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  • Worry
  • All the World Beside
  • Glorious Exploits
  • Perris, California
  • There’s Always This Year
  • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
  • Reading the Constitution
  • Essays on Art and Science
  • Wonderstruck
  • The Last Cuentista
  • The Emperor and the Endless Palace
  • Like Happiness
  • Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
  • Third Millennium Thinking
  • An Emancipation of the Mind
  • The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic
  • Space Oddities
  • A Paradise of Small Houses
  • The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi
  • Poverty, by America
  • Greatest Hits
  • Prometheus’s Remorse
  • Counterrevolution
  • Life
  • Bubbly Beautiful Kitty-Corn
  • The Last Zookeeper
  • Penelope Rex and the Problem with Pets
Hardcover Best Sellers
  • Metaracism
  • Shakespeare’s Sisters
  • James
  • Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder: A Graphic Novel (Dog Man #12): From the Creator of Captain Underpants
  • The Hunter
  • Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy
  • Chip War
  • Reading Genesis
  • Who’s Afraid of Gender?
  • The Other Significant Others
  • Yellowface: A Novel
  • River East, River West
  • A Year of Last Things
  • To Be a Jew Today
  • Glad to the Brink of Fear
Paperback Best Sellers
  • Dune
  • Normal People: A Novel
  • The Poppy War: A Novel
  • The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
  • Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir
  • The Idiot: A Novel
  • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War
  • A Court of Thrones and Roses
  • Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
  • Inward
  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
  • Trust
  • The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower—and Inspire You to Live L…
  • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Featured Titles
  • 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
  • American Spirits
  • Anita de Monte Laughs Last: A Novel
  • The Extinction of Irena Rey
  • The Book of Love
  • Wandering Stars
  • An Education in Malice
  • Sun of Blood and Ruin
  • Plastic
  • Hard Girls
  • 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem
  • The Great Divide
  • Mona of the Manor
  • Ours
  • The Painter’s Daughters
  • Parasol Against the Axe
Black Lives Matter
  • 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
  • Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
  • In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays
  • When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting
  • Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle
  • Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
  • Sink: A Memoir
  • 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