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Titles

• 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet by Pamela Paul

• Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying by Sallie Tisdale

• Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom by Sara Benincasa

• And Yet by Kate Baer

• Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain by Abby Norman

• Bad with Money: The Imperfect Art of Getting Your Financial Sh*t Together by Gaby Dunn

• Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually by Meichi Ng

• A Bit Much by Lyndsay Rush

• Blood Orange Night: My Journey to the Edge of Madness by Melissa Bond

• Book Lovers by Emily Henry

• The Book of Delights by Ross Gay

• Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi

• Braced by Alyson Gerber

• Broken Places and Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected by Nnedi Okorafor

• Business or Pleasure by Rachel Lynn Solomon

• Butt or Face? by Kari Lavelle

• Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who’s Been There by Tara Schuster

• A Career in Books: A Novel about Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun by Kate Gavino

• Claimed by Cupid by Dana Isaly

• The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang

• The Comfort Book by Matt Haig

• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

• The Crying Book by Heather Christle

• Cryptid Club by Sarah Andersen

• The Dark King by Gina L. Maxwell

• The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America by Anita Hannig

• The Dead Guy Next Door by Lucy Score

• The Deal by Elle Kennedy

• Deep Dark Fears by Fran Krause

• Drunk Flies and Stoned Dolphins: A Trip Through the World of Animal Intoxication by Oné R. Pagán

• Duke, Actually by Jenny Holiday

• Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things by Kelly Williams Brown

• The Edge of Every Day: Sketches of Schizophrenia by Marin Sardy

• Ephemera by Briana Loewinsohn

• Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words & Pictures by Jason Adam Katzenstein

• Everything Is OK by Debbie Tung

• The Fastest Way to Fall by Denise Williams

• Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy’s Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love by Tori Dunlap

• Financial First Aid: Essential Tools for Confident, Secure Money Management by Alyssa Davies

• Fix by J. Albert Mann

• Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

• From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

• Go Deep by Rilzy Adams

• Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love by Nina Renata Aron

• Gory Details: Adventures From the Dark Side of Science by Erika Engelhaupt

• The Graham Effect by Elle Kennedy

• Gross Anatomy: Dispatches from the Front (and Back) by Mara Altman

• Guarding Temptation by Talia Hibbert

• A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll

• How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

• How to Break Up with Your Phone by Catherine Price

• How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing by KC Davis

• I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

• In Love & Pajamas: A Collection of Comics about Being Yourself Together by Catana Chetwynd

• In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria Machado

• Life of the Party by Olivia Gatwood

• Live Life Colorfully by Jason Naylor

• The Loneliness Files: A Memoir in Essays by Athena Dixon

• Look Again by Elizabeth A. Trembley

• A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone

• My Alcoholic Escape from Reality by Kabi Nagata

• My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward by Mark Lukach

• The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister by Kyleigh Leddy

• Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis by Emily Willingham

• PMSL: Or How I Literally Pissed Myself Laughing and Survived the Last Taboo to Tell the Tale by Luce Brett

• Poe for Your Problems: Uncommon Advice from History’s Least Likely Self-Help Guru by Catherine Baab-Muguira

• Quietly Hostile: Essays by Samantha Irby

• The Roommate by Rosie Danan

• Second Chances in New Port Stephen by T.J. Alexander

• Snapped by Alexa Martin

• Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

• Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

• Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World’s Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson

• What Doesn’t Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa Miller

• Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind by Sue Black

• Yellowface by R.F. Kuang

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