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New York Times Best Sellers – Hardcover Fiction

Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Phoebe Berman's Gonna Lose It by Brooke Averick
The Final Target by Nora Roberts
The Midnight Train by Matt Haig
The Ballad of Falling Dragons by Sarah A. Parker
The Correspondent by VIrginia Evans
The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett
Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune
The Martian by Andy Weir
A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman
Carl's Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
Ironwood by Michael Connelly
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman
The Brothers McKay by Craig Johnson
The Gate of the Feral Gods by Matt Dinniman

New York Times Best Sellers – Hardcover Nonfiction

Liar's Kingdom by Andrew Weissmann
Strangers by Belle Burden
All American Patriotism by Rachel Campos-Duffy
Suicidal Empathy by Gad Saad
This Is Me by Hayden Panettiere
Famesick by Lena Dunham
How to Rule the World by Theo Baker
Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I'Ve Cried About by Isabel Klee
London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
Take Me to Your Leader by Neil Degrasse Tyson
The Lost Empire of Emanuel Nobel by Douglas Brunt
The Case for America by Bret Baier
The Education of A Senator by Lamar Alexander
An Inconvenient Widow by Lois Romano
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt