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New This Week
  • Red Milk: A Novel
  • Joan Is Okay: A Novel
  • Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
  • You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
  • Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics
  • Uncertainty
  • How High We Go in the Dark: A Novel
  • The Souvenir Museum: Stories
  • Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
  • Akata Woman
  • The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
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Hardcover Best Sellers
  • To Paradise
  • The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
  • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
  • Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
  • Lost & Found: A Memoir
  • Ain’t Burned All the Bright
  • Harlem Shuffle: A Novel
  • How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
  • Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture
  • Taste: My Life Through Food
  • Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
  • Atlas of the Heart
  • Change Sings : A Children’s Anthem
  • Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom
  • Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy
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Paperback Best Sellers
  • The Love Hypothesis
  • Circe
  • The Year of Magical Thinking
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
  • Normal People: A Novel
  • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
  • ADHD 2. 0
  • The Anomaly: A Novel
  • Dune
  • Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
  • The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
  • Attention Seeking
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
  • Gideon the Ninth
  • Parable of the Sower
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  • Olga Dies Dreaming: A Novel
  • The School for Good Mothers: A Novel
  • Tell Me How to Be: A Novel
  • Abolition. Feminism. Now.
  • Avian Illuminations: A Cultural History of Birds
  • Dostoyevsky, Or the Flood of Language
  • Garbo: Her Life, Her Films
  • Godine at Fifty: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher
  • Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship
  • Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World
  • Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays
  • Once Upon a Time We Ate Animals: The Future of Food
  • Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities: A Study of Fifty Democracies, 1948–2020
  • Shackleton: The Biography
  • The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It
  • There Is Life After the Nobel Prize
  • Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny
  • You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
  • Bibliolepsy: A Novel
  • Brown Girls: A Novel
  • Call Us What We Carry: Poems
  • All of You Every Single One: A Novel
  • Anthem: A Novel
  • Beasts of a Little Land: A Novel
  • The Latinist: A Novel
  • The Maid: A Novel
  • No Land to Light On: A Novel
  • Creative Types: and Other Stories
  • Fiona and Jane
  • Honor: A Novel
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Black Lives Matter
  • I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love
  • Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
  • A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate Everyone
  • M Is for Melanin: A Celebration of the Black Child
  • Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling
  • In Every Mirror She’s Black: A Novel
  • Afropessimism
  • Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights
  • Grown
  • Birthing Black Mothers
  • A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
  • Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood
  • Accused: My Story of Injustice
  • The Absurd Man: Poems
  • Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
  • Fast Pitch
  • Moon and the Mars: A Novel
  • Climate Change Is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice
  • We Are Not Broken
  • The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948–1985
  • Change Sings : A Children’s Anthem
  • Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter
  • His Truth Is Marching On
  • Down Along with That Devil’s Bones
  • Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
  • Blood on the Fog: Pocket Poets Series No. 62
  • The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
  • Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic
  • Kneel
  • Palmares
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  • Poison for Breakfast
  • These Precious Days: Essays
  • They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
  • The Little Book of Witches
  • Miss Eliza’s English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship
  • The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell: Speed, Grace, and the Negro Leagues
  • Drinking to Sainthood
  • A Boy Named Isamu: A Story of Isamu Noguchi
  • In Case You Get Hit by a Bus: How to Organize Your Life Now for When You’re Not Around Later
  • Samarkand: Recipes and Stories From Central Asia and the Caucasus
  • Dream Street
  • Love in the Big City: A Novel
  • A Thousand Ships: A Novel
  • Europe’s Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp’s Golden Age
  • The King’s Painter: The Life of Hans Holbein
  • Tiger Honor (A Thousand Worlds Novel)
  • What Is Love?
  • The Year We Learned to Fly
  • The Ivory Key
  • Stacey’s Extraordinary Words
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