- Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- The Thing Around Your Neck

Bryson, Bill
- A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
- The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

Edin, Kathryn J. and H. Luke Shaefer
- $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America

Ehrenreich, Barbara
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

Steinem, Gloria
- My Life on the Road

Vowell, Sarah
- Assassination Vacation

Williams, Terry Tempest
- The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

Lee, Harper
- To Kill a Mockingbird

Stevenson, Bryan
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

Ivey, Eowyn
- The Snow Child

Kizzia, Tom
- Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier

Conley, Garrard
- Boy Erased: A Memoir

Schiffer, Vivienne
- Camp Nine 

DeWitt, Patrick
- The Sisters Brothers

Wilkerson, Charmaine
- Black Cake

Pacific Crest Trail

Anderson, Heather
- Thirst: 2,600 Miles to Home

Strayed, Cheryl
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

San Francisco

Guinn, Jeff
- The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Ng, Fae Myenne
- Bone

Otsuka, Julie
- The Buddha in the Attic

Seal Beach

Cox, Lynne
- Grayson

Adams, Taylor
- No Exit

Barbarisi, Daniel
- Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt

Cullen, Dave
- Columbine

Klebold, Sue
- A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

Henríquez, Cristina
- The Book of Unknown Americans

Danticat, Edwidge
- Brother, I'm Dying

Hurston, Zora Neale
- Their Eyes Were Watching God

Williams, Paige
- The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy

Berendt, John
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Jones, Tayari
- An American Marriage

Vowell, Sarah
- Unfamiliar Fishes

Brelinski, Val
- The Girl Who Slept with God

Westover, Tara
- Educated: A Memoir

Larson, Erik
- The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America

Guinn, Jeff
- The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

McHugh, Laura
- Arrowood

Robinson, Marilynne
- Gilead

Capote, Truman
- In Cold Blood

Gaines, Ernest J.
- A Lesson Before Dying

Tidwell, Mike
- Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast

Finkel, Michael
- The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

Nutt, Amy Ellis
- Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family

Sullivan, J. Courtney
- Maine

Coates, Ta-Nehisi
- Between the World and Me

Moore, Wes
- The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

Oyeyemi, Helen
- Boy Snow Bird

Boston

Guerrero, Diane
- In the Country We Love: My Family Divided

Haigh, Jennifer
- Faith

Larson, Kate Clifford
- Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

Shapiro, B.A.
- The Art Forger

Steinberg, Avi
- Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian

Vowell, Sarah
- The Wordy Shipmates

Flournoy, Angela
- The Turner House

Enger, Leif
- Peace Like a River

Erdrich, Louise
- Shadow Tag

Ward, Jesmyn
- Men We Reaped

Flynn, Gillian
- Gone Girl

Danforth, Emily M.
- The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Krakauer, Jon
- Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

Rowell, Rainbow
- Attachments

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
- Americanah

Díaz, Junot
- This Is How You Lose Her

Barbarisi, Daniel
- Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt

Connors, Philip
- Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout

Groff, Lauren
- Arcadia

Torres, Justin
- We the Animals

New York City

Boyne, John
- A Ladder to the Sky

Danticat, Edwidge
- Brother, I'm Dying

DeLillo, Don
- Falling Man

García, Cristina
- Dreaming in Cuban

Hamill, Pete
- Forever

Kwok, Jean
- Girl in Translation

Mun, Nami
- Miles from Nowhere

Nović, Sara
- Girl at War

Rosenbloom, Stephanie
- Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude

Samuelsson, Marcus
- Yes, Chef

Poughkeepsie

Rowe, Claudia
- The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder

Rochester

Uwiringiyimana, Sandra
- How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

Pessl, Marisha
- Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Enger, Leif
- Peace Like a River

Erdrich, Louise
- The Round House

Grann, David
- The Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

Ng, Celeste
- Everything I Never Told You - Little Fires Everywhere

Perkins-Valdez, Dolen
- Wench

DeWitt, Patrick
- The Sisters Brothers

Pacific Crest Trail

Anderson, Heather
- Thirst: 2,600 Miles to Home

Strayed, Cheryl
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Bechdel, Alison
- Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Conley, Garrard
- Boy Erased: A Memoir

Kiernan, Denise
- The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II

Johnson, Donna
- Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir

Lawson, Jenny
- Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

Otsuka, Julie
- When the Emperor Was Divine

Goodman, Makenna
- The Shame

Tartt, Donna
- The Secret History

Conklin, Tara
- The House Girl

Kingsolver, Barbara
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Mastromonaco, Alyssa
- Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers To When You Work in the White House

Alexie, Sherman
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
- Reservation Blues

Pacific Crest Trail

Anderson, Heather
- Thirst: 2,600 Miles to Home

Strayed, Cheryl
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Seattle

Brown, Daniel James
- The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

Semple, Maria
- Where’d You Go, Bernadette

Berkheimer, Drema Hall
- Running on Red Dog Road: And Other Perils of an Appalachian Childhood

Larson, Kate Clifford
- Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

Barbarisi, Daniel
- Chasing the Thrill: Obsession, Death, and Glory in America's Most Extraordinary Treasure Hunt

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