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  • Good Night, Irene: A Novel
  • The House on Via Gemito: A Novel
  • Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea: A Novel
  • Allergic: Our Irritated Bodies in a Changing World
  • American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865
  • The Wishing Game: A Novel
  • Beware the Woman: A Novel
  • Witch King
  • Uranians: Stories
  • Killing Moon: A Harry Hole Novel (Book 13)
  • The Celebrants: A Novel
  • Big Gay Wedding: A Novel
  • Into the Amazon
  • In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army
  • Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex
  • Horse Barbie: A Memoir
  • The Soldier’s Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II
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Hardcover Best Sellers
  • Yellowface: A Novel
  • Fires in the Dark
  • The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
  • Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
  • The Creative Act
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel
  • Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
  • Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
  • Poverty, by America
  • Small Mercies: A Novel
  • The Guest: A Novel
  • The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape
  • Choosing to Run: A Memoir
  • The Late Americans: A Novel
  • The Covenant of Water
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Paperback Best Sellers
  • Trust
  • Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
  • The Idiot: A Novel
  • All About Love: New Visions
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
  • Harvard: A Celebration of Commencements
  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
  • Sea of Tranquility: A Novel
  • The Midnight Library: A Novel
  • Pet
  • The Poppy War: A Novel
  • Free Food for Millionaires
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life
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Featured Titles
  • Titanium Noir: A Novel
  • Rogue Justice: A Thriller
  • Killingly
  • Yellowface: A Novel
  • Good Night, Irene: A Novel
  • A Line in the Sand: A Novel
  • Between Two Moons
  • Tomás Nevinson: A Novel
  • Atalanta: A Novel
  • Dom Casmurro: A Novel
  • Kairos
  • The House on Via Gemito: A Novel
  • The Postcard: A Novel
  • Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
  • Everything’s Fine
  • Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
  • Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, America’s Black Wall Street
  • Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan
  • Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
  • The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
  • How to Write About Africa
  • Defiant Dreams
  • Spies
  • Why Fathers Cry at Night: A Memoir in Love Poems, Recipes, Letters, and Remembrances
  • Small Fires
  • Building: A Carpenter’s Notes on Life & the Art of Good Work
  • Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity
  • Size: How It Explains the World
  • Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
  • Fire Weather
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Black Lives Matter
  • When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting
  • My Seven Black Fathers: A Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Me Whole
  • Chasing the Black Eagle: A Novel
  • In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays
  • Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
  • Afrofuturism
  • In Our Shoes
  • Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle
  • White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
  • Ordinary Notes
  • Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
  • Homebodies: A Novel
  • Maame: A Novel
  • The Last Gift of the Master Artists: A Novel
  • New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
  • Above Ground: Poems
  • Spoken Word: A Cultural History
  • Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
  • King: A Life
  • Sink: A Memoir
  • Minor Notes, Volume 1
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  • When I Sing, Mountains Dance: A Novel
  • The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag
  • The Fly Trap
  • We Set the Dark on Fire
  • Ever-Green Vietnamese
  • What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
  • Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations
  • The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
  • Sharks in the Time of Saviors: A Novel
  • First Love, Take Two
  • The Silence That Binds Us
  • Under the Blanket Sky
  • The Search for the Giant Arctic Jellyfish
  • The Beautiful Something Else
  • Transmogrify!: 14 Fantastical Tales of Trans Magic
  • Saint Juniper’s Folly
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