Archive for Maximum Shelf

• Cecilia Rabess: Unlikely Love in Divisive Times
• Everything's Fine
• Trang Thanh Tran: Ghosts Real and Imagined
• She Is a Haunting
• Tim Fite: Encouraging Kids to Ask Questions
• A Bucket of Questions
• House of Cotton
• Monica Brashears: Feel the Life in the Ghosts
• Rupert Holmes: From "The Piña Colada Song" to Homicide
• Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
• Alka Joshi: In Pursuit of Perfume and Womanhood
• The Perfumist of Paris
• Erin Bow: Comedy with a Strong and Tender Core
• Simon Sort of Says
• Rachel Beanland: Disaster Allows Characters to Prove Who They Are
• The House Is on Fire
• Clytemnestra
• Costanza Casati: 'Now Is the Time to Retell Their Stories'
• John Bigwood: Cluing in on the Art
• Tim Collins: The Lure of Mystery, Puns and Puzzles
• Sherlock Bones and the Case of the Crown Jewels
• Sadeqa Johnson: Exploring Motherhood and Sacrifice
• The House of Eve
• Kashana Cauley: Another Side of Our Society
• The Survivalists
• B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found
• Christie Tate: Mining the Mystery of Friendship
• Kate Zernike: The Subtlety of Sexual Discrimination
• The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
• Owen King: A Wild Victorian Tale of Supernatural Conspiracy
• The Curator
• Jessica George: Beyond Being a Good Daughter
• Maame
• Oksana Masters: "The ‘Hard Parts’ Aren’t Forever"
• The Hard Parts: A Memoir of Courage and Triumph
• Tom Crewe: Imagining a 'New Life' for Gay History
• The New Life
• The Confessions of Matthew Strong
• Ousmane K. Power-Greene: History at the Heart of Fiction
• Elissa Bassist: Following Her Obsessions
• Hysterical
• Kevin Hazzard: Chasing the Truth
• American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
• Deanna Raybourn: Killin' It
• Killers of a Certain Age
• Erika T. Wurth: Letting Monsters Out of the Bottle
• White Horse
• Kacen Callender: A Part of Two Worlds at Once
• Moonflower
• Matthew Quick: Writing as 'Soul Medicine'
• We Are the Light
• William MacAskill: Playing the Long Game
• What We Owe the Future
• Rinker Buck on Making 'Participatory History'
• Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
• Claire North: 'Celebrate All Books as Much as Possible'
• Ithaca
• Tanvi Berwah: Creating a Whole Ocean Full of Monsters
• Monsters Born and Made
• Catherine Adel West: The Search for Something Meaningful
• The Two Lives of Sara
• Hester
• Laurie Lico Albanese: An Iconic Heroine Has Her Say
• Good Husbands
• Cate Ray: Truth in Dispute
• Michael Frank: On Being Open to the World
• One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
• Isaac Fitzgerald: Confessing His Way Out of Dirtbag
• Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
• Alex Jennings: Magic, Music and Imagination
• The Ballad of Perilous Graves
• The Clockwork Man
• Editor Joshua Glenn: No Gatekeepers
• Nan Fischer: Delving into Our Origin Stories
• Some of It Was Real
• C.J. Carey: Rewriting History
• Widowland
• Monica Ali: 'I need to write. No matter what'
• Love Marriage
• Joshua Moehling: A Setting Ripe with Secrets and Conflicts
• And There He Kept Her
• Tom Perrotta: 'I Could Not Write It Any Other Way'
• Tracy Flick Can't Win
• D. Watkins: 'Writing Rescued Me'
• Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments
• Sayantani DasGupta: The Power of Language and Laughter
• Debating Darcy
• This Vicious Grace
• Emily Thiede: The Power of Quiet Strength
• Robin Peguero: Exposing What's There
• With Prejudice
• Alice Elliott Dark: Lasting Female Friendships
• Fellowship Point
• J.M. Miro: Mythic Storytelling
• Ordinary Monsters
• Lauren Kessler: On Stories as Survival
• Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home
• Crystal Maldonado: 'We All Want to Feel Loved'
• No Filter and Other Lies
• Stacey Halls: The Monster in the House
• Mrs. England
• Woman Last Seen
• Adele Parks: Exploring Moral Outliers
• Jenny Tinghui Zhang: Ties to the Past
• Four Treasures of the Sky
• Michael Schur: The Art of Combining Ethics with Humor
• How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
• Chloé Cooper Jones: Experiencing Beauty
• Easy Beauty
• Dana Schwartz: The Teenaged Tumblr Page of My Brain
• Anatomy: A Love Story
• Kate Kelly: Correcting History as a Revolutionary Act
• Ordinary Equality
• Kate Spencer: Love, Laughs and the Magic of New York
• In a New York Minute
• Eva Chen and Sophie Diao: A Collaboration of Joy and Empowerment
• I Am Golden
• Lisa Harding: A Clarion Call for Empathy
• Bright Burning Things
• Julia May Jonas: Upending Assumptions
• Vladímír
• Andrea Yaryura Clark: 'For Many There Will Never Be Closure'
• On a Night of a Thousand Stars
• Brendan Slocumb: Music Saved My Life
• The Violin Conspiracy
• Garth Nix: Reading the Wall
• Terciel & Elinor
• Hervé Le Tellier: How Do You React When Faced with Yourself?
• The Anomaly
• Xochitl Gonzalez: Essential Characteristics
• Olga Dies Dreaming
• Noah Hawley: Making Sense of the World We Live In
• Anthem
• Mesha Maren: 'Fear and Unease Can Be a Writer's Best Friend'
• Perpetual West
• Richard Powers: 'Homesick for a Place They Never Knew'
• Bewilderment
• Joseph Knox: A Study in Self-Illusion
• True Crime Story
• Beautiful World, Where Are You: 'Not a Question, but a Prayer'
• Beautiful World, Where Are You
• Maxine Beneba Clarke: Uplifting Black Lives Matter Around the World
• When We Say Black Lives Matter
• Kate DiCamillo: Capturing the Beauties and Terrors of the World
• The Beatryce Prophecy
• Christine French Cully: Responding to Children with Curiosity and Compassion
• Dear Highlights: What Adults Can Learn from 75 Years of Letters and Conversations with Kids
• Andrew Aydin: "I Know that He's with Us"
• Run: Book One
• Francisco X. Stork: On Creating Courage, Empathy and Hope
• On the Hook
• Dare to Know
• James Kennedy: Finding Inspiration in Death
• BonHyung Jeong: Different Countries, Different Cultures, All Human Beings
• Kyle's Little Sister
• The Orphan Witch
• Paige Crutcher: Sisterhood, Magic and a Lost Witch
• Silvia Moreno-Garcia: On Publishing, Racism and a "Real Horror Story"
• Velvet Was the Night
• Tracey Lange: Family Loyalty
• We Are the Brennans
• Sarah Ruhl: Struggling to Find Joy Without a Smile
• Smile: The Story of a Face
• Anthony Doerr: A Technicolor Terminus with Its Own Rules
• Cloud Cuckoo Land
• Kat Chow: Piecing Together the Past
• Seeing Ghosts
• T.J. Newman: From Flight Attendant to Falling
• Falling
• Pam Jenoff: Human Connection in Times of Extreme Isolation
• The Woman with the Blue Star
• Tia Williams: Fantasy, Romance and Sex in Literary New York
• Seven Days in June
• Ash Davidson: Living and Dying on Timber
• Damnation Spring
• Ly Tran: I Write for that Little Girl
• House of Sticks: A Memoir
• Josh Henkin: The Questions Fiction Asks and Answers
• Morningside Heights
• Joan Silber: Making Connections
• Secrets of Happiness
• Shawna Kay Rodenberg: The Timing of Revelations
• Kin: A Memoir
• Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way
• Caseen Gaines: Lives of Contradiction
• G'Ra Asim: Punk Is Radically Participatory
• Boyz n the Void: a mixtape to my brother
• Rachel Griffin: Seeing Beauty in Change
• The Nature of Witches
• Laura Amy Schlitz: The Elephant and the Flying Squirrel
• Amber & Clay
• Jon Klassen: Laughs Between the Lines
• The Rock from the Sky
• Emiko Jean: Searching for Belonging
• Tokyo Ever After
• Kate Washington: Speaking Up for Caregivers
• Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America
• Dave Kindred: Written from My Heart, Not My Notebook
• Leave Out the Tragic Parts: A Grandfather's Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction
• Erin French: Thinking of Each Chapter as a Dish
• Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch
• home body
• Rupi Kaur: Modern Poet for the Masses
• Laura Imai Messina: Loss and Lightness
• The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World
• The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
• Frederick Joseph: Author, Antiracist, Accomplice to Positive Change
• Gabriela Garcia: Championing Stories That Center Immigrants
• Of Women and Salt
• Anna North: Choices People Make
• Outlawed
• Trish Doller: Sailing Toward Renewal
• Float Plan
• Bryan Collier: The Power of Art
• Tami Charles: A Gift for Those Who Come After Us
• All Because You Matter
• Mary Frances Winters: On Black Fatigue and a Lifetime of Social Justice Work
• Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
• Becky Cooper: Ways of Unearthing the Past
• We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence
• Terri Cheney: Tells Us Where It Hurts
• Modern Madness: An Owner's Manual
• Beyond Your Bubble: How to Connect Across the Political Divide: Skills and Strategies for Conversations that Work
• Tania Israel: Bridging Political Divides
• Rob Bell: Drawing Cosmic and Personal Connections
• Everything Is Spiritual
• Christie Tate: The Space to Be Witnessed
• Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
• Traci Chee: The Magic of Reality
• We Are Not Free
• The Joining of Three Tides
• Piranesi
• Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam: Finding Power Within
• Punching the Air
• Lev Grossman: Seeing Reality Clearly in a Magical World
• The Silver Arrow
• David A. Robertson: Translating Knowledge from One Worldview to Another
• The Barren Grounds: The Misewa Saga, Book 1
• The Fan Brothers Plus One: Collaborative Mischief
• The Barnabus Project
• Evelyn del Rey Is Moving Away
• Sonia Sánchez: Layers and Transparencies
• Meg Medina: True to a Child's Heart
• Pete Beatty: History-Adjacent
• Cuyahoga
• You Brought Me the Ocean
• Alex Sanchez and Julie Maroh: A Fresh Look at a Superhero
• Ellen Feldman: On the Stories We Tell Ourselves and Others
• Paris Never Leaves You
• Romy Hausmann: No Boundaries or Limits