What intro stats textbook to use?

Ishfaaq Mohammed Imtiyas writes:

I am a starting lecturer in statistics trying to figure out a curriculum that works for an intro stats class at a liberal arts college.

In this video, you mention that there is but one intro stats book that you like. What is this book?

My reply: I recommend this book by Llaudet and Imai. See also here. And I recommend this book which has lots of stories and class-participation activities.

I also like Rohan Alexander’s book, Telling Stories with Data, but it’s not really an intro statistics book on its own.

There are also some free online books which are ok, they’re about as good as the popular commercially-published intro statistics books, but I find just about all of them to be uninspired and stuck in a mode of statistics that does not seem real to me. Llaudet and Imai’s is the only one I could really imagine using for an introductory course.

Feel free to add your own recommendations in the comments.