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Elena's Past Staff Picks Browse All See all items My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel Oyinkan Braithwaite Current price: $17.00 ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • “A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it’s the wittiest and most fun murder party you’ve ever been invited to.” ... Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated Shea Serrano Current price: $19.99 #1 New York Times bestseller ... Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Roxane Gay Current price: $16.99 From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. ... Her Body and Other Parties: Stories Carmen Maria Machado Current price: $17.00 Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction “[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay ... On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel Ocean Vuong Current price: $26.00 The instant New York Times Bestseller • Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction ... Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series) Hanif Abdurraqib Current price: $16.95 A New York Times Best Seller 2019 National Book Award Longlist, Nonfiction 2019 Kirkus Book Prize Finalist, Nonfiction A February IndieNext Pick ... Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel Olga Tokarczuk Current price: $18.00 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune ... Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Jia Tolentino Current price: $19.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire ... Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi Current price: $18.99 This crucial, empowering, #1 New York Times bestselling exploration of racism—and antiracism—in America makes critical ideas accessible for teen readers, adapted from Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning. ... Initiated: Memoir of a Witch Amanda Yates Garcia Current price: $17.99 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes meets Women Who Run With The Wolves in this "gorgeously written, fierce, political, personal, and deeply inspiring" (Michelle Tea) memoir about finding meaning, beauty, and power through a life in witchcraft. ... Whiteout Conditions Tariq Shah Current price: $14.99 "Ant is borderline obsessed with funerals, likening the events to weddings as gatherings he looks forward to. Yet, when a childhood friend passes, Ant's veneer starts to crumble. ... Pet Akwaeke Emezi Current price: $11.99 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME ... Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Lambda Literary Award) Samantha Irby Current price: $17.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction Award Winner • A rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays from the New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meet ... Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia Current price: $28.99 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “It’s Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.”—The Guardian ... Be Gay, Do Comics The Nib (Compiled by) Current price: $24.99 The dream of a queer separatist town. The life of a gay and Jewish Nazi-fighter. A gender reveal party that tears apart reality. These are the just some of the comics you'll find in this massive queer comics anthology from The Nib. ... That Time of Year Marie Ndiaye Current price: $19.95 "Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any description of her work feels like an understatement." --The New York Review of Books ... Punching the Air Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam Current price: $19.99 New York Times and USA Today bestseller * Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor * Walter Award Winner * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Time Magazine Best Book of the Year * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * Shelf Awareness Best Book ... Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy Talia Lavin Current price: $27.00 One reporter takes an immersive dive into white supremacy's explosive online presence, exploring the undercurrents of propaganda, racism, misogyny, and history that led us to where we are now. ... The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel Akwaeke Emezi Current price: $18.00 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ... Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream Mychal Denzel Smith Current price: $26.00 Winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode and through an uncertain future. ... Felix Ever After Kacen Callender Current price: $15.99 A Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time ... Stay and Fight: A Novel Madeline ffitch Current price: $18.00 "Like Bastard Out of Carolina, ffitch's electrifying debut novel is a paean to independence and a protest against the materialism of our age." —O: The Oprah Magazine ... 100 Boyfriends Brontez Purnell Current price: $17.00 Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. ... No One Is Talking About This: A Novel Patricia Lockwood Current price: $25.00 FINALIST FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE ... Aftershocks: A Memoir Nadia Owusu Current price: $26.00 In the tradition of The Glass Castle, this “gorgeous” (The New York Times, Editors’ Choice) and deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu tells the “incredible story” (Malala Yousafzai) about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of fa ...
My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel Oyinkan Braithwaite Current price: $17.00 ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • “A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it’s the wittiest and most fun murder party you’ve ever been invited to.” ...
Basketball (and Other Things): A Collection of Questions Asked, Answered, Illustrated Shea Serrano Current price: $19.99 #1 New York Times bestseller ...
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Roxane Gay Current price: $16.99 From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. ...
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories Carmen Maria Machado Current price: $17.00 Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction “[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay ...
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel Ocean Vuong Current price: $26.00 The instant New York Times Bestseller • Nominated for the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction ...
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series) Hanif Abdurraqib Current price: $16.95 A New York Times Best Seller 2019 National Book Award Longlist, Nonfiction 2019 Kirkus Book Prize Finalist, Nonfiction A February IndieNext Pick ...
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel Olga Tokarczuk Current price: $18.00 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune ...
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion Jia Tolentino Current price: $19.00 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire ...
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi Current price: $18.99 This crucial, empowering, #1 New York Times bestselling exploration of racism—and antiracism—in America makes critical ideas accessible for teen readers, adapted from Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning. ...
Initiated: Memoir of a Witch Amanda Yates Garcia Current price: $17.99 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes meets Women Who Run With The Wolves in this "gorgeously written, fierce, political, personal, and deeply inspiring" (Michelle Tea) memoir about finding meaning, beauty, and power through a life in witchcraft. ...
Whiteout Conditions Tariq Shah Current price: $14.99 "Ant is borderline obsessed with funerals, likening the events to weddings as gatherings he looks forward to. Yet, when a childhood friend passes, Ant's veneer starts to crumble. ...
Pet Akwaeke Emezi Current price: $11.99 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME ...
Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Lambda Literary Award) Samantha Irby Current price: $17.00 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Nonfiction Award Winner • A rip-roaring, edgy and unabashedly raunchy new collection of hilarious essays from the New York Times bestselling author of We Are Never Meet ...
Mexican Gothic Silvia Moreno-Garcia Current price: $28.99 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “It’s Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.”—The Guardian ...
Be Gay, Do Comics The Nib (Compiled by) Current price: $24.99 The dream of a queer separatist town. The life of a gay and Jewish Nazi-fighter. A gender reveal party that tears apart reality. These are the just some of the comics you'll find in this massive queer comics anthology from The Nib. ...
That Time of Year Marie Ndiaye Current price: $19.95 "Marie NDiaye is so intelligent, so composed, so good, that any description of her work feels like an understatement." --The New York Review of Books ...
Punching the Air Ibi Zoboi, Yusef Salaam Current price: $19.99 New York Times and USA Today bestseller * Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor * Walter Award Winner * Goodreads Finalist for Best Teen Book of the Year * Time Magazine Best Book of the Year * Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * Shelf Awareness Best Book ...
Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy Talia Lavin Current price: $27.00 One reporter takes an immersive dive into white supremacy's explosive online presence, exploring the undercurrents of propaganda, racism, misogyny, and history that led us to where we are now. ...
The Death of Vivek Oji: A Novel Akwaeke Emezi Current price: $18.00 A Good Morning America Buzz Pick INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ...
Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream Mychal Denzel Smith Current price: $26.00 Winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Brave, clear-eyed, and passionate, Stakes Is High is the book we need to guide us past crisis mode and through an uncertain future. ...
Felix Ever After Kacen Callender Current price: $15.99 A Stonewall Honor Book * A Time Magazine Best YA Book of All Time ...
Stay and Fight: A Novel Madeline ffitch Current price: $18.00 "Like Bastard Out of Carolina, ffitch's electrifying debut novel is a paean to independence and a protest against the materialism of our age." —O: The Oprah Magazine ...
100 Boyfriends Brontez Purnell Current price: $17.00 Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. ...
No One Is Talking About This: A Novel Patricia Lockwood Current price: $25.00 FINALIST FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE & A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE ...
Aftershocks: A Memoir Nadia Owusu Current price: $26.00 In the tradition of The Glass Castle, this “gorgeous” (The New York Times, Editors’ Choice) and deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu tells the “incredible story” (Malala Yousafzai) about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of fa ...