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Picks from the Italic Type staff.
1Q84
by Haruki Murakami
Staff Pick: Emily
Amusing Ourselves to Death
by Neil Postman
Atomic Habits
by James Clear
Staff Pick: Kelsey
The Undocumented Americans
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Staff Pick: Rachel
The Moon and Sixpence
by W. Somerset Maugham
Staff Pick: Jason
The Mists of Avalon
by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Cactus League
by Emily Nemens
How Not to Die
by Michael Greger, M.D., FACLM and Gene Stone
American Wife
by Curtis Sittenfeld
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
Confirmation Bias
by Ivanna Baranova
Bad Blood
by John Carreyrou
Snow Crash
by Neal Stephenson
Strangers in Their Own Land
by Arlie Russell Hochschild
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
by Shoshana Zuboff
The Color of Money
by Mehrsa Baradaran
Books from the 2020 Pulitzer Prize list.
Only As the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems
by Dorianne Laux
Poetry
The Nickel Boys
by Colson Whitehead
Fiction
The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett
The Topeka School
by Ben Lerner
Sweet Taste of Liberty
by W. Caleb McDaniel
History
Race for Profit
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
The End of the Myth
by Greg Grandin
Sontag
by Benjamin Moser
Biography
Our Man
by George Packer
Parisian Lives
by Deirdre Bair
The Tradition
by Jericho Brown
Dunce
by Mary Ruefle
The Undying
by Anne Boyer
General Nonfiction
Elderhood
by Louise Aronson
Solitary
by Albert Woodfox
Because we could all use a few laughs right now.
Wow, No Thank You.
by Samantha Irby
Born A Crime
by Trevor Noah
The Fran Lebowitz Reader
by Fran Lebowitz
High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
The Princess Bride
by William Goldman
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
by Chuck Klosterman
Jitterbug Perfume
by Tom Robbins
Less
by Andrew Sean Greer
The Sellout
by Paul Beatty
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster
Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons
The Mark and the Void
by Paul Murray
Super Sad True Love Story
by Gary Shteyngart
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by Mindy Kaling
The First Wives Club
by Olivia Goldsmith
Rubyfruit Jungle
by Rita Mae Brown