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New York Times Best Sellers – Hardcover Fiction

Alchemised by Senlinyu
The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver
The Primal of Blood and Bone by Jennifer L. Armentrout
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
Two Twisted Crowns by Rachel Gillig
This Inevitable Ruin by Matt Dinniman
Circle of Days by Ken Follett
The Academy by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham
Anathema by Keri Lake
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
We Love You, Bunny by Mona Awad

New York Times Best Sellers – Hardcover Fiction

107 Days by Kamala Harris
Poems & Prayers by Matthew McConaughey
Awake by Jen Hatmaker
Confronting Evil by Bill O'Reilly and Josh Hammer
Softly, As I Leave You by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley With Mary Jane Ross
All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Book of Sheen by Charlie Sheen
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Black Af History by Michael Harriot
History Matters by David McCullough
Against the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . by Steven Pinker
Successful Failure by Kevin Fredericks
Stories From A Stranger by Hunter Prosper
We the People by Jill Lepore