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Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth Maybe Someday
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Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth

Kate Greene

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The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022 Near the Top
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The Art of Dying: Writings, 2019-2022

Peter Schjeldahl

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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

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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

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

Lars Horn

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

Roger Reeves

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

Edafe Okporo

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Authority: Essays Near the Top
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Authority: Essays

Andrea Long Chu

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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

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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

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

John Mullan

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Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. Maybe Someday
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Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.

Arundhati Roy

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Save Yourself Maybe Someday
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Save Yourself

Cameron Esposito

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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

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

Judith Thurman

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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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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

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Brown Neon Maybe Someday
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Brown Neon

Raquel Gutiérrez

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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

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Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America Near the Top
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Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America

Michael Eric Dyson

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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

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How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998 Top of the Pile
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How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998

Helen Garner

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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

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Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) Maybe Someday
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Bad Vibes Only (and Other Things I Bring to the Table)

Nora McInerny

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Essays Two Near the Top
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Essays Two

Lydia Davis

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

Kate Zambreno

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Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World Maybe Someday
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Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World

Kathleen Dean Moore

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

Hannah Gadsby

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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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Love Is an Ex-Country Maybe Someday
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Love Is an Ex-Country

Randa Jarrar

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

Geoffrey Mak

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Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between Maybe Someday
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Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

Joseph Osmundson

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Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema Near the Top
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Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema

Lindy West

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Reel Bay: A Cinematic Essay Bottom of the Pile
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Reel Bay: A Cinematic Essay

Jana Larson

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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

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Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis Maybe Someday
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Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis

Laura Kipnis

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Bloodbath Nation Near the Top
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Bloodbath Nation

Paul Auster

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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

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Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays Near the Top
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Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays

Phoebe Robinson

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Linea Nigra Near the Top
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Linea Nigra

Jazmina Barrera, trans. by Christina MacSweeney

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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 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

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My Life as a Villainess Maybe Someday
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My Life as a Villainess

Laura Lippman

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Vesper Flights Top of the Pile
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Vesper Flights

Helen MacDonald

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Life and Art: Essays Maybe Someday
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Life and Art: Essays

Richard Russo

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Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays Near the Top
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Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

Jill Gutowitz

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Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays Near the Top
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Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul? Essays

Jesse McCarthy

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Last Letter to a Reader Bottom of the Pile
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Last Letter to a Reader

Gerald Murnane

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The Selected Works of Audre Lorde Near the Top
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The Selected Works of Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde

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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature Maybe Someday
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Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature

Sarah Hart

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NB by J.C.: A Walk through the Times Literary Supplement Maybe Someday
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NB by J.C.: A Walk through the Times Literary Supplement

James Campbell

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The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom Bottom of the Pile
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The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom

Jane Smiley

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Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage Near the Top
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Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

Anne Lamott

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The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes) Near the Top
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The Book of Difficult Fruit: Arguments for the Tart, Tender, and Unruly (with recipes)

Kate Lebo

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Figure It Out Bottom of the Pile
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Figure It Out

Wayne Koestenbaum

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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

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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

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The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle Near the Top
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The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle

Sarah Krasnostein

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

Natasha Leggero

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High-Risk Homosexual Near the Top
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High-Risk Homosexual

Edgar Gomez

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Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World Maybe Someday
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Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World

Eliane Brum

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Losers: Dispatches from the Other Side of the Scoreboard Bottom of the Pile
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Losers: Dispatches from the Other Side of the Scoreboard

Ed. by Mary Pilon and Louisa Thomas

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Becoming a Gardener: What Reading and Digging Taught Me about Living Maybe Someday
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Becoming a Gardener: What Reading and Digging Taught Me about Living

Catie Marron

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Suppose a Sentence Near the Top
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Suppose a Sentence

Brian Dillon

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The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift Maybe Someday
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The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift

Maggie Nelson

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The Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction Maybe Someday
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The Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction

Robert Stone

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The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums Maybe Someday
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The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums

Amy Leach

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I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are Near the Top
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I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are

Rachel Bloom

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Lost in the Game: A Book about Basketball Bottom of the Pile
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Lost in the Game: A Book about Basketball

Thomas Beller

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The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat Maybe Someday
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The Secret History of Food: Strange but True Stories About the Origins of Everything We Eat

Matt Siegel

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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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Wow, No Thank You.: Essays Near the Top
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Wow, No Thank You.: Essays

Samantha Irby

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The Inner Coast: Essays Maybe Someday
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The Inner Coast: Essays

Donovan Hohn

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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present Top of the Pile
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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn

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Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity Maybe Someday
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Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity

Porochista Khakpour

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Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles Maybe Someday
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Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles

Rosecrans Baldwin

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

Claudia Rankine

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Midwest Futures Maybe Someday
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Midwest Futures

Phil Christman

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Losing Eden: Our Fundamental Need for the Natural World and Its Ability to Heal Body and Soul Near the Top
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Losing Eden: Our Fundamental Need for the Natural World and Its Ability to Heal Body and Soul

Lucy Jones

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No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader Maybe Someday
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No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

Mark Hodkinson

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You Got Anything Stronger? Near the Top
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You Got Anything Stronger?

Gabrielle Union

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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

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Conversations with Birds Maybe Someday
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Conversations with Birds

Priyanka Kumar

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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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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

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The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System Maybe Someday
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The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System

Ed. by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman

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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

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Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, Recipes, and Stories – Nigella Lawson's Delicious Essays on Food, Family, and Life Maybe Someday
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Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, Recipes, and Stories – Nigella Lawson's Delicious Essays on Food, Family, and Life

Nigella Lawson

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Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog Bottom of the Pile
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Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog

Lynne Cox

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Things Are Against Us Bottom of the Pile
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Things Are Against Us

Lucy Ellmann

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Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future Maybe Someday
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Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future

Brandi Collins-Dexter

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Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives, 1971–2025 Maybe Someday
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Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives, 1971–2025

John Edgar Wideman

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

Teju Cole

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Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays Near the Top
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Our Fragile Freedoms: Essays

Eric Foner

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

Diana Goetsch

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

John McPhee

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Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark Maybe Someday
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Phosphorescence: A Memoir of Finding Joy When Your World Goes Dark

Julia Baird

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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

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The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers Near the Top
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The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers

Eric Weiner

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Ordinary Notes Top of the Pile
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Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe

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Love in Exile Near the Top
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Love in Exile

Shon Faye

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

Sabrina Orah Mark

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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

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Pain Studies Bottom of the Pile
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Pain Studies

Lisa Olstein

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Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living Maybe Someday
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Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living

Charles J. Chaput

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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: Essays Near the Top
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Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: Essays

Lauren Hough

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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution Maybe Someday
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Adrienne Rich, Introduction by Eula Biss

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Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974– Maybe Someday
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Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974–

Jamaica Kincaid

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

Sesali Bowen

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Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something. Bottom of the Pile
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Out of Silence, Sound. Out of Nothing, Something.

Susan Griffin

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I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays Near the Top
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I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

Nell Irvin Painter

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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

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

Chloe Caldwell

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A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son Near the Top
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A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son

Michael Ian Black

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The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings Maybe Someday
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The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings

Geoff Dyer

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

Barry Lopez

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Crying in the Bathroom Top of the Pile
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Crying in the Bathroom

Erika L. Sánchez

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Revenge of the Tipping Point Near the Top
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Revenge of the Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell

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Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon Near the Top
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Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon

Toni Morrison

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Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle Maybe Someday
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Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle

Natan Last

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White Hot Light: Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine – Unforgettable Essays on the Razor's Edge of Life and Death Maybe Someday
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White Hot Light: Twenty-Five Years in Emergency Medicine – Unforgettable Essays on the Razor's Edge of Life and Death

Frank Huyler

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On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal Maybe Someday
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On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal

Rachel Greenwald Smith

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

Elie Mystal

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The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion Near the Top
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The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion

Aminatta Forna

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The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood Near the Top
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The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood

Krys Malcolm Belc

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Quiet Places: Collected Essays Bottom of the Pile
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Quiet Places: Collected Essays

Peter Handke tr. Krishna Winston and Ralph Manheim

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This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope Near the Top
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This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope

Shayla Lawson

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Proustian Uncertainties: On Reading and Rereading In Search of Lost Time Maybe Someday
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Proustian Uncertainties: On Reading and Rereading In Search of Lost Time

Saul Friedländer

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Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism Maybe Someday
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Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism

Ed. Jo Glanville

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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

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After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort Maybe Someday
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After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort

Eric Dean Wilson

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Mastering the Process: From Idea to Novel Bottom of the Pile
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Mastering the Process: From Idea to Novel

Elizabeth George

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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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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Top of the Pile
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The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

Sam Kean

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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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Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World Maybe Someday
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32/99

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Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World

Lisa Wells

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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 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

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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

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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing Near the Top
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56/99

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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

Elena Ferrante, tr. Ann Goldstein

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Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights Open Media) Maybe Someday
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27/99

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Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights Open Media)

Tim Wise

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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

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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

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Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances Maybe Someday
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Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances

Lucas Mann

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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

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

Tad Friend

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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

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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

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The Deadline Near the Top
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The Deadline

Jill Lepore

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Write for Your Life Maybe Someday
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Write for Your Life

Anna Quindlen

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Everything I Never Wanted to Know (21st Century Essays) Maybe Someday
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Everything I Never Wanted to Know (21st Century Essays)

Christine Hume

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

Amia Srinivasan

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The Male Gazed Maybe Someday
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The Male Gazed

Manuel Betancourt

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

Haruki Murakami, Tr. Philip Gabriel

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The Art of Solitude Bottom of the Pile
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The Art of Solitude

Stephen Batchelor

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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

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Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology Near the Top
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Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology

Jess Zimmerman

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

Rafia Zakaria

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Playing with Myself Near the Top
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Playing with Myself

Randy Rainbow

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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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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

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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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Indigo Maybe Someday
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Indigo

Padgett Powell

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Orwell's Roses Near the Top
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Orwell's Roses

Rebecca Solnit

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The Sense of Brown (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe) Maybe Someday
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49/99

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

José Esteban Muñoz

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A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature Maybe Someday
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A Salad Only the Devil Would Eat: The Joys of Ugly Nature

Charles Hood

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Unearthing The Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett Maybe Someday
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Unearthing The Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett

Marta McDowell

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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint Near the Top
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On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

Maggie Nelson

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Black Nerd Problems Maybe Someday
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Black Nerd Problems

William Evans and Omar Holmon

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Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places Maybe Someday
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30/99

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Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places

Dan Richards, Stanley Donwood, Robert Macfarlane

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At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth Maybe Someday
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At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth

Madeline Ostrander

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The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape Near the Top
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54/99

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The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape

Katie Holten

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God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning Near the Top
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78/99

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God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

Meghan O'Gieblyn

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A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again Near the Top
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A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

Joanna Biggs

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Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl Near the Top
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Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl

Mandy-Suzanne Wong

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Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body Near the Top
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Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

Savala Nolan

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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

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Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South Near the Top
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61/99

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Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South

Margaret Renkl

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Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction) Maybe Someday
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Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction)

Megan Harlan

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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning Top of the Pile
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Cathy Park Hong

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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

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I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays Maybe Someday
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I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays

Michael Arceneaux

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Cost of Living: Essays Near the Top
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Cost of Living: Essays

Emily Maloney

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Farewell Transmission: Notes from Hidden Spaces Maybe Someday
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Farewell Transmission: Notes from Hidden Spaces

Will McGrath

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You Have a New Memory: Essays Near the Top
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You Have a New Memory: Essays

Aiden Arata

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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

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Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome Maybe Someday
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Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

Aparna Nancherla

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The Power Notebooks Maybe Someday
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The Power Notebooks

Katie Roiphe

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Stranger Faces (Undelivered Lectures) Maybe Someday
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20/99

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Stranger Faces (Undelivered Lectures)

Namwali Serpell

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Sloppy: Or, Doing It All Wrong Near the Top
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54/99

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Sloppy: Or, Doing It All Wrong

Rax King

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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

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The God Beat: What Journalism Says about Faith and Why It Matters Maybe Someday
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The God Beat: What Journalism Says about Faith and Why It Matters

Costica Bradatan and Ed Simon

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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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Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America Near the Top
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Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

Laila Lalami

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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

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The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society Bottom of the Pile
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The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society

William Deresiewicz

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Ill Feelings Maybe Someday
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Ill Feelings

Alice Hattrick

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One Aladdin Two Lamps Maybe Someday
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One Aladdin Two Lamps

Jeanette Winterson

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Out on a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989–2021 Maybe Someday
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Out on a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989–2021

Andrew Sullivan

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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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100 Things We've Lost to the Internet Bottom of the Pile
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38/99

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100 Things We've Lost to the Internet

Pamela Paul

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