Category Notable Nonfiction

An American Family

An American Family Khizr Khan Memoir In this urgent and timeless immigrant story, Khan shares the extraordinary, ordinary journey that led him to that moment: He was the oldest of ten children born to farmers in Pakistan. He was a…

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A Long Way Home

A Long Way Home Saroo Brierley  Memoir At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he…

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The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture Randy Pausch Memoir A lot of professors give talks titled “The Last Lecture.” Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them. And while they speak, audiences can’t help but…

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The Envoy

The Envoy Alex Kershaw History December 1944. Soviet and German troops fight from house to house in the shattered, corpse-strewn suburbs of Budapest. Crazed Hungarian fascists join with die-hard Nazis to slaughter Jews day and night, turning the Danube blood-red.…

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Unbroken

Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand Memoir On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean…

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Half Broke Horses

Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls Memoir For the first 10 years of her life, Lily Casey Smith, the narrator of this true-life novel by her granddaughter, Walls, lived in a dirt dugout in west Texas. Walls, whose megaselling memoir, The…

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Left To Tell

Left To Tell Immaculee Ilibagiza Memoir Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was…

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