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  • The Last Gift of the Master Artists: A Novel
  • Tomb of Sand: A Novel
  • The Terraformers
  • Struggle and Mutual Aid: The Age of Worker Solidarity
  • Reckoning
  • Maame: A Novel
  • The Snow Hare
  • River Sing Me Home: A Novel
  • My Father’s House: A Novel
  • Collected Works: A Novel
  • Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It
  • 8 Rules of Love: How to Find It, Keep It, and Let It Go
  • The Love You Save: A Memoir
  • When Affirmative Action Was White
  • Driving the Green Book: A Road Trip Through the Living History of Black Resistance
  • Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
  • Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora
  • When Innocence Is Not Enough: Hidden Evidence and the Failed Promise of the Brady Rule
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Hardcover Best Sellers
  • Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
  • Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel
  • Blunt Instruments
  • Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
  • Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel
  • This Other Eden: A Novel
  • Spare
  • The Deluge: A Novel
  • Three Roads Back
  • Small Things Like These
  • Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James
  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
  • I’m Glad My Mom Died
  • And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
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Paperback Best Sellers
  • Pachinko
  • All About Love: New Visions
  • Labor Power and Strategy
  • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
  • The Idiot: A Novel
  • The Atlas Six
  • Klara and the Sun: A Novel
  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
  • The Evidence of Things Not Seen
  • The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel
  • The Poppy War: A Novel
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
  • Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization
  • Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World
  • Circe
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  • A Left-Handed Woman: Essays
  • Butts: A Backstory
  • How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight For Our Future
  • The Invention of Marxism: How an Idea Changed Everything
  • Harvard Square: A Love Story
  • To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness
  • Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
  • Wild Maps for Curious Minds: 100 New Ways to See the Natural World
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life
  • The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction
  • The Discovery of Pasta: A History in Ten Dishes
  • Sam: A Novel
  • Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story
  • Blaze Me a Sun: A Novel About a Crime
  • A World of Curiosities: A Novel
  • A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré
  • Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility
  • Scatterlings: A Novel
  • The New Life: A Novel
  • Brotherless Night: A Novel
  • The Steppenwolf
  • Age of Vice: A Novel
  • The Waste Land
  • The Light Pirate: A Novel
  • Lucky Mud & Other Foma: A Field Guide to Kurt Vonnegut’s Environmentalism and Planetary Citizenship
  • The Tatami Galaxy: A Novel
  • Night Wherever We Go: A Novel
  • The Bandit Queens: A Novel
  • A Dangerous Business: A Novel
  • Young Bloomsbury: The Generation That Redefined Love, Freedom, and Self-Expression in 1920s England
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Black Lives Matter
  • Recitatif: A Story
  • You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
  • Don’t Cry for Me: A Novel
  • Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
  • Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
  • Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
  • Fear of Black Consciousness
  • Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness
  • This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
  • None But the Righteous: A Novel
  • 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
  • Black Love Matters: Real Talk on Romance, Being Seen, and Happily Ever Afters
  • What the Fireflies Knew: A Novel
  • Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
  • Ain’t Burned All the Bright
  • How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged
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  • Filipinx
  • Selected Poems (Perennial Classics)
  • The Good Luck Girls
  • You Are the Universe
  • The Roughest Draft
  • Unbridled
  • Socialist Reconstruction
  • Against Heaven
  • Heartbreaker
  • The Philosophy of Modern Song
  • A Dowry of Blood
  • Great Short Books: A Year of Reading—Briefly
  • Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute
  • The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey
  • My Cup of Art
  • Chirri & Chirra, In the Night
  • We Deserve Monuments
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