Solid State Books

Proudly serving downtown Washington, DC since 2017

Solid State Books is an independent bookstore and cafe featuring a deep and diverse selection of fiction and non-fiction titles, an extensive children’s book and young adult section, and a selection of stationery and gifts curated to appeal to customers of all ages. Ideally situated in the heart of the bustling and historic H Street Corridor, Solid State Books is a vital intellectual and social hub. We are a city of readers, writers, students, artists, activists, and politicos. Solid State Books is the nexus for all of these groups, engaging the community through our slate of dynamic programming and an unparalleled bookstore experience.

Ready for Adventure VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)

American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West

Nate Blakeslee

$17.00

$15.64

Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest

Wade Davis

$19.00

$17.48

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

John Vaillant

$16.95

$15.59

Butcher's Crossing

John Williams

$16.95

$15.59

Travels in Siberia

Ian Frazier

$24.00

$21.60

In the Distance

Hernan Diaz

$16.95

$15.59

Ready for Adventure

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No School? No Problem! VIEW LIST (54 BOOKS)

Awesome Science Experiments for Kids: 100+ Fun STEAM Projects and Why They Work

Crystal Chatterton

$14.99

$13.79

Animalium Activity Book

Big Picture Press and Katie Scott

$14.99

$13.79

The Lego Ideas Book: Unlock Your Imagination

Daniel Lipkowitz

$24.99

$22.49

Smithsonian 10-Minute Science Experiments: 50+ Quick, Easy and Awesome Projects for Kids

Steve Spangler

$14.99

$13.79

Brain Quest Workbook: Kindergarten [With Stickers]

Lisa Trumbauer

$12.95

$11.91

Activity Book

Alain Grée

$12.99

$11.95

No School? No Problem!

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Scott's Infinite Playlist VIEW LIST (9 BOOKS)

The Good Lord Bird

James McBride

$16.00

$14.72

Freeman's: California

$16.00

$14.72

The Cactus League

Emily Nemens

$27.00

$24.30

The Last Tourist

Olen Steinhauer

$27.99

$25.19

Death in Her Hands

Ottessa Moshfegh

$27.00

$24.30

Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

Ada Calhoun

$26.00

$23.40

Scott's Infinite Playlist

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Puzzles & Games VIEW LIST (36 BOOKS)

The History of Space Travel Puzzle: Astronomical 500-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle & Poster: Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults

Pop Chart Lab

$16.98

$15.62

Women in Science Puzzle: Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World 500-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle & Poster: Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults and Jigsaw Puzzles

Rachel Ignotofsky

$16.99

$15.63

Michael Storrings Spring on Park Avenue 1000 Piece Puzzle

Galison

$16.99

$15.63

Puzzles & Games

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Under the Glacier

Halldor Laxness

$15.95

$14.67

Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose

Kay Ryan

$25.00

$22.50

The Pine Islands

Marion Poschmann

$16.95

$15.59

Breasts and Eggs

Mieko Kawakami

$27.00

$24.30

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

$28.00

$25.20

The Memory Police

Yoko Ogawa

$25.95

$23.36

Gwen's Recommended Reading

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Jake Shows You the Way VIEW LIST (14 BOOKS)

The Good War: An Oral History of World War II (Revised)

Studs Terkel

$18.95

$17.43

Kolymsky Heights

Lionel Davidson

$15.95

$14.67

The Vanished Birds

Simon Jimenez

$27.00

$24.30

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

John Vaillant

$16.95

$15.59

Braised Pork

An Yu

$25.00

$22.50

Roseanna: A Martin Beck Police Mystery (1)

Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo

$15.95

$14.67

Jake Shows You the Way

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Jonathan Chait's Non-Fiction Picks VIEW LIST (9 BOOKS)

A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy (Reissue)

David M Oshinsky

$20.00

$18.00

Hitler's Thirty Days to Power: January 1933

Henry Ashby Turner

$16.99

The Death of Democracy: Hitler's Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic

Benjamin Carter Hett

$17.99

$16.55

$16.56

Jonathan Chait's Non-Fiction Picks

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Celange Picks Your Next Great Read VIEW LIST (10 BOOKS)

On Trails: An Exploration

Robert Moor

$16.00

$14.72

The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners

Jack Hawley

$16.95

$15.59

Gingerbread

Helen Oyeyemi

$17.00

$15.64

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays

Samantha Irby

$15.95

$14.67

Breasts and Eggs

Mieko Kawakami

$27.00

$24.30

Autobiography of a Yogi (Revised)

Paramahansa Yogananda and Yogananda

$12.50

$11.50

Celange Picks Your Next Great Read

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New America Fellows VIEW LIST (14 BOOKS)

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

George Packer

$30.00

$27.00

Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of Isis

Azadeh Moaveni

$28.00

$25.20

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Patrick Radden Keefe

$28.95

$26.06

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming

David Wallace-Wells

$27.00

$24.30

Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America

Christopher Leonard

$35.00

$31.50

Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race

Thomas Chatterton Williams

$25.95

$23.36

New America Fellows

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Staff Favorites VIEW LIST (12 BOOKS)

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

Mikki Kendall

$26.00

$23.40

I'm Telling the Truth, But I'm Lying: Essays

Bassey Ikpi

$15.99

$14.71

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu

$17.99

$16.55

Barkskins

Annie Proulx

$20.00

$18.00

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

Esme Weijun Wang

$16.00

$14.72

Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove

$28.00

$25.20

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Exciting New & Forthcoming Books to Order! VIEW LIST (57 BOOKS)

Rodham

Curtis Sittenfeld

$28.00

$25.20

The Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante

$26.00

$23.40

The New One: Painfully True Stories from a Reluctant Dad

Mike Birbiglia

$28.00

$25.20

All Adults Here

Emma Straub

$27.00

$24.30

Crooked Hallelujah

Kelli Jo Ford

$26.00

$23.40

Afterlife

Julia Alvarez

$25.95

$23.36

Exciting New & Forthcoming Books to Order!

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Mariam's Scintillating Selections VIEW LIST (12 BOOKS)

Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric

Claudia Rankine

$16.00

$14.72

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde

$16.99

$15.63

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo

Zora Neale Hurston

$16.99

$15.63

Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There

Tara Schuster

$27.00

$24.30

Magical Negro

Morgan Parker

$15.95

$14.67

The Autobiography of My Mother

Jamaica Kincaid

$14.00

$12.88

Mariam's Scintillating Selections

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Emily's Must Reads VIEW LIST (7 BOOKS)

A Fine Balance

Rohinton Mistry

$18.00

$16.56

Daughter of the Forest

Juliet Marillier

$9.99

$9.19

For the Love of Men: From Toxic to a More Mindful Masculinity

Liz Plank

$27.99

$25.19

The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster and Jules Feiffer

$8.99

$8.27

Paper Girls Deluxe Edition Volume 1

Brian K. Vaughan

$34.99

$31.49

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Emil Ferris

$39.99

$35.99

Emily's Must Reads

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Chris Delivers the Goods VIEW LIST (12 BOOKS)

As Serious as Your Life: Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977

Val Wilmer

$18.95

$17.43

Deacon King Kong

James McBride

$28.00

$25.20

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Jaron Lanier

$13.00

$11.96

The Vulture

Gil Scott-Heron

$15.00

$13.80

Andrew Henry's Meadow

Doris Burn

$16.99

$15.63

Dune (Anniversary)

Frank Herbert

$18.00

$16.56

Chris Delivers the Goods

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