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New This Week
  • The West Wing and Beyond: What I Saw Inside the Presidency
  • Shrines of Gaiety: A Novel
  • The Legacy of Slavery at Harvard: Report and Recommendations of the Presidential Committee
  • The Furrows: A Novel
  • Best of Friends: A Novel
  • The English Understand Wool
  • The Golden Enclaves: A Novel
  • Three Streets
  • The Woman Who Killed the Fish
  • Spadework for a Palace
  • The Famous Magician
  • Early Light
  • Illustrated Black History: Honoring the Iconic and the Unseen
  • Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
  • By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
  • Art Of The Chicken: A Master Chef’s Paintings, Stories, and Recipes of the Humble Bird
  • Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity
  • The Book of Phobias and Manias : A History of Obsession
  • Adrift: America in 100 Charts
  • Objects of Love and Regret: A Brooklyn Story
  • Stay True: A Memoir
  • The Writers: Portraits
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Hardcover Best Sellers
  • What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
  • No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay
  • Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
  • Teaching White Supremacy: America’s Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity
  • I’m Glad My Mom Died
  • Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America
  • Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard
  • Lessons: A Novel
  • Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
  • Lucy by the Sea: A Novel
  • The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021
  • Less Is Lost
  • The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery
  • Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
  • The Marriage Portrait: A Novel
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Paperback Best Sellers
  • The Idiot: A Novel
  • The Best Short Stories 2022: The O. Henry Prize Winners
  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
  • The New York Times Cooking: No-Recipe Recipes
  • Death in Her Hands: A Novel
  • Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
  • It Ends with Us
  • Verity
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
  • All About Love: New Visions
  • The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
  • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
  • Klara and the Sun: A Novel
  • Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It
  • The Love Hypothesis
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  • Dead-End Memories: Stories
  • Witches: A Novel
  • Bad Fruit
  • Stories from The Tenants Downstairs
  • If I Survive You
  • How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment
  • Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis
  • Electable : Why America Hasn’t Put a Woman in the White House . . . Yet
  • Democratic Justice
  • Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure
  • Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends
  • California Soul: An American Epic of Cooking and Survival
  • Scenes from My Life: A Memoir
  • The Only Woman
  • Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe
  • The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
  • Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs
  • Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew
  • Haven: A Novel
  • Diary of a Void: A Novel
  • Eliot After “The Waste Land”
  • A Woman’s Battles and Transformations: A Novel
  • Acting Class
  • Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta: A Novel
  • Perish: A Novel
  • My Government Means To Kill Me: A Novel
  • The Hundred Waters: A Novel
  • Afterlives: A Novel
  • Carrie Soto Is Back: A Novel
  • A Map for the Missing: A Novel
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Black Lives Matter
  • Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters
  • Recitatif: A Story
  • You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
  • What the Fireflies Knew: A Novel
  • Don’t Cry for Me: A Novel
  • Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
  • Fear of Black Consciousness
  • Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness
  • 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
  • This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
  • None But the Righteous: A Novel
  • Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
  • You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
  • Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century
  • An Abolitionist’s Handbook: 12 Steps to Changing Yourself and the World
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  • This Is How We Love
  • The Imaginary Museum: A Personal Tour of Contemporary Art featuring ghosts, nudity and disagreement
  • Inkubator Crosswords: 100 Audacious Puzzles by Women and Nonbinary Creators
  • The Orphanage: A Novel
  • Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
  • Say Nothing
  • Super Host
  • 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
  • Patchwork
  • Attack of the Black Rectangles
  • The Sunbearer Trials
  • One Sky
  • The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster!
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