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  Atomic Books 2021 Best Selling Comics: Stand Alone Graphic Novels 1. Secret To Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel 2. On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden 3. Heaven No Hell by Michael DeForge 4. Crisis Zone by Simon Hanselmann 5. Billionaires: The Lives Of The Rich And Powerful by Darryl Cunningham 6. Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done Done? by Harold Schechter / Eric Powell 7. Too Tough To Die: An Aging Punx Anthology by Haleigh Buck / J.T. Yost 8. Bubble by Jordan Morris / Sarah Morgan / Tony Cliff / Natalie Riess 9. Trots & Bonnie by Shary Flenniken 10. Sweet Tooth Compendium by Jeff Lemire 11. A People's History of American Empire by  Howard Zinn / Paul Buhle / Mike Konopacki 12. Mycelium Wassonii by Brian Blomerth 13. Reckless: Friend Of The Devil by Ed Brubaker / Sean Phillips 14. Essential Dykes To Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel 15. American Cult: A Graphic History Of Religious Cults In America by various  Atomic Books 2021 Best Selling Comics: Graphic Novel Se

  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 Religious Cults In America by various February - Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell March - I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad by Baynard Woods / Brandon Soderberg April - The Girls by Emma Cline May - Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover June - Trust Exercise by Susan Choi July - The Cold Millions by Jess Walter August - Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon September - American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin October - Universal Harvester by John Darnielle November - Nob

  Atomic Books 2021 Best Selling Fiction & Poetry 1. Dune by Frank Herbert 2. We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker 3. Song For A New Day by Sarah Pinsker 4. Klara And The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 5. Black Sabbath's Master Of Reality (33 1/3 series) by John Darnielle 6. Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix 7. Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler 8. Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 9. Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu 10. Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones 11. Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney 12. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino 13. Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes 14. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 15. Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh 16. Street Cop by Robert Coover / Art Spiegelman 17. Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters 18. Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab 19. Final Revival Of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton 20. Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin 21. First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami 22.

 These are our best selling titles from May 2021.    ***BEST SELLING FICTION*** 1. We Are Satellites by Sarah Pinsker 2. Dune by Frank Herbert 3. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 4. Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau 5. Klara And The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro 6. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee 7. First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami 8. Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix 9. Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang 10. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata ***BEST SELLING NON-FICTION*** 1. Crying In H Mart by Michelle Zauner 2. World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain / Laurie Woolever 3. Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements by Bob Mehr 4. We Own This City by Justin Fenton 5. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 6. Shock Value by John Waters 7. Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture by Grace Elizabeth Hale 8. Authentic: A Memoir by the Founder of Vans by Paul Van Doren 9.

 These are our best selling titles from April 2021. ***BEST SELLING FICTION*** 1. In The Tall Grass by Stephen King / Joe Hill 2. Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer 3. First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami 4. Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones 5. Dune by Frank Herbert 6. Left Hand Of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 7. Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel 8. Gideon The Ninth by Tasmyn Muir 9. First Become Ashes by K.M. Sparza 10. Song For A New Day by Sarah Pinsker ***BEST SELLING NON-FICTION*** 1. We Own This City by Justin Fenton 2. Crying In H Mart by Michelle Zauner 3. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History Of Punk by Legs McNeil / Gillian McCain 4. Mr. Know It All by John Waters 5. Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America by Lawrence T. Brown 6. Horror Stories: A Memoir by Liz Phair 7. Role Models by John Waters 8. 2015 Baltimore Uprising by various 9. Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and

  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 A New Day by Sarah Pinsker February - 33 1/3: Black Sabbath Master Of Reality by John Darnielle March - Clothes Clothes Clothes Boys Boys Boys by Viv Albertine April - Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil May - Trouble Boys by Bob Mehr June - Girl In A Band by Kim Gordon July - The Final Revival Of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton August - A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan September - Vernon Subutex 1 by Despentes October - Destroy All Monsters by Jeff Jackson November - What Are You Doing Here? by Laina Dawes December - Wicked + Divine Vol. 1 by Kieron Gillen / Jam