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  • Misty L. Heggeness The best books that unpack the themes, archetypes, and emotions in Swift’s lyrics Book cover of The Bolter Book cover of Clara Bow Book cover of Blue Blood Book cover of Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon Book cover of Paula: A Memoir
  • Jools Abrams The best un-miserable memoirs dealing with tricky family history written with wit and authenticity Book cover of Without Warning and Only Sometimes Book cover of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Book cover of My Name Is Why Book cover of Lowborn Book cover of The Liars' Club
  • Kate Andersen Brower The best books about rule-breaking, risk-taking, bad a$# women Book cover of A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II Book cover of Jackie after Jack: Portrait of the Lady Book cover of The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Book cover of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Book cover of Wise Gals: The Spies Who Built the CIA and Changed the Future of Espionage
  • Marita Golden The best memoirs to read to learn why memoir can be both literature and art Book cover of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Book cover of All Over But the Shoutin' Book cover of Black Boy Book cover of A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story Book cover of Beautiful Country: A Memoir
  • Jennifer Horne The best nonfiction books on lesser-known but fascinating figures Book cover of The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 Book cover of The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary Book cover of The Story of Chicago May Book cover of All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw Book cover of The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter
  • Katie McCabe The best books about Black women disruptors Book cover of The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice Book cover of Harriet Jacobs: The Remarkable Adventures of the Woman Who Wrote Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Book cover of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision Book cover of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All Book cover of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker
  • Elizabeth Brown The best books about women artists who broke barriers Book cover of Dorothea Lange: The Photographer Who Found the Faces of the Depression Book cover of It Began with a Page: How Gyo Fujikawa Drew the Way Book cover of Nature's Friend: The Gwen Frostic Story Book cover of A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa Book cover of Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos
  • Tori Scott The best books that are raw, honest, and vulnerable Book cover of The Chronology of Water: A Memoir Book cover of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Book cover of Just Kids Book cover of Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Book cover of Educated: A Memoir
  • Trisha Cull The best books to reveal the truth about mental illness Book cover of Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness Book cover of Untamed Book cover of Madness: A Bipolar Life Book cover of Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America Book cover of Girl, Interrupted
  • Jennifer Cramer-Miller The best books that inspire you to hug your life and savor every second Book cover of Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted Book cover of No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) Book cover of When Breath Becomes Air Book cover of Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal Book cover of Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life
  • John Dear The best books on the greatest modern peacemakers Book cover of The Life of Mahatma Gandhi Book cover of Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Book cover of All Is Grace: A Biography of Dorothy Day Book cover of At Play in the Lions' Den: A Biography and Memoir of Daniel Berrigan Book cover of Living With Wisdom: A Life of Thomas Merton
  • Don Glickstein The most well written political biographies Book cover of The Passage of Power Book cover of George C. Marshall, Vol. 1: Education of a General, 1880-1939 Book cover of Inventing George Washington: America's Founder, in Myth and Memory Book cover of Cleopatra: A Life Book cover of Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945
  • Kerry Aradhya The best nonfiction picture books featuring inventions kids know and love Book cover of The Boy Who Invented the Popsicle: The Cool Science Behind Frank Epperson's Famous Frozen Treat Book cover of The Crayon Man: The True Story of the Invention of Crayola Crayons Book cover of Whoosh! Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventions Book cover of Pedro's Yo-Yos: How a Filipino Immigrant Came to America and Changed the World of Toys Book cover of The Marvelous Thing That Came from a Spring: The Accidental Invention of the Toy That Swept the Nation
  • JQ Rose The best books for extraordinary life stories about ordinary people Book cover of Mango Rash: Coming of Age in the Land of Frangipani and Fanta Book cover of The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life--and Saved an American Farm Book cover of Bootstrapper: From Broke to Badass on a Northern Michigan Farm Book cover of The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees Book cover of On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
  • Kathryn Erskine The best books to discover fascinating people Book cover of Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code: A Navajo Code Talker's Story Book cover of Me Llamo Celia/My Name Is Celia: La Vida de Celia Cruz/The Life Of Celia Cruz Book cover of Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom Book cover of Malala's Magic Pencil Book cover of Sprouting Wings: The True Story of James Herman Banning, the First African American Pilot to Fly Across the United States
  • Vanessa G. Foster The best memoirs by badass women with grit Book cover of The Liars' Club Book cover of The Glass Castle Book cover of A Three Dog Life Book cover of Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Book cover of The Year of Magical Thinking
  • Christine Amoroso The best memoirs for evoking inspiration, empathy and compassion Book cover of The Glass Castle Book cover of The Liars' Club Book cover of Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood Book cover of Educated: A Memoir Book cover of Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir
  • Laura Meer Barkley The best memoirs about traumatic childhoods and dysfunctional families Book cover of The Glass Castle Book cover of Running with Scissors: A Memoir Book cover of Educated: A Memoir Book cover of The Liars' Club Book cover of A Child Called It
  • Tim Crothers The best books about young African heroes Book cover of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Book cover of The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Book cover of Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust Book cover of Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa Book cover of Another Day of Life
  • Katrina Shawver The best World War II books about people from Poland Book cover of Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto Book cover of The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz Book cover of My Sister's Mother: A Memoir of War, Exile, and Stalin's Siberia Book cover of The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville Book cover of All But My Life: A Memoir
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