E-Book Nonfiction
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HIDDEN FIGURES
🖋️ Margot Lee Shetterly
🏢 Morrow/HarperCollins
The black women mathematicians who worked at then-segregated NASA. The basis of the movie.
🥈 02
HILLBILLY ELEGY
🖋️ JD Vance
🏢 HarperCollins
A Yale Law School graduate looks at the struggles of the white working class through the story of his own childhood in the Rust Belt.
🥉 03
UNSINKABLE
🖋️ Debbie Reynolds and Dorian Hannaway
🏢 Morrow
A second memoir by the actress, singer and dancer; originally published in 2013.
04
THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD
🖋️ Douglas Preston
🏢 Grand Central
A frightening search for a lost civilization in the Honduran rain forest.
05
WISHFUL DRINKING
🖋️ Carrie Fisher
🏢 Simon & Schuster
A memoir based on Fisher’s one-woman autobiographical show. Originally published in 2008.
06
THREE DAYS IN JANUARY
🖋️ Bret Baier with Catherine Whitney
🏢 Morrow/HarperCollins
Eisenhower’s farewell address and his role in the Kennedy transition.
07
KILLING THE RISING SUN
🖋️ Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
🏢 Holt
The host of “The O’Reilly Factor” recounts the final years of World War II.
08
WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR
🖋️ Paul Kalanithi
🏢 Random House
A memoir by a physician who received a diagnosis of Stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36.
09
THE UNDOING PROJECT
🖋️ Michael Lewis
🏢 Norton
How the psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky upended assumptions about the decision-making process and invented the field of behavioral economics.
10
THE PRINCESS DIARIST
🖋️ Carrie Fisher
🏢 Blue Rider
Recollections of life on the set of the first Star Wars movie by the actress and writer, who died in December.
11
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
🖋️ Ron Chernow
🏢 Penguin
A biography of the first Treasury secretary and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. The basis of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical.
12
THE MAGNOLIA STORY
🖋️ Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines with Mark Dagostino
🏢 W Publishing/Thomas Nelson
The couple, who star in the HGTV show “Fixer Upper,” offer a look at their lives together.
13
BORN A CRIME
🖋️ Trevor Noah
🏢 Spiegel & Grau
A memoir about growing up biracial in apartheid South Africa by the former host of “The Daily Show.”
14
TROUBLEMAKER
🖋️ Leah Remini and Rebecca Paley
🏢 Ballantine
The actress describes her life in Scientology and the aftermath of her break with the church in 2013.
15
THANK YOU FOR BEING LATE
🖋️ Thomas L Friedman
🏢 Farrar, Straus & Giroux
How globalization, climate change and the accelerating pace of technology are reshaping the world.