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  • All Fours
  • This Strange Eventful History: A Novel
  • Second Chances
  • Rebel Girl
  • Challenger
  • American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation
  • The Unexpected Abigail Adams
  • Quanta and Fields
  • The Memory of the World
  • Tales from Cabin 23: The Boo Hag Flex
  • Skies of Thunder
  • Think Twice
  • Amphibious Soul
  • Thirsty: A Novel
  • Finding Things
  • On a Summer Night
  • Fires in the Dark: Healing the Unquiet Mind
  • The Infernal Machine
  • The Language of the Night
  • My First Book
  • Woodworm
  • Oye
  • We Were the Universe
  • Last House
  • Size
  • The Situation Room
  • Tidal Waters
Hardcover Best Sellers
  • Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
  • Jelly Roll Blues: Censored Songs and Hidden Histories
  • The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
  • Table for Two
  • James
  • An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s
  • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
  • Other People’s Words: Friendship, Loss, and the Conversations That Never End
  • The Familiar: A Novel
  • Some Strange Music Draws Me In: A Novel
  • There’s Always This Year
  • The Importance of Being Educable: A New Theory of Human Uniqueness
  • Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
  • Somehow : Thoughts on Love
  • Chip War
Paperback Best Sellers
  • The Backyard Bird Chronicles
  • Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir
  • The Three-Body Problem
  • My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
  • The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
  • The Idiot: A Novel
  • The Lioness of Boston
  • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
  • Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
  • The Bell Jar (P.S.)
  • ADHD 2. 0
  • All About Love: New Visions
  • Big Swiss: A Novel
  • Never Let Me Go
  • Ripe: A Novel
Featured Titles
  • 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers
  • Alien Earths
  • Bite by Bite
  • Close to Death
  • Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit
  • Funny Story
  • The Gravity of Math
  • A House Restored
  • I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays
  • Last Days in Plaka: A Novel
  • The Limits: A Novel
  • A Magical Girl Retires
  • Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science
  • The Paris Novel
  • The Rulebreaker
  • The Secret Life of Data
  • Silk
  • The Sleepwalkers
  • The Swans of Harlem
  • Their Divine Fires: A Novel
  • A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
  • The Way That Leads Among the Lost
Black Lives Matter
  • 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
  • King: A Life
  • New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
  • Ordinary Notes
  • Minor Notes, Volume 1
  • Afrofuturism
  • In Our Shoes
  • Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
  • Homebodies: A Novel
  • Spoken Word: A Cultural History
  • Maame: A Novel