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A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety
Donald Hall
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No One Tells You This: A Memoir
Glynnis MacNicol
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What to Read and Why
Francine Prose
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Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obse…
Alice Bolin
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The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading
Edmund White
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Refuge
Ming Lauren Holden
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Life in the Garden
Penelope Lively
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Tonight I'm Someone Else
Chelsea Hodson
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Calypso
David Sedaris
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to …
Jim Holt
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Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
Michael Chabon
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The Lives of the Surrealists
Desmond Morris
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Spring
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers an…
Richard Russo
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Against Memoir: Complaints, Confessions & Cr…
Michelle Tea
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Like Brothers
Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass
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Figures in a Landscape: People and Places
Paul Theroux
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The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Ber…
Wendell Berry
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Celestial Bodies: How to Look at Ballet
Laura Jacobs
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The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story
Christie Watson
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
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Break.Up: A Novel in Essays
Joanna Walsh
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How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
Alexander Chee
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Acid West: Essays
Joshua Wheeler
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The Truth about Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn…
Lucy Cooke
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Buttermilk Graffiti: A Chef's Journey to Discove…
Edward Lee
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Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Op…
Michelle Dean
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And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before…
Meaghan O'Connell
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Beyond Measure: Essays
Rachel Z. Arndt
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See What Can Be Done
Lorrie Moore
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Look Alive Out There: Essays
Sloane Crosley
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Asking for a Friend: Three Centuries of Advice o…
Jessica Weisberg
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Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our …
Steve Almond
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Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
Alan Lightman
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Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in…
Masha Gessen, photographs by Misha Friedman
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Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs,…
Andrea Barnet
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Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America
Cass R. Sunstein
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The Return of Marco Polo's World: War, Strategy,…
Robert D. Kaplan
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Memphis Rent Party: The Blues, Rock & Soul i…
Robert Gordon
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What Are We Doing Here?: Essays
Marilynne Robinson
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