Women & Children First’s Bestseller Lists for November 2019
- “The Witches Are Coming,” by Lindy West (Author photo above by Jenny Jimenez)
- “In the Dream House: A Memoir,” by Carmen Maria Machado
- “Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger,” by Rebecca Traister
- “Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights,” by Mikki Kendall
- “The Great Believers,” by Rebecca Makkai
- “Her Body & Other Parties: Stories,” by Carmen Machado
- “The Dutch House,” by Ann Patchett
- “Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion,” by Katie Watson
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” by Robin DiAngelo
- “The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls,” by Mona Eltahawy
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for October 2019
- “The Dutch House,” by Ann Patchett
- “High School,” by Tegan & Sara
- “Frankissstein,” by Jeanette Winterson
- “False Bingo,” by Jac Jemc
- “A Fortune for Your Disaster,” by Hanif Abdurraqib
- “Right after the Weather,” by Carol Anshaw
- “Odes to Lithium,” by Shira Ehrlichman
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” by Robin DiAngelo
- “The Great Believers,” by Rebecca Makkai
- “The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale,” by Margaret Atwood
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for September 2019
- “Just Ask!: Be Different, Be Brave, Be You,” by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
- “The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale,” by Margaret Atwood
- “Wait! What?: A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up,” by Heather Corinna and Isabella Rotman
- “On Division: A Novel,” by Goldie Goldbloom
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” by Robin DiAngelo
- “The Great Believers,” by Rebecca Makkai
- “A Fortune for Your Disaster,” by Hanif Abdurraqib
- “Guts,” by Raina Telgemeier
- “Advantages of Being Evergreen,” by Oliver Baez Bendorf
- “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion,” by Jia Tolentino
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for August 2019
- “The Great Believers,” by Rebecca Makkai
- “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” by Ocean Vuong
- “Burn the Place: A Memoir,” by Iliana Regan
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” by Robin DiAngelo
- “God Land,” by Lyz Lenz
- “The Most Fun We Ever Had,” by Claire Lombardo
- “Nickel Boys,” by Colson Whitehead
- “Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance,” by Sandra Ruiz
- “Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion,” by Jia Tolentino
- “How to Be an Antiracist,” by Ibram X. Kendi
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for July 2019
- “The Great Believers,” by Rebecca Makkai
- “Mostly Dead Things,” by Kristen Arnett
- “Temper,” by Layne Fargo
- “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” by Ocean Vuong
- “Burn the Place: A Memoir,” by Iliana Regan
- “1919,” by Eve Ewing
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” by Robin DiAngelo
- “The Overstory,” by Richard Powers
- “Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good,” by adrienne maree brown
- “Nickel Boys,” by Colson Whitehead
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for June 2019
- “More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say),” by Elaine Welteroth
- “The Apology,” by Eve Ensler
- “My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You,” by Aleksandar Hemon
- “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” by Ocean Vuong
- “The Great Believers,” by Rebecca Makkai
- “Little Fires Everywhere,” by Celeste Ng
- “Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through,” by T. Fleischmann
- “1919,” by Eve Ewing
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” by Robin DiAngelo
- “The Mueller Report,” by Robert S. Mueller, III, Special Counsel’s Office U.S. Department of Justice
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for May 2019
- “No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir,” by Ani DiFranco
- “Little Fires Everywhere,” by Celeste Ng
- “Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good,” by adrienne maree brown
- “The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays,” by Esme Weijun Wang
- “Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side,” by Eve L. Ewing
- “Soft Science,” by Franny Choi
- “Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir,” by Cherrie Moraga
- “Scarlet A: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Ordinary Abortion,” by Katie Watson
- “Magical Negro: Poems,” by Morgan Parker
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” by Robin DiAngelo
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for April 2019
- “Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward,” by Valerie Jarrett
- “Women Talking,” by Miriam Toews
- “Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good,” by adrienne maree brown
- “How Girls Achieve,” by Sally Nuamah
- “The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal If You Hear Me,” edited by Fatimah Asghar & Safia Elhillio
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” by Robin DiAngelo
- “Library of Small Catastrophes,” by Alison Rollins
- “Becoming,” by Michelle Obama
- “Normal People: A Novel,” by Sally Rooney
- “If They Come for Us: Poems,” by Fatimah Asghar
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for March 2019
- “Becoming,” by Michelle Obama
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” by Robin DiAngelo
- “Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good,” by Adrienne Maree Brown
- “The New Me,” by Halle Butler
- “Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood,” by Trevor Noah
- “Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos,” by Lucy Knisley
- “The Immortalists,” by Chloe Benjamin
- “Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side,” by Eve L. Ewing
- “The Great Believers,” by Rebecca Makkai
- “Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States,” by Samantha Allen
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for February 2019
- “Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos,” by Lucy Knisley
- “The Immortalists,” by Chloe Benjamin
- “Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power,” by Ann Russo
- “Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance,” by Edgar Villanueva
- “Parkland: Birth of a Movement,” by Dave Cullen
- “Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice,” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- “Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest,” by Hanif Abdurraqib
- “The Great Believers,” by Rebecca Makkai
- “An American Marriage,” by Tayari Jones
- “Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side,” by Eve L. Ewing
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for January 2019
- “Becoming,” by Michelle Obama
- “Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (Next Wave: New Directions in Women’s Studies),” by Jennifer Nash
- “Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood,” by Karina Longworth
- “Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side,” by Eve L. Ewing
- “Shout Your Abortion,” edited by Amelia Bonow
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” by Robin DiAngelo
- “Educated: A Memoir,” by Tara Westover
- “Asymmetry: A Novel,” by Lisa Halliday
- “The Great Believers,” by Rebecca Makkai
- “Everything Under: A Novel,” by Daisy Johnson
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