Books by the Stack

Build your own book club kit
Check out as few or as many copies of the book as you need. Each book checks out separately and can be returned separately to any GRPL location. Books by the Stack books are checked out for 6 weeks (one 3-week renewal is available). Plenty of time to read, meet, and discuss! Discussion questions for each book can be downloaded below. Or ask for a copy of the questions at the Information Desk on Level 1 of the Main Library. Is your stack too tall to carry home? Check out a handy tote bag! Ask for the bag at the Information Desk as well.
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Books by the Stack at the Branches
Call 616.988.5400 to place a hold on available copies
Give us a call at the Main Library and we’ll be happy to get your stack together and on hold for you. We can send it to the branch of your choice or you can come pick it up at the Main Library.
Fiction
Call Me By Your Name
by Andre Aciman
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
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Watership Down
by Richard Adams
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Americanah
by Chimamanda Adichie
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Infinite Home
by Kathleen Alcott
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The Power
by Naomi Alderman
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The Bear and the Nightingale
by Katherine Arden
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The Handmaid's Tale
by Margaret Atwood
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Pretend I'm Dead
by Jen Beagin
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The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
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The Immortalists
by Chloe Benjamin
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November Road
by Lou Berney
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
by Katarina Bivald
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A Lucky Man: Stories
by Jamel Brinkley
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Sensible Shoes
by Sharon Garlough Brown
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The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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The Miniaturist
by Jessie Burton
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Marlena
by Julie Buntin
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The Trouble with Goats and Sheep
by Joanna Cannon
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
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Did You Ever Have a Family
by Bill Clegg
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The Girls
by Emma Cline
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Know the Mother
by Desiree Cooper
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Chasing Francis
by Ian Morgan Cron
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White Noise
by Don DeLillo
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The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Diaz
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The Man in the High Castle
by Phillip K. Dick
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The Guineveres
by Sarah Domet
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Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier
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Washington Black
by Esi Edugyan
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Girl, Woman, Other
by Bernardine Evaristo
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Lawn Boy
by Jonathan Evison
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So Big
by Edna Ferber
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My Brilliant Friend
by Elena Ferrante
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The Turner House
by Angela Flournoy
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The Jane Austen Project
by Kathleen Flynn
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This Is How It Always Is
by Laurie Frankel
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Varina
by Charles Frazier
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Americans Gods
by Neil Gaiman
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The Signature of All Things
by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
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Less
by Andrew Sean Greer
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The Maggie Bright
by Tracy Groot
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Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
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Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
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Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid
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She Rides Shotgun
by Jordan Harper
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Our Souls at Night
by Kent Haruf
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The Book of Unknown Americans
by Cristina Henriquez
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Strangers on a Train
by Patricia Highsmith
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The House of Silk
by Anthony Horowitz
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
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The Director
by David Ignatius
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The Single Man
by Christopher Isherwood
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News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
by Rachel Joyce
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Burial Rites
by Hannah Kent
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Death Is Hard Work
by Khaled Khalifa
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Orphan Train
by Christina Baker Kline
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The Leavers
by Lisa Ko
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The Dinner
by Herman Koch
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The Mars Room
by Rachel Kushner
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Crazy Rich Asians
by Kevin Kwan
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The Unhoneymooners
by Christina Lauren
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Call for the Dead
by John Le Carre
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Pachinko
by Min Jin Lee
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The Lathe of Heaven
by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Ginny Moon
by Benjamin Ludwig
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Lost Children Archive
by Valeria Luiselli
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
by Carmen Maria Machado
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Bird Box
by Josh Malerman
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Station Eleven
by Emily St. John Mandel
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A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
by Anthony Marra
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The Mountain Between Us
by Charles Martin
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Behold the Dreamers
by Imbolo Mbue
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Red, White & Royal Blue
by Casey McQuiston
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The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
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Gods of Jade and Shadow
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Song of Solomon
by Toni Morrison
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Ghost Wall
by Sarah Moss
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Darktown
by Thomas Mullen
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Convenience Store Woman
by Sayaka Murata
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Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
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The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
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Everything I Never Told You
by Celeste Ng
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The Sympathizer
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
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The Friend
by Sigrid Nunez
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Binti
by Nnedi Okorafor
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There There
by Tommy Orange
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The Essex Serpent
by Sarah Perry
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Ship of Fools
by Katherine Anne Porter
The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
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Normal People
by Sally Rooney
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Nobody's Fool
by Richard Russo
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Lincoln In the Bardo
by George Saunders
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Fever Dream
by Samanta Schweblin
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The Island of Sea Women
by Lisa See
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Ceremony
by Leslie Marmon Silko
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Sourdough
by Robin Sloan
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White Teeth
by Zadie Smith
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The Long-Shining Waters
by Danielle Sosin
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The Light Between Oceans
by Stedman, M. L.
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Crossing to Safety
by Wallace Stegner
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
Women Talking
by Miriam Toews
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Rules of Civility
by Amor Towles
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Annihilation
by Jeff VanderMeer
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The Sirens of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut
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Dietland
by Sarai Walker
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
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In a Dark, Dark Wood
by Ruth Ware
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Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
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Children of the World
by Alexander Weinstein
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The Martian
by Andy Weir
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The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
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Tell the Machine Goodnight
by Katie Williams
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Non Fiction
Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
by Karen Abbott
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The New Jim Crow
by Michelle Alexander
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The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
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Cork Dork
by Bianca Bosker
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Red Notice
by Bill Browder
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Rising Strong
by Brene Brown
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The Best We Could Do
by Thi Bui
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Small Giants
by Bo Burlingham
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Bad Blood
by John Carreyrou
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All You Can Ever Know
by Nicole Chung
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Look Alive Out There
by Sloane Crosley
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The World According to Fannie Davis
by Bridgett M. Davis
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Death in the Air
by Kate Winkler Dawson
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Evicted
by Matthew Desmond
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by Joan Didion
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Never Caught
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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My Family and Other Animals
by Gerald Malcolm Durrell
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$2.00 a Day
by K. Edin and L. Shaefer
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Ruined
by Ruth Everhart
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The Rise of the Robots
by Martin Ford
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Being Mortal
by Atul Gawande
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Bad Feminist
by Roxane Gay
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Eager
by Ben Goldfarb
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Janesville
by Amy Goldstein
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The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs
by Tristan Gooley
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Killers of the Flower Moon
by David Grann
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The Righteous Mind
by Jonathan Haidt
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What the Eyes Don't See
by Mona Hanna-Attisha
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Sapiens
by Yuval Harari
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10% Happier
by Dan Harris
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Blackout
by Sarah Hepola
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Strangers in Their Own Land
by Arlie Russell Hochschild
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All About Love
by bell hooks
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Survival Math
by Mitchell Jackson
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Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren
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The Feather Thief
by Kirk Wallace Johnson
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The Liars' Club
by Mary Karr
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Sun and Her Flowers
by Rupi Kaur
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Good Neighbor
by Maxwell King
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Lost Girls
by Robert Kolker
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The Lonely City
by Olivia Laing
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Member of the Family
by Dianne Lake
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Maid
by Stephanie Land
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Furiously Happy
by Jenny Lawson
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Heavy
by Kiese Laymon
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The Screwtape Letters
by C. S. Lewis
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Tell Me How It Ends
by Valeria Luiselli
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
by Michelle McNamara
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Working Stiff
by Judy Melinek
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Age of Anger
by Pankaj Mishra
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The Radium Girls
by Kate Moore
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The Underground Girls of Kabul
by Jenny Nordberg
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My Father, the Pornographer
by Chris Offutt
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Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come
by Jessica Pan
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The State of Affairs
by Esther Perel
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To Sell is Human
by Daniel Pink
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How to Change Your Mind
by Michael Pollan
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No One Cares About Crazy People
by Ron Powers
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
by Douglas Preston
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The Lean Startup
by Eric Ries
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The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
by Milton Rokeach
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
by Jon Ronson
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Sin Bravely
by Maggie Rowe
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
by David Sedaris
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Inheritance
by Dani Shapiro
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Men Explain Things to Me
by Rebecca Solnit
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Just Mercy
by Bryan Stevenson
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Wild
by Cheryl Strayed
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The Black Hand
by Stephan Talty
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Rez Life
by David Treuer
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The Blood of Emmett Till
by Timothy B. Tyson
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
by Esmé Weijun Wang
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The Very Worst Missionary
by Jamie Wright
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