An Eclectic Booklist
105. 
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
by:
Joy Adamson
4.16 avg rating β 33,673 ratings 
109. 
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by:
Nora Ephron
3.74 avg rating β 84,692 ratings 110. 
112. 
Feathered Serpent: A Novel of the Mexican Conquest
by:
Colin Falconer
4.03 avg rating β 2,524 ratings 113. 
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
by:
Alexis Coe
3.74 avg rating β 14,286 ratings 114. 
Rescued from the Ashes: The Diary of Leokadia Schmidt, Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto
by:
Leokadia Schmidt
4.37 avg rating β 1,463 ratings 
115. 
117. 
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
by:
Dani Shapiro
3.89 avg rating β 45,341 ratings 118. 
Wanting a Daughter, Needing a Son: Abandonment, Adoption, and Orphanage Care in China
by:
Kay Ann Johnson
4.16 avg rating β 253 ratings 
121. 
Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919
by:
Grif Stockley
3.98 avg rating β 47 ratings 122. 
The Coldest Winter Ever (The Coldest Winter Ever, #1)
by:
Sister Souljah
4.46 avg rating β 42,220 ratings 
126. 
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
by:
Denise Kiernan
3.73 avg rating β 31,442 ratings 127. 
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After 4.19 avg rating β 24,695 ratings
132. 
U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom)
by:
Founding Fathers
4.52 avg rating β 27,060 ratings 134. 
Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital
by:
Eric Manheimer
3.67 avg rating β 6,636 ratings 
137. 
A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher
by:
Sue Halpern
3.70 avg rating β 1,649 ratings 
139. 
Justinianβs Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe
by:
William Rosen
3.67 avg rating β 2,466 ratings 
141. 
The Daily Coyote: Story of Love, Survival, and Trust In the Wilds of Wyoming
by:
Shreve Stockton
3.99 avg rating β 3,441 ratings 143. 
Too Afraid to Cry: Maryland Civilians in the Antietam Campaign
by:
Kathleen Ernst
4.19 avg rating β 57 ratings 
145. 
Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
by:
Javaka Steptoe
3.95 avg rating β 5,757 ratings 146. 
The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography
by:
Sidney Poitier
3.76 avg rating β 13,370 ratings 147. 
In Their Lives: Great Writers on Great Beatles Songs
by:
Andrew Blauner
3.60 avg rating β 306 ratings 
149. 
Syria's Secret Library: Reading and Redemption in a Town Under Siege
by:
Mike Thomson
4.09 avg rating β 1,012 ratings 151. 
Writing, Rhetoric, and the Art of Persuasion (The Modern Scholar: Way with Words, Vol. 1) 4.33 avg rating β 536 ratings
151. 
156. 
158. 
The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom
by:
Helen Thorpe
4.26 avg rating β 3,128 ratings 
162. 
The Strange Case of Finley Jayne (Steampunk Chronicles, #0.5)
by:
Kady Cross
3.79 avg rating β 7,850 ratings 162. 
Why Geography Matters: Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism
by:
H.J. de Blij
3.71 avg rating β 397 ratings 
165. 
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa
by:
Jeanette Winter
4.33 avg rating β 1,315 ratings 166. 
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
by:
Thomas Cathcart
3.76 avg rating β 17,181 ratings 
169. 
The Wisdom of the Beguines: The Forgotten Story of a Medieval Womenβs Movement
by:
Laura Swan
3.71 avg rating β 218 ratings 171. 
Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
by:
John Hockenberry
4.08 avg rating β 530 ratings 
173. 
Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
by:
Chris Hamby
4.31 avg rating β 753 ratings 
175. 
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
by:
Eric Foner
4.18 avg rating β 6,498 ratings 175. 
The Colors of All the Cattle (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #19) 4.16 avg rating β 10,817 ratings
179. 
And...Who Is The Real Mother? (I Am Proud To Be A Jew, #1)
by:
Roberta Kagan
4.50 avg rating β 880 ratings 179. 
Sunrise by the Sea (Little Beach Street Bakery, #4)
by:
Jenny Colgan
3.97 avg rating β 12,625 ratings 181. 
182. 
183. 
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by:
Lynne Truss
3.87 avg rating β 106,070 ratings 
185. 
The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
by:
Dunya Mikhail
4.08 avg rating β 1,928 ratings 
188. 
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
by:
Haruki Murakami
3.91 avg rating β 21,854 ratings 
191. 
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by:
Malala Yousafzai
4.16 avg rating β 612,739 ratings 192. 
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating β 426,100 ratings 
