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Biography & History

Mitch Albom
	A+	Tuesdays with Morrie
Cleveland Amory
	B	The Cat and the Curmudgeon
Maya Angelou
	B	Hallejuah! The Welcome Table
	B	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anthony Walton
	B	Brothers in Arms

Richard Bach
	D	The Bridge Across Forever
Edith Hahn Beer with Susan Dworkin
	A	The Nazi Officer's Wife
John Berendt
	B	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Erma Bombeck
	B	At Wit's End
	A+	A Marriage Made in Heaven or Too Tired for an Affair
Judy Goldstein Botello
	A	The Other Side: Journeys in Baja California
James Bradley with Ronald Powers
	B	Flags of Our Fathers
Bill Bryson
	A	A Walk in the Woods
Jimmy Carter
	B	An Hour Before Daylight
Jandy Chambers
	B	Grief As I Know It
Arline Chase
	B	Go Down Moses
William Close MD
	A	Beyond the Storm
	A	A Doctor's Life
Leon Cooper and Don Tait
	B	90 Day Wonder: Darkness Remembered
Bill Cosby
	A	Time Flies
Li Cunxin
	A	Mao's Last Dancer
Sampson Davis, MD, George Jenkins, DDS, Rameck Hunt, MD, and Lisa Frazier Page
	B	The Pact
Jim DeFede
	A	The Day the World Came to Town
Max Domarus
	B	Essential Hitler The Speeches and Commentary
Frederick Douglass
	B	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Nora Ephron
	B	I Feel Bad About My Neck
Joseph J. Ellis
	A	Founding Brothers
Sarah Ferguson
	B	What I Know Now Simple Lessons Learned the Hard Way
Anne Frank
	A+	Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Carole O'Malley Gaunt
	C	Hungry Hill
Elizabeth Gilbert
	C	Eat, Pray, Love
Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
	A+	Cheaper by the Dozen
John Grogan
	A	Marley & Me
Helene Hanff
	A	84, Charing Cross Road
Forrest Haskell
	A	12th & McGraw
James Herriot
	B	James Herriot's Cat Stories
	B	Vet in a Spin


Hamilton Jordan
	B	No Such Thing as a Bad Day
Sebastian Junger
	B	The Perfect Storm
Kat Hibbard
	B	Bullets: Growing Up in the Crossfire
Imre Kalanyos
	B	Wanna Know Why You’re Still Single?
Mitchell D. Kessler
	B	May It Please the Court
Jon Krakauer
	A	Into Thin Air
Margaret Landon
	C	Anna and the King of Siam
Leah Lauber
	B	Soccer Dreams
Alan Lewis w/ Bob Fletcher, illustrator
	A+	I Grew Up on a Farm
Suzanna Lonchar
	A	A Brooklyn Rose
E. B. Long and Barbara Long
	A	The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861-1865 Books
Rosemary Mahoney
	C	Down the Nile
Catherine Marshall
	B	A Man Called Peter
Frances Mayes
	B	Under the Tuscan Sun
Frank McCourt
	C	Teacher Man
Troy Morris
	C	White-washing America
Vicki Myron
	B	Dewey the Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
Sylvia Nasar
	B	A Beautiful Mind
S. David Nathanson MD
	A	Ordinary Miracles
Thomas E. Pierce
	B	The Last Rose
Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi
	A	The Monster of Florence
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Edward J. Renehan
	B	The Lion's Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War
Cokie Roberts
	B	Founding Mothers
Osborne Russell
	A	Osborne Russell's Journal of a Trapper edited by Aubrey Haines
Helga Schneider
	C	Let Me Go
Suzanne Strempek Shea
	A	Shelf Life
Donna Shirley w/ Danelle Morton
	B	Managing Martians
Dennis Smith
	D	Report from Ground Zero
Calvin Trillin
	A	About Alice
Fred Trump
	B	Lincoln's Little Girl a True Story
Karen Vanderlaan
	B	Show and Tell
Colette Waddell
	B	Through the Eyes of a Survivor
Jeannette Walls
	A	The Glass Castle
Brenda M. Weber
	B	I Promise Not to Tell
Tom Wolfe
	A+	The Right Stuff
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