Best Bestsellers Books

Kaz Brekker and the Dregs execute an increasingly complex series of heists and cons across Ketterdam to reclaim what was stolen from them and destroy those who betrayed them.

Oscar winner Viola Davis recounts her extraordinary journey from crushing poverty in rural Rhode Island to EGOT status, with unflinching honesty about trauma, shame, and self-worth.

Two half-sisters in eighteenth-century Ghana begin lineages that diverge across two continents and three hundred years, one through slavery in America, one through colonial and postcolonial Ghana.

A physician examines the scientific evidence for which foods can prevent and reverse the fifteen leading causes of premature death in America.

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate tells the story of growing up in Pakistan's Swat Valley, her father's school, the Taliban occupation, and surviving a targeted assassination attempt at fifteen.

Maya Angelou's first autobiographical volume, covering her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, her rape at eight years old, her years of traumatized silence, and her eventual recovery through literature and language.

David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of John Adams, the principled, irascible, and frequently underestimated second president of the United States.

Therapist Lori Gottlieb writes about going to therapy herself after a painful breakup, interweaving her own journey as a patient with the stories of four clients she is treating simultaneously.

Following four generations of a Korean family from Japanese-occupied Korea to Osaka's Korean minority community, Pachinko is an epic about survival, identity, and the persistence of discrimination.

The follow-up to Ottolenghi's game-changing Plenty, featuring more vegetable-focused recipes that combine Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, and Asian influences with his signature bold flavours.

From the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa to the 21st century, Harari traces the full sweep of human history, asking why our species conquered Earth while others failed.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman's collection of outrageous, funny, and illuminating adventures — from cracking safes at Los Alamos to learning to draw, playing bongo drums, and embarrassing the censors of the Brazilian physics curriculum.

Set in Nazi Germany, a young girl's love of words and storytelling sustains her through air raids, poverty, and death — narrated by Death itself.

A multigenerational saga spanning seventy years of a South Indian Christian family whose members drown in every generation, told against the backdrop of colonial and postcolonial India.

In a world where ash falls from the sky and the Dark Lord won a thousand years ago, a young thief with extraordinary magical ability joins a crew planning the most audacious heist in history.

A death row corrections officer in 1930s Louisiana encounters a gentle giant with miraculous healing powers awaiting execution for a crime he may not have committed.

A narrative history of the first month of World War I — August 1914 — tracing how Europe's powers stumbled into catastrophe through a combination of rigid military planning, diplomatic failure, and the momentum of mobilization.

The story of Henrietta Lacks, the Black woman whose cancer cells were taken without her consent in 1951 and became the most important biological materials in modern medical history — all while her family lived in poverty and ignorance of what had been done.

Gregor Samsa wakes one morning to find he has been transformed into a giant insect — and the story focuses less on the transformation than on his family's response to it.

Michelle Alexander's landmark argument that mass incarceration is the newest system of racial caste control in America — the functional successor to Jim Crow laws and before them, slavery.

Two French sisters take radically different paths through the Nazi occupation of France, one hiding Jews in her home, one becoming a resistance fighter guiding Allied pilots to safety.

Beautiful Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain — his portrait ages and corrupts in his place — while Lord Henry Wotton's philosophy of pleasure guides him toward increasingly dark excesses.

A plague descends on the Algerian city of Oran, and Dr. Bernard Rieux leads the medical response — in a novel that is simultaneously a chronicle of epidemic and an allegory for Nazi occupation.

In postwar Barcelona, a young boy discovers a mysterious novel by a nearly forgotten author, and his obsession with the book's creator leads him deep into a dark labyrinth of secrets, loves, and betrayals.