Favorite Books of the Year: Strand Bookstore

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THE STRAND (NEW YORK CITY)

Cale Hand (main floor): You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, Alexandra Kleeman · Our Souls at Night, Kent Haruf · Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids, Meghan Daum · I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son, Kent Russell · Barbara the Slut, Lauren Holmes

Myllicent Felder (kid’s department): Princess and the Pony, Kate Beaton · Footer Davis Probably is Crazy, Susan Vaught · SuperMutant Magic Academy, Jillian Tamaki · The Day the Crayons Came Home, Drew Daywalt · Robo-Sauce, Adam Rubin

Maya Strauss (main floor): Alice Neel Drawings and Watercolors, David Swirner · Hold Still, Sally Mann · Beloved Dogs, Maira Kalman · S.O.S.: Poems, 1961-2013, Amiri Baraka · Home, Carson Ellis

Eddie Sutton (general manager): Cartel, Don Winslow · America’s Bitter Pill, Steven Brill · The Whites, Harry Brandt · Foolproof, Greg Ip

Bill (basement): The Complete Stories, Clarice Lispector · Oreo, Fran Ross · The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson · One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway, Asne Seierstad · Counternarratives, John Keene

Whitney (marketing): Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff · Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, Ari Berman · Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, Kate Beaton · Notorious RBG, Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik · We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Aaron Jackson (merchandise): Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (to a factor of five)

Elise Ringo (marketing): The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson · Missoula, Jon Krakauer · The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin · Dynasty, Tom Holland · Three Moments of an Explosion, China Mieville

Miguel Soto (merchandise): The Book of Strange New Things: A Novel, Michel Faber · The Ghost Network: A Novel, Catie Disabato · Strange Girl, Christopher Pike · The Wonder Garden, Jenny Broom · Nature Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of the Natural World, Julia Rothman

Greg B. (merchandise): Ardor, Roberto Calasso · Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth Century American Writers, Edward Mendelsohn · Young Eliot, Robert Crawford · The Complete Primo Levi, Ann Goldstein (ed.) · Water Clocks, Yusef Komunyakaa