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  • Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim
  • The Creative Lives of Animals
  • She and Her Cat: Stories
  • Great Short Books: A Year of Reading—Briefly
  • Imitation Democracy: The Development of Russia’s Post-Soviet Political System
  • Traveling the Old Ski Tracks of New England
  • Aesthetica: A Novel
  • None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive: A Novel
  • Issunboshi: A Graphic Novel
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  • Neuropedia: A Brief Compendium of Brain Phenomena
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Featured Fiction & Poetry
  • Either/Or: A Novel
  • Fairy Tale: A Novel
  • The Furrows: A Novel
  • Haven: A Novel
  • Heat 2: A Novel
  • Liberation Day: Stories
  • Lapvona: A Novel
  • Less Is Lost
  • Demon Copperhead: A Novel
  • About Face
  • Afterlives: A Novel
  • Horse: A Novel
  • The It Girl: A Novel
  • The Marriage Portrait: A Novel
  • Nights of Plague: A Novel
  • Now Is Not the Time to Panic: A Novel
  • Our Missing Hearts: A Novel
  • Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel
  • People Person: A Novel
  • Real Bad Things
  • Sea of Tranquility
  • Shrines of Gaiety: A Novel
  • Shuna’s Journey
  • Shutter
  • Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel
  • The Twilight World
  • The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories
  • Kaikeyi: A Novel
  • Bliss Montage: Stories
  • Lucy by the Sea: A Novel
  • All the Secrets of the World: A Novel
  • The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
  • Life Ceremony: Stories
  • White Horse
  • You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: A Novel
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Featured Biography & Memoir
  • Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships
  • Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova
  • Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
  • Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
  • One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World
  • Making a Scene
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Featured History & Social Issues
  • Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
  • Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington
  • The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story, 1910-1960
  • Slaves for Peanuts
  • We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
  • Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East
  • Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
  • By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
  • Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education
  • Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want
  • Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas
  • Indelible City
  • Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
  • Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle
  • African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
  • Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World
  • The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
  • Born in Cambridge: 400 Years of Ideas and Innovators
  • The Devil Never Sleeps: Learning to Live in an Age of Disasters
  • His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
  • How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment
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Featured Science, Math & Technology
  • Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
  • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  • The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
  • The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
  • The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
  • The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything
  • Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe
  • What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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Featured Kids & Young Adult
  • Book of Questions
  • Geo-Graphics
  • The Pet Potato
  • Ironhead, or, Once a Young Lady
  • Knight Owl
  • Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston
  • A Scatter of Light
  • Serwa Boateng’s Guide to Vampire Hunting
  • Those Kids from Fawn Creek
  • The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
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  • Franz Kafka: The Drawings
  • The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World
  • The Black Fives: The Epic Story of Basketball’s Forgotten Era
  • Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche
  • This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
  • Phasers on Stun!: How the Making (and Remaking) of Star Trek Changed the World
  • Sargent and Spain
  • The Philosophy of Modern Song
  • What’s for Dessert: Simple Recipes for Dessert People
  • The Wok: Recipes and Techniques
  • Art Of The Chicken: A Master Chef’s Paintings, Stories, and Recipes of the Humble Bird
  • Honey Cake & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors
  • Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew
  • Noma 2.0: Vegetables, Forest, Ocean
  • My America: Recipes from a Young Black Chef
  • Translating Myself and Others
  • Victory Is Assured: Uncollected Writings of Stanley Crouch
  • Happy-Go-Lucky
  • Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
  • The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes
  • The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings
  • In Praise of Good Bookstores
  • Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
  • The Literary Mafia: Jews, Publishing, and Postwar American Literature
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