On Browsing
By: Jason Guriel
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A defense of the dying art of losing an afternoon—and gaining new appreciation—amidst the bins and …
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1. Islands of Decolonial Love
By: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist … read more
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2. An English Murder
By: Cyril Hare
3.68
Format: 290 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Warbeck Hall is an old-fashioned English country house and the scene of equally English murders. Al… read more
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3. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
4. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
5. Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
By: Ashley Shew
4.30
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto exploding what we think we know about disability, and arguing that disabled people are … read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
6. Butts: A Backstory
By: Heather Radke
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Whether we love them or hate them, think they’re sexy, think they’re strange, consider them too big… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Garment makers are rarely in the business of making clothes that will work for actual people. Instead, they cater to a fantasy of who the customer hopes to be."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"To see your butt, you need the cocoon of mirrors of a dressing room, the cumbersome triangulation of a hand mirror in a bedroom, or an awkwardly held smartphone."-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
"Our bodies, by their very nature, resist control, a fact that always has felt paradoxically triumphant when I encounter it. We invent bustles and girdles and exercise videos and cabbage diets and siz…"-Heather Radke, Butts: A Backstory
7. Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
By: Jenny Odell
3.61
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In her first book, How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell wrote about the importance of disconnecting from … read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Most living entities and systems on this planet obviously do not live by the Western human clock (though some, like the crows who memorize a city's daily garbage truck route, do of course adapt to th…"-Jenny Odell, Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
8. Dayswork
By: Chris Bachelder
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In wry, epigrammatic prose, Dayswork tells the story of a woman who spends the endless days of the … read more
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- books about books
- audiobook
9. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business
By: Roxane Gay
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
10. In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
By: Amy Schneider
3.51
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An inspirational and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy! —and a… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"I deprived myself of a joy in my life, because it was a joy only girls were allowed to feel. Life already seemed to be full of joys that one wasn't allowed to feel, so adding one more to the pile cam…"-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
"I grew up with a strong desire for invisibility. In large part, this was due to the ever-present feeling that I was failing at performing my gender. The whole boy thing was just so exhausting, and I …"-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
"I grew up with a strong desire for invisibility. In large part, this was due to the ever-present feeling that I was failing at performing my gender. The whole boy thing was just so exhausting, and I …"-Amy Schneider, In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life
11. How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
By: Marcus Tullius Cicero
3.87
Format: 188 pages, Hardcover
A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever written In a world wh… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"The reward of friendship is friendship itself."-Marcus Tullius Cicero, How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
"Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so."-Marcus Tullius Cicero, How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
"Quanto più uno ha fiducia in sé, quanto più è armato di virtù e di saggezza, in modo da non aver bisogno di nessuno e da considerare ogni suo bene un fatto interiore, tanto più eccelle nel cercare e …"-Marcus Tullius Cicero, How to Be a Friend: An Ancient Guide to True Friendship (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
12. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
13. Who's Afraid of Gender?
By: Judith Butler
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?
14. No One Left to Come Looking for You
By: Sam Lipsyte
3.23
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 19… read more
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- audiobook
15. Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
By: Beth Ann Fennelly
4.14
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived lif… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
16. Ladies' Lunch: and Other Stories
By: Lore Segal
3.21
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"For almost six decades Segal has quietly produced some of the best fiction and essays in American … read more
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- audiobook
17. Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
By: John Hodgman
4.04
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on f… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
"There is no peace in dying."-John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
"Raccoons are beyond fear, and they are assholes."-John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
"Maine is a beautiful place that I paradoxically want to hoard to myself and share with everyone I meet."-John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
"...not everything in life is unpleasant, but most of it is, and certainly all of things that lead to real and lasting pleasure are."-John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
18. No Judgment: Essays
By: Lauren Oyler
3.30
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new piece… read more
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- cultural
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- books about books
- audiobook
"I’m told I should smoke more weed, which I don’t like, or else “do something nice for yourself,"-Lauren Oyler, No Judgment: Essays
19. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career
By: Kristi Coulter
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
20. A Minor Chorus
By: Billy-Ray Belcourt
4.08
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more
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- canada
- audiobook
21. On Browsing
By: Jason Guriel
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A defense of the dying art of losing an afternoon—and gaining new appreciation—amidst the bins and … read more
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- memoir
- canada
- nonfiction
- essays
- books about books
- audiobook
22. The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice
By: Wendell Berry
4.03
Format: 513 pages, Paperback
Wendell Berry has never been afraid to speak up for the dispossessed. The Need to Be Whole continue… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
23. First Love: Essays on Friendship
By: Lilly Dancyger
4.07
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more
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- memoir
- essays
- audiobook
24. She Unnames Them
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.06
Format: None pages, None
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25. In Praise of Good Bookstores
By: Jeff Deutsch
3.42
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
From a devoted reader and lifelong bookseller, an eloquent and charming reflection on the singular … read more
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- books about books
- audiobook
26. People Change
By: Vivek Shraya
3.96
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
*FINALIST FOR THE CITY OF CALGARY W.O. MITCHELL BOOK PRIZE* “A deeply generous and honest gift to … read more
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- canada
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Some friendships need to die. Sometimes we’re so trapped in old patterns or comforts that we don’t offer anything meaningful to each other except history."-Vivek Shraya, People Change
"Reinvention requires both a kind of death and a desire to keep living. And so at its core, reinvention is inextricably linked to hope: the hope that we can find another way, take another shape."-Vivek Shraya, People Change
27. With My Back to the World: Poems
By: Victoria Chang
4.08
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more
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28. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
29. Inhabiting the Negative Space
By: Jenny Odell
4.44
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
A hopeful meditation on how periods of inactivity become reimagined as fertile spaces for design an… read more
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- nonfiction
- essays
30. Organs of Little Importance (Penguin Poets)
By: Adrienne Chung
4.18
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
“ Organs of Little Importance is a riotous feat...Ferocious. Funny. Deeply intelligent. Adrienne Ch… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore
By: Evan Friss
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more
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- nonfiction
- books about books
- audiobook
