8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangsters, by Gini Sikes

Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea, by Steven Callahan

The Adventurist: My Life in Dangerous Places, by Robert Young

Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors, by Piers Paul Read

All Creatures Great and Small, by James Herriot 

An American Plague, by Jim Murphy  

Band of Brothers, by Stephen Ambrose

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, by Mark Bowden

Black Ice, by Lorene Cary

Blood and Thunder, by Hampton Sides

Dear Miss Breed: True Stories of the Japanese American Incarceration druing World War II and the Librarian Who Made a Difference, by Joanne Oppenheim

A Dog Year: Twelve Months, Four Dogs, and Me, by Jon Katz

Getting Away With Muder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case, by Chris Crowe

Girl, Interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen

Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer

It’s Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life, by Lance Armstrong

Last Dive: A Father and Son’s Fatal Descent into the Ocean’s Depths, by Bernie Chowdhury

Lucky, by Alice Sebold

My Posse Don’t Do Homework, by LouAnne Johnson

A Night to Remember, by Walter Lord

Our Drink: Detoxing the Perfect Family, by Chris and Toren Volkmann

Over the Edge: The True Story of Four American Climbers’ Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia, by Greg Child

The Pact, by Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Remeck Hunt

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men against the Sea, by Sebastian Junger

A Piece of Cake, by Cupcake Brown

Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia, by Jean Sasson

Season of Life: A Football Star, A Boy, A Journey to Manhood, by Jeffrey Marx

Slave, by Mende Nazar and Damien Lewis

We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success, by Sharon Draper, Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Remeck Hunt

When the Mirror Lies: Anorexia, Bulimia, and Other Eating Disorders, by Tamara Orr

When I Was Puerto Rican, by Esmeralda Santiago

Who Killed My Daughter?, by Lois Duncan