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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American IdealsJane Mayer200832 pts5 wins8 listsDoubledayPolitics & GovernmentIntelligence, Secrecy & Surveillance+1

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte CristoTom Reiss201224 pts2 wins5 listsCrownBiographyBlack History & Culture+1

From Beirut to JerusalemThomas L. Friedman198822 pts4 wins4 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxPolitics & GovernmentMemoir & Personal History+2

Anti-Intellectualism in American LifeRichard Hofstadter196322 pts3 wins4 listsRandom HouseSociety & CultureIntellectual History & Ideas+2

LindberghA. Scott Berg199820 pts2 wins2 listsBerkleyBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2

Oscar WildeRichard Ellmann198820 pts2 wins2 listsUnknown imprintBiographyIntellectual Biography

Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Shaping of the HistorianJohn Leonard Clive197320 pts2 wins2 listsSecker & WarburgBiographyIntellectual History & Ideas+1

Know My Name: A MemoirChanel Miller201918 pts3 wins3 listsVikingMemoir & AutobiographyIntellectual Biography+1

James JoyceRichard Ellmann195918 pts3 wins3 listsUnknown imprintBiographyIntellectual Biography

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIATim Weiner200718 pts2 wins3 listsDoubledayHistoryIntellectual Biography+2

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of ColetteJudith Thurman199918 pts1 wins3 listsBloomsburyBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1

Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1847–1952T.H. Watkins199018 pts1 wins3 listsUnknown imprintBiographyIntellectual Biography

Young StalinSimon Sebag Montefiore200714 pts2 wins2 listsOrionBiographyIntellectual Biography

The Rise and Fall of the Third ReichWilliam L. Shirer196014 pts2 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryWorld War Ii+2

How to Say Babylon: A MemoirSafiya Sinclair202314 pts1 wins2 lists37 InkMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+1

Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for JusticeCristina Rivera Garza202314 pts1 wins2 listsHogarthMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+1

In the DarkroomSusan Faludi201614 pts1 wins2 listsMetropolitan BooksMemoir & AutobiographyLgbtq History & Life+2

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in AmericaIbram X. Kendi201614 pts1 wins2 listsNation BooksRace & EthnicityBlack History & Culture+1

The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. NaipaulPatrick French200814 pts1 wins2 listsKnopfBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1

The Year of Magical ThinkingJoan Didion200514 pts1 wins2 listsRandom HouseMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2

Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of BehaviorJonathan Weiner199914 pts1 wins2 listsFaber & FaberScienceNatural History & Animals+2

A Beautiful MindSylvia Nasar199814 pts1 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterBiographyMental Health & Psychology+2

Genet: A BiographyEdmund White198814 pts1 wins2 listsRandom HouseBiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+1

The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz KafkaErnst Pawel198414 pts1 wins2 listsNoonday PressBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2

Max Perkins: Editor of GeniusA. Scott Berg197914 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin PressBiographyLiterature & Writers+1

Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of IndependenceGarry Wills197814 pts1 wins2 listsVintage BooksHistoryConstitutional History+1

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy LeagueJeff Hobbs201414 pts1 wins3 listsSimon & SchusterBiographyIntellectual Biography

Black Elk: The Life of an American VisionaryJoe Jackson201614 pts2 wins4 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxBiographyIntellectual Biography+1

The Iceberg: A MemoirMarion Coutts201614 pts1 wins4 listsGrove AtlanticMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+1

The Memory PalaceMira Bartók201112 pts1 wins2 listsFree PressMemoir & AutobiographyDeath, Memory & Commemoration+2

Bernard Berenson: The Making of a ConnoisseurErnest Samuels197912 pts0 wins3 listsBelknap PressBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2

Educated: A MemoirTara Westover201812 pts0 wins4 listsRandom HouseMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2

In SensoriumTanaïs202210 pts1 wins1 listsEccoMemoir & AutobiographyIntellectual Biography+2

The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to ActIsaac Butler202210 pts1 wins1 listsBloomsburyArts & CriticismIntellectual Biography

Sontag: Her Life and WorkBenjamin Moser201910 pts1 wins1 listsEccoBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2

Belonging: A German Reckons With History and HomeNora Krug201810 pts1 wins1 listsScribnerMemoir & AutobiographyIntellectual Biography+2

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think DifferentlySteve Silberman201510 pts1 wins1 listsPenguin PressSociety & CultureDisability & Difference+2

The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in EuropeDavid I. Kertzer201410 pts1 wins1 listsRandom House Trade PaperbacksBiographyIntellectual History & Ideas+2

Half a LifeDarin Strauss201110 pts1 wins1 listsRandom House Trade PaperbacksMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+1

Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American ImaginationNeal Gabler200610 pts1 wins1 listsKnopfBiographyAfrica & the African Diaspora+1

Theodore RexEdmund Morris200110 pts1 wins1 listsRandom HouseBiographyIntellectual Biography

The Third Reich: A New HistoryMichael Burleigh200010 pts1 wins1 listsPan BooksHistoryWorld War Ii+2

The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary FranceRobert Darnton199510 pts1 wins1 listsFontanaHistoryIntellectual Biography

Patrimony: A True StoryPhilip Roth199110 pts1 wins1 listsJonathan CapeMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+1

Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of HistoryJohn Clive199010 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryIntellectual Biography

Norman Thomas: The Last IdealistW. A. Swanberg197610 pts1 wins1 listsScribnerBiographyMemoir & Personal History+2

Anarchy, State, and UtopiaRobert Nozick197410 pts1 wins1 listsBlackwell PublishingPolitics & GovernmentBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+2

Marcel ProustRoger Shattuck197410 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBiographyIntellectual Biography

Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite TasksMaurice Natanson197310 pts1 wins1 listsNorthwestern University PressBiographyIntellectual History & Ideas+2

Memoirs: 1925–1950George F. Kennan196710 pts1 wins1 listsBantam BooksMemoir & AutobiographyIntellectual Biography+1

Paris Journal, 1944–1965Janet Flanner196510 pts1 wins1 listsAtheneumHistoryMemoir & Personal History+1

DiderotArthur M. Wilson195710 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressBiographyIntellectual Biography

An American in ItalyHerbert Kubly195610 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintTravel & PlaceMemoir & Personal History+1

As I Remember Him: The Biography of R.S.Hans Zinsser194010 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2

Irving HoweHistory197710 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyIntellectual History & Ideas+2

Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin WallAnna Funder200410 pts1 wins1 listsGranta BooksHistoryIntellectual Biography

The Enlightenment, Vol. I: The Rise of Modern PaganismPeter Gay196710 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintHistoryLgbtq History & Life+2

Free: Coming of Age at the End of HistoryLea Ypi202210 pts1 wins3 listsAllen LaneMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2

The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an AgeLeo Damrosch20198 pts1 wins2 listsYale University PressBiographyIntellectual Biography+3

Weimar Culture: The Outsider As InsiderPeter Gay19688 pts1 wins2 listsHarperCollinsHistoryLiterature & Writers+1

Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade After World War ICharles Maier19768 pts1 wins2 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryMigration & Diaspora+2

Kissinger: A BiographyWalter Isaacson19928 pts0 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterBiographyIntellectual Biography

Becoming William JamesHoward M. Feinstein19868 pts0 wins2 listsCornell University PressBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1

The White AlbumJoan Didion19798 pts0 wins2 listsWeidenfeld & NicolsonSociety & CultureMemoir & Personal History+1

Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of LifeDaniel C. Dennett19958 pts0 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterScienceNatural History & Animals+1

Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, Vol. IISuzanne K. Langer19688 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintScienceMemoir & Personal History+2

WilsonA. Scott Berg20138 pts0 wins3 listsG. P. Putnam's SonsBiographyIntellectual Biography

Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't EnoughDina Nayeri20236 pts0 wins2 listsCatapultSociety & CultureIntellectual Biography

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make UsRachel Aviv20226 pts0 wins2 listsMacmillanSociety & CultureMemoir & Personal History+2

Orwell’s RosesRebecca Solnit20216 pts0 wins2 listsVikingBiographyLiterature & Writers+1

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot CocktailsSarah Bakewell20166 pts0 wins2 listsOther PressBiographyLgbtq History & Life+2

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978Kai Bird20106 pts0 wins2 listsScribnerMemoir & AutobiographyMigration & Diaspora+2

Our Guys:The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect SuburbBernard Lefkowitz19976 pts0 wins2 listsUniversity of California PressTrue Crime & JusticeLiterature & Writers+1

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of SightAndrew Leland20236 pts0 wins2 listsPenguin PressMemoir & AutobiographyLiterature & Writers+2

Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective StoryJim Holt20126 pts0 wins2 listsLiverightSociety & CultureIntellectual Biography

Clam Down: A MetamorphosisAnelise Chen20254 pts0 wins1 listsOne WorldMemoir & AutobiographyIntellectual Biography+2

Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TVEmily Nussbaum20254 pts0 wins1 listsRandom HouseSociety & CultureFilm, Television & Popular Culture+2

Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel SparkFrances Wilson20254 pts0 wins1 listsBloomsburyBiographyLiterature & Writers+2

How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal MindClancy Martin20234 pts0 wins1 listsPantheonMemoir & AutobiographyIntellectual Biography+1

Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to LifeClare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman20224 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyIntellectual Biography+2

Competing With Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, A Dual PortraitNick Davis20214 pts0 wins1 listsKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupBiographyIntellectual Biography

People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted PresentDara Horn20214 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonSociety & CultureMemoir & Personal History+1

The Idea of the Brain: A HistoryMatthew Cobb20214 pts0 wins1 listsProfile BooksHistoryIntellectual History & Ideas+1

Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISISAzadeh Moaveni20194 pts0 wins1 listsRandom HouseSociety & CultureMemoir & Personal History+2

Sounds Like Titanic: A MemoirJessica Chiccehitto Hindman20194 pts0 wins1 listsW. W. NortonMemoir & AutobiographyIntellectual Biography+2

The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian RevolutionPeter Hessler20194 pts0 wins1 listsPenguin PressHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+2

Reporter: A MemoirSeymour M. Hersh20184 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfMemoir & AutobiographyIntellectual Biography+1

Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and WhiteMichael Tisserand20164 pts0 wins1 listsHarperCollinsBiographyBlack History & Culture+1

The Invention of Angela Carter: A BiographyEdmund Gordon20164 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyMemoir & Personal History+1

On Immunity: An InoculationEula Biss20154 pts0 wins1 listsGraywolf PressMedicine & Public HealthMemoir & Personal History+2

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of ConsciousnessSy Montgomery20154 pts0 wins1 listsSimon & SchusterNature & EnvironmentMemoir & Personal History+2

Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen KanePatrick McGilligan20154 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyIntellectual Biography

Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass MurdererBettina Stangneth20144 pts0 wins1 listsKnopfBiographyHolocaust+2

Isabella: The Warrior QueenKirstin Downey20144 pts0 wins1 listsNan A. TaleseBiographyIntellectual Biography

Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His FreedomBarry Siegel20134 pts0 wins1 listsHenry Holt and CompanyTrue Crime & JusticeIntellectual Biography

In the House of the InterpreterNgugi wa Thiong’o20124 pts0 wins1 listsAnchorMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+1

Reinventing BachPaul Elie20124 pts0 wins1 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxArts & CriticismIntellectual Biography

Bismarck: A Life (biography of Otto von Bismarck)Jonathan Steinberg20114 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyIntellectual Biography

Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio SiloneStanislao G. Pugliese20094 pts0 wins1 listsUnknown imprintBiographyLiterature & Writers+1

The Hindus: An Alternative HistoryWendy Doniger20094 pts0 wins1 listsOxford University PressReligionAfrica & the African Diaspora+2


2008	The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals	Jane Mayer	Politics & Government	32	5	8	Doubleday	Penguin Random House
2012	The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo	Tom Reiss	Biography	24	2	5	Crown	Penguin Random House
1988	From Beirut to Jerusalem	Thomas L. Friedman	Politics & Government	22	4	4	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Macmillan
1963	Anti-Intellectualism in American Life	Richard Hofstadter	Society & Culture	22	3	4	Random House	Penguin Random House
1998	Lindbergh	A. Scott Berg	Biography	20	2	2	Berkley	Penguin Random House
1988	Oscar Wilde	Richard Ellmann	Biography	20	2	2	Unknown	Piper
1973	Thomas Babington Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian	John Leonard Clive	Biography	20	2	2	Secker & Warburg	Penguin Random House
2019	Know My Name: A Memoir	Chanel Miller	Memoir & Autobiography	18	3	3	Viking	Penguin Random House
1959	James Joyce	Richard Ellmann	Biography	18	3	3	Unknown	Suhrkamp Verlag
2007	Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA	Tim Weiner	History	18	2	3	Doubleday	Penguin Random House
1999	Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette	Judith Thurman	Biography	18	1	3	Bloomsbury	Bloomsbury Publishing
1990	Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1847–1952	T.H. Watkins	Biography	18	1	3	Unknown	Not yet sourced
2007	Young Stalin	Simon Sebag Montefiore	Biography	14	2	2	Orion	Hachette UK
1960	The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich	William L. Shirer	History	14	2	2	Simon & Schuster	Simon & Schuster
2023	How to Say Babylon: A Memoir	Safiya Sinclair	Memoir & Autobiography	14	1	2	37 Ink	Simon & Schuster
2023	Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice	Cristina Rivera Garza	Memoir & Autobiography	14	1	2	Hogarth	Penguin Random House
2016	In the Darkroom	Susan Faludi	Memoir & Autobiography	14	1	2	Metropolitan Books	Macmillan
2016	Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America	Ibram X. Kendi	Race & Ethnicity	14	1	2	Nation Books	Hachette Book Group
2008	The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul	Patrick French	Biography	14	1	2	Knopf	Penguin Random House
2005	The Year of Magical Thinking	Joan Didion	Memoir & Autobiography	14	1	2	Random House	Penguin Random House
1999	Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior	Jonathan Weiner	Science	14	1	2	Faber & Faber	Faber & Faber
1998	A Beautiful Mind	Sylvia Nasar	Biography	14	1	2	Simon & Schuster	Simon & Schuster
1988	Genet: A Biography	Edmund White	Biography	14	1	2	Random House	Penguin Random House
1984	The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka	Ernst Pawel	Biography	14	1	2	Noonday Press	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
1979	Max Perkins: Editor of Genius	A. Scott Berg	Biography	14	1	2	Penguin Press	Penguin Random House
1978	Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence	Garry Wills	History	14	1	2	Vintage Books	Penguin Random House
2014	The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League	Jeff Hobbs	Biography	14	1	3	Simon & Schuster	Simon & Schuster
2016	Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary	Joe Jackson	Biography	14	2	4	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Macmillan
2016	The Iceberg: A Memoir	Marion Coutts	Memoir & Autobiography	14	1	4	Grove Atlantic	Grove Atlantic
2011	The Memory Palace	Mira Bartók	Memoir & Autobiography	12	1	2	Free Press	Simon & Schuster
1979	Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur	Ernest Samuels	Biography	12	0	3	Belknap Press	Harvard University Press
2018	Educated: A Memoir	Tara Westover	Memoir & Autobiography	12	0	4	Random House	Penguin Random House
2022	In Sensorium	Tanaïs	Memoir & Autobiography	10	1	1	Ecco	HarperCollins
2022	The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act	Isaac Butler	Arts & Criticism	10	1	1	Bloomsbury	Bloomsbury Publishing
2019	Sontag: Her Life and Work	Benjamin Moser	Biography	10	1	1	Ecco	HarperCollins
2018	Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home	Nora Krug	Memoir & Autobiography	10	1	1	Scribner	Simon & Schuster
2015	NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently	Steve Silberman	Society & Culture	10	1	1	Penguin Press	Penguin Random House
2014	The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe	David I. Kertzer	Biography	10	1	1	Random House Trade Paperbacks	Penguin Random House
2011	Half a Life	Darin Strauss	Memoir & Autobiography	10	1	1	Random House Trade Paperbacks	Penguin Random House
2006	Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination	Neal Gabler	Biography	10	1	1	Knopf	Penguin Random House
2001	Theodore Rex	Edmund Morris	Biography	10	1	1	Random House	Penguin Random House
2000	The Third Reich: A New History	Michael Burleigh	History	10	1	1	Pan Books	Macmillan
1995	The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France	Robert Darnton	History	10	1	1	Fontana	HarperCollins
1991	Patrimony: A True Story	Philip Roth	Memoir & Autobiography	10	1	1	Jonathan Cape	Penguin Random House
1990	Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History	John Clive	History	10	1	1	Unknown	Not yet sourced
1976	Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist	W. A. Swanberg	Biography	10	1	1	Scribner	Simon & Schuster
1974	Anarchy, State, and Utopia	Robert Nozick	Politics & Government	10	1	1	Blackwell Publishing	Wiley
1974	Marcel Proust	Roger Shattuck	Biography	10	1	1	Princeton University Press	Princeton University Press
1973	Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks	Maurice Natanson	Biography	10	1	1	Northwestern University Press	Northwestern University Press
1967	Memoirs: 1925–1950	George F. Kennan	Memoir & Autobiography	10	1	1	Bantam Books	Penguin Random House
1965	Paris Journal, 1944–1965	Janet Flanner	History	10	1	1	Atheneum	Simon & Schuster
1957	Diderot	Arthur M. Wilson	Biography	10	1	1	Oxford University Press	Oxford University Press
1956	An American in Italy	Herbert Kubly	Travel & Place	10	1	1	Unknown	Not yet sourced
1940	As I Remember Him: The Biography of R.S.	Hans Zinsser	Memoir & Autobiography	10	1	1	Unknown	Not yet sourced
1977	Irving Howe	History	Biography	10	1	1	Unknown	Not yet sourced
2004	Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall	Anna Funder	History	10	1	1	Granta Books	Granta Books
1967	The Enlightenment, Vol. I: The Rise of Modern Paganism	Peter Gay	History	10	1	1	Unknown	Not yet sourced
2022	Free: Coming of Age at the End of History	Lea Ypi	Memoir & Autobiography	10	1	3	Allen Lane	Penguin Random House
2019	The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age	Leo Damrosch	Biography	8	1	2	Yale University Press	Yale University Press
1968	Weimar Culture: The Outsider As Insider	Peter Gay	History	8	1	2	HarperCollins	HarperCollins
1976	Recasting Bourgeois Europe: Stabilization in France, Germany and Italy in the Decade After World War I	Charles Maier	History	8	1	2	Princeton University Press	Princeton University Press
1992	Kissinger: A Biography	Walter Isaacson	Biography	8	0	2	Simon & Schuster	Simon & Schuster
1986	Becoming William James	Howard M. Feinstein	Biography	8	0	2	Cornell University Press	Cornell University Press
1979	The White Album	Joan Didion	Society & Culture	8	0	2	Weidenfeld & Nicolson	Hachette UK
1995	Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life	Daniel C. Dennett	Science	8	0	2	Simon & Schuster	Simon & Schuster
1968	Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, Vol. II	Suzanne K. Langer	Science	8	0	2	Unknown	Not yet sourced
2013	Wilson	A. Scott Berg	Biography	8	0	3	G. P. Putnam's Sons	Penguin Random House
2023	Who Gets Believed?: When the Truth Isn't Enough	Dina Nayeri	Society & Culture	6	0	2	Catapult	Catapult
2022	Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us	Rachel Aviv	Society & Culture	6	0	2	Macmillan	Macmillan
2021	Orwell’s Roses	Rebecca Solnit	Biography	6	0	2	Viking	Penguin Random House
2016	At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails	Sarah Bakewell	Biography	6	0	2	Other Press	Other Press
2010	Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978	Kai Bird	Memoir & Autobiography	6	0	2	Scribner	Simon & Schuster
1997	Our Guys:The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb	Bernard Lefkowitz	True Crime & Justice	6	0	2	University of California Press	University of California Press
2023	The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight	Andrew Leland	Memoir & Autobiography	6	0	2	Penguin Press	Penguin Random House
2012	Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story	Jim Holt	Society & Culture	6	0	2	Liveright	W. W. Norton & Company
2025	Clam Down: A Metamorphosis	Anelise Chen	Memoir & Autobiography	4	0	1	One World	Penguin Random House
2025	Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV	Emily Nussbaum	Society & Culture	4	0	1	Random House	Penguin Random House
2025	Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark	Frances Wilson	Biography	4	0	1	Bloomsbury	Bloomsbury Publishing
2023	How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of the Suicidal Mind	Clancy Martin	Memoir & Autobiography	4	0	1	Pantheon	Penguin Random House
2022	Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life	Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman	Biography	4	0	1	Unknown	Not yet sourced
2021	Competing With Idiots: Herman and Joe Mankiewicz, A Dual Portrait	Nick Davis	Biography	4	0	1	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group	Penguin Random House
2021	People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Present	Dara Horn	Society & Culture	4	0	1	W. W. Norton	W. W. Norton & Company
2021	The Idea of the Brain: A History	Matthew Cobb	History	4	0	1	Profile Books	Profile Books
2019	Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS	Azadeh Moaveni	Society & Culture	4	0	1	Random House	Penguin Random House
2019	Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir	Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman	Memoir & Autobiography	4	0	1	W. W. Norton	W. W. Norton & Company
2019	The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution	Peter Hessler	History	4	0	1	Penguin Press	Penguin Random House
2018	Reporter: A Memoir	Seymour M. Hersh	Memoir & Autobiography	4	0	1	Knopf	Penguin Random House
2016	Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White	Michael Tisserand	Biography	4	0	1	HarperCollins	HarperCollins
2016	The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography	Edmund Gordon	Biography	4	0	1	Unknown	Not yet sourced
2015	On Immunity: An Inoculation	Eula Biss	Medicine & Public Health	4	0	1	Graywolf Press	Graywolf Press
2015	The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness	Sy Montgomery	Nature & Environment	4	0	1	Simon & Schuster	Simon & Schuster
2015	Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane	Patrick McGilligan	Biography	4	0	1	Unknown	Not yet sourced
2014	Eichmann Before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer	Bettina Stangneth	Biography	4	0	1	Knopf	Penguin Random House
2014	Isabella: The Warrior Queen	Kirstin Downey	Biography	4	0	1	Nan A. Talese	Penguin Random House
2013	Manifest Injustice: The True Story of a Convicted Murderer and the Lawyers Who Fought for His Freedom	Barry Siegel	True Crime & Justice	4	0	1	Henry Holt and Company	Macmillan
2012	In the House of the Interpreter	Ngugi wa Thiong’o	Memoir & Autobiography	4	0	1	Anchor	Penguin Random House
2012	Reinventing Bach	Paul Elie	Arts & Criticism	4	0	1	Farrar, Straus and Giroux	Macmillan
2011	Bismarck: A Life (biography of Otto von Bismarck)	Jonathan Steinberg	Biography	4	0	1	Unknown	Not yet sourced
2009	Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone	Stanislao G. Pugliese	Biography	4	0	1	Unknown	Not yet sourced
2009	The Hindus: An Alternative History	Wendy Doniger	Religion	4	0	1	Oxford University Press	Oxford University Press

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