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Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

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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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Just Us: An American Conversation

Claudia Rankine

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Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

Nuar Alsadir

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Susan Griffin

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Rachel Greenwald Smith

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Tsitsi Dangarembga

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Madeline Ostrander

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Anna Quindlen

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Taylor Brorby

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Dan Chapman

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

Katy Kelleher

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Mia Mercado

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Aifric Campbell

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Jesse McCarthy

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Emmeline Clein

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

Sarah Krasnostein

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On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear

Lynn Casteel Harper

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Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl

Mandy-Suzanne Wong; Yuka Igarashi

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Lost in the Game: A Book about Basketball

Thomas Beller

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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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100 Things We've Lost to the Internet

Pamela Paul

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Rafia Zakaria

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Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World

Eliane Brum; Diane Grosklaus Whitty

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

Matthew Specktor

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

Issac J. Bailey

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Nerd: Adventures in Fandom from This Universe to the Multiverse

Maya Phillips

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A Left-Handed Woman: Essays

Judith Thurman

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Dark Days: Fugitive Essays

Roger Reeves

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Love in the Time of Contagion: A Diagnosis

Laura Kipnis

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

Amia Srinivasan

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

Elie Mystal

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The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery

Adam Gopnik

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

Sarah Hart

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One Aladdin Two Lamps

Jeanette Winterson

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Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

Barry Lopez; Rebecca Solnit

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Looking to Get Lost: Adventures in Music and Writing

Peter Guralnick

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High-Risk Homosexual

Edgar Gomez

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Black Nerd Problems

William Evans; Omar Holmon

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Life and Art: Essays

Richard Russo

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The Adventures of Herbie Cohen: World's Greatest Negotiator

Rich Cohen

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In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing

Elena Ferrante; Ann Goldstein

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Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy

Tre Johnson

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99/99

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Who's Afraid of Gender?

Judith Butler

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Animal Stories (Undelivered Lectures)

Kate Zambreno

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Putting Myself Together: Writing 1974–

Jamaica Kincaid

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The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich

Evan Osnos

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Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Katherine Rundell

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All the Women in My Brain: And Other Concerns

Betty Gilpin

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History Matters

David McCullough; Dorie McCullough Lawson

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

Helen Garner

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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Adrienne Rich

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Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe

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Alexandra Petri's US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)

Alexandra Petri

27/99

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4/99

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The Male Gazed

Manuel Betancourt

32/99

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36/99

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Quiet Places: Collected Essays

Peter Handke; Krishna Winston; Ralph Manheim

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66/99

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85/99

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

Marta McDowell

52/99

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

Claire Messud

81/99

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98/99

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Carry On: Reflections for a New Generation

John Lewis; Andrew Young

78/99

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82/99

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74/99

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Love in Exile

Shon Faye

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

Cynthia Tucker; Frye Gaillard

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Pop Song: Adventures in Art & Intimacy

Larissa Pham

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The Beauty of Dusk

Frank Bruni

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The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture

Grace Perry

30/99

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33/99

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Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog

Lynne Cox

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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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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

55/99

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Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future

Brandi Collins-Dexter

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Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair

Christian Wiman

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Crying in the Bathroom

Erika L. Sánchez

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

John Edgar Wideman

39/99

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4/99

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

Kieran Setiya

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31/99

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

Evette Dionne

76/99

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84/99

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Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay

Lars Horn

22/99

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18/99

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The Power Notebooks

Katie Roiphe

25/99

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8/99

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

Erica Berry

76/99

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57/99

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I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

Nell Irvin Painter

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70/99

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44/99

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The Snakes That Ate Florida: Reporting, Essays, and Criticism

Ian Frazier

86/99

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86/99

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The Deadline

Jill Lepore

44/99

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52/99

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Familiarity Breeds Content: New and Selected Essays

Joseph Epstein

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43/99

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8/99

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36/99

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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

68/99

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

Gary Janetti

77/99

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68/99

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70/99

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92/99

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Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

Melissa Febos

46/99

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42/99

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Revenge of the Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell

53/99

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

Ed Zwick

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71/99

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87/99

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

Teju Cole

59/99

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52/99

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The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick

Elizabeth Hardwick

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43/99

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48/99

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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

78/99

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72/99

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

John Mullan

17/99

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15/99

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

Mark Hodkinson

86/99

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94/99

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We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

Simu Liu

44/99

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A Guest at the Feast: Essays

Colm Tóibín

52/99

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53/99

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Ill Feelings

Alice Hattrick

60/99

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22/99

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Translating Myself and Others

Jhumpa Lahiri

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24/99

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29/99

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19/99

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

Natan Last

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93/99

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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

12/99

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13/99

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Mean Boys: A Personal History

Geoffrey Mak

30/99

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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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Linea Nigra

Jazmina Barrera; Christina MacSweeney

16/99

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19/99

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

Scott Chaskey

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66/99

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A History of My Brief Body

Billy-Ray Belcourt

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22/99

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

Nora McInerny; Nora McInerny Purmort

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22/99

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19/99

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25/99

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

Lindy West

11/99

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In the Early Times: A Life Reframed

Tad Friend

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

Tarana Burke

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

Vivian Gornick

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What About Men? A Feminist Answers the Question

Caitlin Moran

30/99

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You Have a New Memory: Essays

Aiden Arata

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

Joseph Osmundson

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Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

Azar Nafisi

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Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

Aparna Nancherla

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Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood

Chelsea Conaboy

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Suppose a Sentence

Brian Dillon

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

Dorthe Nors; Caroline Waight

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

Alec Wilkinson

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46/99

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On Women

Susan Sontag; Merve Emre; David Rieff

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27/99

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27/99

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Tell Everyone on This Train I Love Them

Maeve Higgins

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60/99

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76/99

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Orwell's Roses

Rebecca Solnit

58/99

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

Catie Marron

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

Nina Sharma

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Raising Raffi: The First Five Years

Keith Gessen

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Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon

Toni Morrison; Claudia Brodsky

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Last Letter to a Reader

Gerald Murnane

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

Christine Hume

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4/99

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In Defense of Love: An Argument

Ron Rosenbaum

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Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

Aisha Harris

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20/99

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Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love

Haruki Murakami

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

Kaila Yu

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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

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Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays

Jill Gutowitz

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How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

Richard Schoch

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Playing with Myself

Randy Rainbow

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Private Notebooks: 1914-1916

Ludwig Wittgenstein; Marjorie Perioff

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The End of Bias: A Beginning

Jessica Nordell

28/99

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Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

Katherine Angel

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

Ella Risbridger

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57/99

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Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage

Anne Lamott

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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

60/99

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Indigo

Padgett Powell

38/99

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Brown Neon

Raquel Gutiérrez

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

Simran Jeet Singh

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26/99

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28/99

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Andrea Long Chu

70/99

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Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays

Minnie Driver

39/99

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65/99

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The Red Zone: A Love Story

Chloé Caldwell

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63/99

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

Julie Phillips

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43/99

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24/99

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70/99

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62/99

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32/99

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60/99

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1/99

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87/99

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20/99

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60/99

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46/99

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74/99

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44/99

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47/99

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41/99

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47/99

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44/99

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88/99

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32/99

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49/99

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16/99

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60/99

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58/99

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6/99

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10/99

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50/99

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59/99

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42/99

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40/99

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70/99

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63/99

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79/99

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61/99

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33/99

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76/99

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66/99

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25/99

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34/99

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16/99

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30/99

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18/99

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76/99

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52/99

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43/99

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60/99

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36/99

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38/99

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35/99

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70/99

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61/99

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80/99

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62/99

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81/99

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42/99

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44/99

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15/99

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73/99

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27/99

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36/99

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17/99

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56/99

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30/99

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19/99

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40/99

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31/99

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26/99

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36/99

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97/99

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9/99

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12/99

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28/99

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29/99

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51/99

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