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  • The Translations of Seamus Heaney
  • Biography of X: A Novel
  • Y/N: A Novel
  • Poverty, by America
  • Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America
  • Black and Queer on Campus
  • The White Lady: A Novel
  • Old God’s Time: A Novel
  • Wandering Souls: A Novel
  • American Mermaid: A Novel
  • The Lies of the Ajungo
  • The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life
  • The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
  • Guardians of the Valley: John Muir and the Friendship that Saved Yosemite
  • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
  • Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End
  • Ghosts of the Orphanage
  • Picasso the Foreigner: An Artist in France, 1900-1973
  • Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work
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Hardcover Best Sellers
  • Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time’s Journey Through Rock & Roll History
  • A Vermont Table: Recipes for All (Six) Seasons
  • Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
  • Harvard Square: A Love Story
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel
  • Small Things Like These
  • Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell’s Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People
  • Birnam Wood: A Novel
  • Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel
  • Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
  • A Day of Fallen Night: A Novel
  • The Creative Act
  • The Good Life: Lessons from the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
  • Planta Sapiens: The New Science of Plant Intelligence
  • The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science
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Paperback Best Sellers
  • All About Love: New Visions
  • Circe
  • The Idiot: A Novel
  • Daisy Jones & The Six
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
  • The Candy House: A Novel
  • ADHD 2. 0
  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel
  • The Atlas Six
  • The Flowers of Buffoonery
  • Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel
  • The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel
  • The Wife of Willesden
  • It Ends with Us
  • Normal People: A Novel
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Featured Titles
  • Sink: A Memoir
  • The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market
  • Your Driver Is Waiting: A Novel
  • I Have Some Questions for You: A Novel
  • The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi: A Novel
  • Our Share of Night: A Novel
  • Wilderness Tales: Forty Stories of the North American Wild
  • Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide Vol. One
  • Hungry Ghosts: A Novel
  • The Sun Walks Down: A Novel
  • The Climate Book
  • The Sickness Unto Death: A New Translation
  • The Crane Husband
  • The Incredible Events in Women’s Cell Number 3: A Novel
  • Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories
  • Brutes: A Novel
  • The Shamshine Blind: A Novel
  • Promises of Gold
  • The Curse of the Marquis de Sade
  • The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science
  • My Last Innocent Year: A Novel
  • A Stone Is Most Precious Where it Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Exile, Hope, and Survival
  • Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
  • Parsimony and Other Radical Ideas about Justice
  • The New Guys
  • Madame Restell
  • The Declassification Engine: What History Reveals About America’s Top Secrets
  • The People’s Tongue: Americans and the English Language
  • Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It
  • Culture: The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop
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Black Lives Matter
  • Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness
  • You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
  • Rooted Jazz Dance: Africanist Aesthetics and Equity in the Twenty-First Century
  • Don’t Cry for Me: A Novel
  • Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
  • 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
  • Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
  • Fear of Black Consciousness
  • How We Can Win: Race, History and Changing the Money Game That’s Rigged
  • Ain’t Burned All the Bright
  • Recitatif: A Story
  • What the Fireflies Knew: A Novel
  • Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
  • This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
  • You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
  • None But the Righteous: A Novel
  • Manifesto: On Never Giving Up
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  • How Not to Get Eaten: More than 75 Incredible Animal Defenses
  • A Dowry of Blood
  • The Girls: A Novel
  • Love Everlasting, Volume 1
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  • The Kitchen New Edition
  • Girl, Serpent, Thorn
  • Elektra: A Novel
  • Earthlings: A Novel
  • My Sister, the Serial Killer
  • The Jump
  • The Moth Keeper
  • The Night Frolic
  • The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams
  • She Is a Haunting
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