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New This Week
  • Essays Two: On Proust, Translation, Foreign Languages, and the City of Arles
  • Moonflower Murders: A Novel
  • Magritte: A Life
  • Small Things Like These
  • Wish You Were Here: A Novel
  • The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture
  • Jade Legacy
  • The Sisters Sweet: A Novel
  • Dava Shastri’s Last Day
  • How to Survive a Modern-Day Fairy Tale
  • Byobu
  • Hello, Transcriber: A Novel
  • The Postmistress of Paris: A Novel
  • People from My Neighborhood: Stories
  • North American Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Continent
  • The Big Cheat: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family
  • Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
  • White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland
  • Fear and Trembling: A New Translation
  • Mel D. Cole: American Protest: Photographs 2020–2021
  • All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
  • WBCN and the American Revolution
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Featured Fiction & Poetry
  • The Sentence: A Novel
  • Silverview: A Novel
  • Strange Beasts of China
  • The Sweetness of Water: A Novel
  • Velvet Was the Night: A Novel
  • The Wandering Earth
  • Against Silence
  • Stones: Poems
  • Such Color: New and Selected Poems
  • Who’s on First?: New and Selected Poems
  • Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems
  • The Book of Form and Emptiness: A Novel
  • Afterparties: Stories
  • April in Spain: A Novel
  • Five Tuesdays in Winter: Stories
  • Beautiful World, Where Are You
  • Bewilderment: A Novel
  • Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch: A Novel
  • Fight Night: A Novel
  • Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth: A Novel
  • The Book of Magic: A Novel
  • Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel
  • Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse
  • Hold Me Down
  • Klara and the Sun: A Novel
  • Filthy Animals: Stories
  • The Fugitivities
  • Great Circle: A Novel
  • Harlem Shuffle: A Novel
  • A Passage North: A Novel
  • The Promise: A Novel
  • Matrix: A Novel
  • The Morning Star: A Novel
  • No One Is Talking about This: A Novel
  • Noor
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Featured Biography & Memoir
  • 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
  • Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
  • A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020)
  • Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
  • Oscar Wilde: A Life
  • Poet Warrior: A Memoir
  • Smile: The Story of a Face
  • Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature
  • The Secret to Superhuman Strength
  • Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
  • The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide
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Featured History & Social Issues
  • America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s
  • The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America
  • Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
  • How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
  • Cuba: An American History
  • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
  • The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
  • The Making of the Bible: From the First Fragments to Sacred Scripture
  • Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution
  • Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, and Culture
  • The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
  • The Transcendentalists and Their World
  • Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
  • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
  • The Premonition: A Pandemic Story
  • The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
  • Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
  • The Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
  • Time for Socialism: Dispatches from a World on Fire, 2016-2021
  • Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury
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Featured Science, Math & Technology
  • The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
  • The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
  • Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
  • Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
  • Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
  • Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
  • Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
  • The Brilliant Abyss
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Featured Kids & Young Adult
  • The Girl from the Sea
  • Iron Widow
  • Kaleidoscope
  • The Last Cuentista
  • Ace of Spades
  • Too Bright to See
  • What Will You Be?
  • Dogs at Work: Good Dogs. Real Jobs.
  • Fungarium: Welcome to the Museum
  • Fred Gets Dressed
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  • Ten Masterpieces of Music
  • All In: An Autobiography
  • The Baseball 100
  • King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King
  • A Light in the Dark: A History of Movie Directors
  • A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
  • Renegades: Born in the USA
  • Bird: Exploring the Winged World
  • Bourdichon’s “Boston Hours”
  • Marimekko: The Art of Printmaking
  • The Mirror and the Palette
  • Simply Julia: 110 Easy Recipes for Healthy Comfort Food
  • Baking with Dorie: Sweet, Salty & Simple
  • Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from Across the African Diaspora: A Cookbook
  • Cooking at Home
  • Grains for Every Season: Rethinking Our Way with Grains
  • Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
  • White Magic
  • World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
  • Around the World in 80 Books: A Literary Journey
  • On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
  • Orwell’s Roses
  • Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
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