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  • Our Strangers: Stories
  • Menewood: A Novel
  • The MANIAC
  • A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial
  • Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
  • How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
  • I’ve Been Thinking
  • American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton
  • The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex
  • Alebrijes
  • Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror
  • The Oceans and the Stars: A Sea Story, A War Story, A Love Story
  • Death Valley: A Novel
  • Starling House
  • Brooklyn Crime Novel: A Novel
  • The Night House: A Novel
  • A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
  • In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950
  • The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
  • Chernobyl’s Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future
  • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
  • Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again: The Original Novels
  • Making Americans
  • Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way
  • The Apple in the Dark
  • Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will
  • High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
  • Wings of Fire: A Guide to the Dragon World
  • Splash Goes the Whale
  • There Was a Party for Langston
Hardcover Best Sellers
  • Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods
  • Digging Stars: A Novel
  • The Iliad
  • Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future
  • Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America
  • The Bodies Keep Coming
  • The Fraud: A Novel
  • Elon Musk
  • Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
  • Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point
  • Tom Lake: A Novel
  • Quiet Street: On American Privilege
  • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
  • Rouge: A Novel
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel
Paperback Best Sellers
  • Trust
  • Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  • This Is How You Lose the Time War
  • Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
  • The Midnight Library: A Novel
  • The Idiot: A Novel
  • Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
  • ADHD 2. 0
  • Klara and the Sun: A Novel
  • Pachinko
  • Icebreaker
  • All About Love: New Visions
  • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Featured Titles
  • The Free People’s Village: A Novel
  • The Fragile Threads of Power: A Novel
  • Roaming
  • Normal Rules Don’t Apply: Stories
  • Death Valley: A Novel
  • The Enchanters: A Novel
  • Devil Makes Three: A Novel
  • Fire in the Canyon
  • The Oceans and the Stars: A Sea Story, A War Story, A Love Story
  • Bright Young Women
  • Brooklyn Crime Novel: A Novel
  • America Fantastica
  • Sing a Black Girl’s Song
  • House of Caravans: A Novel
  • Mr. Texas
  • Land of Milk and Honey: A Novel
  • American Classicist: The Life and Loves of Edith Hamilton
  • A Myriad of Tongues
  • Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
  • Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories
  • Collision of Power
  • In the Shadow of Fear: America and the World in 1950
  • Chernobyl’s Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future
  • The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage
  • Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War
  • Making It So
  • Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
  • The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
  • Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
  • Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth’s Past and Will Shape Our Future
Black Lives Matter
  • My Seven Black Fathers: A Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Me Whole
  • Chasing the Black Eagle: A Novel
  • Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
  • Ordinary Notes
  • White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
  • Spoken Word: A Cultural History
  • 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
  • Maame: A Novel
  • New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
  • Above Ground: Poems
  • Africatown: America’s Last Slave Ship and the Community It Created
  • Homebodies: A Novel
  • The Last Gift of the Master Artists: A Novel
  • Minor Notes, Volume 1
  • Afrofuturism
  • In Our Shoes
  • King: A Life
  • Sink: A Memoir