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New York Times Best Sellers – Hardcover Fiction

Funny Story by Emily Henry
The Women by Kristin Hannah
A Calamity of Souls by David Baldacci
The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
Table for Two by Amor Towles
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
Extinction by Douglas Preston
The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
James by Percival Everett
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shel Van Pelt
Toxic Prey by John Sandford
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Lost Birds by Anne Hillerman

New York Times Best Sellers – Hardcover Fiction

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
An Unfinished Love Story by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Knife by Salman Rushdie
The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides
Shakespeare: the Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench With Brendan O'Hea
Love, Mom by Nicole Saphier
The Wager by David Grann
Age of Revolutions by Fareed Zakaria
Somehow by Anne Lamott
Outlive by Peter Attia With Bill Gifford
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen
The Work of Art by Adam Moss
By the Time You Read This by Cheslie Kryst and April Simpkins
Reading the Constitution by Stephen Breyer