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Best Bestsellers Books

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Bestseller

A Little Life

by Hanya Yanagihara

4.4

Four college friends build lives in New York City over decades, but the story centers on Jude St. Francis, whose horrific childhood secrets gradually emerge.

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Bestseller

Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.4

A young Nigerian woman navigates love, identity, and race in America and Britain before returning to Lagos, where she must reconcile who she has become with who she was.

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Bestseller

Birdsong

by Sebastian Faulks

4.4

Stephen Wraysford's doomed love affair in pre-war France is followed by his experiences in the trenches of the Somme — and, decades later, by his granddaughter's attempt to understand what he survived.

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Bestseller

Catching Fire

by Suzanne Collins

4.4

After her defiant act in the Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen finds herself the symbol of a brewing rebellion — and is forced back into the arena for an unprecedented Quarter Quell.

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Bestseller

Coraline

by Neil Gaiman

4.4

A girl discovers a secret door in her new home that leads to an Other world with an Other Mother who seems perfect — but wants to keep Coraline forever.

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Einstein: His Life and Universe book cover
Bestseller
4.4

Walter Isaacson's definitive biography of Albert Einstein traces the physicist's life from his rebellious childhood to the development of the theory of relativity, his Nobel Prize, and his political activism as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

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Bestseller

Four Thousand Weeks

by Oliver Burkeman

4.4

A former self-help enthusiast argues that conventional time management is based on a false premise — and that accepting the radical finitude of our time is the only path to meaningful life.

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Bestseller

Greenlights

by Matthew McConaughey

4.4

Matthew McConaughey's memoir drawn from 35 years of diary entries — a personal philosophy built from the experiences, mistakes, and epiphanies of an unconventional life.

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Bestseller
4.4

Harry's fifth year is defined by institutional persecution, Voldemort's growing power, and the devastating loss of the person who most represented his connection to his parents. The Ministry of Magic has declared war on the truth, and Dolores Umbridge has come to Hogwarts to enforce it.

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Bestseller
4.4

Bryce Quinlan finds herself in an unfamiliar world — the world of the Fae, inhabited by characters from Maas's other series. Meanwhile, Hunt, Ruhn, and their allies fight to survive in Midgard as the Asteri's grip tightens. The conclusion of the Crescent City trilogy draws all threads — and all of Maas's worlds — together.

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Bestseller

Human Acts

by Han Kang

4.4

Based on the 1980 Gwangju Uprising in South Korea, Human Acts traces the aftermath of a massacre through the perspectives of the living, the dead, and those caught between.

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Bestseller
4.4

Louis de Pointe du Lac, transformed into a vampire in 1791 New Orleans, tells his centuries-long story to a young journalist — a meditation on immortality, guilt, grief, and what it means to remain human while feeding on the living.

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Bestseller

It

by Stephen King

4.4

Seven children in a small Maine town band together to fight an ancient evil that preys on their fears — and are called back as adults to finish what they started.

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Bestseller

Liar's Poker

by Michael Lewis

4.4

Michael Lewis's memoir of his years as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in the 1980s, capturing the greed and absurdity of Wall Street's most explosive decade.

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Bestseller
4.4

In the carefully planned suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio, the arrival of an artist and her daughter ignites tensions about motherhood, race, class, and the rules that hold carefully ordered lives together.

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Bestseller

Lord of Chaos

by Robert Jordan

4.4

Rand struggles to unite the world's factions while two rival groups of Aes Sedai compete to control him, culminating in the Battle of Dumai's Wells — one of the most celebrated action sequences in epic fantasy. The series crosses the thousand-page threshold for the first time.

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Bestseller

Mastery

by Robert Greene

4.4

Robert Greene examines the lives of history's greatest masters — Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Darwin, Mozart, Bobby Fischer — to identify the common path toward genuine mastery of any field.

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Bestseller

Me Before You

by Jojo Moyes

4.4

A cheerful working-class woman becomes caregiver to a cynical, recently paralyzed man, and the relationship that develops challenges everything both of them believe about a life worth living.

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Bestseller

Misery

by Stephen King

4.4

A bestselling novelist is nursed back to health by his self-proclaimed number one fan after a car accident, and discovers that his rescue has become his captivity.

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Bestseller

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

4.4

Elena Greco narrates her lifelong friendship with the brilliant, volatile Lila Cerullo, beginning in their postwar Naples neighborhood and following both girls through childhood and into their teenage years.

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Bestseller

Ocean Prey

by John Sandford

4.4

Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers investigate a drug smuggling operation off the Florida coast that is leaving federal agents dead — a crossover entry between Sandford's two major series.

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Bestseller

Outlander

by Diana Gabaldon

4.4

In 1945, a British combat nurse is mysteriously transported to eighteenth-century Scotland, where she becomes entangled with the Jacobite rising and a Highland warrior named Jamie Fraser.

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