Bridge Street Books

Now celebrating 40 years in business, Bridge Street is DC's foremost humanities bookstore specializing in poetry, philosophy, history, the sciences, & much more. We've got your bestsellers too!

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I'm Glad My Mom Died
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Book Lovers
Time Is a Mother
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Lincoln Highway
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Trust
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Original)
Heaven
Stella Maris
The Passenger
Liberation Day: Stories
Dinosaurs
Lucy by the Sea
Lessons
The Marriage Portrait
The Last White Man
Carrie Soto Is Back
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Fairy Tale
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home
Somebody's Fool
The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
Stone Blind
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
Greek Lessons
The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House
Picasso the Foreigner: An Artist in France, 1900-1973
Birnam Wood
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe
Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory
In the Lives of Puppets
This Other Eden
War Diary
Invasion: The Inside Story of Russia's Bloody War and Ukraine's Fight for Survival
The January 6th Report
A Message from Ukraine: Speeches, 2019-2022
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
The Fourth Man: The Hunt for a KGB Spy at the Top of the CIA and the Rise of Putin's Russia
The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy
The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict Between the US and Xi Jinping's China
Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir
Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It
Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist
The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict
What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World
The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Their Eyes Were Watching God
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Anna Karenina
The Remains of the Day
A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition
To the Lighthouse
The Guyana Quartet
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
The Handmaid's Tale
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights (Revised)
The Bookshop (Revised)
Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's the Tempest Retold: A Novel
Exilee and Temps Morts: Selected Works
Milkweed Smithereens
Late Fragments: Flares, My Heart Laid Bare, Prose Poems, Belgium Disrobed
Customs: Poems
Boat
Time Is a Mother
Hurting Kind
Be Brave to Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
Pregrets
Harlem Shadows: Poems
The Nick of Time
Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems
Sho
Inheritance
Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
Fear of Black Consciousness
Say Their Names: How Black Lives Came to Matter in America
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
March (Trilogy Slipcase Set)
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
Nothing Personal
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide for the Non-Perplexed
I Want to Keep Smashing Myself Until I Am Whole: An Elias Canetti Reader
Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
Sentient Flesh: Thinking in Disorder, Poiesis in Black
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
Speaking the Truth about Oneself: Lectures at Victoria University, Toronto, 1982
Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime: Why Ideas Matter
Being and Nothingness
Women of Ideas: Interviews from Philosophy Bites
Revolution: An Intellectual History
Meditations: The Annotated Edition
Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness
Theory of the Earth
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Revised)
The Fifties: An Underground History
The Greeks: A Global History
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
Churchill's Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill
Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration
The Shattering: America in the 1960s
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years That Shook the World
The Invention of Terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States
The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850
Sam Gilliam
Joe Brainard: The Art of the Personal
Sun Ra: Art on Saturn: The Album Cover Art of Sun Ra's Saturn Label
Sophie Calle & Jean-Paul Demoule: The Elevator Resides in 501
The Cute
Franz Kafka: The Drawings
Art & Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World
Cézanne in the Barnes Foundation
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
Fashion Since 1900
Banksyisms: The Wit, Wisdom and Inspiration of an Art Outlaw
The Essential Louis Kahn
Kengo Kuma: My Life as an Architect in Tokyo
The Naturally Beautiful Garden: Designs That Engage with Wildlife and Nature
Artcurious: Stories of the Unexpected, Slightly Odd, and Strangely Wonderful in Art History