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New York Times Best Sellers – Hardcover Fiction

Hope Rises by David Baldacci
The Correspondent by VIrginia Evans
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Rites of the Starling by Devney Perry
Starside by Alex Aster
The Auction by Sadie Kincaid
The Faith of Beasts by James S. A. Corey
Judge Stone by VIola Davis and James Patterson
Go Gentle by Maria Semple
The Night We Met by Abby Jimenez
Revenge Prey by John Sandford
Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney
Cherry Baby by Rainbow Rowell

New York Times Best Sellers – Hardcover Nonfiction

London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
Strangers by Belle Burden
Planet Money by Alex Mayyasi and the Hosts of Npr’s “planet Money”
Here Where We Live Is Our Country by Molly Crabapple
Stripped Down by Bunnie Xo
Rory by Alan Shipnuck
Concrete Botany by Joey Santore
A World Appears by Michael Pollan
Homesick Nomad by Brianna Madia
Phases by Brandy With Gerrick Kennedy
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
This Land Is Your Land by Beverly Gage
Apple by David Pogue
Thank You, Teachers by James Patterson and Matt Eversmann With Chris Mooney
1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin