Viral Bestsellers
Over the past 29 years, many of our books have gone viral. Here are some that you may have missed or might be a good fit for your shelves! The bulk of the sales of these titles have been direct to consumer—which means that we know there is an audience for them so we want to share this intel about these popular gems!
If Animals Could Talk: A Children's Book for Adults
If animals could talk, what would they say? Certainly nothing polite, according to this hilarious illustrated book. On…
If Animals Could Talk: An Adult Coloring Book for Adults
From the bestselling book that went viral for traumatizing a 6-year-old and her precious grandmother (Google it) comes…
Henry & Glenn Forever
Starring super-notorious musclebound punk/metaldudes Glenn Danzig and Henry Rollins (with a little help from…
Henry & Glenn Adult Activity and Coloring Book
Love is so metal. Get pumped on inspirational love with the coloring book of the century, celebrating the romance of the…
How to Get Your Period: A Guide to Performing Menstrual Extraction
Take charge of your reproductive rights, learn about your body, and build a supportive community. In 1971, as part of…
Hot Pants: Do-It-Yourself Gynecology and Herbal Remedies
Hot Pants, long an underground classic, offers great basic sexual health information along with tried and true herbal…
The Post-Structuralist Vulva Coloring Book
Vulvas are too often either crudely objectified or shrouded in mystery. No longer! The Post-Structuralist Vulva Coloring…
Making Stuff and Doing Things: DIY Guides to Just About Everything
When you’re young, broke, and in search of a life of adventure, Making Stuff and Doing Things is the most useful book…
Basic Fermentation: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Cultural Manipulation
Fermented foods are great for your health, and this book is a great resource for learning to use the microbes around…
Street Journalist: Understand and Report the News in Your Community
A corrupt politician. A local business in trouble. A neighbor with a heroic story. An opportunity to work together for…
Edible Secrets: A Food Tour of Classified U.S. History
Illustrated throughout by New York Times bestselling author Nate Powell, these documents offer a filter into the deep…
Dwelling Portably: 1980-2012, Tips from the People Who Sparked The Tiny House Movement
Full of information about living without a permanent residence, this complete collection contains helpful and…
On The Books: A Graphic Tale of Working Woes at NYC's Strand Bookstore
A David and Goliath story, On The Books is the first-hand comic strip account of the labor struggle at NYC’s legendary…
Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution
Soviet Daughter provides a window into the life of a rebellious, independent woman coming of age in the USSR, and the…
DIY Screenprinting: How to Turn Your Home Into a T-Shirt Factory
A fascinating graphic novel that details the art and science of screen-printing from inception to printed t-shirts to…
Chainbreaker Bike Book: An Illustrated Manual of Radical Bicycle Maintenance, Culture, & History
An updated and expanded edition of our hand-illustrated and accessible introduction to the world of bike repair! Through…
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy
Now updated and expanded with new angles on social justice! Elly Blue's Bikenomics provides a surprising and compelling…
Everyday Bicycling: Ride a Bike for Transportation (Whatever Your Lifestyle)
Everyday Bicycling is your guide to everything you need to know to get started riding a bicycle for transportation. Elly…
The Culinary Cyclist: A Cookbook and Companion for the Good Life
"The rules for living well, if you can call them that, are simple and a pleasure to follow. Eat local and mostly plants.…
C.A.T.S.: Cycling Across Time And Space: 11 Feminist Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories about Bicycling and Cats
Has your cat been plotting to take command of your spaceship? This and other important questions are tackled in the 11…
Defensive Eating With Morrissey: Vegan Recipes From The One You Left Behind
Poor Morrissey. He's just so... so... hungry. And meat is murder, so that narrows his options by a lot. Until now, at…
Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter
This is the graphic history of the 2001 Cincinnati riots, told for the first time from the perspective of the…
Punk USA: The Roots of Green Day & the Rise & Fall of Lookout Records
Updated and revised second edition with new interviews and photographs. Through hundreds of exclusive and original…
Weird Music That Goes on Forever: A Punk's Guide to Loving Jazz
Nominated for the 2025 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound…
On Subbing: The First Four Years
On Subbing is a quiet classic. It's impossible to put down, or forget, Dave Roche's vivid, self-deprecating tales of…
Amica's World: How a Giant Bird Came into Our Heart and Home
Amica is a rhea—a flightless bird in the ratite family, related to ostriches, emus, and kiwis. Amica was adopted as a…
A Tight Squeeze: Smutty Trans and Queer Stories (Queering Consent)
Winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ+ Romance and Erotica A Tight Squeeze showcases the hot sex…
Queer Werewolves Destroy Capitalism: Smutty Stories (Queering Consent)
Sexy, capitalism-defying adventures take you around the galaxy in this debut collection of five high-heat erotic short…
Woke Parenting: Raising Intersectional Feminist, Empathic, Engaged, and Generally Non-Shitty Kids While Still Having a Life
How do you raise your kids to be feminist, anti-racist, gender-inclusive, self-compassionate, and with strong respect…
The Courage Party: Helping Our Resilient Children Understand and Survive Sexual Assault
The Courage Party is a "gently explicit" book about sexual abuse, written for kids to read alone or (better) with a…