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Books for the
independently minded.

Original works, satire, literary writing, and annotated editions. Books are purchased on Amazon.

Original Nonfiction

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Original nonfiction

The Sovereign Animal

Andre Ford

An examination of the desires we mistake for our own. Andre Ford investigates how culture, class, institutions, and social expectations shape identity, ambition, belonging, and the lives we are conditioned to want.

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Original nonfiction

Six Books and the Forty Years Ahead

Andre Ford

Six influential writers, from Walt Whitman to Kahlil Gibran, become the starting point for Andre Ford’s wager on the next forty years of human life. A wide-ranging inquiry into society, individuality, technology, and what may—and may not—change.

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Original nonfiction

Who Told You I Was Black?

Andre Ford

Who decides what an identity is supposed to mean? Through family history, the Marine Corps, Europe, and southern Africa, Andre Ford interrogates race, masculinity, sexuality, respectability, and the assumptions that precede us.

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Field Guides

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Field Guides

Lord, With All Due Respect

Andre Ford

A field guide to talking back to God—politely, if possible. With dry humor and unapologetic questions, Andre Ford explores prayer, disappointment, religious platitudes, and the complicated business of keeping faith without pretending everything makes sense.

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Literary Work

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Literary work

Echoes in Fragments

Andre Ford

Told through letters and fragments, this novel confronts the wounds left by military trauma, homophobia, sexual violence, and silence. An intimate work about what survives when a person is forced to carry more than one war.

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Literary work

The Quiet Weight of Knowing

Andre Ford

Fifty poems about the evidence relationships leave behind. Andre Ford writes through loyalty, intimacy, projection, betrayal, departure, and the unsettling clarity that comes when we finally believe what people have shown us.

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Selected Editions

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Selected editions

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

Whitman’s expansive poetry of bodies, democracy, individuality, nature, and America, presented in an edition grounded in his final authorized 1891–1892 text. A work that keeps asking how large a human life can be.

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Selected editions

Suicide: A Study in Sociology

Émile Durkheim

Durkheim’s landmark challenge to the idea that even our most private actions can be understood apart from society. Through comparative evidence, he investigates how social bonds, institutions, and upheaval influence patterns of suicide.

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Selected editions

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

Du Bois’s defining 1903 work on the color line, double consciousness, education, political leadership, and the inner life of Black America. An annotated edition that preserves the original text while supplying historical context.

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Selected editions

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran’s enduring sequence of poetic reflections on love, marriage, children, work, freedom, sorrow, and death. This annotated edition places the celebrated 1923 text in context through an introduction, chronology, and notes.

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Selected editions

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Thorstein Veblen

First published in 1899, Veblen’s influential study examines how social status and wealth are displayed through consumption, leisure, and custom. A foundational critique of the class relations that shape everyday economic life.

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Selected editions

Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War

Wilfred Trotter

Wilfred Trotter’s influential study of the herd instinct explores how social belonging shapes individual thought and conduct in peace and war. A foundational early work in social psychology, it remains a provocative account of imitation, leadership, and collective life.

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GET THEE BEHIND ME, SATAN!Andre Ford · In development
DON’T NOBODY KNOW MY TROUBLES BUT GOD.Andre Ford · In development
The Body of the CorpsRowan Grant · In development
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