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Powell's Staff:
Five Book Friday: In Memoriam
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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Starter Pack: Where to Begin with Ursula K. Le Guin
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November and December 2018 Picks
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Brené Brown
Cocktail Codex
Alex Day, Nick Fauchald, David Kaplan
The Meltdown: Diary of a Wimpy Kid 13
Jeff Kinney
Baby Feminists
Libby Babbott-Klein and Jessica Walker
Epic Hikes of the World
Lonely Planet
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Stephen Hawking
So Far So Good: Poems 2014-2018
Ursula K Le Guin
Let's Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording With Wilco, Etc.
Jeff Tweedy
The Incomplete Book of Running
Peter Sagal
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History
Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally
The Wall in the Middle of the Book
Jon Agee
Nine Perfect Strangers
Liane Moriarty
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
Nathaniel Philbrick
The Tales of Beedle the Bard: The Illustrated Edition
Jk Rowling, Lisbeth Zwerger, J K Rowling
The Feral Detective: A Novel
Jonathan Lethem
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
Paige Williams
Home After Dark: A Novel
David Small
Blanket Fort: Growing Up Is Optional
Grackle & Pigeon
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October 2018 Picks
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
Killing Commendatore
Haruki Murakami
I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
Abbi Jacobson
Unsheltered
Barbara Kingsolver
The Witch Elm
Tana French
The Flame: Poems, Notebooks, Lyrics, Drawings
Leonard Cohen
The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis
Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents
Pete Souza
Aquicorn Cove
Katie ONeill
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
Ursula K Le Guin, Charles Vess
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir
Nicole Chung
Elevation
Stephen King
Muse of Nightmares (Strange the Dreamer #2)
Laini Taylor
Tales From a Not-So-Happy Birthday (Dork Diaries #13)
Rachel Renée Russell
9 From the Nine Worlds
Rick Riordan
Carmela Full of Wishes
Matt De La Pena, Christian Robinson
The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy: Montague Siblings #2
Mackenzi Lee
The White Darkness
David Grann
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
Casey Gerald
Thank You & Good Night
Patrick McDonnell
Planning the Capitalist City: The Colonial Era to the 1920s
Richard E. Foglesong
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September 2018 Picks
Supernova: Amulet #8
Kazu Kibuishi
These Truths: A History of the United States
Jill Lepore
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises
Rebecca Solnit
The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers
Maxwell King
But Not the Armadillo
Sandra Boynton
Uncommon Type: Some Stories
Tom Hanks
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
Eli Saslow
In Pieces
Sally Field
Lethal White: Cormoran Strike 4
Robert Galbraith
Transcription
Kate Atkinson
Fake Blood
Whitney Gardner
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Hank Green
Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Avis Lang
The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World
Sarah Weinman
Inky's Amazing Escape: How a Very Smart Octopus Found His Way Home
Sy Montgomery, Amy Schimler Safford
Squirm
Carl Hiaasen
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
Sarah Smarsh
How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization
Mary Beard
Penguin Problems
Jory John, Lane Smith
Small Fry
Lisa Brennan Jobs
Dreamers
Yuyi Morales
And the Ocean Was Our Sky
Patrick Ness, Rovina Cai
Crudo
Olivia Laing
The Origins of the Platonic Academy of Florence
Arthur M. Field
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August 2018 Picks
Dog Man 05 Lord of the Fleas
Dav Pilkey
My Own Words
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Mary Hartnett, Wendy W Williams
The Child Finder
Rene Denfeld
French Exit
Patrick deWitt
Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud The Rise & Reign of the Unruly Woman
Anne Helen Petersen
Grit The Power of Passion & Perseverance
Angela Duckworth
Dopesick Dealers Doctors & the Drug Company that Addicted America
Beth Macy
Awkward Thoughts of W Kamau Bell Tales of a 6 4 African American Heterosexual Cisgender Left Leaning Asthmatic Black & Proud Blerd Mamas Boy Dad & Stand Up Comedian
W Kamau Bell
Whiskey When We're Dry
John Larison
Illegal
Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin, Giovanni Rigano
Through Two Doors at Once: The Elegant Experiment That Captures the Enigma of Our Quantum Reality
Anil Ananthaswamy
Ohio
Stephen Markley
The Day You Begin
Jacqueline Woodson, Rafael López
Adrian Simcox Does NOT Have a Horse
Marcy Campbell, Corinna Luyken
Sweet Little Lies
Caz Frear
The Third Hotel
Laura Van Den Berg
Seafire
Natalie C Parker
Underbug An Obsessive Tale of Termites & Technology
Lisa Margonelli
Harbor Me
Jacqueline Woodson
Darius the Great Is Not Okay
Adib Khorram
German Question/Jewish Question: Revolutionary Antisemitism in Germany from Kant to Wagner
Paul Rose
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July 2018 Picks
Artemis
Andy Weir
The City of Brass: Daevabad 1
S A Chakraborty
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh
Okay Fine Whatever
Courtenay Hameister
Seas
Samantha Hunt, Maggie Nelson
Spinning Silver
Naomi Novik
Mixed A Colorful Story
Arree Chung
Sea Witch
Sarah Henning
Death of Truth Notes on Falsehood in the Age of Trump
Michiko Kakutani
We're Doomed. Now What?
Roy Scranton
Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World
Annie Lowrey
This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us
Edgar Cantero
The Game Masters of Garden Place
Denis Markell
Killing It: An Education
Camas Davis
The Principal Strikes Back: Jedi Academy 6: Star Wars
Jarrett Krosoczka
Star Wars Maker Lab: 20 Craft and Science Projects
Cole Horton, Liz Hee Heinecke
Tiny Little Rocket
Richard Collingridge
Mightier Than the Sword
Drew Callander, Alana Harrison and Ryan Andrews
Give Me Your Hand
Megan Abbott
What to Read and Why
Francine Prose
How to Be Famous A Novel
Caitlin Moran
Intimate Letters: Leos Jana Ek to Kamila Stosslova
Leos Janacek
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June 2018 Picks
There There
Tommy Orange
A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns
Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson
The Lost Continent: Wings of Fire #11
Tui T. Sutherland
See What I Have Done
Sarah Schmidt
Piecing Me Together
Renee Watson
Florida: Stories
Lauren Groff
If I Was Your Girl
Meredith Russo
Who Is Vera Kelly?
Rosalie Knecht
Why Poetry
Matthew Zapruder
Cardboard Kingdom
Chad Sell
Something Bright Then Holes Poems
Maggie Nelson
Baby Loves Coding
Ruth Spiro, Irene Chan
Neverworld Wake
Marisha Pessl
The Word Is Murder
Anthony Horowitz
The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs
Peter Wohlleben
Secret Life of Cows
Rosamund Young
A Reaper at the Gates: Ember in the Ashes #3
Sabaa Tahir
Room to Dream A Life
David Lynch, Kristine Mckenna
Bearskin: A Novel
James A. McLaughlin
Bears Scare
Jacob Grant
Early Learning Theories Made Visible
Miriam Beloglovsky
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May 2018 Picks
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us...
Michael Pollan
Men Without Women: Stories
Haruki Murakami
Calypso
David Sedaris
Meddling Kids
Edgar Cantero
Adjustment Day
Chuck Palahniuk
The Littlest Family's Big Day
Emily Winfield Martin
Order of Time
Carlo Rovelli
Not That Bad Dispatches from Rape Culture
Roxane Gay
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo
Zora Neale Hurston, Deborah G Plant
Positively Izzy
Terri Libenson
Square
Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen
War Storm: Red Queen 4
Victoria Aveyard
Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
Michael Chabon
Sasquatch & the Lumberjack
Crix Sheridan
The Last: Endling #1
Katherine Applegate
Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas
Mark Kurlansky
Bob
Wendy Mass and Rebecca Stead
Martin Van Buren and the American Political System
Donald B. Cole
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April 2018 Picks
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
Circe
Madeline Miller
A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
James Comey
Meaty: Essays
Samantha Irby
Noir
Christopher Moore
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
Barbara Ehrenreich
The Female Persuasion
Meg Wolitzer
Ghost Boys
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Can Somebody Please Scratch My Back?
Jory John, Liz Climo
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.
Neal Stephenson, Nicole Galland
The Hammer of Thor: Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard #2
Rick Riordan
Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
Daniel J. Sharfstein
The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath
Leslie Jamison
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
Kirk Wallace Johnson
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
Meaghan O'Connell
Stray City
Chelsey Johnson
The Lifters
Dave Eggers
Scarlett Hart: Monster Hunter
Marcus Sedgwick, Thomas Taylor
Italian Teacher
Tom Rachman
Munmun
Jesse Andrews
Spectrum Phonics, Grade 2
Spectrum
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March 2018 Picks
How Emotions Are Made The Secret Life of the Brain
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz
Exit West
Mohsin Hamid
Children of Blood and Bone: Legacy of Orisha #1
Tomi Adeyemi
Wild Robot Escapes: Wild Robot #2
Peter Brown
Peanut Butter and Jelly: Narwhal and Jelly #3
Ben Clanton
The Wicked Deep
Shea Ernshaw
The House of Broken Angels
Luis Alberto Urrea
The Poet X
Elizabeth Acevedo
Can Somebody Please Scratch My Back?
Jory John, Liz Climo
She Persisted Around the World: 13 Women Who Changed History
Chelsea Clinton, Alexandra Boiger
This is Sadie
Sara Oleary, Julie Morstad
Islandborn
Junot Diaz, Leo Espinosa
Wonderland: Poems
Matthew Dickman
Colony in a Nation
Chris Hayes
Tangerine
Christine Mangan
Shapes All Around
Kate Riggs, Laëtitia Devernay
Stray City
Chelsey Johnson
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
Marina Abramovic
Guardian Angels and Other Monsters
Daniel H Wilson
They Say Blue
Jillian Tamaki
The Price Guide to the Occult
Leslye Walton
Disappointment River Finding & Losing the Northwest Passage
Brian Castner
Italian Teacher
Tom Rachman
Because Your Grandparents Love You
Andrew Clements
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February 2018 Picks
Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
George Saunders
The Prince and the Dressmaker
Jen Wang
Beartown: A Novel
Fredrik Backman
Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
Heart Berries: A Memoir
Terese Marie Mailhot
Tempests and Slaughter (The Numair Chronicles #1)
Tamora Pierce
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border
Francisco Cantu
Universal Harvester: A Novel
John Darnielle
The Serpents Secret: Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #1
Sayantani Dasgupta
The Book of Joan: A Novel
Lidia Yuknavitch
Feel Free: Essays
Zadie Smith
The Tangled Lands
Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell
Up Up, Down Down: Essays
Cheston Knapp
Tess of the Road
Rachel Hartman
I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
Tim Kreider
I Am I Am I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Maggie O'Farrell
A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America
T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong
I Love the Earth
Todd Parr
Down and Across
Arvin Ahmadi
Algernon Sidney and the Republican Heritage in England and America
Alan Craig Houston
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January 2018 Picks
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
The Cruel Prince
Holly Black
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Ed Yong
Refugees
Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Patrisse Khan Cullors, asha bandele
The Woman in the Window
A J Finn
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Helen Czerski
The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrows World
Charles C. Mann
The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories
Denis Johnson
When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Daniel H. Pink
Still Me: A Novel
Jojo Moyes
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories
Jonathan Santlofer
Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic
David Frum
Love, Hate and Other Filters - Signed Edition
Samira Ahmed
Brave
Rose McGowan
Grist Mill Road: A Novel
Christopher J. Yates
Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life
David Giffels
Mothers of Sparta: A Memoir in Pieces
Dawn Davies
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