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New York Times Best Sellers – Hardcover Fiction

The Correspondent by VIrginia Evans
Alchemised by Senlinyu
The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
The Widow by John Grisham
Brimstone by Callie Hart
We Who Will Die by Stacia Stark
The Intruder by Freida McFadden
Mona's Eyes by Thomas Schlesser
Quicksilver by Callie Hart
Gone Before Goodbye by Reese Witherspoon and Harlan Coben
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Return of the Spider by James Patterson
Twice by Mitch Albom
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros

New York Times Best Sellers – Hardcover Nonfiction

1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Nobody's Girl by VIrginia Roberts Giuffre
The Look by Michelle Obama With Meredith Koop
How to Test Negative for Stupid by John Kennedy
107 Days by Kamala Harris
To Rescue the American Spirit by Bret Baier With Catherine Whitney
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Poems & Prayers by Matthew McConaughey
Outlive by Peter Attia With Bill Gifford
The Gales of November by John U. Bacon
Everything Is Tuberculosis by John Green
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
The Greatest Sentence Ever Written by Walter Isaacson
100 Rules for Living to 100 by Dick Van Dyke With Tal McThenia
Black Af History by Michael Harriot