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OUR TOP 100 BOOKS

Even with over 30,000 titles on our shelves, some books rise to the top.
Explore this year’s top 100 Brookline Booksmith bestsellers, and read our
community’s current favorites in good company.
A Court of Thorns The sexy, action-packed first book in the #1
and Roses bestselling Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas series from global phenomenon Sarah J.
Maas.
$19.00
When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre
kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying
creature arrives to demand retribution.
Dragged to a treacherous magical land
she knows about...

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Everything I Know New York Times Bestseller

About Love: A
Like Bridget Jones’ Diary but all true— a
Memoir
wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking
Dolly Alderton memoir from the funny, sharp British
journalist and podcast host, who Elizabeth
$18.99 Gilbert calls “a sparkling Roman candle of
talent.”

“The older you get, the more baggage you

carry. When you...

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Funny Story #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ A

Emily Henry shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of
opposites with the wrong thing in common,
$29.00 from #1 New York Times bestselling author
Emily Henry.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF

2024

Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by TIME

∙ NPR ∙ ELLE ∙ Parade ∙ Woman’s World and
more!

Daphne...

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The Heaven & THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES

Earth Grocery BESTSELLER
Store: A Novel
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • A
James McBride
NEW YORK TIMES READERS PICK: 100 BEST
$28.00 BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

WINNER OF THE 2024 LIBRARY OF

CONGRESS PRIZE FOR AMERICAN FICTION

FROM ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100

MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2024

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY

NPR...

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Crying in H Mart: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From
A Memoir the indie rock sensation known as Japanese
Michelle Zauner Breakfast, an unforgettable memoir about
family, food, grief, love, and growing up
$17.00 Korean American—“in losing her mother
and cooking to bring her back to life,
Zauner became herself” (NPR). •
CELEBRATING OVER ONE YEAR ON...

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James (Pulitzer PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • #1 NEW YORK
Prize Winner): A TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK
Novel AWARD WINNER • A brilliant, action-
packed reimagining of Adventures of
Percival Everett
Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and
$28.00 darkly humorous, told from the enslaved
Jim's point of view

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

FINALIST • ONE OF THE NEW...

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The Midnight The #1 New York Times bestselling

Library: A GMA WORLDWIDE phenomenon
Book Club Pick: A
Novel Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for
Fiction | A Good Morning America Book
Matt Haig Club Pick | Independent (London) Ten Best
Books of the Year
$18.00
"A feel-good book guaranteed to lift your
spirits."—The Washington Post

The dazzling reader-favorite...

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Dog Man: The Our canine superhero returns in DOG

Scarlet Shedder: A MAN: THE SCARLET SHEDDER, the
Graphic Novel suspenseful and hilarious twelfth graphic
(Dog Man #12): novel in the #1 worldwide bestselling series
by award-winning author and illustrator
From the Creator Dav Pilkey!
of Captain
P.U.! Dog Man got sprayed by a skunk!
Underpants
After being dunked in tomato juice, the
Dav Pilkey stink is gone...

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The Hundred A landmark history of one hundred years of
Years' War on war waged against the Palestinians from
Palestine: A the foremost US historian of the Middle
History of Settler East, told through pivotal events and family
history
Colonialism and
Resistance, 1917– In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of
2017 Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to
create a Jewish national home in
Rashid Khalidi
Palestine...
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North Woods: A NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK

Novel TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF
Daniel Mason THE YEAR

$18.00 A WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF

THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL
BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE
MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN
LITERATURE AWARD

A sweeping novel about a single house in

the woods of New England, told...
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A Little Life NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning

Hanya Yanagihara “portrait of the enduring grace of
friendship” (NPR) about the families we are
$18.00 born into, and those that we make for
ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in
the twenty-first century.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN

BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF
THE...

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The Seven NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Husbands of
Evelyn Hugo: A “If you’re looking for a book to take on
Novel holiday this summer, The Seven Husbands
of Evelyn Hugo has got all the glitz and
Taylor Jenkins Reid glamour to make it a perfect beach read.”
—Bustle
$17.00
From the New York Times bestselling author
of Daisy Jones & the Six—an entrancing and
“wildly...

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A Court of Mist The seductive and stunning #1 bestselling

and Fury (A Court sequel to Sarah J. Maas's spellbinding A
of Thorns and Court of Thorns and Roses.
Roses #2)
Feyre has undergone more trials than one
Sarah J. Maas human woman can carry in her heart.
Though she's now been granted the
$19.00
powers and lifespan of the High Fae, she is
haunted by her time Under the...

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This Is How You * HUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA *

Lose the Time War NEBULA AND LOCUS AWARDS WINNER:
Amal El-Mohtar, Max BEST NOVELLA *
Gladstone
“[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part
$17.99 epistolary romance, part mind-blowing
science fiction adventure, this dazzling
story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of
meaning as it plays with cause and effect,
wildly...

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Happy Place #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ A
Emily Henry couple who broke up months ago pretend
to still be together for their annual
$19.00 weeklong vacation with their best friends in
this glittering and wise novel from #1 New
York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

“The beach-read master hooks us again."—

People

Harriet and...

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Dune Frank Herbert’s classic masterpiece—a

Frank Herbert triumph of the imagination and one of the
bestselling science fiction novels of all time.
$18.00
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is
the story of Paul Atreides—who would
become known as Muad'Dib—and of a
great family's ambition to bring to fruition
humankind's...

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Make Way for NATIONAL BESTSELLER • CALDECOTT

Ducklings MEDAL WINNER • The timeless and
Robert McCloskey brilliantly illustrated classic that teaches
the importance of kindness, perseverance,
$20.99 and familial love. Let the Mallard family
waddle right off the page and into your
child’s heart!

“One of the merriest picture books ever.”—

The New...

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A Court of Wings The epic third novel in the #1 bestselling
and Ruin (A Court Court of Thorns and Roses series by global
of Thorns and phenomenon Sarah J. Maas.
Roses #3)
Feyre has returned to the Spring Court,
Sarah J. Maas determined to gather information on
Tamlin's actions and learn what she can
$19.00
about the invading king threatening to
bring her land to its knees. But...

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Killers of the #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A

Flower Moon: The twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery
Osage Murders about one of the most monstrous crimes in
and the Birth of American history, from the author of The
Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the
the FBI preeminent adventure and true-crime
David Grann writers working today."—New York
Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK...
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Babel: Or the Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from

Necessity of the author of The Poppy War
Violence: An
“Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most
Arcane History of brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the
the Oxford pleasure of reading that isn't just an
Translators' alternative fantastical history, but an
interrogative one; one that grabs colonial
Revolution
history and the...
R. F. Kuang
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The Lioness of BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER

Boston
Emily Franklin "Brings Isabella Stewart Gardner fully,
$18.95 intimately alive--irrepressible and avid for
life. In this richly compelling novel, Emily
Franklin beautifully conjures this
extraordinary woman and her world."--
Claire Messud, author of The Emperor's
Children

A deeply evocative...

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Trust (Pulitzer WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR
Prize Winner) FICTION
Hernan Diaz
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST
$17.00 BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE
BOOKS OF 2022
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER PRIZE

“Buzzy and enthralling . . . A glorious novel

about empires and erasures, husbands
and...

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The Women: A A #1 bestseller on The New York Times, USA

Novel Today, Washington Post, and Los Angeles
Kristin Hannah Times!

$30.00 From the celebrated author of The

Nightingale and The Four Winds comes
Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an
intimate portrait of coming of age in a
dangerous time and an epic tale of a
 nation divided.

Women can...

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Circe This #1 New York Times bestseller is a "bold

Madeline Miller and subversive retelling of the goddess's
story" that brilliantly reimagines the life of
$19.99 Circe, formidable sorceress of The Odyssey
(Alexandra Alter, TheNew York Times).

In the house of Helios, god of the sun and

mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is...

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Bride #1 Indie Next Pick!
Ali Hazelwood A Hall of Fame LibraryReads pick!
One of People’s Best Books to Read in
$19.00 February

A dangerous alliance between a Vampyre

bride and an Alpha Werewolf becomes a
love deep enough to sink your teeth into in
this new paranormal romance from the #1
New York Times bestselling author of Love...

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The Mountain in *WINNER OF 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR

the Sea: A Novel BEST FIRST NOVEL * FINALIST FOR THE
Ray Nayler NEBULA AWARD, and THE LOS ANGELES
TIMES RAY BRADBURY PRIZE
$19.00
“The Mountain in the Sea is a wildly
original, gorgeously written,
unputdownable gem of a novel. Ray Nayler
is one of the most exciting new voices I’ve
read in years.”
—Bla...

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The Song of A New York Times Bestseller

Achilles: A Novel
“At once a scholar’s homage to The
Madeline Miller Iliad and startlingly original work of art….A
$17.99 book I could not put down.” —Ann Patchett,
author of The Dutch House

A thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly

unique retelling of the legend of Achilles
and the Trojan War from the...

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The Body Keeps #1 New York Times bestseller
the Score: Brain,
Mind, and Body in “Essential reading for anyone interested in
the Healing of understanding and treating traumatic
stress and the scope of its impact on
Trauma society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies

$19.00 A pioneering researcher transforms our

understanding of trauma and...

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Rough Sleepers: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The
Dr. Jim O'Connell's powerful story of an inspiring doctor who
urgent mission to made a difference, by helping to create a
bring healing to program to care for Boston’s homeless
community—by the Pulitzer Prize–winning,
homeless people New York Times bestselling author of
Tracy Kidder Mountains Beyond Mountains

$22.00 “I couldn’t put Rough Sleepers down. I am...

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A Court of Silver Sarah J. Maas's sexy, richly imagined series
Flames (A Court of continues with the journey of Feyre's fiery
Thorns and Roses sister, Nesta.
#5)
Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-
Sarah J. Maas proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive.
And ever since being forced into the
$19.00
Cauldron and becoming High Fae against
her will, she's struggled to find a...

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The Silent Patient **THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES

Alex Michaelides BESTSELLER**

$17.99 "An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound

—new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian
suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and
Greek tragedy."
—Entertainment Weekly

The Silent Patient is a shocking

psychological thriller of a woman’s act of
violence against her husband...

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The Three-Body The inspiration for the Netflix series 3 Body

Problem (The Problem!
Three-Body
Problem Series WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST
NOVEL
#1)
Cixin Liu Over 1 million copies sold in North America

$18.99 “A mind-bending epic.”—The New York

Times • “War of the Worlds for the 21st
century.”—The Wall Street Journal •
“Fascinating.”—TIME • “Extraordinary.”—The
New...

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Bunny: A Novel NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Mona Awad
Soon to be a major motion picture
$18.00
"Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get
In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative
Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no
hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O
Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret
Atwood, via Twitter

"A wild, audacious...

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The Hunter: A “Hailed as the queen of Irish crime fiction,

Novel French spins a taut tale of retribution,
Tana French sacrifice, and family.”—TIME

$19.00 It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive

in a small village in the West of Ireland.
One of them is coming home. Both of them
are coming to get rich. One of them is
coming to die.

Cal...
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All About Love: A New York Times bestseller and enduring

New Visions (Love classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first
Song to the Nation volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love
#1) Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love
reveals what causes a polarized society,
bell hooks and how to heal the divisions that cause
suffering. Here is the truth about love...
$16.99
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A Court of Frost A tender addition to the #1 bestselling
and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses series by Sarah
Court of Thorns J. Maas, bridging the events of A Court of
and Roses #4) Wings and Ruin and A Court of Silver
Flames.
Sarah J. Maas
Feyre, Rhysand, and their friends are still
$17.00
busy rebuilding the Night Court and the
vastly altered world beyond, recovering
from...

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The Little Frog's Globally loved, the little frog is the creation
Guide to Self- of Maybell Eequay and appears in this
Care: charming book of uplifting affirmations
Affirmations, Self- and empowering life lessons

Love and Life Hop into this uplifting little book, filled with
Lessons According positive affirmations on self-love and
empowerment, as told by the internet’s
to the Internet's
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The Employees: A Shortlisted for the International Booker

workplace novel Prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, The
of the 22nd Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a
century riotously original existential nightmare

Olga Ravn Now in paperback, The Employees

chronicles the fate of the interstellar Six-
$14.95 Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid
crew members...

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Unwinding New York Times and Wall Street Journal

Anxiety: New bestseller
Science Shows
How to Break the A step-by-step plan clinically proven to
break the cycle of worry and fear that
Cycles of Worry drives anxiety and addictive habits
and Fear to Heal
Your Mind We are living through one of the most
anxious periods any of us can remember.
Judson Brewer, MD, PhD
Whether facing issues as public as a
$20.00 pandemic or as...

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Small Things Like **OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2024**
These (Oprah's
**NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB PICK
Book Club)
2024**
Claire Keegan
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
$20.00 STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY

A New York Times Bestseller - Shortlisted

for the 2022 Booker Prize - Winner of the
Orwell Prize for Political Fiction

One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books

of the 21st...

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Big Swiss: A Novel NATIONAL BESTSELLER AND CULT

Jen Beagin FAVORITE

$17.00 Named a Best Book of the Year by the New

Yorker, Time, NPR, Vogue, Elle,
Cosmopolitan, Huffington Post, NBC News,
Lit Hub, theSkimm, Condé Nast Traveler,
Town & Country, and more!
 “One of the funniest books of the last few
years” (Los Angeles Times) about a sex...

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ADHD 2.0: New A revolutionary new approach to

Science and ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge
Essential research and strategies to help readers
Strategies for thrive, by the bestselling authors of the
seminal books Driven to
Thriving with Distraction and Delivered from Distraction
Distraction--from
Childhood “An inspired road map for living with a
through distractible brain . . . If you or your child...

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Iron Flame Discover the instant #1 New York Times
(Standard Edition) bestseller! TV series now in development at
(The Empyrean MGM Amazon Studios with Michael B.
#2) Jordan’s Outlier Society.

Rebecca Yarros Accolades for Fourth Wing

Amazon Best Books of the Year, #4 • Apple
$29.99
Best Books of the Year 2023 • Barnes &
Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023 (Fourth
Wing and Ir...

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The Way Forward A NEW YORK TIMES, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY,

(The Inward USA TODAY, SUNDAY TIMES, AND INDIE
Trilogy) BESTSELLER
yung pueblo
Recognized by Time Magazine as one of
$16.99 the TIME100 Creators: Most Influential
Digital Voices

The #1 New York Times bestselling poet

returns with his most inspiring collection
yet. In this third and final installment of...

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The Secret History ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST

(Vintage MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL
Contemporaries) TIME • INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A
contemporary literary classic and "an
Donna Tartt
accomplished psychological thriller ...
$18.00 absolutely chilling" (Village Voice), from the
Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The
Goldfinch.

One of The Atlantic’s...

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Remarkably Bright AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Creatures: A Novel
Soon to be a Netflix Film
Shelby Van Pelt
A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club
$29.99 Pick!

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER by:

Chicago Tribune * The View * Southern
Living * USA Today

“Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an

ultimately feel-good but deceptively
sensitive debut. . . ...

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The Wager: A Tale #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From

of Shipwreck, the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a
Mutiny and page-turning story of shipwreck, survival,
Murder and savagery, culminating in a court
martial that reveals a shocking truth. The
David Grann powerful narrative reveals the deeper
meaning of the events on The Wager,
$30.00
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Severance: A Maybe it’s the end of the world, but not for
Novel Candace Chen, a millennial, first-
Ling Ma generation American and office drone
meandering her way into adulthood in Ling
$19.00 Ma’s offbeat, wryly funny, apocalyptic
satire, Severance.

"A stunning, audacious book with a fresh

take on both office politics and what the...

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Demon WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER
Copperhead: A OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
Novel
New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100
Barbara Kingsolver Books of the 21st Century • An Oprah’s
Book Club Selection • An Instant New York
$21.99 Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street
Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington
Post Bestseller • A New York...

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Fourth Wing (The A #1 New York Times bestseller • TV series in

Empyrean #1) development at MGM Amazon Studios
Rebecca Yarros with Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society •
Amazon Best Books of the Year, #4 • Apple
$20.99 Best Books of the Year 2023 • Barnes &
Noble Best Fantasy Book of 2023 • NPR
“Books We Love” 2023 • Audible Best Books
of 2023 • Hudson...

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The Tatami *SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN

Galaxy: A Novel TRANSLATION PRIZE*
Tomihiko Morimi An unfulfilled college student hurtles
$18.99 through four parallel realities to explore
the what-might've-been and the what-
should-never-be in this Groundhog Day
meets The Midnight Library–esque novel
from one of Japan’s most popular authors.

Our protagonist, an...

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The Cat Who AN INDIE NEXT PICK!
Saved Books: A
From the #1 bestselling author in Japan
Novel
comes a celebration of books, cats, and the
Sosuke Natsukawa people who love them, infused with the
heartwarming spirit of The Guest Cat and
$18.99 The Travelling Cat Chronicles.

Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki

is about to close the secondhand...

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One Dark Window A gothic fantasy with enchanting

(The Shepherd characters and an engaging plot, One
King #1) Dark Window is a captivating journey that
does not disappoint, nor does it's incredible
Rachel Gillig
sequel, Two Twisted Crowns.
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Normal People: A NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU

Novel ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES
Sally Rooney BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE
BOOKER PRIZE • “A stunning novel about
$17.00 the transformative power of relationships”
(People) from the author of Conversations
with Friends, “a master of the literary
page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan).

“[A]...

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Just for the Instant #1 New York Times bestseller and

Summer a Good Morning America Book Club Pick!
Abby Jimenez This witty, slow-burn rom-com is the "ideal
beach read." --Elle
$17.99
Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit
thread, it's now all over the internet. Every
 woman he dates goes on to find their soul
mate the second they...

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The Demon of #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The

Unrest: A Saga of author of The Splendid and the Vile brings
Hubris, to life the pivotal five months between the
Heartbreak, and election of Abraham Lincoln and the start
of the Civil War in this “riveting
Heroism at the reexamination of a nation in tumult” (Los
Dawn of the Civil Angeles Times).
War
“A feast of historical insight and...
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Master Slave Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in
Husband Wife: An Biography
Epic Journey from
Slavery to “A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved
couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848,
Freedom with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a
Ilyon Woo disabled white gentleman and William as
her manservant, exploiting assumptions
$19.99 about race, class, and disability to hide in...

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