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New York Times Best Sellers – Hardcover Fiction

Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A Mother's Love by Danielle Steel
Never Flinch by Stephen King
Bury Our Bones In the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
The First Gentleman by Bill Clinton and James Patterson
Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
The Dragon Republic by R. F. Kuang
Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
The River Is Waiting by Wally Lamb
The Wedding People by Alison Espach
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
The Knight and the Moth by Rachel Gillig

New York Times Best Sellers – Hardcover Fiction

Behind the Badge by Johnny Joey Jones
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Mark Twain by Ron Chernow
Not My Type by E. Jean Carroll
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
Outlive by Peter Attia With Bill Gifford
Big Dumb Eyes by Nate Bargatze
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Black Af History by Michael Harriot
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
This Dog Will Change Your Life by Elias Weiss Friedman With Ben Greenman
Patriot by Alexei Navalny
The Fate of the Day by Rick Atkinson