Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for December 2018
- “Becoming,” by Michelle Obama
- “The Great Believers,” by Rebecca Makkai
- “Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side,” by Eve L. Ewing
- “New Erotica for Feminists: Satirical Fantasies of Love, Lust, and Equal Pay,” by Caitlin Kunkel
- “Educated: A Memoir,” by Tara Westover
- “We Are Never Meeting in Real Life,” by Samantha Irby [Read Jera Brown’s interview with Samantha]
- “Less,” by Andrew Sean Greer
- “The Best American Short Stories 2018,” edited by Roxane Gay
- “Pachinko,” by Min Jin Lee
- “Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present #6),” by Barbara Ransby
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for November 2018
- “Becoming,” by Michelle Obama
- “Shell Game: A V.I. Warshawski Novel,” by Sara Paretsky
- “Hardly Children: Stories,” by Laura Adamczyk
- “We Are Never Meeting in Real Life,” by Samantha Irby [Read Jera Brown’s interview with Samantha]
- “I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff,” by Abbi Jacobson
- “The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Towards Freedom,” edited by Alice Kim, Erica Meiners, Jill Petty, Audrey Petty, Beth Richie, and Sarah Ross
- “Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side,” by Eve L. Ewing
- “Gmorning Gnight! Little Pep Talks for Me & You,” by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jonny Sun (Illustrator)
- “Almost Everything: Notes on Hope,” by Anne Lamott
- “Meteorites,” by S. Brook Corfman
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for October 2018
- “Start Now! You Can Make a Difference,” by Chelsea Clinton
- “She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy,” by Jill Soloway
- “Vote Her In: Your Guide to Electing Our First Woman President,” by Rebecca Sive
- “The Lake on Fire,” by Rosellen Brown
- “The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago,” by Daniel Kay Hertz
- “The Fourteenth of September,” by Rita Dragonette
- “Citizen Illegal,” by José Olivarez
- “Good & Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger,” by Rebecca Traister
- “Black Queer Hoe,” by Britteney Black Rose Kapri
- “Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side,” by Eve L. Ewing
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for September 2018
- “Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements,” by Charlene Carruthers
- “Night Moves,” by Jessica Hopper
- “The Wildlands,” by Abby Geni
- “Fear: Trump in the White House,” by Bob Woodward
- “Citizen Illegal,” by José Olivarez
- “To Survive on This Shore: Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults,” by Jess T. Dugan
- “The Caregiver,” by Samuel Park
- “Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers,” by Anne Balay
- “The Incendiaries: A Novel,” by R.O. Kwon
- “The Fourteenth of September,” by Rita Dragonette
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for August 2018
- “If They Come for Us: Poems,” by Fatimah Asghar
- “If You Leave Me,” by Crystal Hana Kim
- “The Air You Breathe,” by Frances de Pontes Peebles
- “Crazy Rich Asians,” by Kevin Kwan
- “Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear,” by Kim Brooks
- “Citizen Illegal,” by Jose Olivarez
- “Less,” by Andrew Sean Greer
- “The Great Believers,” by Rebecca Makkai
- “Fruit of the Drunken Tree,” by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- “The Book of Unknown Americans,” by Cristina Henriquez
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for July 2018
- “My Year of Rest and Relaxation,” by Ottessa Moshfegh
- “An American Marriage,” by Tayari Jones
- “The Great Believers,” by Rebecca Makkai
- “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” by Jesmyn Ward
- “Less,” by Andrew Sean Greer
- “Calypso,” by David Sedaris
- “Eileen,” by Ottessa Moshfegh
- “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body,” by Roxane Gay
- “Manhattan Beach: A Novel,” by Jennifer Egan
- “We Are Never Meeting in Real Life,” by Samantha Irby [Read Jera Brown’s interview with Samantha]
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for June 2018
- “The Great Believers,” by Rebecca Makkai
- “The Terrible: A Storyteller’s Memoir,” by Yrsa Daley-Ward
- “Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches,” by John Hodgman
- “Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love(s),” by Sophie Lucido Johnson
- “Calypso,” by David Sedaris
- “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body,” by Roxane Gay
- “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” by Jesmyn Ward
- “We Are Never Meeting in Real Life,” by Samantha Irby [Read Jera Brown’s interview with her here]
- “Meaty: Essays,” by Samantha Irby
- “Crazy Rich Asians,” by Kevin Kwan
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for May 2018
- “Meaty: Essays,” by Samantha Irby
- “Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist,” by Franchesca Ramsey
- “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness,” by Austin Channing Brown
- “The Pisces,” by Melissa Broder
- “We Are Never Meeting in Real Life,” by Samantha Irby [Read Jera Brown’s interview with Samantha here]
- “The Displaced Children of Displaced Children,” by Faisal Mohyuddin
- “The Female Persuasion,” by Meg Wolitzer
- “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” by Jesmyn Ward
- “Pachinko,” by Min Jin Lee
- “Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo,'” by Zora Neale Hurston
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for April 2018
- “Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead–My Life Story,” by Cecile Richards
- “Meaty: Essays,” by Samantha Irby
- “We Ate Wonder Bread,” by Nicole Hollander
- “The Female Persuasion,” by Meg Wolitzer
- “True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness: A Feminist Coming of Age,” by Christina Lahti
- “My Lady’s Choosing: An Interactive Romance Novel,” by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris
- “Beyond Measure: Essays,” by Rachel Z. Arndt
- “We Are Never Meeting in Real Life,” by Samantha Irby [Read Jera Brown’s interview with her here]
- “Pachinko,” by Min Jin Lee
- “The Comedown,” by Rebekah Frumkin
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for March 2018
- “The List: A Week-By-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year,” by Amy Siskind
- “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us,” by Hanif Abdurraqib
- “Bizarre Romance,” by Audrey Niffenegger, Eddie Campbell (Illustrator)
- “This Far Isn’t Far Enough: Stories,” by Lynn Sloan
- “Unaccompanied,” by Javier Zamora
- “Pachinko,” by Min Jin Lee
- “Electric Arches,” by Eve Ewing
- “Lincoln in the Bardo,” by George Saunders
- “We Are Never Meeting in Real Life,” by Samantha Irby [Read Jera Brown’s interview with her here]
- “Her Body & Other Parties: Stories,” by Carmen Machado
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for February 2018
- “This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America,” by Morgan Jerkins [Check out Jera Brown’s Q&A with Morgan here.]
- “This Far Isn’t Far Enough: Stories,” by Lynn Sloan
- “You Can’t Fire the Bad Ones!: And 18 Other Myths about Teachers, Teachers Unions, and Public Education,” by Bill Ayers, Crystal Laura, and Rick Ayers
- “Apocalypse, Darling (Machete),” by Barrie Jean Borich
- “Reasons for Smoking,” by Xandria Phillips
- “Lincoln in the Bardo,” by George Saunders
- “They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us,” by Hanif Abdurraqib
- “When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir,” by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
- “Pachinko,” by Min Jin Lee
- “Little Fires Everywhere,” by Celeste Ng
Women & Children First’s Bestseller List for January 2018
- “When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir,” by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
- “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” by Michael Wolff
- “Pachinko,” by Min Jin Lee
- “The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation,” by Natalie Moore
- “We Are Never Meeting in Real Life,” by Samantha Irby [Read Jera Brown’s interview with her here]
- “Her Body & Other Parties: Stories,” by Carmen Machado
- “Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife,” by Pamela Bannos
- “Sing, Unburied, Sing,” by Jesmyn Ward
- “The Power,” by Naomi Alderman
- “The Immortalists,” by Chloe Benjamin
Women & Children First Bookstore is located at 5233 N. Clark St. in Andersonville.