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Last refreshed 2026-02-27. We keep tuning this list as new titles land and reader interest shifts.

  1. Sitting Pretty

    1. Sitting Pretty

    Rebekah Taussig
    Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
  2. Work Won't Love You Back

    2. Work Won't Love You Back

    Sarah Jaffe
    Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
  3. Story of Christianity: Volume 1, The

    3. Story of Christianity: Volume 1, The

    Justo L. Gonzalez, Justo L. González
    Story of Christianity: Volume 1, The: The Early Church to the Dawn of the Reformation
  4. The Deviant's War

    4. The Deviant's War

    Eric Cervini
    The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America
  5. The Deepest South of All

    5. The Deepest South of All

    Richard Grant
    The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi
  6. The Doomsday Machine

    6. The Doomsday Machine

    Daniel Ellsberg
    The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
  7. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning

    7. Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning

    Jonathan Mahler
    Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
  8. Elderhood

    8. Elderhood

    Louise Aronson
    Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
  9. The Making of Asian America

    9. The Making of Asian America

    Erika Lee
    The Making of Asian America: A History
  10. Brain Lock, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

    10. Brain Lock, Twentieth Anniversary Edition

    Jeffrey M. Schwartz
    Brain Lock, Twentieth Anniversary Edition: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior
  11. God's Secretaries

    11. God's Secretaries

    Adam Nicolson
    God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible
  12. The Art of Biblical Narrative

    12. The Art of Biblical Narrative

    Robert Alter
    The Art of Biblical Narrative: Paperback – April 26, 2011
  13. Empire of Normality

    13. Empire of Normality

    Robert Chapman
    Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
  14. The Pink Triangle

    14. The Pink Triangle

    Richard Plant
    The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
  15. The Anatomy of Genres

    15. The Anatomy of Genres

    John Truby
    The Anatomy of Genres: How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works
  16. Long Live Latin

    16. Long Live Latin

    Nicola Gardini
    Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language
  17. Crude Nation

    17. Crude Nation

    Raúl Gallegos
    Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela
  18. Borealis

    18. Borealis

    Aisha Sabatini Sloan
    Borealis: Paperback – November 2, 2021
  19. The Peony Pavilion, Second Edition

    19. The Peony Pavilion, Second Edition

    Xianzu Tang, Cyril Birch
    The Peony Pavilion, Second Edition: Mudan Ting
  20. More and More and More

    20. More and More and More

    Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
    More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy
  21. Outliers

    21. Outliers

    Malcolm Gladwell
    Outliers: The Story of Success
  22. Carmilla

    22. Carmilla

    J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Kate Costello-Sullivan
    Carmilla: A Critical Edition
  23. Ways of Seeing

    23. Ways of Seeing

    John Berger
    Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series
  24. Nourishing Narratives

    24. Nourishing Narratives

    Jennifer L. Holberg
    Nourishing Narratives: The Power of Story to Shape Our Faith

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