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| Alchemy (2003) by Margaret Mahy |
| All-American Girl (2002) by Meg Cabot |
| Among the Hidden (1998) by Margaret Haddix |
| An Author's Mind (1847) by Martin Farquhar Tupper |
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| Art and the Life of Action (1934) by Max Eastman |
| Avalon High (2005) by Meg Cabot |
| Barrel Fever (1994) by David Sedaris |
| Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium (1997) by Carl Sagan |
| Bo Knows Bo (1991) by Dick Schaap |
| Both Flesh and Not (2012) by David Foster Wallace |
| Both Sides of Time (1995) by Caroline B. Cooney |
| Boys and Girls Come Out to Play (1971) by Nigel Dennis |
| Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science (1979) by Carl Sagan |
| Bully for Brontosaurus (1991) by Stephen Jay Gould |
| Calypso (2018) by David Sedaris |
| Cancer Ward (1968) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |
| Catechism of Parliamentary Reform (1817) by Jeremy Bentham |
| Code Orange (2005) by Caroline B. Cooney |
| Collected Writings (1991) by Zelda Fitzgerald |
| Consider the Lobster (2005) by David Foster Wallace |
| Cress Delahanty (1953) by Jessamyn West |
| Cultural Amnesia (2007) by Clive James |
| Danny's Own Story (1916) by Don Marquis |
| Double Identity (2005) by Margaret Haddix |
| Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) by George Orwell |
| Dreamer's Notebook (1925) by Holbrook Jackson |
| Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004) by David Sedaris |
| Dune: House Atreides (1999) by Kevin J. Anderson |
| Duty (1880) by Samuel Smiles |
| Écrits sur la musique (1908) by James Huneker |
| Essays (1597) by Francis Bacon |
| Everywhere I Look (2016) by Helen Garner |
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) by Wes Anderson |
| Fear Street (1989) by R. L. Stine |
| Fishing and Shooting Sketches (1906) by Grover Cleveland |
| Flashing Before My Eyes: 50 Years of Headlines, Deadlines & Punchlines (2001) by Dick Schaap |
| Football in Sun and Shadow (1995) by Eduardo Galeano |
| For the Win (2010) by Cory Doctorow |
| Found (2008) by Margaret Haddix |
| Freud's Vienna and Other Essays (1990) by Bruno Bettelheim |
| Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80s (1988) by Hunter S. Thompson |
| Give War a Chance (1992) by P. J. O'Rourke |
| Going for the Gold: The Story of All-or-Nothing Olympic Sports (1984) by Otto Friedrich |
| Hellhole (2011) by Kevin J. Anderson |
| Hidden Empire (2002) by Kevin J. Anderson |
| His Own Where (1971) by June Jordan |
| Holidays on Ice (1997) by David Sedaris |
| Hood's Own: or, Laughter from Year to Year (1839) by Thomas Hood |
| Illness as Metaphor (1978) by Susan Sontag |
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| In Our Time (1976) by Eric Hoffer |
| Instant Replay: The Green Bay Diary of Jerry Kramer (1968) by Dick Schaap |
| Isle of Dogs (2018) by Wes Anderson |
| Judo: History, Theory, Practice (2004) by Vladimir Putin |
| Just Ella (1999) by Margaret Haddix |
| King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero (1998) by David Remnick |
| Le Roi et L'oiseau (1980) by Jacques Prevert |
| Le Spleen de Paris (1869) by Charles Baudelaire |
| Less Than One: Selected Essays (1986) by Joseph Brodsky |
| Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls (2013) by David Sedaris |
| Life and Fate (1991) by Eli Khamarov |
| Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness (1994) by Peggy Noonan |
| Little Brother (2008) by Cory Doctorow |
| Love Lament (1959) by Otto Friedrich |
| Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000) by David Sedaris |
| Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball (1990) by George Will |
| Metropolitan Life (1978) by Fran Lebowitz |
| My Dog Skip (1995) by Willie Morris |
| Naked (1997) by David Sedaris |
| NASCAR Off the Record (2004) by Brock Yates |
| Nature and Man (1968) by Eric Hoffer |
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| Novum Organum (1620) by Francis Bacon |
| Object Lessons (1991) by Anna Quindlen |
| On Fire (2019) by Naomi Klein |
| On Grief and Reason: Essays (1995) by Joseph Brodsky |
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| One Man's Meat (1942) by E. B. White |
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| Prejudices: First Series (1919) by H. L. Mencken |
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| Regarding the Pain of Others (2003) by Susan Sontag |
| Rumble Fish (1975) by S. E. Hinton |
| Rummies (1989) by Peter Benchley |
| Running Out of Time (1995) by Margaret Haddix |
| Sentimental Education (1869) by Gustave Flaubert |
| Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays (1992) by Camille Paglia |
| Sister Outsider (1984) by Audre Lorde |
| Social Studies (1981) by Fran Lebowitz |
| Steinbrenner! (1982) by Dick Schaap |
| Take the Cannoli: Stories From the New World (2000) by Sarah Vowell |
| Taming the Star Runner (1988) by S. E. Hinton |
| Tex (1979) by S. E. Hinton |
| That Was Then, This Is Now (1971) by S. E. Hinton |
| The Baron in the Trees (1957) by Italo Calvino |
| The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath |
| The Bride of the Mistletoe (1909) by James Lane Allen |
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| The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J.D. Salinger |
| The CEO of the Sofa (2001) by P. J. O'Rourke |
| The Changeover (1984) by Margaret Mahy |
| The Courting of Marcus Dupree (1983) by Willie Morris |
| The Divorce Express (1982) by Paula Danziger |
 The Everlasting Story of Nory (1998) by Nicholson Baker |
| The Face on the Milk Carton (1990) by Caroline B. Cooney |
| The Fire Next Time (1963) by James A. Baldwin |
| The Fran Lebowitz Reader (1994) by Fran Lebowitz |
| The German Lesson (1968) by Siegfried Lenz |
| The Great Instauration (1620) by Francis Bacon |
| The Haunting (1982) by Margaret Mahy |
| The Indianapolis 500: The Story of the Motor Speedway (1955) by Brock Yates |
| The Outsiders (1967) by S. E. Hinton |
| The Partly Cloudy Patriot (2002) by Sarah Vowell |
| The Path to the Nest of Spiders (1947) by Italo Calvino |
| The Patriots: The Personal Story of New England's Colorful Quarterback Tom Yewcic (1965) by Will McDonough |
| The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) by Stephen Chbosky |
| The Princess Diaries (2000) by Meg Cabot |
| The Saga of Seven Suns (2002) by Kevin J. Anderson |
| The Stag (1931) by J. B. Morton |
| The Strenuous Life (1900) by Theodore Roosevelt |
| The Temper of Our Time (1967) by Eric Hoffer |
| The Time of Our Lives (2015) by Peggy Noonan |
| The Voice on the Radio (1996) by Caroline B. Cooney |
| The Weather of Words (2000) by Mark Strand |
| The Wee Free Men (2003) by Terry Pratchett |
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| The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry (2017) by Wendell Berry |
| The World's Greatest Team: A Portrait of the Boston Celtics 1956-69 (1972) by Will McDonough |
| Thirty-nine Articles (1730) by Edward Young |
| This Changes Everything (2014) by Naomi Klein |
| Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Uncomfortable Ideas (2016) by Bo Bennett |
| Vamps & Tramps: New Essays (1994) by Camille Paglia |
| Voice of Reason (2011) by Bryant H. McGill |
| Watermark (1992) by Joseph Brodsky |
| What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (1993) by Adrienne Rich |
| When the Legends Die (1963) by Hal Borland |
| When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008) by David Sedaris |
| Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1993) by Maya Angelou |
| Yellow Submarine (1968) by Erich Segal |
