tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73680132024-03-07T01:24:48.082-05:00Atomic Books BlogLiterary Finds for Mutated MindsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2079125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-14347495381939951302024-01-14T19:37:00.006-05:002024-01-21T00:20:15.366-05:00Atomic Books Best Selling Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks Of 2023These titles are the top 25 original graphic novels/self-contained trade paperback best sellers at Atomic Books in 2023. 1. Ducks: Two Years In The Oil Sands by Kate Beaton2. Penny by Karl Stevens3. Monica by Daniel Clowes4. It's Lonely At The Centre Of The Earth by Zoe Thorogood5. Complete Eightball: Issues 1 - 18 by Daniel Clowes6. Birds of Maine by Michael DeForge7. A Guest In The House by Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-67665987903239025862024-01-08T13:43:00.001-05:002024-01-09T12:26:28.572-05:00Atomic Books' Best Selling Fiction & Poetry Of 2023 These titles are the top 30 fiction and poetry best sellers at Atomic Books in 2023.1. Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance: A Novel by John Waters2. The Eyes & The Impossible by Dave Eggers3. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: A Novel by Olga Tokarczuk4. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel by Gabrielle Zevin5. Holding Pattern by Jennie Xie6. Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-44557946209796926802024-01-07T01:20:00.004-05:002024-01-07T21:13:44.513-05:00Atomic Books' Best Selling Non-Fiction of 2023These titles are the top 30 non-fiction best sellers at Atomic Books in 2023.1. John Water: Pope Of Trash by John Waters2. Festive Maryland Recipes by Kara Mae Harris3. Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner4. Fran Lebowitz Reader by Fran Lebowitz5. Role Models by John Waters6. The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin7. The League of Lady Poisoners: Illustrated True Stories of Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-63733250524494464232024-01-05T15:38:00.003-05:002024-01-07T12:07:45.305-05:00Atomic Reading Club 2024: The End We thought 2024 might be an appropriate year to explore the way things end. Careers, relationships, our emotional state, the world. All things end. Maybe even American democracy. But on the bright side, often the end of one thing is the beginning of something new. We're not sure how we'll be feeling by this time in 2025, so let's get ahead of things and look at The End. OUR 2024 THE END Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-57192806411077024472023-10-03T23:00:00.003-04:002023-10-03T23:07:04.186-04:00Are Comic Shops Getting Screwed By New Changes In DistributionPrior to Diamond Comics Distributors shedding publishers (or losing their exclusive arrangements with select publishers), one perk for comic book stores was that a number of publishers offered their trades and graphic novels to the direct market weeks, sometimes a whole month, before the book market. And since everyone who sells books competes with Amazon, this perk could be immensely helpful in Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-33816659412958092632023-01-01T18:23:00.004-05:002023-01-01T18:50:50.025-05:00Atomic Reading Club 2023 - Outer LimitsOur theme this year is Outer Limits (as in "the outer limits of human belief"). It's like an X-files year! Or an In Search Of year. It's not about the supernatural but more like the paranormal, or the cultural history of investigations into the nature of such things. UFOs but not sci-fi. Not ghost stories but ghost hunting. Cryptids, not mythological creatures. What is real? What is nature? What Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-11429196828930967332022-01-17T17:59:00.000-05:002022-01-17T17:59:03.937-05:00Atomic Books 2021 Best Sellers: Comics & Graphic Novels Atomic Books 2021 Best Selling Comics: Stand Alone Graphic Novels 1. Secret To Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel2. On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden3. Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge4. Crisis Zone by Simon Hanselmann5. Billionaires: The Lives Of The Rich And Powerful by Darryl Cunningham6. Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done Done? by Harold Schechter / Eric Powell7. Too Tough To Die: An Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-75758068339104135262022-01-14T13:12:00.002-05:002022-01-14T13:27:23.011-05:00Atomic Reading Club 2022 - Cults As people, we continue to organize around belief structures, and then we apply purity tests to allies to make ourselves feel more righteous, more true, superior. But where can this lead? Our
2022 theme is Cults - what is a cult? Is one person's religion another's cult? Can a book club become a cult?
OUR 2022 CULTS READING LIST
January - American Cult: A Graphic History Of ReligiousBennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-7925785324859253272022-01-10T20:06:00.003-05:002022-01-10T20:06:27.768-05:00Atomic Books 2021 Best Sellers: Fiction & Non-Fiction Atomic Books 2021 Best Selling Fiction & Poetry1. Dune by Frank Herbert2. We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker3. Song For A New Day by Sarah Pinsker4. Klara And The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro5. Black Sabbath's Master Of Reality (33 1/3 series) by John Darnielle6. Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix7. Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler8. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia9. Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-46283190177117649272021-06-03T21:55:00.002-04:002021-06-04T11:31:02.354-04:00Atomic Books' Best Sellers: May 2021 These are our best selling titles from May 2021. ***BEST SELLING FICTION***1. We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker2. Dune by Frank Herbert3. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir4. Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau5. Klara And The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 6. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee7. First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami 8. Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-54857818343602519622021-05-03T14:08:00.000-04:002021-05-03T14:08:19.332-04:00Atomic Books' Best Sellers: April 2021 These are our best selling titles from April 2021.***BEST SELLING FICTION***1. In The Tall Grass by Stephen King / Joe Hill2. Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer3. First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami 4. Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones5. Dune by Frank Herbert6. Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin7. Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel8. Gideon The Ninth by Tasmyn Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-62215867771661063702021-01-07T18:58:00.001-05:002021-01-07T18:59:27.370-05:00 Atomic Reading Club 2021 - Rockers
What is the perfect rock book? Is there a perfect rock book? Can such a thing even exist?Our 2021 theme is Rockers - what we've missed the most during the pandemic is live music, communing with artists, and what better way to remind ourselves about the meaning of music and the arts in our lives than reading about it and talking about it?
OUR 2021 ROCKERS READING LIST
January - Song For Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com23620 Falls Rd, Baltimore, MD 21211, USA39.331316 -76.6352924.839042573524289 -94.213415 53.823589426475714 -59.057165tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-47498986310143897362021-01-04T15:00:00.049-05:002021-01-04T19:48:56.853-05:00Atomic Books' Best Selling Art/Coffee Table/Gift/Cook Books of 20201. Super Good Baking for Kids by Duff Goldman2. Indecent Exposure by John Waters3. A Beautiful Ghetto by Devin Allen4. What It's Like To Be A Bird by David Allen Sibley5. How To Talk To Your Cat About Gun Safety by The American Association Of Patriots6. Cool Beans by Joe Yonan7. Dolly Parton Songteller by Dolly Parton / Robert K. Oermann8. Scream With Me by Tom Bejgrowicz / Jeremy Dean9. That WasBennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com03620 Falls Rd, Baltimore, MD 21211, USA39.331316 -76.6352911.021082163821156 -111.79154 67.641549836178854 -41.47904tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-66683692684989588522021-01-04T12:00:00.000-05:002021-01-04T12:00:02.141-05:00Atomic Books' Best Selling Non-Fiction Of 2020 1. Mr. Know-It-All by John Waters2. I Got A Monster by Baynard Woods / Brandon Soderberg3. Flowers In The Gutter by K.R. Gaddy4. Antiracist by Kondwani Fidel5. 18 Tiny Deaths by Bruce Goldfarb6. How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi7. Promised Land by Barack Obama8. 2015 Baltimore Uprising by various9. Role Models by John Waters10. White Fragility by Robin Diangelo11. Carsick by John Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com03620 Falls Rd, Baltimore, MD 21211, USA39.331316 -76.63529-14.869759939304274 -146.94779 90 -6.3227899999999977tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-42330918906073799982021-01-04T09:30:00.035-05:002021-01-04T19:53:31.339-05:00Atomic Books' Best Selling Fiction & Poetry of 20201. Dune by Frank Herbert2. Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott4. Severance by Ling Ma5. Normal People by Sally Rooney6. Girls Like Us by Elizabeth Hazen7. City We Became by N.K. Jemisin8. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem 9. Song For A New Day by Sarah Pinsker 10. Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett11. A Brief History Of Seven Killings by MarlonBennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-72324732810977666972020-11-26T10:54:00.001-05:002020-11-26T10:54:54.596-05:00BLACK FRIDAY & SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAYRunning through Saturday, November 28, here's what we we're doing to celebrate Black Friday and Small Business Saturday:free Atomic Books Stay Home tote when you spend $75 or more (while supplies last) double Big Spender Card marks for instore, doorfront, curbside pickup and free local delivery shopping only (sorry not available for regular mail order)Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-31827453575848074932020-08-02T20:13:00.001-04:002020-08-03T14:24:26.904-04:00Atomic Books Best Sellers During The COVID Pandemic: The First 5 MonthsThese are our best selling titles from March 2020 through July 2020.***BEST SELLING FICTION***1. Dune by Frank Herbert2. Girls Like Us: Poems by Elizabeth Hazen3. The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin4. Normal People by Sally Rooney5. Severance by Ling Ma6. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem7. A Brief History Of 7 Killings by Marlon James8. Death on the Nile: A Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-75222337607488256872020-06-29T13:52:00.002-04:002020-06-29T13:53:09.936-04:00The Charmery X Atomic BooksWe've teamed up with our friends at The Charmery! We picked two of our favorite books, and asked The Charmery to come up with new flavors. Now you can pre-order a pint of the ice cream and a copy of the book!From The Charmery:How lucky are we?The best bookshop in the entire galaxy happens to be right down the street from us in Hampden! Our Master Creamer David got together with Owner and Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-44542980669073519432020-05-27T01:40:00.001-04:002020-05-27T02:04:01.864-04:00New Comics - May 27, 2020NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Atomic Books is not
currently
open to the public, but you can
order for curbside pickup, you can have things shipped, and we're doing
free local delivery within 3 miles of the store. Subscribers can also
still pick up your books between 11-5 (Mon. - Sat.) - just email us
first and we'll send you an invoice you can pay for your books via
email.
For more Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-57202023929728324222020-05-18T23:42:00.000-04:002020-05-19T19:39:05.470-04:00Comics Are Back - Here's How To Get Them!
In mid-March, Diamond Comics Distributors (the exclusive distributor of most comics) temporarily ceased distribution of new comics due to the COVID-19 crisis.
This coming Wednesday, May 20, new comics start regularly coming out again.
If you do not have a comics subscription box with us, will need to order comics from our website. You can choose to pick them up via curbside pickup, use free Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-21301389634667549792020-05-01T00:35:00.001-04:002020-05-01T00:36:50.258-04:00New Comics - 04/29/20NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Atomic Books is not currently
open to the public, but you can
order for curbside pickup, you can have things shipped, and we're doing
free local delivery within 3 miles of the store. Subscribers can also
still pick up your books between 11-5 (Mon. - Sat.) - just email us first and we'll send you an invoice you can pay for your books via email.
For more Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-29360781552066990372020-03-29T23:48:00.003-04:002020-03-29T23:49:46.340-04:00The Last New Comics For A WhileNOTE: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Atomic Books is not currently
open to the public. But while we are closed to the public and browsing, you can
order
in-store/curbside pickup, you can have things shipped, and we're doing
free local delivery within 2 miles of the store. Subscribers can also
still pick up your books between 11-5 (Mon. - Sat.).
These are all the comics arriving AtomicBennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-36095178407926474152020-03-18T22:13:00.001-04:002020-03-19T18:08:16.025-04:00Atomic Books COVID-19 Update
Due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, Atomic Books is not currently open to the public and won't be again through the end of March (when we will reassess the situation).
It is our intention to keep everyone at team Atomic employed, so we are at the shop from 11-5 daily for the duration.
And while we are closed to the public and browsing, you can order in-store/curbside pickup, you can Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-40499218106584345172020-03-18T14:32:00.002-04:002020-03-18T15:57:09.479-04:00New Comics March 2020 (So Far)NOTE: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Atomic Books is not currently open to the public. However, we are here from 11-5 daily for the duration. And while we are closed to the public and browsing, you can order
in-store/curbside pickup, you can have things shipped, and we're doing
free local delivery within 2 miles of the store. Subscribers can also still pick up your books between 11-5 daily. Bennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7368013.post-42461758514718682562020-03-01T02:18:00.005-05:002020-03-01T02:22:52.720-05:00Atomic Books' February 2020 Bestsellers
***FEBRUARY'S BEST SELLING FICTION***
1. Little Women (new ed.) by Louisa May Alcott
2. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
3. Dune by Frank Herbert
4. The Ice Cream Man And Other Stories by Sam Pink
5. Homesick For Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh
6. This is the End of Something But It's Not the End of You by Adam Gnade
7. Me And Mr. Cigar by Gibby Haynes
8. McSweeneys #58: 2040 AD ClimateBennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04928763678956634055noreply@blogger.com0