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#1. Seattle Walks by David B. Williams. "In Seattle Walks, David B. Williams weaves together the history, natural history, and architecture of Seattle to paint a complex, nuanced, and fascinating story." www.bookstore.washington.edu (Image: University of Washington Press)

#2. Everfair by Nisi Shawl. "Everfair is a wonderful Neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier." www.bookstore.washington.edu (Image: TOR Books)

#3. Astrophysics For People In A Hurry by Neil Degrasse Tyson. "The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist." www.bookstore.washington.edu (Image: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc)

#4. The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown. "The #1 New York Times--bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany, the inspiration for the PBS documentary The Boys of '36, broadcast to coincide with the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 80th anniversary of the boys' gold medal race." www.bookstore.washington.edu (Image: Penguin Random House)

#5. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. ""From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II." www.bookstore.washington.edu (Image: Scribner Book Company)

#6. Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant. "Option B combines Sheryl's personal insights with Adam's eye-opening research on finding strength in the face of adversity." www.bookstore.washington.edu (Image: Knopf Publishing)

#7. Other People Takes & Mistakes by David Shield. "An intellectually thrilling and emotionally wrenching investigation of otherness: the need for one person to understand another person completely, the impossibility of any such absolute knowing, and the erotics of this separation." www.bookstore.washington.edu (Image: Knopf Publishing)

#8. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. "Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read." www.bookstore.washington.edu (Image: Penguin Random House)

#9. Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur. "Milk and Honey is a collection of poetry and prose about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity." www.bookstore.washington.edu (Image: Andrews McMeel Publishing)

#10. Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times edited by Carolina De Robertis. "Radical Hope is a collection of letters--to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged--written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists." www.bookstore.washington.edu (Image: Penguin Random House)

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