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Featured Titles

Hansen's Field Guide to the Birds of the Sierra Nevada By Keith Hansen, Edward C. Beedy, Adam Donkin Cover Image

Project Hail Mary: A Novel By Andy Weir Cover Image

The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country By Amanda Gorman, Oprah Winfrey (Foreword by) Cover Image

Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel By Anthony Doerr Cover Image

What Comes After: A Novel By JoAnne Tompkins Cover Image

First Person Singular: Stories By Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Translated by) Cover Image

Sooley: A Novel By John Grisham Cover Image

Sunflower Sisters: A Novel (Woolsey-Ferriday) By Martha Hall Kelly Cover Image

Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel By Sally Rooney Cover Image

The Consequences of Fear: A Maisie Dobbs Novel By Jacqueline Winspear Cover Image

Klara and the Sun: A novel By Kazuo Ishiguro Cover Image

Gold Diggers: A Novel By Sanjena Sathian Cover Image

How Much of These Hills Is Gold: A Novel By C Pam Zhang Cover Image

The Bruce Swap By Ryan Higgins, Ryan Higgins (Illustrator) Cover Image

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

Award Winners

Pulitzer Prize 2020

Staff Pick Badge

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

Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America By W. Caleb McDaniel Cover Image

Sontag: Her Life and Work By Benjamin Moser Cover Image

The Tradition By Jericho Brown Cover Image

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

National Book Award 2020

Interior Chinatown: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) By Charles Yu Cover Image

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X By Les Payne, Tamara Payne Cover Image

DMZ Colony By Don Mee Choi Cover Image

King and the Dragonflies By Kacen Callender Cover Image

Tokyo Ueno Station: A Novel By Yu Miri, Morgan Giles (Translated by) Cover Image

Booker Prize 2020 & Booker International Prize 2020

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

The Discomfort of Evening: A Novel By Marieke Lucas Rijneveld Cover Image

Nebula Award 2019 & Hugo Award 2020

A Song for a New Day By Sarah Pinsker Cover Image

A Memory Called Empire (Teixcalaan #1) By Arkady Martine Cover Image