Salon's Reading List

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Salon's Reading List

Strange Children

Sadie Hoagland

$17.95
$16.51

The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women...

Danielle Dreilinger

$27.95
$25.71

White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism

Andreas Malm and The Zetkin Collective

$29.95
$27.55

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Andreas Malm

$19.95
$18.35

The Savoy Cocktail Book

Harry Craddock

$24.95
$22.95

Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter's Story

Mazie K. Hirono

$28.00
$25.76

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

Michelle Zauner

$26.95
$24.79

The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous...

Audrey Clare Farley

$28.00
$25.76

Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer...

Elon Green

$27.00
$24.84

Leaving Isn't the Hardest Thing: Essays

Lauren Hough

$16.95
$15.59

Rising and Other Stories

Gale Massey

$17.99
$16.55

Negative Space

Lilly Dancyger

$16.95
$15.59

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can...

Heather McGhee

$28.00
$25.76

Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts,...

Stacey Colino and Shanna H. Swan

$28.00
$25.76

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

Hanif Abdurraqib

$27.00
$24.84

Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong about Poverty

Mark Robert Rank, Lawrence M Eppard, et al.

$29.95

All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir

Kathy Valentine

$26.95
$24.79

Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West,...

Eric Berkowitz

$29.95
$27.55

This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends about Racism

Don Lemon

$28.00
$25.76

First and Only: A Black Woman's Guide to Thriving at Work and...

Jennifer R. Farmer

$22.99
$21.15

The History of Sexuality: An Introduction

Michel Foucault

$15.95
$14.67

The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution

Daniel Zamora and Mitchell Dean

$26.95
$24.79

Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story

Talib Kweli

$27.00
$24.84

The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto

Charles M. Blow

$26.99
$24.83

Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism

Terri Simone Francis

$24.00

Demagoguery and Democracy

Patricia Roberts-Miller

$7.95
$7.31

Speaking of Race: How to Have Antiracist Conversations That...

Patricia Roberts-Miller

$7.95
$7.31

Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power...

Lydia Denworth

$26.95
$24.79

Fix It with Food: More Than 125 Recipes to Address Autoimmune...

Douglas Trattner and Michael Symon

$30.00
$27.60

Missing Each Other: How to Cultivate Meaningful Connections

Edward Brodkin and Ashley Pallathra

$28.00
$25.76

Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us about...

Caitlin O'Connell

$26.95
$24.79

Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond...

Avi Loeb

$27.00
$24.84

You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories...

Lacey Lamar and Amber Ruffin

$28.00
$25.76

The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for...

Corey Brettschneider

$16.95
$15.59

The Lion of Mars

Jennifer L. Holm

$16.99
$15.63

Cook Like a Local: Flavors That Can Change How You Cook and...

Kaitlyn Goalen and Chris Shepherd

$35.00
$32.20

The Forgiveness Tour: How to Find the Perfect Apology

Susan Shapiro

$22.99
$21.15

The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and...

Ian Shapiro and Michael J. Graetz

$29.95
$27.55

Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for...

Joe Scarborough

$29.99
$27.59

Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present

Ruth Ben-Ghiat

$28.95
$26.63

Why Solange Matters

Stephanie Phillips

$18.95
$17.43

Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes

Ronni Lundy

$32.50
$29.90

Road Out of Winter: An Apocalyptic Thriller

Alison Stine

$17.99
$16.55

Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose

Nikki Giovanni

$19.99
$18.39

Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and...

Ken Forkish

$35.00
$32.20

Bones: Inside and Out

Roy A. Meals

$27.95
$25.71

Diners, Dudes, and Diets: How Gender and Power Collide in...

Emily J. H. Contois

$22.95

Capital and Ideology

Thomas Piketty

$39.95
$36.75

Time to Eat: Delicious Meals for Busy Lives: A Cookbook

Nadiya Hussain

$29.99
$27.59

The Empire of Depression: A New History

Jonathan Sadowsky

$35.00
$32.20

Will He Go?: Trump and the Looming Election Meltdown in 2020

Lawrence Douglas

$22.00
$20.24

Wall Disease: The Psychological Toll of Living Up Against a...

Jessica Wapner

$12.95
$11.91

The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food: A Cookbook

Marcus Samuelsson

$38.00
$34.96

The Gaming Mind: A New Psychology of Videogames and the Power...

Alexander Kriss

$15.95
$14.67

Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

Alia Volz

$27.00
$24.84

I Don't Want to Die Poor: Essays

Michael Arceneaux

$17.00
$15.64

Troll Nation: How the Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters...

Amanda Marcotte

$21.99
$20.23

The Elements of Pizza: Unlocking the Secrets to World-Class...

Ken Forkish

$30.00
$27.60

You Can Go Home Now

Michael Elias

$27.99
$25.75

American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland

Marie Mutsuki Mockett

$28.00
$25.76

The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

Robert B. Reich

$24.00
$22.08

Everyone Can Bake: Simple Recipes to Master and Mix

Dominique Ansel

$37.50
$34.50

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

Jason Stanley

$26.00
$23.92

Tomboy: The Surprising History and Future of Girls Who Dare...

Lisa Selin Davis

$28.00
$25.76

The Tinned Fish Cookbook: Easy-To-Make Meals from Ocean to...

Bart Van Olphen

$18.95
$17.43

Plant Magic: Herbalism in Real Life

Christine Buckley

$24.95
$22.95

Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science

Carol Kaesuk Yoon

$22.95

A Change Is Gonna Come: How to Have Effective Political...

Brian F. Harrison

$29.95

The Noma Guide to Fermentation: Including Koji, Kombuchas,...

David Zilber and René Redzepi

$40.00
$36.80

Rodham

Curtis Sittenfeld

$28.00
$25.76

Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow

$22.00
$20.24

How to American: An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your...

Jimmy O Yang

$15.99
$14.71

Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living for

Ella Risbridger and Elisa Cunningham

$30.00
$27.60

You're Mom: A Little Book for Mothers (and the People Who...

Liz Climo

$19.99
$18.39

Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President

Justin A Frank

$26.00

The Book of My Lives

Aleksandar Hemon

$18.00
$16.56

Hope, Never Fear: A Personal Portrait of the Obamas

Callie Shell

$24.95
$22.95

Inge's War: A German Woman's Story of Family, Secrets, and...

Svenja O'Donnell

$27.00
$24.84

The Perfect Scoop, Revised and Updated: 200 Recipes for Ice...

David Lebovitz

$24.99
$22.99

Betsey: A Memoir

Betsey Johnson and Mark Vitulano

$28.00
$25.76

Big Summer

Jennifer Weiner

$28.00
$25.76

All Adults Here

Emma Straub

$27.00
$24.84

Almond

Won-Pyung Sohn

$25.99
$23.91

Little Eyes

Samanta Schweblin

$26.00
$23.92

Sansei and Sensibility

Karen Tei Yamashita

$16.95
$15.59

The Anthill

Julianne Pachico

$26.95
$24.79

The Prettiest Star

Carter Sickels

$26.00
$23.92

My Dark Vanessa

Kate Elizabeth Russell

$27.99
$25.75

Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach...

Claire Bidwell Smith

$27.00

Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of...

Mark O'Connell

$27.95
$25.71

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

Lynn Casteel Harper

$26.00
$23.92

The Upside of Being Down: How Mental Health Struggles Led to...

Jen Gotch

$27.00
$24.84

Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs

Jennifer Finney Boylan

$26.99
$24.83

The Moment of Tenderness

Madeleine L'Engle

$27.00
$24.84

Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden...

Lulu Miller

$26.00
$23.92

The Lady's Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir

Sarah Ramey

$27.95
$25.71

The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual...

Katherine Rowland

$28.00
$25.76

Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of...

Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr

$28.99
$26.67

Afterlife

Julia Alvarez

$25.95
$23.87

Perfect Tunes

Emily Gould

$26.00
$23.92

The Coyotes of Carthage

Steven Wright

$26.99
$24.83

The House of Deep Water

Jeni McFarland

$26.00
$23.92

How to Pronounce Knife: Stories

Souvankham Thammavongsa

$26.00
$23.92

Pretty Bitches: On Being Called Crazy, Angry, Bossy, Frumpy,...

Lizzie Skurnick

$28.00
$25.76

The Body Double

Emily Beyda

$26.95

Docile

K. M. Szpara

$27.99
$25.75

Deceit and Other Possibilities: Stories

Vanessa Hua

$16.95
$15.59

Beheld

Tarashea Nesbit

$26.00
$23.92

That Hair

Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida

$15.95
$14.67

The Glass Hotel

Emily St John Mandel

$26.95
$24.79

It's Not All Downhill from Here

Terry McMillan

$28.00
$25.76

The Memory Eaters

Elizabeth Kadetsky

$19.95
$18.35

In the Shadow of the Valley: A Memoir

Bobi Conn

$24.95
$22.95

Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy

David Daley

$26.95
$24.79

Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count

David Daley

$16.95
$15.59

A People's History of Silicon Valley

Keith Spencer

$14.99

A Collective Pursuit: Teachers' Unions and Education Reform

Lesley Lavery

$27.95

Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think (Enlarged)

George Lakoff

$31.20

American Taxation, American Slavery

Robin L Einhorn

$37.20

The Second Treatise of Government and a Letter Concerning...

John Locke

$5.00
$4.60

The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of...

Fintan O'Toole

$27.95
$25.71

Hollywood Park: A Memoir

Mikel Jollett

$27.99
$25.75

This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to...

Ilhan Omar

$27.99
$25.75

Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies

Kevin Smokler

$16.95
$15.59

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Revised)

Richard Hofstadter

$18.00
$16.56

The Golden Thirteen: How Black Men Won the Right to Wear Navy...

Dan Goldberg

$28.95
$26.63

From #Blacklivesmatter to Black Liberation

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

$17.95
$16.51

The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break...

Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter

$30.00
$27.60

The Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett

$27.00
$24.84

You Exist Too Much

Zaina Arafat

$26.00
$23.92

Death in Her Hands

Ottessa Moshfegh

$27.00
$24.84

Block Seventeen

Kimiko Guthrie

$26.99
$24.83

Self Care

Leigh Stein

$16.00
$14.72

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Masha Gessen

$18.00
$16.56

Surviving Autocracy

Masha Gessen

$26.00
$23.92

Citizen: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

$20.00
$18.40

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Toni Morrison

$15.00
$13.80

Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City

Natalie Hopkinson

$25.95
$23.87

The Mothers

Brit Bennett

$16.00
$14.72

So You Want to Talk about Race

Ijeoma Oluo

$16.99
$15.63

How to Be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

$27.00
$24.84

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist...

Ibram X. Kendi

$19.98
$18.38

Riot Baby

Tochi Onyebuchi

$19.98
$18.38

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of...

Michelle Alexander

$18.99
$17.47

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk...

Robin Diangelo

$16.00
$14.72

Everywhere You Don't Belong

Gabriel Bump

$25.95
$23.87

Upright Women Wanted

Sarah Gailey

$20.99
$19.31

The Lost Book of Adana Moreau (Original)

Michael Zapata

$26.99
$24.83

This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope

Shayla Lawson

$16.99
$15.63

Twisted: The Tangled History of Black Hair Culture

Emma Dabiri

$16.99
$15.63

How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt for America's Vanished Voters

Greg Palast and Ted Rall

$16.95
$15.59

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black...

Douglas A. Blackmon

$18.95
$17.43

On Account of Race: The Supreme Court, White Supremacy, and...

Lawrence Goldstone

$26.00
$23.92

How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community

Mia Birdsong

$16.99
$15.63

Of Mice and Minestrone: Hap and Leonard: The Early Years

Joe R. Lansdale

$15.95
$14.67

We Are Called to Be a Movement

William Barber

$8.95
$8.23

The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

John Bolton

$32.50
$29.90

Words on Fire: The Power of Incendiary Language and How to...

Helio Fred Garcia

$22.00
$20.24

White Dancing Elephants

Chaya Bhuvaneswar

$16.95
$15.59

Aya: Life in Yop City

Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie

$29.95
$27.55

Bessie Stringfield, 2: Tales of the Talented Tenth, No. 2

Joel Christian Gill

$23.95
$22.03

Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty

G. Neri and Randy Duburke

$16.95
$15.59

Prince of Cats

Ron Wimberly

$17.99
$16.55

A Life Beyond Reason: A Father's Memoir

Chris Gabbard

$24.95

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American...

Toni Tipton-Martin

$35.00
$32.20

Carla Hall's Soul Food: Everyday and Celebration

Carla Hall and Genevieve Ko

$32.50
$29.90

Black Girl Baking: Wholesome Recipes Inspired by a Soulful...

Jerrelle Guy

$21.99
$20.23

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary...

Michael W. Twitty

$16.99
$15.63

The Terror of the Unforeseen

Henry Giroux

$17.00
$15.64

American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism

Henry A Giroux

$17.95
$16.51

The Price of Inequality

Joseph E. Stiglitz

$17.95
$16.51

The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies...

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

$20.00
$18.40

Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

Wes Moore and Erica L. Green

$28.00
$25.76

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Cathy Park Hong

$27.00
$24.84

Son of a Southern Chef: Cook with Soul

Lazarus Lynch

$25.00
$23.00

Unspeakable: Literature and Terrorism from the Gunpowder Plot...

Peter C. Herman

$49.95

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of...

Neil Postman

$17.00
$15.64

Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump

Asad Haider

$17.95
$16.51

The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks

Toni Tipton-Martin

$45.00
$41.40

Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch...

Max Brooks

$28.00
$25.76

One to Watch

Kate Stayman-London

$17.00
$15.64

Want

Lynn Steger Strong

$25.99
$23.91

The Son of Good Fortune

Lysley Tenorio

$27.99
$25.75

Blacktop Wasteland

S. a. Cosby

$26.99
$24.83

F*ckface: And Other Stories

Leah Hampton

$25.99
$23.91

American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed...

Jared Yates Sexton

$29.00
$26.68

Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker,...

Julian E. Zelizer

$30.00
$27.60

Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era

Adolph Reed Jr

$33.00

The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide

Zerlina Maxwell

$27.00
$24.84

Living in a World That Can't Be Fixed: Reimagining...

Curtis White

$24.99

A Woman's Place: Inside the Fight for a Feminist Future

Kylie Cheung

$16.95
$15.59

Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of...

Charles P. Pierce

$16.95

Turnout!: Mobilizing Voters in an Emergency

Charles Derber, Matt Nelson, et al.

$35.94

Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving...

Tiffany Cross

$23.99
$22.07

Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Changing Feelings about...

Luke Fernandez and Susan J. Matt

$35.00

Rules for Being Dead

Kim Powers

$25.95
$23.87

I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt...

Brandon Soderberg and Baynard Woods

$27.99
$25.75

Drinking French: The Iconic Cocktails, Apéritifs, and Café...

David Lebovitz

$28.00
$25.76

The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir

D. Watkins

$14.99

We Speak for Ourselves: How Woke Culture Prohibits Progress

D. Watkins

$16.00
$14.72

The Cook Up: A Crack Rock Memoir

$35.00
$32.20

Ok Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind

Jill Filipovic

$17.00
$15.64

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's...

Mary L. Trump

$28.00
$25.76

Luster

Raven Leilani

$26.00
$23.92

True Story

Kate Reed Petty

$26.00
$23.92

The Death of Vivek Oji

Akwaeke Emezi

$27.00
$24.84

All the Right Mistakes

Laura Jamison

$16.95
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Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear

Matthew Salesses

$24.95
$22.95

A House Is a Body: Stories

Shruti Swamy

$25.95
$23.87

The Inevitability of Tragedy: Henry Kissinger and His World

Barry Gewen

$30.00
$27.60

{#289-128}: Poems

Randall Horton

$19.95
$18.35

Hook: A Memoir

Randall Horton

$18.00

Pitch Dark Anarchy

Randall Horton

$16.95

100 Cookies: The Baking Book for Every Kitchen, with Classic...

Sarah Kieffer

$27.50
$25.30

The Last Story of Mina Lee (Original)

Nancy Jooyoun Kim

$27.99
$25.75

Debt, Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years

David Graeber

$22.99
$21.15

No Rules: A Memoir

Sharon Dukett

$16.95
$15.59

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

$17.00
$15.64

Owed

Joshua Bennett

$20.00
$18.40

Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of...

Brian Stelter

$28.00
$25.76

Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right

Cynthia Miller-Idriss

$29.95
$27.55

This Is Ohio: The Overdose Crisis and the Front Lines of a...

Jack Shuler

$26.00
$23.92

Cubed: The Puzzle of Us All

Erno Rubik

$25.99
$23.91

The Antiracist: How to Start the Conversation about Race and...

Kondwani Fidel

$22.99
$21.15

Hummingbirds in The Trenches

Kondwani Fidel

$21.53

Raw Wounds

Kondwani Fidel

$20.00

Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation

Anne Helen Petersen

$26.00
$23.92

Howard Zinn's Southern Diary: Sit-Ins, Civil Rights, and...

Robert Cohen

$24.95
$22.95

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

$21.99
$20.23

Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change

Maggie Smith

$24.00
$22.08

Lying in State: Why Presidents Lie -- And Why Trump Is Worse

Eric Alterman

$30.00
$27.60

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Timothy Snyder

$9.99
$9.19

The Road to Unfreedom

Timothy Snyder

$18.00
$16.56

Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary

Timothy Snyder

$12.00
$11.04

Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political...

Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin

$18.95
$17.43

I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters

David Masciotra

$27.00
$24.84

Mellencamp: American Troubadour

David Masciotra

$35.00

American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise

Eduardo Porter

$26.95
$24.79

Ten Thousand Saints

Eleanor Henderson

$16.98

The Twelve-Mile Straight

Eleanor Henderson

$16.99