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The Tardigrade's Bookshelf

Tardigrade’s Bookshelf is a soberish bookbar with a science-minded collection and atmosphere. Our brick-and-mortar shop is filled with science-focused books, but we love all books. Our booklists and book clubs reflect a wide range of genres and the conversations happening with our customers, blending science, literature, and current events.

Opt-Out This: Stories That Grow Love and Awareness
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The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish
Heather Has Two Mommies
Me and My Dysphoria Monster: An Empowering Story to Help Children Cope with Gender Dysphoria
Auntie Uncle: Drag Queen Hero
Willow and the Wedding
The Great Big Book of Families
It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book about Gender Identity
Neither: A Story about Being Who You Are
Red: A Crayon's Story
Julián Is a Mermaid
Jacob's Room to Choose
10,000 Dresses
King and King
Prince & Knight
Love, Violet
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Tardigrade's Bookshelf LGBTQ Bookclub Picks: Queer Lit & Conversations
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The Ruin of Kings
A Game in Yellow
Summer Sons
How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
Let Them Stare
Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
Stag Dance: A Novel & Stories
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
The Song of Achilles
Mad Honey: A GMA Book Club Pick
Giovanni's Room
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant
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Tardigrade's Bookshelf Spicy Bookclub Picks: Spicy, Not Sorry
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Audacity
The Pumpkin Spice Café
Bull Moon Rising
Mistakes Were Made
Sweet Berries
Captive in the Dark: Platinum Edition
Addicted (Reissue)
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Hexed
The Dragon's Bride
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Tardigrade's Bookshelf Science based Bookclub Picks: From Microbes to Multiverses
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Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain (Revised, Expanded)
Cat's Cradle
Dissolution
The Ministry of Time
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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Tardigrade's Bookshelf Horror Bookclub Picks: Keeping it Disturbing
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House of Leaves
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng: A Darkly Funny, Gory, and Ghostly Horror Novel (Original)
The Only Good Indians
Come Closer
Hide
Home Before Dark
Lights Out: An Into Darkness Novel
My Darling Dreadful Thing
The Last House on Needless Street
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WTF Is Happening? Books to Make Sense of Democracy, Authoritarianism, and Resistance
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) Third Edition: Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
A Lot of People Are Saying: The New Conspiracism and the Assault on Democracy
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Richard Hofstadter: Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, the Paranoid Style Inamerican Politics, Uncollected Essays 1956-1965 (Loa #330)
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Revised)
The Assault on Reason: Our Information Ecosystem, from the Age of Print to the Age of Trump, 2017 Edition
The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies
Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present, Revised and Updated Edition
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
Propaganda
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Mary Roach can make anything fascinating!
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Packing for Mars for Kids
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
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Love The Three Body Problem? Of course you do. Read these next!
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Death's End
System Collapse: The Murderbot Diaries
The Sunlit Man: A Cosmere Novel
Children of Ruin
Neuromancer
Project Hail Mary
Children of Time
Foundation
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Science Uncensored: Banned Books That Challenge and Enlighten
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Animal Farm: 75th Anniversary Edition (Anniversary)
The Giver
Frankenstein (Revised)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Left Hand of Darkness
A Wrinkle in Time: (Newbery Medal Winner)
Slaughterhouse-Five: Or the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death
The Handmaid's Tale
Fahrenheit 451 (Reissue)
Brave New World
1984
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Excited for Dune II? Read these while you wait!
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Shards of Earth
Ancillary Justice (10th Anniversary Edition) (Special)
Leviathan Wakes (10th Anniversary Edition)
The Soldier: Rise of the Jain, Book One
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