Wrong Is Not My Name: Notes on (Black) Art
By: Erica N. Cardwell
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as…
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1. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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2. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
By: Audre Lorde
3.88
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming… read more
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3. Regarding the Pain of Others
By: Susan Sontag
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Paperback
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual r… read more
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4. Black Women Writers at Work
By: None
3.62
Format: None pages,
The tone and spirit of this splendid volume of conversations with fourteen Black women writers is e… read more
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5. The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
By: Maggie Nelson
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Today both reality and entertainment crowd our fields of vision with brutal imagery. The pervasiven… read more
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6. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
By: Shane Hawk
3.98
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more
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7. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
8. Monstrilio
By: Gerardo Sámano Córdova
4.14
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A literary horror debut about a boy who transforms into a monster, a monster who tries to be a man,… read more
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"The world was scary. Worse, I was scary in it."-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
"I wanted him to snap, to finally and absolutely lose it. To break. He was withering. To wither is not the same as to break; to break is to have pieces to put back together, and to wither is to dry up…"-Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Monstrilio
9. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
By: Sabrina Imbler
4.12
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
10. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
11. City of Laughter
By: Temim Fruchter
3.78
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood… read more
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12. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- nonfiction
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
13. Washington Black
By: Esi Edugyan
3.95
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar … read more
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"You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering." "No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"I do not much care for childhood. It is a astate of terrible vulnerability, and is therefore unnatural and incomaptivle with human life."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"...a good parent is as rare as snow in summer, I am afraid. Well." He smiled sadly. "It is possible I have some prejudices in this respect."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
"But then, gradually, miraculously, things began to clear between us. We were able to speak as we'd once done, with great love and little calculation."-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black
14. 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
"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
15. Chlorine
By: Jade Song
3.72
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more
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"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."-Jade Song, Chlorine
"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"-Jade Song, Chlorine
16. Martyr!
By: Kaveh Akbar
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more
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- art
17. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
By: Marisa Crane
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more
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"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
18. Salt Slow
By: Julia Armfield
3.99
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more
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"She was a gentle sort of horror,"-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
19. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
20. Biography of X
By: Catherine Lacey
3.85
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more
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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X
21. A Good Happy Girl
By: Marissa Higgins
3.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more
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22. 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
"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
23. Truly, Madly, Deeply
By: Alexandria Bellefleur
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Sparks fly when a lovelorn romance novelist and a divorce lawyer who has sworn off relationships ag… read more
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24. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
25. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
By: Emil Ferris
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more
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"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
26. Ordinary Notes
By: Christina Sharpe
4.55
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
27. Idlewild
By: James Frankie Thomas
4.14
Format: 389 pages, Hardcover
James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more
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"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild
28. Housemates
By: Emma Copley Eisenberg
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more
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"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates
29. Training School for Negro Girls
By: Camille Acker
3.73
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
As unapologetic and resilient as the DC neighborhoods they live in, these women challenge monolithi… read more
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"Some things you can only say when the streetlights are on and only parts of the world are illuminated."-Camille Acker, Training School for Negro Girls
30. Wrong Is Not My Name: Notes on (Black) Art
By: Erica N. Cardwell
4.43
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A dazzling hybrid of personal memoir and criticism, considering the work of Black visual artists as… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
31. Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory
By: Solomon J. Brager
4.00
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-sh… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
