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No. Read the fucking title, Jesus. THIS IS NOT BOOK CLUB. This started out (and remains) as a newsletter among friends, all voracious readers, all constantly looking for new book recommendations. Unsatisfied with the likes of XYZ book site, book recommender, book algorithm, book pro, book blah blah blah, we turned to each other, and weekly or monthly update what's on our list, in our hands and on our minds. We do not talk about the books. We do not buy bottles of wine, nor do we put out a cheese spread to mull over themes. We don't meet at all. Because we're busy. And BECAUSE THIS IS NOT A BOOK CLUB. Look around. If you like what you see, read it. Thank you.

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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist

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Born to Run — $18.98

Mr. Loverman — $16.95

Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking

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Independent People

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir (Vintage International), Book Cover May Vary

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Apeirogon: A Novel

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Surely You're Joking, MR Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

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Circuit, The — $11.59

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

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Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World

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The Meritocracy Trap: How America's Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite

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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

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Mr Loverman — $14.80

The Night Watchman

The Night Watchman — $14.99

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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High-Hanging Fruit: Build Something Great by Going Where No One Else Will

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Utopia Avenue: A Novel

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

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Heavy: An American Memoir

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The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

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Why We Act: Understanding the Psychology of Courage and Inaction

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American Rebels: How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution

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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

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The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

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Little Eyes: A Novel

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The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy

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Between the World and Me

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The Memory Police: A Novel

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Laughable Loves

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Man's Search for Meaning

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Red Rising — $12.49

The Beautiful Ones

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Our Lady of the Flowers

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Suicide Blonde — $12.02

The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

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Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

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Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

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The Partly Cloudy Patriot

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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual

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Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America

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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart

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Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior

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What If This Were Enough?

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Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

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Breakfast of Champions: A Novel

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The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

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COMPLEXITY: THE EMERGING SCIENCE AT THE EDGE OF ORDER AND CHAOS

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