SPD Nonfiction Bestsellers

July—September 2020

1. Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante (Noemi Press)
2. The Wanting Was a Wilderness: Cheryl Strayed’s WILD and the Art of Memoir (...AFTERWORDS) by Alden Jones (Fiction Advocate)
3. Dear Knausgaard: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s MY STRUGGLE (...AFTERWORDS) by Kim Adrian (Fiction Advocate)
4. A Place of Exodus: Home, Memory, and Texas by David Biespiel (Kelson Books)
5. The Missionary Sutras: The Forty-two Paragraph Sutra & Eight Realizations of a Mahasattva Sutra by Red Pine (Translator) (Empty Bowl)
6. trans girl suicide museum by hannah baer (Hesse Press)
7. of colour by Katherine Agyemaa Agard (Essay Press)
8. The War Requiem by Kaia Solveig Preus (Essay Press)
9. Dyke (geology) by Sabrina Imbler (Black Lawrence Press)
10. Me & Other Writing by Marguerite Duras, translated by Olivia Baes and Emma Ramadan (Dorothy, a publishing project)
11. Mercy: A Memoir of Medical Trauma and True Crime Obsession by Marcia Trahan (Barrelhouse)
12. There Must Be Happy Endings: On A Theater of Optimism & Honesty by Megan Sandberg-Zakian (The 3rd Thing)
13. People I’ve Met From The Internet by Stephen van Dyck (Ricochet Editions)
14. Codependence by Amy Long (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)
15. Wite Out: Love and Work by Linda Norton (Hanging Loose Press)
16. Every Writer Has A Thousand Faces (10th Anniversary Edition, Revised) by David Biespiel (Kelson Books)
17. Why Not Paradise by Red Pine (Translator) (Empty Bowl)
18. A and B and Also Nothing by Chris Campanioni (Otis Books | Seismicity Editions)
19. Frontline Heroes by Mark J. Hiblen (Eyewear Publishing)
20. Far Villages: Welcome Essays for New & Beginner Poets by Abayomi Animashaun, Editor (Black Lawrence Press)