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November

For nearly 40 years, we have partnered with authors, publishers, and businesses to get books to speaking and training events, business conferences, company book clubs, and reading lists—moving books and ideas into the business world every single day. These are the books we moved the most in November 2023.

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December

For nearly 40 years, we have partnered with authors, publishers, and businesses to get books to speaking and training events, business conferences, company book clubs, and reading lists—moving books and ideas into the business world every single day. These are the books we moved the most in December 2023.

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Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

By Kate Manne

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it--from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled "An elegant, fierce, and profound argument for fighting fat oppression in ourselves, our communities, and our culture.

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Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America

By Beth Linker

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America--from eugenics and posture pageants to today's promoters of "paleo posture" In 1995, a scandal erupted when the New York Times revealed that the Smithsonian possessed a century's worth of nude "posture" photos of college students.

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I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

By Lucy Sante

"An autobiography-viewing the author's life from the transformative lens of her recent transition-and a critical examination of the trans strain in Western culture"--

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No Judgment: Essays

By Lauren Oyler

"In her writing for Harper's, the London Review of Books, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Lauren Oyler has emerged as one of the most trenchant and influential critics of her generation, a talent whose judgments on works of literature--whether celebratory or scarily harsh--have become notorious. But what is the significance of being a critic and consumer of media in today's fraught environment? How do we understand ourselves, and each other, as space between the individual and the world seems to get smaller and smaller, and our opinions on books and movies seem to represent something essential about our souls? And to put it bluntly, why should you care what she--or anyone--thinks? In this, her first collection of essays, Oyler writes ... about topics like the role of gossip in our exponentially communicative society, the rise and proliferation of autofiction, why we're all so 'vulnerable' these days, and her own anxiety"--

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Becoming Gandhi: My Experiment Living the Mahatma's 6 Moral Truths in Immoral Times

By Perry Garfinkel

A veteran journalist and author sets out on a three-year quest to practice Mahatma Gandhi's ideals of truth, nonviolence, vegetarianism, simplicity, celibacy, and faith. Filled with honesty, insight, and self-effacing humor, this work serves as a guide for anyone seeking to live with integrity in our confusing, morally compromised modern world.

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How to Breathe While Suffocating: A Story of Overcoming Addiction, Recovering from Trauma, and Healing My Soul

By Bruce W Brackett

"Many have simply started to surrender and give up on their life and ambitions. This book seeks to remind them of their inherent worth, the value they possess, and their unique ability to engage with the world and their fellow humans. It threads the simple positive affirmations Brackett is known for through an unflinching look at the challenging details of his life story. With my simple slogans 'Negativity Be Gone', 'Grab my hands, Breathe' and 'Here's a Cup Of Love', Brackett will help readers focus on the positive and "Keep Moving Forward'!"--