By Moe's Books
We work in a bookstore because we love books! Here are a few of our current favorites.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs,
Adrienne Maree Brown
Paperback
$17.00
$15.81
Eve Babitz,
Sara Kramer,
Molly Lambert
Paperback
$19.95
$18.54
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Paperback
$17.95
$16.69
Revolutionary, transgressive, but also loving and gentle, a queer tour de force about not belonging (and yet belonging).
Lucy Sante
Paperback
$22.95
$21.34
Gorgeously written very personal essays, the author's account of life in New York in the 70's. Thoughts and reflections on Patti Smith, Rene Ricard, and Joe Brainard, among others.
Geoff Manaugh
Other
$19.00
$17.67
What would it take to break into you home? An architect writes about heists, break-ins, tunnel jobs from the viewpoint of a burglar, but also writes about crime and urban life.
Cathy Park Hong
Hardback
$28.00
$26.04
In this book of essays, poet Cathy Park Hong uses her own experience growing up as the daughter of Korean immigrants as a touchstone to deep conversations about race, identity, and the dissonance between the American dream and American reality.
Layla F. Saad,
Robin J. Diangelo,
Robin Diangelo
Hardback
$25.99
$24.17
If you have been wondering where to start with thinking about race, confronting your own internalized racism, or how to do anything about white supremacy, this book is for you. With Layla F. Saad’s 28 prompts for self-reflection, intended to be completed over four weeks, Me and White Supremacy is an opportunity to actually do the work you need to do.
Claudia Rankine
Hardback
$30.00
$27.90
Rankine, as always, provides a breath of fresh air to the conversation surrounding race in the U.S. Just Us is an invitation to talk about whiteness in a way that disrupts the normal mechanisms of white silence, guilt, and ultimately white supremacy.
Sayaka Murata,
Ginny Tapley Takemori
Hardback
$26.00
$24.18
Sayaka Murata is a master of outsider fiction, capturing perfectly people unable to fit into society or coalesce with the systems they are surrounded by. Earthlings is no exception, a delightfully weird and strange novel about a woman who believes she is not from Earth. Recommended if you want something just a little different.
Elena Ferrante,
Ann Goldstein
Hardback
$26.00
$24.18
Highly anticipated, Elena Ferrante’s first work since her acclaimed Neapolitan series does not disappoint. Ferrante’s signature voice never falters, and while The Lying Life of Adults mostly touches on similar themes to her other works, it strikes a new tone while exploring adolescence, family, and loss of innocence.
Isabel Wilkerson
Hardback
$32.00
$29.76
Everyone needs to listen to Isabel Wilkerson! Her new book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, is an incredible overview of the racial caste system in present-day America. With her signature thoroughness and clarity, Wilkerson has written a book of utmost importance.
Hiroko Oyamada,
David Boyd
Paperback
$12.95
$12.04
Hiroko Oyamada’s fiction is elegant and unsettling at the same time. A surreal journey through an underground world in the Japanese countryside, The Hole is a page turner with a flavor like no other.
Fernanda Melchor,
Sophie Hughes
Paperback
$16.95
$15.76
Now out in paperback, the electric debut of Mexican writer Fernanda Melchor is a dizzying ride through a small Mexican village after the murder of “the Witch.” Equal parts ferocious and tender, Hurricane Season contains the stunning voice of a writer to be watched.
Brit Bennett
Hardback
$27.00
$25.11
A story of two Black twin sisters from Louisiana whose lives diverge sharply, The Vanishing Half achieves the finest literary excellence while also being an astute social commentary on race, passing, and sisterhood. It is also notable for the inclusion of a trans character who is well-developed but not the focus of the story. Well written, complex, and elegantly structured, this book will be hard to put down.
Trisha Low
Other
$18.00
$16.74
I loved this contemporary take on western migration as quest and metaphor, a sort of travelogue through the spoiled landscape of late capitalism, lightened (and darkened) by the sly and touching observations of the author. Trisha Low's book-length essay reads like a novel and functions as a road map to survival in our rather strange times. —Owen
Lynda Barry
Paperback
$22.95
$21.34
In Making Comics, the great-hearted and very funny Lynda Barry creates a classroom in which all of us can be re-introduced to our own drawing kid genius. —Kimn
Anna Burns
Other
$17.00
$15.81
Don’t be intimidated by the unconventional structure...the story is so riveting and the terror so real that you will hear the narrator’s voice long after you finish reading. —Owen
Olga Tokarczuk,
Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Hardback
$28.00
$26.04
Lighthearted and humorous, this is the most purely enjoyable book I've read this year. The eccentric narrator of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead will pull you over to her side immediately in Olga Tokarczuk's warm, endearing story about a string of bizarre deaths in a remote Polish village and the men who dismiss old women as crazy. —Kalie
Lydia Davis
Hardback
$30.00
$27.90
We’re so lucky to get this chance to peer into Lydia Davis’s brain. These essays will delight, amuse, and enrich your understanding of writing, process, and the world around us. —Kalie
Miriam Toews
Paperback
$17.00
$15.81
I loved this book. Toews uses an unusual format — the minutes of a meeting— to weave a surprisingly compelling story and set of characters. Toews’ women are complex and fully realized, and capable of bringing humor into a conversation where they contemplate the unthinkable. —Francesca