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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride — Daniel James Brown
Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire — Ashley Spencer
Memorial Days — Geraldine Brooks
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World — Naomi Klein
Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age — Amanda Hess
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism — Sarah Wynn-Williams
The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us — Rachelle Bergstein
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath — Leslie Jamison
Into Thin Air — Jon Krakauer
The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend — Rob Copeland
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win — Maria Konnikova
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder — David Grann
Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy — James B. Stewart
The Informant — Kurt Eichenwald
Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence — Ken Auletta
Cabin Fever: The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic — Michael Smith
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels — Jason Schreier
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and Vengeance in Today's China — Desmond Shum
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty — Patrick Radden Keefe
DisneyWar — James B. Stewart
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence — Becky Cooper
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer – A #1 NYT Bestselling Serial Killer Investigation — Michelle McNamara
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World — Tom Wright
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram — Sarah Frier
Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence — Rachel Sherman
Billion Dollar Fantasy: The High-Stakes Game Between FanDuel and DraftKings That Upended Sports in America — Albert Chen
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town — Jon Krakauer
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators — Ronan Farrow
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement — Jodi Kantor
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber — Mike Isaac
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street — Sheelah Kolhatkar
Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business — Matt Lee
One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding — Rebecca Mead
The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. — Evan Ratliff
Cringeworthy: A Theory of Awkwardness — Melissa Dahl
The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection — Michael Ruhlman
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism — Robin DiAngelo
We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory — Christine Lagorio-Chafkin
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup — John Carreyrou
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley — Emily Chang
The Heart Is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai – An Intimate Work of Reportage on Three Couples in India — Elizabeth Flock
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds — Michael Lewis
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google — Scott Galloway
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck — Sophie Elmhirst
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia — Michael Booth
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone — Olivia Laing
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood — Jennifer Senior
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal — Eric Schlosser
Primates of Park Avenue — Wednesday Martin
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University — Kevin Roose
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics — Daniel James Brown
The End of Men: And the Rise of Women — Hanna Rosin
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail — Bill Bryson
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation — John Carlin
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin — Erik Larson