Bestseller List for July 5, 2020
Bay Area rankings based on sales in Independent bookstores in the Bay Area during the week that ended Sunday, June 28. Based on reporting from the independent booksellers of Northern California, the California Independent Booksellers Alliance and IndieBound.
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America$19.99ISBN: 9781568585987Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Bold Type Books - August 15th, 2017From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist, the National Book Award-winning masterwork revealing how racist ideas were created, spread, and became deeply rooted in American society.
$13.95ISBN: 9780679744726Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage - December 1st, 1992"Basically the finest essay I’ve ever read. . . . Baldwin refused to hold anyone’s hand. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. He did not seem to write to convince you. He wrote beyond you.” --Ta-Nehisi Coates
$18.00ISBN: 9780399588198Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: One World - February 12th, 2019#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed
Email or call for price.ISBN: 9781620971932Availability: BackorderedPublished: New Press - January 7th, 2020Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher Education' Literary Hub, Book Riot' and Zora
$17.95ISBN: 9781631494536Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Liveright - May 1st, 2018New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection
One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year
One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction
An NPR Best Book of the Year
Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction
Gold Winner • California Book Award (NonfiEmail or call for price.ISBN: 9780679763888Availability: BackorderedPublished: Vintage - October 4th, 2011In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE WINNER$17.00ISBN: 9780593133934Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: One World - December 3rd, 2019#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.
$16.95ISBN: 9780525562795Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage - January 14th, 2020Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades. These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr., her heart-wrenching eulogy for James Baldwin.
$18.00ISBN: 9781635572957Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing - March 5th, 2019NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"This is a book that was begging to be written. This is the kind of book that demands a future where we’ll no longer need such a book. Essential." --Marlon James
“The most important book for me this year.” --Emma Watson
Selected by Emma Watson as the Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick for January/February 2018Email or call for price.ISBN: 9780802149039Availability: BackorderedPublished: Grove Press - June 30th, 2020A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSLLER
Winner of the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction
A brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house in New Orleans East.
$24.99ISBN: 9780062316110Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - May 15th, 2018Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout.
#1 New York Times Bestseller
The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, now available as a beautifully packaged paperback
$18.99ISBN: 9780465060689Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Basic Books - September 5th, 2017The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism -- now fully revised and updated
$18.00ISBN: 9781571313560Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Milkweed Editions - September 1st, 2014A New York Times Bestseller
A Washington Post Bestseller
Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub
