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  • Atalanta: A Novel
  • Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Outsiders, and the Spanish Civil War
  • The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece: A Novel
  • Red Memory: The Afterlives of China’s Cultural Revolution
  • Notes on Complexity: A Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
  • The Eyes and the Impossible (Deluxe Wood-Bound Edition)
  • Independence Square: Arkady Renko in Ukraine
  • Like the Appearance of Horses: A Novel
  • Pieces of Blue: A Novel
  • The Collected Regrets of Clover: A Novel
  • Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
  • Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Loving and Living Alone
  • Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures
  • The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy
  • When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach
  • Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
  • The World of Sugar
  • To Shape a Dragon’s Breath: The First Book of Nampeshiweisit
  • There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness
  • The Midnight Library: A Novel
  • Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
  • Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century
  • Jameela Green Ruins Everything
  • Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods
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Hardcover Best Sellers
  • Radical Inclusion
  • Small Mercies: A Novel
  • The Anxious Achiever
  • The Covenant of Water
  • Poverty, by America
  • The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel
  • Harvard Square: A Love Story
  • Enter Ghost: A Novel
  • From the World of Percy Jackson: The Sun and the Star
  • The Creative Act
  • Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
  • In the Lives of Puppets
  • Stay Cool
  • Small Things Like These
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  • Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
  • The Idiot: A Novel
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
  • Circe
  • Normal People: A Novel
  • All About Love: New Visions
  • Pachinko
  • The Love Hypothesis
  • Trust
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War
  • Shrines of Gaiety
  • It Ends with Us
  • The Atlas Six
  • Klara and the Sun: A Novel
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  • The Thick and the Lean: A Novel
  • The Lioness of Boston: A Novel
  • First Comes Summer: A Novel
  • The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts
  • Chain Gang All Stars: A Novel
  • The Double Life of Benson Yu: A Novel
  • The East Indian: A Novel
  • Greek Lessons: A Novel
  • A History of Burning: A Novel
  • Homebodies: A Novel
  • Hula: A Novel
  • Old Flame: A Novel
  • Pomegranate: A Novel
  • To 2040
  • a “Working Life”
  • Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma
  • Reaching Inside: 50 Acclaimed Authors on 100 Unforgettable Short Stories
  • Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in One Hundred Pieces
  • Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust
  • Elixir: A Parisian Perfume House and the Quest for the Secret of Life
  • An Honorable Exit
  • Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues
  • Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
  • Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
  • You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
  • All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World
  • Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything
  • Secret Life of the City: How Nature Thrives in the Urban Wild
  • The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
  • Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World
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Black Lives Matter
  • Chasing the Black Eagle: A Novel
  • New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
  • In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays
  • Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
  • Afrofuturism
  • In Our Shoes
  • My Seven Black Fathers: A Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Me Whole
  • White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
  • Ordinary Notes
  • Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
  • Homebodies: A Novel
  • Maame: A Novel
  • The Last Gift of the Master Artists: A Novel
  • Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle
  • Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
  • King: A Life
  • Sink: A Memoir
  • Minor Notes, Volume 1
  • Above Ground: Poems
  • Spoken Word: A Cultural History
  • When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting
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  • The Story of My Teeth
  • Go as a River: A Novel
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  • Happy Place: A Novel
  • Honey Cake & Latkes: Recipes from the Old World by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Survivors
  • Sharks in the Time of Saviors: A Novel
  • First Love, Take Two
  • The Silence That Binds Us
  • What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
  • Goodbye, Again: Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations
  • The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
  • Weather Together
  • You Need to Chill!
  • Ellie Engle Saves Herself
  • Borderless
  • Warrior Girl Unearthed
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