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Books to Read While Watching the United States Collapse in Slow Motion
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classics that will probably be banned soon
contemporary reads that will make you realize that this is the bad place
cozy escapism
classics that will probably be banned soon
what are the book banners so afraid of?
This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" and includes a foreword by LeVar Burton and an afterword by N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times).
When global c...
Parable of the Sower
75th Anniversary Edition—Includes a New Introduction by Téa Obreht George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel—a scathing satire of a downtrodden society’s blind march towards totalitarianism. “All animals are equal, but some animals are mo...
Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition
Written 75 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever... This 75th Anniversary Ed...
1984: 75th Anniversary
Praise for Jailbird “[Vonnegut] is our strongest writer . . . the most stubbornly imaginative.”—John Irving “A gem . . . a mature, imaginative novel—possibly the best he has written . . . Jailbird is a guided tour de force of America. Take it!”—Playb...bookshop.org/a/108413/9780385333900 copy product affiliate link Copy manage affiliate lists link Manage Book Lists E
Jailbird: A Novel
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held sec...
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: A Novel
Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. Everyo...
The Giver: A Newbery Award Winner
contemporary reads that will make you realize that this is the bad place
“Wait. Is this F-CKING play about us?" - ancient proverb
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in a West that betrays its fundamental values "[A] bracing memoir and manifesto."—The New York Times “I can’t t...
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
An urgent, topic-by-topic guide to Project 2025, with everything you need to know about how the second Trump administration is remaking America—from a go-to authority at The Atlantic When President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January ...
The Project: How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize Shortlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award One of The Irish Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century...
Prophet Song: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
The phenomenal fifth book in the Hunger Games series! When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for? As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor o...
Sunrise on the Reaping (a Hunger Games Novel)
What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitalism, we subject our bodies and minds to work at an unrealistic, damaging, and machine-level pace -...
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why? In The Anxious Generation,...
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
There’s power in a book… They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give the...
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
cozy escapism
because maybe things can get better if we resist in both big and small ways.
For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers' life. What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komac...
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks... For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that thi...
One Last Stop
**OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2024** **NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK 2024** NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY A New York Times Bestseller - Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize - Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction One of th...
Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)
As recommended by Good Housekeeping, Country Living, and more! "The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks is a charming romcom about finding your own path and never being scared to break the rules. It's also an uplifting celebration of the power of books t...
The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks