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Crooked Reads

Hi! I'm Ashley Holstrom, a professional book person. By day I manage ebook production at a midwest publisher and write about books all over the internet by night. Previously a contributor at Book Riot, reviewer at Foreword Reviews, writer at BuzzFeed Books, and occasional Bibliologist at TBR (Tailored Book Recommendations). 

 

These are some of my favorite books, along with the ones recommended in my monthly newsletter, Crooked Reads. 

Embroideries
Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love
One in a Million: A Graphic Memoir
The Design of Books: An Explainer for Authors, Editors, Agents, and Other Curious Readers
How to Protect Bookstores and Why: The Present and Future of Bookselling
The Untold Story of Books: A Writer's History of Publishing
Life of the Party: Poems
A Bit Much: Poems
And Yet: Poems
Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know about the Films You're Too Scared to Watch
What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt
Ask Me about My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
The Dead Guy Next Door: A Riley Thorn Novel
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History's Least Likely Self-Help Guru
Agorafabulous!
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget
Brain on Fire (10th Anniversary Edition): My Month of Madness
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
The Crying Book
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression
Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things
Everything Is an Emergency: An Ocd Story in Words & Pictures
Girl, Interrupted
Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love
Haldol and Hyacinths: A Bipolar Life
Hello I Want to Die Please Fix Me: Depression in the First Person
Hi, Anxiety: Life with a Bad Case of Nerves
Ask Me about My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected
Dancing After Ten
How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom
One in a Million: A Graphic Memoir
Notes from a Sickbed
Sick: A Memoir
Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life
What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt
Butt or Face?
Drunk Flies and Stoned Dolphins: A Trip Through the World of Animal Intoxication
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
Gross Anatomy: A Field Guide to Loving Your Body, Warts and All
Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis
Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death
Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation
Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--And What We Can Do about It
Bad Feminist
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening
Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power
Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Know My Name: A Memoir
Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real about the End
The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
This Party's Dead: Grief, Joy and Spilled Rum at the World's Death Festivals
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death
Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind
Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self
Disconnected: How to Stay Human in an Online World
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future!
Log Off: Digital Detox for the Extremely Online
Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
The Fine Print
Terms and Conditions
Final Offer
It Happened One Summer
Praise
Eyes on Me
Give Me More
Mercy
The Roommate
A Brush with Love
The Nanny
The Fake Mate
The Wedding Date
The Wedding Party
The Love Hypothesis
Embroideries
Something, Not Nothing: A Story of Grief and Love
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened (Original)
Solutions and Other Problems
Waves
The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces
Cheeky: A Head-To-Toe Memoir
Dancing at the Pity Party
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir
Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice from My Bipolar Life
Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home
Nervosa
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
100 Demon Dialogues
Barely Functional Adult: It'll All Make Sense Eventually
A Career in Books: A Novel about Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun
Cat Massage Therapy Vol. 1
Cheeky: A Head-To-Toe Memoir
Cryptid Club
Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical
Deep Dark Fears
Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too: A Book
Everything Is Ok
I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf
In Love & Pajamas: A Collection of Comics about Being Yourself Together
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