Leslie's Bookshop Favs

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The Other Black Girl
Malibu Rising
Miracle Creek
The New Wilderness
Queenie
Caraval
Gone Girl
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
Room
A Little Life
State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts
A Gentleman in Moscow
Rules of Civility
The Heart's Invisible Furies
The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
When Breath Becomes Air
Know My Name: A Memoir
Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family
Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels
The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir
Educated: A Memoir
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Becoming
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
The Year of Magical Thinking
Nothing Good Can Come from This: Essays
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Good Morning, Midnight
Severance
Station Eleven
The Dog Stars
California
Greenwood
Doomsday Book
The Dreamers
The New Wilderness
The Handmaid's Tale
The Road
Cook This Book: Techniques That Teach and Recipes to Repeat: A Cookbook
Sea Salt and Honey: Celebrating the Food of Kardamili in 100 Sun-Drenched Recipes: A New Greek Cookbook
Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over
Super Natural Simple: Whole-Food, Vegetarian Recipes for Real Life [A Cookbook]
Dishing Up the Dirt: Simple Recipes for Cooking Through the Seasons
Simply Julia: 110 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Prune: A Cookbook
My Paris Kitchen: Recipes and Stories
The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution: A Cookbook
Tasting Rome: Fresh Flavors and Forgotten Recipes from an Ancient City: A Cookbook
Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London's Ottolenghi (Vegetarian Cooking, Vegetable Cookbook, Vegetable Cooking)
Food52 Genius Recipes: 100 Recipes That Will Change the Way You Cook [A Cookbook]
A Kitchen in France: A Year of Cooking in My Farmhouse: A Cookbook
Jerusalem: A Cookbook
The Signature of All Things The Last American Man Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Leslie's Bookshop Favs

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The Other Black Girl
Malibu Rising
French Exit
Nine Perfect Strangers
In Five Years
Everything I Never Told You
The Martian
Rules of Civility
The Nightingale
Grown Ups
Such a Fun Age
The Other Black Girl
The Vanishing Half
Such a Fun Age
An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club)
The Underground Railroad
The Hate U Give: A Printz Honor Winner
When No One Is Watching: A Thriller
We Cast a Shadow
The Broken Earth Trilogy: The Fifth Season, the Obelisk Gate, the Stone Sky
Beloved
Passing
Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes
Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Year of Food Life
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious--And Perplexing--City
Everything Is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again
Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload
The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Interpreter of Maladies
A Little Life
When Breath Becomes Air
Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
Stories of Your Life and Others
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
Know My Name: A Memoir
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Crazy Rich Asians
Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
Severance
The Gangster We Are All Looking for
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous