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How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998

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How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998

Helen Garner

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Unearthing The Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett Near the Top
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Unearthing The Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett

Marta McDowell

Lost in the Game: A Book about Basketball Maybe Someday
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Lost in the Game: A Book about Basketball

Thomas Beller

Out on a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989–2021 Near the Top
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Out on a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989–2021

Andrew Sullivan

Everything I Never Wanted to Know (21st Century Essays) Near the Top
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Everything I Never Wanted to Know (21st Century Essays)

Christine Hume

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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution Near the Top
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Adrienne Rich

Ill Feelings Near the Top
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Alice Hattrick

Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture Maybe Someday
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Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture

Randall Kennedy

Things Are Against Us Bottom of the Pile
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Lucy Ellmann

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement Top of the Pile
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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

Tarana Burke

A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast Near the Top
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A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast

Dorthe Nors; Caroline Waight

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Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays Top of the Pile
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Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays

Jesse McCarthy

The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift Bottom of the Pile
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The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift

Maggie Nelson

Dispatches from the Gilded Age: A Few More Thoughts on Interesting People, Far-Flung Places, and the Joys of Southern Comforts Maybe Someday
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Dispatches from the Gilded Age: A Few More Thoughts on Interesting People, Far-Flung Places, and the Joys of Southern Comforts

Julia Reed; Roy Blount Jr. Jr.; Everett Bexley

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Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution Top of the Pile
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Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution

Elie Mystal

Revenge of the Tipping Point Maybe Someday
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Revenge of the Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell

The Sense of Brown (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) Top of the Pile
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The Sense of Brown (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)

José Esteban Muñoz; Joshua Chambers-Letson; Tavia Nyong'o

A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age Maybe Someday
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A Divine Language: Learning Algebra, Geometry, and Calculus at the Edge of Old Age

Alec Wilkinson

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Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto Near the Top
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Asylum: A Memoir & Manifesto

Edafe Okporo

Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time Maybe Someday
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Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture, Literature and Feminism in Our Time

Vivian Gornick

Mean Boys: A Personal History Bottom of the Pile
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Mean Boys: A Personal History

Geoffrey Mak

Life and Art: Essays Bottom of the Pile
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Life and Art: Essays

Richard Russo

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The Deadline Top of the Pile
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The Deadline

Jill Lepore

Love in Exile Top of the Pile
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Love in Exile

Shon Faye

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint Maybe Someday
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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

Maggie Nelson

How to Read Now Near the Top
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How to Read Now

Elaine Castillo

A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again – A New York Times Most Anticipated Memoir Collection of Feminism and Literary History Maybe Someday
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A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again – A New York Times Most Anticipated Memoir Collection of Feminism and Literary History

Joanna Biggs

The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life Near the Top
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The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life

Simran Jeet Singh

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A Horse at Night: On Writing Maybe Someday
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A Horse at Night: On Writing

Amina Cain

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The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich Maybe Someday
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The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich

Evan Osnos

The Year of Miracles: Recipes About Love + Grief + Growing Things Maybe Someday
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The Year of Miracles: Recipes About Love + Grief + Growing Things

Ella Risbridger

My Side of the River Maybe Someday
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My Side of the River

Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays Near the Top
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Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

Minnie Driver

Essays Two Near the Top
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Lydia Davis

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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing Maybe Someday
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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

Elena Ferrante; Ann Goldstein

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The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century Near the Top
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The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century

Amia Srinivasan

Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past Maybe Someday
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Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past

Kevin M. Kruse; Julian E. Zelizer; Akhil Reed Amar; Kathleen Belew; Carol Anderson; Erika Lee; Daniel Immerwahr; Elizabeth Hinton; Naomi Oreskes; Erik M. Conway; Ari Kelman; Geraldo Cadava; David A. Bell; Joshua Zeitz; Sarah Churchwell; Michael Kazin; Karen L. Cox; Eric Rauchway; Glenda Gilmore; Natalia Mehlman Petrzela; Lawrence B. Glickman

I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays Top of the Pile
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I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

Nell Irvin Painter

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Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays Top of the Pile
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Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays

Eric Foner

Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way Maybe Someday
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Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

Kieran Setiya

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Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times Near the Top
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Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

Azar Nafisi

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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption Maybe Someday
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The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption

Katy Kelleher

Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema Bottom of the Pile
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Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

Lindy West

All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns Maybe Someday
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All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns

Betty Gilpin

The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World's Greatest Negotiator Near the Top
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The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World's Greatest Negotiator

Rich Cohen

Bloodbath Nation Bottom of the Pile
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Bloodbath Nation

Paul Auster

How Sondheim Can Change Your Life Maybe Someday
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How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

Richard Schoch

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance Top of the Pile
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives, 1971–2025 Top of the Pile
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Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives, 1971–2025

John Edgar Wideman

Linea Nigra Top of the Pile
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Jazmina Barrera; Christina MacSweeney

Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm Near the Top
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Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm

Emmeline Clein

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Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome Bottom of the Pile
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Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

Aparna Nancherla

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The World Deserves My Children Maybe Someday
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The World Deserves My Children

Natasha Leggero

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation Top of the Pile
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Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation

Hannah Gadsby

The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System Near the Top
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The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System

Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman; Tressie McMillan Cottom

Just Us: An American Conversation Top of the Pile
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Just Us: An American Conversation

Claudia Rankine

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Top of the Pile
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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Rachel Aviv

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Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays Maybe Someday
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Here for It; Or, How to Save Your Soul in America: Essays

R. Eric Thomas

Becoming a Gardener: What Reading and Digging Taught Me about Living Near the Top
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Becoming a Gardener: What Reading and Digging Taught Me about Living

Catie Marron

NB by J.C.: A Walk through the Times Literary Supplement Near the Top
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NB by J.C.: A Walk through the Times Literary Supplement

James Campbell

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Crying in the Bathroom Near the Top
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Crying in the Bathroom

Erika L. Sánchez

Cost of Living: Essays Maybe Someday
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Cost of Living: Essays

Emily Maloney

Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays Near the Top
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Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write: An Autobiography in Essays

Claire Messud

The Snakes That Ate Florida: Reporting, Essays, and Criticism Near the Top
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The Snakes That Ate Florida: Reporting, Essays, and Criticism

Ian Frazier

You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar Maybe Someday
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You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar

Pyae Moe Thet War

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Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist Top of the Pile
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Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist

Sesali Bowen

A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature Near the Top
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A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature

Charles Hood

Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul – Poignant Essays on Fat, Black Women and Cultural Expectations Maybe Someday
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Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul – Poignant Essays on Fat, Black Women and Cultural Expectations

Evette Dionne

Last Letter to a Reader Maybe Someday
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Last Letter to a Reader

Gerald Murnane

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We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story Top of the Pile
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We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

Simu Liu

Abominations: Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction Maybe Someday
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Abominations: Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction

Lionel Shriver

Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature Near the Top
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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Sarah Hart

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Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood Maybe Someday
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Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood

Chelsea Conaboy

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The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press Near the Top
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The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press

Calvin Trillin

The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem Near the Top
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The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem

Julie Phillips

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Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog Maybe Someday
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Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog

Lynne Cox

The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change Near the Top
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The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

Rebecca Solnit

The Power Notebooks Bottom of the Pile
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Katie Roiphe

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise Near the Top
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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood Near the Top
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Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

The Male Gazed Maybe Someday
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The Male Gazed

Manuel Betancourt

The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom Maybe Someday
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The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom

Jane Smiley

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Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life Bottom of the Pile
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Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life

Scott Chaskey

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Black Nerd Problems Near the Top
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Black Nerd Problems

William Evans; Omar Holmon

Orwell's Roses Near the Top
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Orwell's Roses

Rebecca Solnit

Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them Maybe Someday
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Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them

Maeve Higgins

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On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal Near the Top
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On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal

Rachel Greenwald Smith

Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative Top of the Pile
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Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

Melissa Febos

Farewell Transmission: Notes from Hidden Spaces Near the Top
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Farewell Transmission: Notes from Hidden Spaces

Will McGrath

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Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera Maybe Someday
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Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera

Jena Friedman

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Write for Your Life Maybe Someday
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Write for Your Life

Anna Quindlen

Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales Maybe Someday
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Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales

Sabrina Orah Mark

At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth Near the Top
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At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth

Madeline Ostrander

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Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty Maybe Someday
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Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty

Kaila Yu

History Matters Near the Top
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History Matters

David McCullough; Dorie McCullough Lawson

Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me Maybe Someday
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Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

Aisha Harris

The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings Bottom of the Pile
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The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings

Geoff Dyer

Start Without Me (I'll Be There in a Minute) Near the Top
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Start Without Me (I'll Be There in a Minute)

Gary Janetti

A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir's Journey through an Endangered Land Maybe Someday
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A Road Running Southward: Following John Muir's Journey through an Endangered Land

Dan Chapman

In Defense of Love: An Argument Bottom of the Pile
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In Defense of Love: An Argument

Ron Rosenbaum

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A History of My Brief Body Near the Top
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A History of My Brief Body

Billy-Ray Belcourt

Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being In Person Bottom of the Pile
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Encounterism: The Neglected Joys of Being In Person

Andy Field

Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy Top of the Pile
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Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy

Tre Johnson

Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays Maybe Someday
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Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

Jill Gutowitz

Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation Top of the Pile
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Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation

John Lewis; Andrew Young

Conversations with Birds Near the Top
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Conversations with Birds

Priyanka Kumar

Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974– Near the Top
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Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974–

Jamaica Kincaid

The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays Near the Top
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The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

Kelly McMasters

Animal Stories (Undelivered Lectures) Maybe Someday
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Animal Stories (Undelivered Lectures)

Kate Zambreno

Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy Maybe Someday
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Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy

Larissa Pham

Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures) Near the Top
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Teju Cole

Brown Neon Maybe Someday
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Brown Neon

Raquel Gutiérrez

Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up) Bottom of the Pile
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Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)

Alexandra Petri

Playing with Myself Top of the Pile
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Randy Rainbow

The Beauty of Dusk Near the Top
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The Beauty of Dusk

Frank Bruni

No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader Bottom of the Pile
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No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

Mark Hodkinson

What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition – An Empowering Guide to Interrogating Whiteness and Creating Justice Top of the Pile
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What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition – An Empowering Guide to Interrogating Whiteness and Creating Justice

Emma Dabiri

Death by Landscape Near the Top
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Elvia Wilk

Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis Bottom of the Pile
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Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis

Laura Kipnis

Who's Afraid of Gender? Near the Top
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Who's Afraid of Gender?

Judith Butler

The Red Zone: A Love Story Maybe Someday
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The Red Zone: A Love Story

Chloé Caldwell

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Translating Myself and Others Near the Top
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Translating Myself and Others

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between Near the Top
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Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

Joseph Osmundson

The Philosophy of Modern Song Maybe Someday
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The Philosophy of Modern Song

Bob Dylan

Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something. Maybe Someday
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Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something.

Susan Griffin

Midwest Futures Bottom of the Pile
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Phil Christman

On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear Bottom of the Pile
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On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear

Lynn Casteel Harper

Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl Top of the Pile
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Mandy-Suzanne Wong; Yuka Igarashi

The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle Maybe Someday
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The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle

Sarah Krasnostein

Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland Maybe Someday
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Why Didn't We Riot?: A Black Man in Trumpland

Issac J. Bailey

A Guest at the Feast: Essays Maybe Someday
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A Guest at the Feast: Essays

Colm Tóibín

Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 Top of the Pile
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Ludwig Wittgenstein; Marjorie Perioff

The Love Makers Bottom of the Pile
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Aifric Campbell

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Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse Maybe Someday
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Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse

Maya Phillips

Ordinary Notes Top of the Pile
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Christina Sharpe

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The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance Maybe Someday
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The Southernization of America: A Story of Democracy in the Balance

Cynthia Tucker; Frye Gaillard

Quiet Places: Collected Essays Maybe Someday
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Quiet Places: Collected Essays

Peter Handke; Krishna Winston; Ralph Manheim

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Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays Maybe Someday
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Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays

Joseph Epstein

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Black and Female: Essays Near the Top
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Black and Female: Essays

Tsitsi Dangarembga

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Center Center: A Funny, Sexy, Sad Almost-Memoir of a Boy in Ballet Bottom of the Pile
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Center Center: A Funny, Sexy, Sad Almost-Memoir of a Boy in Ballet

James Whiteside

Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York Maybe Someday
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Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York

Jeremiah Moss

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She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good Bottom of the Pile
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She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good

Mia Mercado

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Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair Near the Top
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Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair

Christian Wiman

Dark Days: Fugitive Essays Maybe Someday
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Dark Days: Fugitive Essays

Roger Reeves

A Left-Handed Woman: Essays Near the Top
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A Left-Handed Woman: Essays

Judith Thurman

The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape Near the Top
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The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

Katie Holten; Ross Gay

You Have a New Memory: Essays Maybe Someday
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You Have a New Memory: Essays

Aiden Arata

Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay Top of the Pile
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Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay

Lars Horn

What About Men? A Feminist Answers the Question Bottom of the Pile
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What About Men? A Feminist Answers the Question

Caitlin Moran

Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism Near the Top
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Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism

Jo Glanville

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Authority: Essays Maybe Someday
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Authority: Essays

Andrea Long Chu

This Body I Wore: A Memoir Near the Top
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This Body I Wore: A Memoir

Diana Goetsch

On Women Maybe Someday
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On Women

Susan Sontag; Merve Emre; David Rieff

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Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption Near the Top
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Rafia Zakaria

The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City Maybe Someday
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The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World's Greatest City

Sam Roberts

Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California Maybe Someday
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Always Crashing in the Same Car: On Art, Crisis, and Los Angeles, California

Matthew Specktor

Raising Raffi: The First Five Years Maybe Someday
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Raising Raffi: The First Five Years

Keith Gessen

The Artful Dickens: The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist Top of the Pile
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The Artful Dickens: The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist

John Mullan

Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World Near the Top
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Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World

Eliane Brum; Diane Grosklaus Whitty

Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love Maybe Someday
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Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love

Haruki Murakami

The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society Maybe Someday
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The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society

William Deresiewicz

The End of Bias: A Beginning Near the Top
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The End of Bias: A Beginning

Jessica Nordell

The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown Maybe Someday
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The Way You Make Me Feel: Love in Black and Brown

Nina Sharma

Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage Maybe Someday
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Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

Anne Lamott

The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture Maybe Someday
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The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

Grace Perry

The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World Maybe Someday
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The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World

Joe Keohane

Something That May Shock and Discredit You Maybe Someday
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Something That May Shock and Discredit You

Daniel Mallory Ortberg; Daniel M. Lavery

Everyone You Hate is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love and More Things That Ruin Your Life Maybe Someday
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Everyone You Hate is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love and More Things That Ruin Your Life

Daniel Sloss

Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights Open Media) Top of the Pile
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Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights Open Media)

Tim Wise

Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much Maybe Someday
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Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

Jen Winston

Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) Bottom of the Pile
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Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

Nora McInerny; Nora McInerny Purmort

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Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don't Want to Forget to Remember Near the Top
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Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don't Want to Forget to Remember

Lauren Graham

Does This Make Me Funny?: Essays Maybe Someday
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Does This Make Me Funny?: Essays

Zosia Mamet

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures Top of the Pile
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Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Katherine Rundell

Indigo Near the Top
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Indigo

Padgett Powell

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land Near the Top
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Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land

Taylor Brorby

Suppose a Sentence Near the Top
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Suppose a Sentence

Brian Dillon

Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future Near the Top
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Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future

Brandi Collins-Dexter

Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances Near the Top
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Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances

Lucas Mann

Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle Bottom of the Pile
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Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle

Natan Last

Lives of Houses Maybe Someday
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Lives of Houses

Kate Kennedy; Hermione Lee

One Aladdin Two Lamps Bottom of the Pile
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One Aladdin Two Lamps

Jeanette Winterson

Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces Near the Top
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Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

Elamin Abdelmahmoud

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Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World Top of the Pile
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Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

Barry Lopez; Rebecca Solnit

Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon Top of the Pile
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Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon

Toni Morrison; Claudia Brodsky

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100 Things We've Lost to the Internet Bottom of the Pile
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100 Things We've Lost to the Internet

Pamela Paul

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American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020 Maybe Someday
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American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020

George F. Will

Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing Near the Top
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Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing

Peter Guralnick

Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation Maybe Someday
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Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

Nuar Alsadir

The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick Near the Top
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The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick

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This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It Near the Top
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This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It

Tabitha Carvan

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again Maybe Someday
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Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

Katherine Angel

The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery Maybe Someday
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The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

Adam Gopnik

Please Scream Inside Your Heart: Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year that Wouldn't End Maybe Someday
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Please Scream Inside Your Heart: Breaking News and Nervous Breakdowns in the Year that Wouldn't End

Dave Pell

Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear Maybe Someday
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Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

Erica Berry

In the Early Times: A Life Reframed Bottom of the Pile
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In the Early Times: A Life Reframed

Tad Friend

National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home Maybe Someday
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National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home

Anya von Bremzen

High-Risk Homosexual Near the Top
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High-Risk Homosexual

Edgar Gomez

Sloppy: Or, Doing It All Wrong Near the Top
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Sloppy: Or, Doing It All Wrong

Rax King

Tabula Rasa: Volume 1 Near the Top
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Tabula Rasa: Volume 1

John McPhee

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