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appropriate nonfiction books for AP Language & Composition
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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The Glass Castle
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4.33 avg rating — 1,349,517 ratings
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The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems
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Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny
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The Right Stuff
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A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 5,527 ratings
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 59,199 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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Michael Pollan (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 209,904 ratings
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Bird by Bird
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Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 110,212 ratings
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The Shadow of the Sun
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What Is the What
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4.15 avg rating — 87,088 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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Susan Cain (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 472,025 ratings
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The Big Short
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Steve Jobs
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 1,350,748 ratings
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Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
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Andrew X. Pham (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 6,676 ratings
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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4.19 avg rating — 11,833 ratings
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
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3.73 avg rating — 33,698 ratings
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The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
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Brian Castner (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 2,017 ratings
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Into the Wild
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 1,183,158 ratings
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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4.19 avg rating — 859,059 ratings
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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Rebecca Skloot (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 798,743 ratings
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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3.65 avg rating — 195,165 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 992,109 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 723,147 ratings
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Chaos: Making a New Science
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James Gleick (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 40,752 ratings
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The Muslim Next Door: The Qurʼan, the Media, and That Veil Thing
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3.73 avg rating — 475 ratings
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The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
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G. Willow Wilson (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 5,089 ratings
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The Complete Persepolis
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4.40 avg rating — 203,633 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.37 avg rating — 861,718 ratings
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
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3.75 avg rating — 206,463 ratings
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The Log from the Sea of Cortez
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story
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Luis Alberto Urrea (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 18,342 ratings
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I Love Yous Are for White People
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Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
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3.90 avg rating — 47,304 ratings
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
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3.66 avg rating — 139,861 ratings
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
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Barack Obama (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 230,646 ratings
score: 64,
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John Adams
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4.08 avg rating — 376,355 ratings
score: 63,
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Zeitoun
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4.05 avg rating — 80,014 ratings
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list created July 26th, 2013
by Eric Spreng (votes) .
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