Best Bestsellers Books

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Dead Wake

by Erik Larson

4.5

The story of the final voyage of the Lusitania in May 1915, the German U-boat that sank her, and the nearly 1,200 people who died in eighteen minutes.

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Bestseller

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

4.5

In a future where firemen burn books rather than extinguish fires, Guy Montag begins to question the society he enforces — and the books he has been trained to destroy.

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Bestseller

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

4.5

Victor Frankenstein's obsessive creation of life — and his abandonment of the creature he brings into being — with consequences that pursue them both to the ends of the earth.

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Bestseller

Grant

by Ron Chernow

4.5

Ron Chernow's monumental biography of Ulysses S. Grant reclaims one of American history's most misunderstood figures — the general who won the Civil War and the president who fought to protect Black Americans during Reconstruction.

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Bestseller

Hamnet

by Maggie O'Farrell

4.5

A reimagining of the death of Shakespeare's son Hamnet and its impact on the women of his household, told through Agnes (Anne Hathaway) and the loss that may have inspired Hamlet.

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Bestseller
4.5

Harry Potter's second year at Hogwarts is shadowed by a mysterious voice in the walls and a series of petrifications tied to the legend of a Chamber of Secrets. When the Heir of Slytherin opens the Chamber again, Harry must confront a darkness rooted in the wizarding world's oldest prejudices.

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Heir of Fire

by Sarah J. Maas

4.5

Celaena travels to the fae kingdom of Wendlyn to master her powers, while a new threat — the Valg, demonic beings from another world — descends on Adarlan with the King's devastating backing.

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Bestseller

Hidden Figures

by Margot Lee Shetterly

4.5

The true story of the Black female mathematicians who served as 'human computers' at NASA during the Space Race — women whose calculations helped launch America into space while they navigated the segregated South.

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Bestseller

I'll Be Gone in the Dark

by Michelle McNamara

4.5

The late Michelle McNamara chronicles her obsessive investigation into the East Area Rapist, later called the Golden State Killer — a serial criminal who terrorized California in the 1970s and 80s.

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Bestseller

James

by Percival Everett

4.5

A retelling of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Jim, the enslaved man, revealing what Twain's classic looks like when its silent center finally speaks.

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Bestseller

Just Kids

by Patti Smith

4.5

Patti Smith's memoir of her friendship and love with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in New York City from 1967 to his death from AIDS in 1989, written as a promise to a dying friend.

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Bestseller

Kindred

by Octavia Butler

4.5

A Black woman in 1970s California is repeatedly pulled back in time to antebellum Maryland, where she must keep a white slaveholder alive to ensure her own existence.

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Bestseller

Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus

4.5

A brilliant chemist in 1960s California is sidelined by sexism and single motherhood until she accidentally becomes the host of a cooking show — and treats it as applied chemistry and women's liberation.

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Bestseller

Letting Go

by David R. Hawkins

4.5

Dr. David Hawkins presents a method for releasing the suppressed emotions and negative energies that underlie illness, distress, and limitation — enabling progressive liberation from internal suffering.

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Bestseller

Moneyball

by Michael Lewis

4.5

The story of how Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane used statistical analysis to build a competitive baseball team on a fraction of the payroll of richer clubs.

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Bestseller

Never Finished

by David Goggins

4.5

David Goggins continues his life story beyond Can't Hurt Me, exploring how he pushed further into the darkest corners of his mind to unlock the next level of human potential.

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