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Afterlives: A Novel

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Avalon: A Novel

Nell Zink

Bliss Montage: Stories

Ling Ma

The Candy House: A Novel

Jennifer Egan

Checkout 19: A Novel

Claire-Louise Bennett

Companion Piece: A Novel

Ali Smith

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

Silva Moreno-Garcia

Calling for a Blanket Dance

Oscar Hokeah

Dead-End Memoires: Stories

Banana Yoshimoto

Demon Copperhead: A Novel

Barbara Kingsolver

Dr. No: A Novel

Percival Everett

Either / Or

Elif Batuman

 

Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith

Grace Ellis & Hannah Templer

Four Treasures of the Sky: A Novel

Jenny Tinghui Zhang

The Furrows: A Novel

Namwali Serpell

Gods of Want: Stories

K-Ming Chang

Hokuloa Road: A Novel

Elizabeth Hand

How Not To Drown In a Glass of Water

Angie Cruz

If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery

The Immortal King Rao: A Novel 

Vauhini Vara

Joan Is Okay: A Novel

Weike Wang

The Latecomer: A Novel

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Lessons In Chemistry: A Novel

Bonnie Garmus

Liberation Day: Stories

George Saunders

Lucy By the Sea: A Novel

Elizabeth Strout

Motherthing

Ainslie Hogarth

My Government Means To Kill Me: A Novel

Rasheed Newson

The Old Woman With the Knife: A Novel

Gu Byeong-Mo

Olga Dies Dreaming: A Novel

Zochitl Gonzalez

Our Missing Hearts: A Novel

Celeste Ng

The Passenger

Cormac McCarthy

The Return of Faraz Ali: A Novel

Aamina Ahmad

The School For Good Mothers

Jessamine Chan

Sea of Tranquility: A Novel

Emily St. John Mandel

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Shehan Karunatilaka

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A Novel

Gabrielle Zevin

Trust

Hernan Diaz

The Whalebone Theatre: A Novel

Joanna Quinn

Yonder: A Novel

Jabari Asim

Bitter Orange Tree: A Novel

Jokha Alharthi

All the Lovers In the Night: A Novel

Meiko Kawakami

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

R.F. Kuang

Carrie Soto Is Back

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Chef's Kiss: A Novel

T.J. Alexander

Cover Story: A Novel

Susan Rigetti

Dinosaurs: A Novel

Lydia Millet

Fellowship Point: A Novel

Alice Elliott Dark

Fiona and Jane

Jean Chen Ho

Glory: A Novel

NoViolent Bulawayo

Marigold and Rose: A Fiction

Louise Gluck

The Hero of This Book: A Novel

Elizabeth McCracken

Honey and Spice: A Novel

Bolu Babalola

Learning To Talk: Stories

Hilary Mantel

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Kim Fu

The Marriage Portrait: A Novel

Maggie O'Farrell

The Pages

Hugo Hamilton

Night of the Living Rez

Morgan Talty

Chilean Poet: A Novel

Alejandro Zambra

The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

Jamil Jan Kochai

The Last White Man: A Novel

Mohsin Hamid

Portrait of an Unknown Lady: A Novel

Maria Gainza

The Magic Kingdom: A Novel

Russell Banks

Properties of Thirst

Marianne Wiggins

I Walk Between the Raindrops: Stories

T.C. Boyle

Two Nurses, Smoking: Stories

David Means

Less Is Lost

Andrew Sean Greer

An Honest Living: A Novel

Dwyer Murphy

A Trail of Crab Tracks: A Novel

Patrice Nganang

New and Selected Stories

Cristina Rivera Garza

Horse: A Novel

Geraldine Brooks

One's Company: A Novel

Ashley Hutson

Nights of Plague: A Novel

Orhan Pamuk

The Twilight World: A Novel

Werner Herzog

Tracy Flick Can't Win: A Novel

Tom Perrotta

Love Marriage: A Novel

Monica Ali

Rouge Street: Three Novellas

Shuang Xuetao

Haven

Emma Donoghue

Mercy Street: A Novel

Jennifer Haigh

How Strange a Season: Fiction

Megan Mayhew Bergman

Activities of Daily Living: A Novel

Lisa Hsiao Chen

Paradais

Fernanda Melchor

The Birdcatcher

Gayl Jones

The Torqued Man: A Novel

Peter Mann

The Hummingbird: A Novel

Sandro Veronesi

Free Love: A Novel

Tessa Hadley

Scattered All Over the Earth

Yoko Tawada

Black Cloud Rising

David Wright Falade

The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel

Barbara Chase-Riboud

Last Resort: A Novel

Andrew Lipstein

Bibliolepsy

Gina Apostol

Thank You, Mr. Nixon: Stories

Gish Jen

The Fortune Men: A Novel

Nadifa Mohamed

The Stars Are Not yet Bells: A Novel

Hannah Lillith Assadi

The Wedding Party

Liu Xinwu

The Trayvon Generation

Elizabeth Alexander

Also a Poet: A Memoir

Ada Calhoun

Bless the Daughter Raised By a Voice In Her Head: Poems

Warsan Shire

Best Barbarian: Poems

Roger Reeves

Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan

Randall Kenan

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Margo Jefferson

Easy Beauty: A Memoir

Chloe Copper Jones

Everything I Need I Get From You

Kaitlyn Tiffany

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Beverly Gage

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

Amy Bloom

Index, a History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age

Dennis Duncan

Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America

Pekka Hamalainen

Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in the 1920s Paris

Mark Braude

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

Jing Tsu

The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - The Truth and the Turmoil

Tina Brown

Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe

David Maraniss

Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came To America

Hugh Eakin

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Stacy Schiff

Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

James Kirchick

Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy

Amy Gajda

Shy: The Alarming Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers

Mary Rodgers

Solito: A Memoir 

Javier Zamora

Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

Elamin Abdelmahmound

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Stay True: A Memoir

Hua Hsu

Lost & Found: A Memoir

Kathryn Schulz

Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and the Health of Our Nation

Linda Villarosa

Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children Lusaka

Chris Lockhart

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Fintan O'Toole

A Heart That Works

Rob Delaney

Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation

Maud Newton

Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

Matthew F. Delmont

Anna: The Biography

Amy Odell

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

David Quammen

Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

Tomiko Brown-Nagin

The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays

CJ Hauser

Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

Isaac Fitzgerald

Easy Beauty: A Memoir

Chloe Cooper Jones

Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why we Need to Save Them

Can Saladino

The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak In a Chicago ER

Thomas Fisher

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

Jonathan Freedland

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir

Paul Newman

Finding Me: A Memoir

Viola Davis

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Customs: Poems

Solmaz Sharif

Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants

James Vincent

How to Speak Whale: A Voyage Into the Future of Animal Communication

Tom Mustill

Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

The Philosophy of Modern Song

Bob Dylan

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

Adam Hochschild

Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought In the Pacific in World War II

Bruce Henderson

The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World

Max Fisher

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

Margaret A. Burnham

Need to Know: World War II and the Rise of American Intelligence

Nicholas Reynolds

Sacred Nature: Restoring Our Ancient Bond with the Natural World

Karen Armstrong

Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

Dahlia Lithwick

Fen, Bog, and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Annie Proulx

The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017 - 2021

Peter Baker

Giuliani: The Rise and Tragic Fall of America's Mayor

Andrew Kirtzman

The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible

Luke Mogelson

[To] The Last [Be] Human

Jorie Graham & Robert MacFarlane

One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering In America

Nick Seabrook

Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy

Damien Lewis

Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939 - 1945

Halik Kochanski

Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird

Gene Andrew Jarrett

Pig Years

Ellyn Gaydos

Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence

Ken Auletta

The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler

David I. Kertzer

Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: a 10,000 Year History

Ian Morris

The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich

Nancy Dougherty

Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau

Ben Shattuck

The Letters of Thom Gunn

Thom Gunn

Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs

Juli Berwald

Journeys To Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition

Bart D. Ehrman

Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink

Veronique Hyland

The Revenge of Power: How Autocrats are Reinventing Politics for the 21st Century

Moises Naim

Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

Richard White

Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor

Kim Kelly

Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past

Richard Cohen

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965 - 2000

Alice Walker

Didn't We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston

Gerrick Kennedy and Brandy

The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold

Sam Knight

Stepping Back From The Ledge: a Daughter's Search for Truth and Renewal

Laura Trujillo

Riverman: An American Odyssey

Ben McGarth

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

Harry Crews

The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and Our Place In the Middle

Sarah Krasnostein

Winslow Homer: American Passage

William R. Cross

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle

Jody Rosen

Butler to the World: The Book the Oligarchs Don't Want You to Read - How Britain Helps the World's Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything

Oliver Bullough

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons

Jeremy Denk

The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945 - 1953

Jeffrey Frank

Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage

Heather Havrilesky

Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of American West

Anne F. Hyde

What's So Funny?: A Cartoonist's Memoir

David Sipress

White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret

A. J. Baime

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir

Bob Odenkirk

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

Zora Neale Hurston

Putting the Rabbit in the Hat

Brian Cox

All the Flowers Kneeling

Paul Tran

Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life

James Curtis

Worn: A People's History of Clothing

Sofi Thanhauser

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks

Patrick Radden Keefe

Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century

Dana Stevens

Free: A Child and Country at the End of History

Lea Ypi

Aftermath (Undelivered Lectures

Preti Taneja

His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

Meghan O'Rourke

The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times

Michelle Obama

The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir

Ingrid Rojas Contreras

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrijna Imblero

Manifesto: On Never Giving Up

Bernardine Evaristo

The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees

Matthieu Aikins

Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free

Sarah Weinman

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry

I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

Jami Attenberg

Time Is A Mother

Ocean Vuong

Woman Without Shame: Poems

Sandra Cisneros

The Last White Man: A Novel

Mohsin Hamid

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adam

Stacy Schiff

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Lucy by the Sea: A Novel

Elizabeth Strout

Nightcrawling: A Novel

Leila Mottley

Horse: A Novel

Geraldine Brooks

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks

Patrick Radden Keefe

Tracy Flick Can't Win: A Novel

Tom Perrotta

The Candy House: A Novel

Jennifer Egan

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Demon Copperhead: A Novel

Barbara Kingsolver

The Latecomer: A Novel

Jean Hanff Korelitz

Lessons In Chemistry: A Novel

Bonnie Garmus

Our Missing Hearts: A Novel

Celeste Ng

The Passenger

Cormac McCarthy

Sea of Tranquility: A Novel

Emily St. John Mandel

Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow: A Novel

Gabrielle Zevin

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

R.F. Kuang

Carrie Soto Is Back: A Novel

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fellowship Point: A Novel

Alice Elliott Dark

Fiona and Jane

Jean Chen Ho

Honey and Spice

Bolu Babalola

The Marriage Portrait: A Novel

Maggie O'Farrell

The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

Tina Brown

Solito: A Memoir

Javier Zamora

Finding Me: A Memoir

Viola Davis

His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times

Michelle Obama

Now is Not the Time to Panic: A Novel

Kevin Wilson

Shrines of Gaiety: A Novel

Kate Atkinson

This Time Tomorrow: A Novel

Emma Straub

Upgrade: A Novel

Blake Crouch

City on Fire: A Novel

Don Winslow