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#1. Al Franken, Giant Of The Senate by Al Franken. "This is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect."
(Image: TWELVE Books)

#2. On Tyranny Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. "The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century." (Image: Tim Duggan Books)

#3. 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)

#4. Righteous Mind Why Good People Are Divided By Politics And Religion by Jonathan Haidt "A groundbreaking investigation into the origins of morality, which turns out to be the basis for religion and politics." (Image: Penguin Random House)

#5. Theft By Finding Diaries 1977-2016 by David Sedaris. "From bestselling author David Sedaris, for the first time in print: selections from the diaries that are the source of his remarkable autobiographical essays." (Image: Little Brown)

#6. Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout. "Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others." (Image: Random House)

#7. Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult. "The highly anticipated new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, who "writes with a fine touch, a sharp eye for detail, and a firm grasp of the delicacy and complexity of human relationships". (Image: Penguin Books)

#8. 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)

#9. Trouble With Reality A Rumination On Moral Panic In Our Time by Brooke Gladstone. "Reality. It used to seem so simple--reality just was, like the weather. Why question it, let alone disagree about it? And then came the assault, an unending stream of "fake news," "alternative facts," and lies disguised as truths that is overwhelming our notions of reality." (Image: Workman Publishing)

#10. Borne by Jeff Vandermeer. "“Am I a person?” Borne asks Rachel, in extremis. “Yes, you are a person,” Rachel tells him. “But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.” In a ruined, nameless city of the future, Rachel makes her living as a scavenger." (Image: MCD)

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