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New This Week
  • Elizabeth Finch: A Novel
  • The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
  • Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis
  • Surplus-Enjoyment: A Guide For The Non-Perplexed
  • MFA Highlights: Prints and Drawings
  • Acting Class
  • Stories from The Tenants Downstairs
  • Touch: A Novel
  • Witches: A Novel
  • Looking for an Enemy: 8 Essays on Antisemitism
  • Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
  • How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment
  • California Soul: An American Epic of Cooking and Survival
  • Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters
  • The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
  • Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China
  • Free Will: An Opinionated Guide
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Hardcover Best Sellers
  • When Women Were Dragons: A Novel
  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
  • The Last White Man: A Novel
  • Either/Or: A Novel
  • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
  • Lapvona: A Novel
  • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
  • Self-Portrait with Ghost: Short Stories
  • Poison for Breakfast
  • Horse: A Novel
  • A Brief History of Equality
  • Happy-Go-Lucky
  • Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
  • How the Mind Changed: A Human History of Our Evolving Brain
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel
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Paperback Best Sellers
  • It Ends with Us
  • The Idiot: A Novel
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
  • Klara and the Sun: A Novel
  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
  • Circe
  • Normal People: A Novel
  • Verity
  • The Summer I Turned Pretty
  • The Love Hypothesis
  • Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
  • Where the Crawdads Sing
  • Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
  • Heartstopper: Volume 2
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Featured Titles
  • Gods of Want: Stories
  • How to Fall Out of Love Madly: A Novel
  • Identitti: A Novel
  • Mercury Pictures Presents: A Novel
  • The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Novel
  • Other Names for Love: A Novel
  • Properties of Thirst: A Novel
  • Shmutz: A Novel
  • Yoga: A Novel
  • Acceptance: A Memoir
  • Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
  • America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
  • Asian American Histories of the United States
  • Before The Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe and What Lies Beyond
  • Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
  • Good Grief: On Loving Pets, Here and Hereafter
  • Inventing the It Girl
  • The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
  • Memoirs
  • The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything
  • On Critical Race Theory: Why It Matters & Why You Should Care
  • Proving Ground
  • Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
  • The Tablet of Destinies
  • Dogs of Summer: A Novel
  • Emergency: A Pastoral Novel
  • Fire Season: A Novel
  • All This Could Be Different: A Novel
  • Calling for a Blanket Dance: A Novel
  • The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
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  • Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century
  • An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World
  • This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
  • Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
  • None But the Righteous: A Novel
  • You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
  • You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
  • What the Fireflies Knew: A Novel
  • Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters
  • Don’t Cry for Me: A Novel
  • Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
  • Recitatif: A Story
  • Ain’t Burned All the Bright
  • Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
  • Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
  • How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged
  • Fear of Black Consciousness
  • Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness
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  • Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
  • Happy Plant: A Beginner’s Guide to Cultivating Healthy Plant Care Habits
  • Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer
  • The Other Black Girl
  • Red Island House: A Novel
  • The Library at Mount Char
  • Say Nothing
  • Super Host
  • Hurry, Little Tortoise, Time for School!
  • To Change a Planet
  • Wake the Bones: A Novel
  • Berry Song
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