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  • 2054
  • Mother Doll
  • Headshot
  • Great Expectations
  • Reading Genesis
  • You Get What You Pay For
  • Shakespeare’s Sisters
  • Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
  • AI Needs You
  • Something about the Sky
  • All Our Yesterdays
  • Demand the Impossible
  • Twelve Trees
  • Lessons for Survival
  • Leadership from Bad to Worse
  • Connemara
  • Reminiscences of a Student’s Life
  • Pineapple Street
  • Pathogenesis
  • Ready to Soar
  • Taro Gomi’s Big Book of Words
  • The Book That Can Read Your Mind
Hardcover Best Sellers
  • The Other Significant Others
  • To Be a Jew Today
  • The Hunter
  • Blessed Water
  • Chip War
  • American Mother
  • Solidarity
  • North Woods: A Novel
  • Reading Genesis
  • Essays on Art and Science
  • Great Expectations
  • Yellowface: A Novel
  • The Creative Act
  • Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide Vol. One
  • Prophet Song
Paperback Best Sellers
  • The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
  • Dune
  • Normal People: A Novel
  • The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower—and Inspire You to Live L…
  • The Way Forward
  • The Idiot: A Novel
  • ADHD 2. 0
  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
  • The Midnight Library: A Novel
  • Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir
  • Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
  • A Court of Thrones and Roses
  • Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
  • Pedro Páramo
Featured Titles
  • The Book of Love
  • An Education in Malice
  • Sun of Blood and Ruin
  • American Spirits
  • Anita de Monte Laughs Last: A Novel
  • The Extinction of Irena Rey
  • The Great Divide
  • Mona of the Manor
  • Ours
  • The Painter’s Daughters
  • Parasol Against the Axe
  • Plastic
  • Wandering Stars
  • Hard Girls
  • 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
  • The Great Wave
  • Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him
  • Women Behind the Wheel
  • Attacking the Elites
  • Smoke and Ashes
  • The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer
  • Remembering Peasants
  • Splinters
  • Dead Weight
  • The Heart and the Chip
  • Cocktails with George and Martha
  • Carson McCullers
  • Women Money Power
  • The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays
  • 3 Shades of Blue
Black Lives Matter
  • When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting
  • Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle
  • Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
  • In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays
  • Chasing the Black Eagle: A Novel
  • My Seven Black Fathers: A Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Me Whole
  • The Last Gift of the Master Artists: A Novel
  • Above Ground: Poems
  • Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
  • Sink: A Memoir
  • Ordinary Notes
  • Minor Notes, Volume 1
  • Afrofuturism
  • In Our Shoes
  • King: A Life
  • New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
  • Spoken Word: A Cultural History
  • Maame: A Novel
  • Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
  • Homebodies: A Novel
  • White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation