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Featured Titles

Hansen's Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada Cover Image

Project Hail Mary: A Novel Cover Image

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country Cover Image

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Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel Cover Image

What Comes After: A Novel Cover Image

First Person Singular: Stories Cover Image

Sooley Cover Image

Sunflower Sisters: A Novel (Woolsey-Ferriday) Cover Image

Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel Cover Image

The Consequences of Fear: A Maisie Dobbs Novel Cover Image

Klara and the Sun: A novel Cover Image

Gold Diggers: A Novel Cover Image

How Much of These Hills Is Gold: A Novel Cover Image

The Bruce Swap Cover Image

Dog Man: Mothering Heights: A Graphic Novel (Dog Man #10): From the Creator of Captain Underpants Cover Image

Award Winners

Pulitzer Prize 2020

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The Nickel Boys (Winner 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction): A Novel Cover Image

Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America Cover Image

Sontag: Her Life and Work Cover Image

The Tradition Cover Image

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Cover Image

National Book Award 2020

Interior Chinatown: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) Cover Image

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X Cover Image

DMZ Colony Cover Image

King and the Dragonflies Cover Image

Tokyo Ueno Station: A Novel Cover Image

Booker Prize 2020 & Booker International Prize 2020

Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Cover Image

The Discomfort of Evening: A Novel Cover Image

Nebula Award 2019 & Hugo Award 2020

A Song for a New Day Cover Image

A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan #1) Cover Image