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Popular Fiction

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The song of Achilles
Where the crawdads sing
The seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo : a novel
People we meet on vacation
Ugly love : a novel
Cloud cuckoo land : a novel
THE LOVE HYPOTHESIS
The Lincoln highway
The midnight library
The Judge's list
The stranger in the lifeboat : a novel
Verity
Circe : a novel
Wish you were here : a novel
Call us what we carry : poems
The last thing he told me : a novel
The silent patient
November 9
Beach read
Invisible : a novel
The maid : a novel
It ends with us
Something to hide : a Lynley novel
The horsewoman : a novel
To paradise
End of days : a Pike Logan novel
A flicker in the dark
Olga dies dreaming
Station eleven
Normal-People
Normal People
All the light we cannot see : a novel

Popular Nonfiction

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The body keeps the score : brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma
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Atomic habits : tiny changes, remarkable results : an easy & proven way to build good habits & break bad ones
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Dare to lead : brave work, tough conversations, whole hearts
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BRAIDING SWEETGRASS : INDIGENOUS WISDOM, SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE, AND THE TEACHINGS OF PLANTS
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Sapiens : a brief history of humankind
Thinking, fast and slow
Extreme ownership : how U.S. Navy SEALs lead and win
Vanderbilt : the rise and fall of an American dynasty
Talking to strangers : what we should know about the people we don't know
The storyteller : tales of life and music
Taste : my life through food
THE HOUSE OF GUCCI : A TRUE STORY OF MURDER, MADNESS, GLAMOUR, AND GREED
The 1619 Project : a new origin story
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THE REAL ANTHONY FAUCI : BILL GATES, BIG PHARMA, AND THE GLOBAL WAR ON DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC HEALTH
Principles for dealing with the changing world order
The subtle art of not giving a fuck : a counterintuitive approach to living a good life
Empire of pain : the secret history of the Sackler dynasty
The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse
Atlas of the heart : mapping meaningful connection and the language of human experience
Greenlights
Crying in H Mart : a memoir
Untamed
You are a badass
The year of magical thinking
The devil in the white city : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America
The comfortable kitchen : 105 laid-back, healthy, and wholesome recipes
Four thousand weeks : time management for mortals
Flying blind : the 737 MAX tragedy and the fall of Boeing
What happened to you? : conversations on trauma, resilience, and healing
American Marxism
Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
Grit : the power of passion and perseverance
Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
Clarity & connection
Keep sharp : build a better brain at any age
How civil wars start : and how to stop them
Chasing history : a kid in the newsroom
A little closer to home : how I found the calm after the storm
The Great Reset : Joe Biden and the rise of 21st century fascism
The tender bar : a memoir
On tyranny : twenty lessons from the twentieth century
Being mortal : medicine and what matters in the end
Vegan, at times : 120+ recipes for every day or every so often
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