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★ 1. Devotions: The Selected Poems of 1. The Truths We Hold Mary Oliver Kamala Harris, Penguin, $18 Mary Oliver, Penguin, $20 2. Braiding Sweetgrass ★ 2. What Kind of Woman: Poems Robin Wall Kimmerer, Milkweed Editions, $18 Kate Baer, Harper Perennial, $17 3. My Own Words 3. The Overstory Ruth Bader Ginsburg, S&S, $18 Richard Powers, Norton, $18.95 4. White Fragility 4. Circe Madeline Miller, Back Bay, $16.99 Robin DiAngelo, Beacon Press, $16 5. Shuggie Bain 5. The Warmth of Other Suns Douglas Stuart, Grove Press, $17 Isabel Wilkerson, Vintage, $17.95 6. Olive, Again 6. The Body Keeps the Score Elizabeth Strout, Random House, $18 Bessel van der Kolk, Penguin, $19 7. The Nickel Boys 7. Born a Crime Colson Whitehead, Anchor, $15.95 Trevor Noah, One World, $18 8. This Tender Land William Kent Krueger, Atria, $17 8. What Unites Us Dan Rather, Elliot Kirschner, Algonquin Books, 9. The Best American Short Stories $16.95 2020 Curtis Sittenfeld, Heidi Pitlor (Eds.), Mariner, 9. The Color of Law $16.99 Richard Rothstein, Liveright, $17.95 10. The Topeka School 10. Burnout Ben Lerner, Picador, $17 Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski, Ballantine, $17 11. A Gentleman in Moscow 11. Conversations with RBG Amor Towles, Penguin, $17 Jeffrey Rosen, Picador, $18 12. The Song of Achilles 12. Sapiens Madeline Miller, Ecco, $16.99 Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $24.99 13. Homegoing Yaa Gyasi, Vintage, $16.95 ★ 13. Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Vol. 1) 14. Normal People Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $25.99 Sally Rooney, Hogarth, $17 15. Girl, Woman, Other 14. The New Jim Crow Bernardine Evaristo, Grove Press/Black Cat, $17 Michelle Alexander, New Press, $18.99 16. Miss Benson’s Beetle 15. Intimations Rachel Joyce, Dial Press, $18 Zadie Smith, Penguin, $10.95 MASS MARKET 1. Dune Frank Herbert, Ace, $10.99 2. 1984 George Orwell, Signet, $9.99 Another Indie Favorite 3. Dune Messiah Frank Herbert, Ace, $9.99 Written in the Stars: A Novel, by Alexandria 4. The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcom X, Ballantine, $7.99 Bellefleur (Avon, $15.99) “This fake-dating, opposites- 5. Lord of the Flies William Golding, Perigee, $11 attract romance is simply perfect. A social media astrologer is set 6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou, up with her new business partner’s actuary sister. While the date Ballantine, $7.99 goes terribly, how helpful it would be for both of them to have a 7. Women Who Run With the Wolves Clarissa Pinkola Estes, date for certain upcoming events. The two leads are wonderful, Ballantine, $8.99 flawed women with their own baggage and hang-ups (hello, 8. Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut, Laurel Leaf, $7.99 family drama!), and it’s a joy to watch them fall in love with each 9. Animal Farm George Orwell, Signet, $9.99 other in spite of everything.” —Lexi Beach, The Astoria 10. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams, Del Bookshop, Astoria, NY Rey, $7.99

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