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By Defector Media

Defector Media is a 100-percent worker-owned and -operated media company that covers sports & culture. Here's what our staffers have been reading recently.

bookcover for How Far the Light Reaches

How Far the Light Reaches

Sabrina Imbler 

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$30.00

$27.90

bookcover for The Night the Lights Went Out

The Night the Lights Went Out

Drew Magary 

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$27.00

$25.11

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Got to Be Something Here

Andrea Swensson 

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$17.95

$16.69

From Justin Ellis: "Would you like to know how Prince became Prince, and what informed his sound? Read this."

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Little Girls in Pretty Boxes

Joan Ryan 

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$21.99

From Diana Moskovitz: "One of the most important pieces of sport journalism in my lifetime."

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Easy Beauty

Chloé Cooper Jones 

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$28.00

$26.04

From Giri Nathan

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Detransition, Baby

Torrey Peters 

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$27.00

$25.11

From Lauren Theisen

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A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching

Rosemary Mosco 

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$14.99

$13.94

From Dan McQuade: "Interesting information, cute illustrations!"

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Woman on the Edge of Time

Marge Piercy 

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$18.00

$16.74

From Tom Ley

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Battles in the Desert and Other Stories

José Emilio Pacheco 

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$14.95

From Maitreyi Anantharaman

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How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Andreas Malm 

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$19.95

$18.55

From Kelsey McKinney

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A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles 

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$19.00

$17.67

From Kalyn Kahler: "Reading this book makes you feel cozy and warm."

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Cowboys Full

James McManus 

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$26.00

$24.18

From Ray Ratto

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Debt

David Graeber 

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$26.99

$25.10

From Patrick Redford

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The Jakarta Method

Vincent Bevins 

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$19.99

$18.59

From Laura Wagner

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The Poppy War

R. F Kuang 

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$19.99

$18.59

From Luis Paez-Pumar: "This fantasy trilogy features teens with superpowers and rapidly deterioating mental health, set in an Imperial China-like continent full of epic wars and a substantial amount of gore."

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The Ends of the World

Peter Brannen 

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$17.99

$16.73

From Barry Petchesky

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I Can't Date Jesus

Michael Arceneaux 

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$17.00

$15.81

From Justin Ellis

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Women, Race & Class

Angela Y. Davis 

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$17.00

$15.81

From Diana Moskovitz: "An absolute masterpiece. From 1981 but still relevant today."

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Path of Totality

Niina Pollari 

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$16.95

$15.76

From Kelsey McKinney: "Poems that made me feel like I had been punched in the gut."

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Survival Math

Mitchell Jackson 

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$17.00

$15.81

From Justin Ellis

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Let the Record Show

Sarah Schulman 

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$40.00

$37.20

From Lauren Theisen

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Disappearing Earth

Julia Phillips 

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$18.00

$16.74

From David Roth

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Disposable Domestics

Grace Chang, 

Ai-Jen Poo, 

Alicia Garza 

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$19.95

$18.55

From Kelsey McKinney

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To Each His Own

Leonardo Sciascia, 

W.S. Di Piero, 

Adrienne Foulke 

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$18.95

$17.62

From David Roth

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Ruby (Oprah's Book Club 2.0)

Cynthia Bond 

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$16.00

$14.88

From Kelsey McKinney: "For Toni Morrison fans."

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