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Welcome to Ten Dollar Books

This bookstore originated in Military Park in Newark. I was there selling my first book--Back Like I Never Left: Dating as a Single Mother--during the summer in 2019. I'd pull up with my son in the middle of the day and sell books for ten dollars. It was kinda hard but people showed love.

Since then, I moved things online. Now the books I've written are available here along with others. And it's not just random stuff. I curated all these books. Everything is good and in good condition. The book in the picture is the book you get. New stuff is added regularly.

-Rachel Wagner

Top picks--these are the best books here

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin $10.00 USD

White Teeth by Zadie Smith $10.00 USD

Almost Single by Advaita Kala $10.00 USD

Girls Like Us by Rachel Lloyd $10.00 USD

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo $10.00 USD

Give People Money by Anne Lowrey $10.00 USD

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison $10.00 USD

The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah $10.00 USD

The Autobiography of Malcolm X co-written with Alex Haley $10.00 USD

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi $10.00 USD

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston $10.00 USD

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dosteovsky $10.00 USD

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dosteovsky $10.00 USD

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dosteovsky $10.00 USD

The Bitch in the House edited by Cathi Hanauer $10.00 USD

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston $10.00 USD

The Bitch in the House edited by Cathi Hanauer $10.00 USD

Black Boy by Richard Wright $10.00 USD

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite $10.00 USD

Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin $10.00 USD

Buy a book for an imprisoned person--or someone else I know who wants a book

Donate: Breathe: A Letter to my Sons by Imani Perry Sold Out

Donate: 17 Love Poems with No Despair by BJ Ward Sold Out

Donate: Standing at the Scratch Line by Guy Johnson $10.00 USD

Donate: Night by Elie Wiesel $10.00 USD

Donate: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe $10.00 USD

Donate: Fast Food Nation by Eric Shlosser $10.00 USD

Donate: The Color Purple by Alice Walker $10.00 USD

Donate: The Pact by Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt $10.00 USD

Donate: Smoke Screen by Sandra Brown Sold Out

Donate: Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis Sold Out

Fifty Dollar Bookshelves--handmade by Dave Wagner

18" Handmade Bookshelf $50.00 USD

18" Handmade Bookshelf $50.00 USD

18" Handmade Bookshelf $50.00 USD

13" Handmade Bookshelf $50.00 USD

13" Handmade Bookshelf $50.00 USD

Jacob's Hip by Rachel Wagner, book, Ten Dollar Books, Ten Dollar Books

Jacob's Hip by Rachel Wagner, book, Ten Dollar Books, Ten Dollar Books

Jacob's Hip by Rachel Wagner

$10.00 USD

In the middle of grad school and probation, a new family unit was born. Jacob's Hip by Rachel Wagner is a collection of poems about fighting to stick together through pregnancy, prison, and heartbreak. There's sex and bedbugs and jail visitation and more.

More by Rachel Wagner

Back Like I Never Left by Rachel Wagner, Book, Ten Dollar Books, Ten Dollar Books

Back Like I Never Left by Rachel Wagner

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Back Like I Never Left by Rachel Wagner $10.00 USD

Abandonment Issues by Rachel Wagner, Book, Ten Dollar Books, Ten Dollar Books

Abandonment Issues by Rachel Wagner

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Abandonment Issues by Rachel Wagner $10.00 USD

FEM by Rachel Wagner, Book, Ten Dollar Books, Ten Dollar Books

FEM by Rachel Wagner