Loyalty's Recommended Social Distancing Reads

Keeping at home for the time being? Need some new reads? Look no further! Below is our list of 40 (updated on 3.16.20!) books ranging from our current, upcoming, and forever favorite reads for kiddos and adults to add to your TBR while maintianing social distancing. For the month of March we are shipping books for $2 and are happy to order you whatever you've been meaning to get to should it not be in store at the moment, but if you need inspiration may we suggested just a few? Don't want to add a book to the house or want to brand into audio? Check out these and other great selections on Libro.fm for an alternative to audible that supports your local bookstores! 

Red at the Bone: A Novel By Jacqueline Woodson Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780525535270
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 17th, 2019

Wow, No Thank You.: Essays (Lambda Literary Award) By Samantha Irby Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525563488
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Published: Vintage - March 31st, 2020

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy By Jenny Odell Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9781612197494
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Published: Melville House - April 9th, 2019

The Only Black Girls in Town By Brandy Colbert Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316456388
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - March 10th, 2020

How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future! (Real World) By Danny Caine Cover Image
$4.95
ISBN: 9781621065265
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Published: Microcosm Publishing - November 22nd, 2019

Ordinary Girls: A Memoir By Jaquira Díaz Cover Image
$26.95
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ISBN: 9781616209131
Published: Algonquin Books - October 29th, 2019

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Red, White & Royal Blue: A Novel By Casey McQuiston Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781250316776
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - May 14th, 2019

Severance: A Novel By Ling Ma Cover Image
By Ling Ma
$18.00
ISBN: 9781250214997
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Published: Picador - May 7th, 2019

A Fortune for Your Disaster By Hanif Abdurraqib Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9781947793439
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Published: Tin House Books - September 3rd, 2019

A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home By Nicole Chung (Editor), Mensah Demary (Editor) Cover Image
By Nicole Chung (Editor), Mensah Demary (Editor)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781948226783
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Published: Catapult - February 11th, 2020

Who Put This Song On? By Morgan Parker Cover Image
$18.99
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ISBN: 9780525707516
Published: Delacorte Press - September 24th, 2019

When Rap Spoke Straight to God By Erica Dawson Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9781947793033
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Published: Tin House Books - September 18th, 2018

The World Doesn't Require You: Stories By Rion Amilcar Scott Cover Image
$25.95
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ISBN: 9781631495380
Published: Liveright - August 20th, 2019

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir By Nicole Chung Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781948226370
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Published: Catapult - October 15th, 2019

Riot Baby By Tochi Onyebuchi Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781250214751
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Published: Tordotcom - January 21st, 2020

And I Do Not Forgive You: Stories and Other Revenges By Amber Sparks Cover Image
$23.95
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ISBN: 9781631496202
Published: Liveright - February 11th, 2020

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations (Vintage International) By Toni Morrison Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780525562795
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Published: Vintage - January 14th, 2020

The City We Became: A Novel (The Great Cities #1) By N. K. Jemisin Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316509848
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Published: Orbit - March 24th, 2020

Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today By Rachel Vorona Cote Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781538729700
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - February 25th, 2020

All This Could Be Yours By Jami Attenberg Cover Image
$26.00
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ISBN: 9780544824256
Published: Ecco - October 22nd, 2019

Miracle Creek: A Novel By Angie Kim Cover Image
$27.00
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ISBN: 9780374156022
Published: Sarah Crichton Books - April 16th, 2019

Here for It: Or, How to Save Your Soul in America; Essays By R. Eric Thomas Cover Image
$26.00
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ISBN: 9780525621034
Published: Ballantine Books - February 18th, 2020

Cleanness By Garth Greenwell Cover Image
$26.00
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ISBN: 9780374124588
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - January 14th, 2020

We Cast a Shadow: A Novel By Maurice Carlos Ruffin Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525509073
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Published: One World - February 4th, 2020

Bangkok Wakes to Rain: A Novel By Pitchaya Sudbanthad Cover Image
$18.00
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ISBN: 9780525534778
Published: Riverhead Books - February 18th, 2020

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance By Zora Neale Hurston Cover Image
$25.99
ISBN: 9780062915795
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Published: Amistad - January 14th, 2020

Get a Life, Chloe Brown: A Novel (The Brown Sisters #1) By Talia Hibbert Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062941206
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Published: Avon - November 5th, 2019

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning By Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780316453691
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - March 10th, 2020

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The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction): A Novel By Colson Whitehead Cover Image
$24.95
ISBN: 9780385537070
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Published: Doubleday - July 16th, 2019

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations By Mira Jacob Cover Image
$30.00
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ISBN: 9780399589041
Published: One World - March 26th, 2019

Cantoras: A novel By Carolina De Robertis Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9780525521693
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Published: Knopf - September 3rd, 2019

Real Life: A Novel By Brandon Taylor Cover Image
$26.00
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ISBN: 9780525538882
Published: Riverhead Books - February 18th, 2020

Pet By Akwaeke Emezi Cover Image
$17.99
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ISBN: 9780525647072
Published: Make Me a World - September 10th, 2019

Hands Up! By Breanna J. McDaniel, Shane W. Evans (Illustrator) Cover Image
$17.99
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ISBN: 9780525552314
Published: Dial Books - January 22nd, 2019

I Look Up To... Michelle Obama By Anna Membrino, Fatti Burke (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Anna Membrino, Fatti Burke (Illustrator)
$7.99
ISBN: 9780525579540
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Published: Random House Books for Young Readers - October 2nd, 2018

Dinosnores (Boynton on Board) By Sandra Boynton Cover Image
$7.95
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ISBN: 9781523508136
Published: Workman Publishing Company - September 3rd, 2019

No More Naps!: A Story for When You're Wide-Awake and Definitely NOT Tired By Chris Grabenstein, Leo Espinosa (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Chris Grabenstein, Leo Espinosa (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781524771287
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Published: Random House Books for Young Readers - February 4th, 2020

I Look Up To... Ruth Bader Ginsburg By Anna Membrino, Fatti Burke (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Anna Membrino, Fatti Burke (Illustrator)
$7.99
ISBN: 9780525579526
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Published: Random House Books for Young Readers - October 2nd, 2018

Harriet Gets Carried Away By Jessie Sima, Jessie Sima (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Jessie Sima, Jessie Sima (Illustrator)
$18.99
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ISBN: 9781481469111
Published: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers - March 6th, 2018

Bad Dog By Mike Boldt Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781984847973
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Published: Doubleday Books for Young Readers - November 5th, 2019