Notable Books, Bestsellers, and Award Winners

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family summer vacation full of secrets, lunch, and learning to let go.

Griffin Dunne’s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances

At the age of 16, he escaped persecution and made his way to America as a refugee. At 28, he secured a billion-dollar IPO. Today, he’s redefining what it means to be an entrepreneur by building a new model of capitalism.

A monumental account of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the forging of a leader, The Showman provides an insider’s perspective on the war reshaping our world, based on unprecedented access to Volodymyr Zelensky and the high command in Kyiv.

A powerful novel that's "hilarious, heartbreaking, and ass-kicking" (Jamie Ford) about a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their long-missing sister is potentially alive and cast on a reality TV show, and sets out to bring her home.

Winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction - Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize - March Indie Next Pick - Belletrist, Phenomenal, Page & Pairing, and Readers Digest book club pick

From former editor of New York magazine Adam Moss, a collection of illuminating conversations examining the very personal, rigorous, complex, and elusive work of making art

An Amazon Book of the Month. A riveting look at the tremendous promise and inherent risks of the use of psychedelics in mental health treatment through the lens of a New York Times reporter whose journalistic exploration of this emerging field began with a personal crisis.

From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking investigation into antisemitism that connects the dots between the tropes and hatred of the past to our current complicated moment.

Selected as selected as a Summer/ Fall 2024 ABA Indies Introduce pick. From an award-winning journalist comes a vivid and moving portrait of eight trans and nonbinary teenagers across the country, following their daily triumphs, struggles, and all that encompasses growing up trans in America today

A “fascinating and very moving” (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that explores one of the most interesting countries in the world—Israel.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In Up Home, Simmons takes us back to Grapeland to show how the people who love us when we are young shape who we become. We meet her caring, tireless mother who managed to feed her large family with an often empty pantry; her father, who refused to let racial and economic injustice crush his youngest daughter’s dreams; the doting brothers and sisters; and the attentive teachers who welcomed Ruth into the classroom, guiding her to a future she could hardly imagine as a child.

A New York Times bestseller. In Glossy, journalist and author Marisa Meltzer combines in-depth interviews with former Glossier employees, investors, and Weiss herself to bring you inside the walls of this fascinating and secretive company. From fundraising to product launches and unconventional hiring practices, Meltzer exposes the inner workings of Glossier’s culture, culminating in the story of Weiss herself. The Devil Wears Prada for the Bad Blood generation, Glossy is a gripping portrait of not just one of the most important business leaders of her generation, but also a chronicle of an era.

A New York Times Bestseller. In this honest, layered and unforgettable book that alternates between storytelling and her own poetry, Pamela Anderson breaks the mold of the celebrity memoir while taking back the tale that has been crafted about her.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. When Andrew McCarthy's eldest son began to take his first steps into adulthood, McCarthy found himself wishing time would slow down. Looking to create a more meaningful connection with Sam before he fled the nest, as well as recreate his own life-altering journey decades before, McCarthy decided the two of them should set out on a trek like few others: 500 miles across Spain's Camino de Santiago.

A #1 New York Times Bestseller. For too many people, the simple act of contacting a plumber or repair person can feel like a game of chance. As a transwoman and a professional maintenance technician, Mercury Stardust has discovered (the hard way) that we live in a world with much to fear. If you've ever felt panicked about opening your home to strangers in order to fix a maintenance issue, this book is for you.

A Kirkus Prize in nonfiction finalist. How to Say Babylon is Sinclair’s reckoning with the culture that initially nourished but ultimately sought to silence her; it is her reckoning with patriarchy and tradition, and the legacy of colonialism in Jamaica. Rich in lyricism and language only a poet could evoke, How to Say Babylon is both a universal story of a woman finding her own power and a unique glimpse into a rarefied world we may know how to name, Rastafari, but one we know little about.

#2 Sunday Times bestseller. Gideon the Ninth meets the Game of Thrones White Walkers in this dark young adult fantasy about a disgraced ghost-fighting warrior who must journey into a haunted wasteland to rescue a kidnapped prince.

Named a best book of ’22 by NPR and Publishers Weekly. Called One of the Best Crime Novels of the Yearby New York Times, NPR, New York Post, and Washington Post. Two sisters on the run—one from the law, the other from social shame. What they don’t realize is that there’s a man hot on their trail. This man has his own brand of dark secrets and a disturbing motive for finding the sisters that is unknown to everyone but him.

A Geisel Award winner. A fun comic that kindergarteners and first graders can read on their own, encouraging young people to reach their full potential!

A Belpré Youth Illustration Honor Book. Faced with the prospect of being separated from each other, a young boy and his family make the difficult decision to leave their home and begin a journey filled with uncertainty. Telling this story from a child's perspective, award-winning author Claudia Guadalupe Martínez lyrically recounts this often-overlooked period of United States history—Mexican Repatriation. Emotive illustrations by Magdalena Mora convey this poignant tale of longing for home and permanence, which reflects many of the dreams and hopes of people today.

A Caldecott Honor Book, a Sibert Honor Book, and Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award winner. This picture book biography of Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till, describes how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement.

A New York Times Bestseller. From Barack Obama's chief speechwriter comes a spellbinding account of the ten most dramatic days of the presidency, when a hate-fueled massacre and looming supreme court decisions put the character of our country on the line, and a president's words could either bring the nation together, or tear it apart.

National Book Award finalist. In this timely 2022 biography of George Floyd, Washington Post journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa show the athletic young boy raised in the projects of Houston’s Third Ward who would become a father, a partner, a friend, and a man constantly in search of a better life.

A New York Times bestseller. Using the latest research in attachment theory, Dr. Marisa G. Franco presents fascinating, often counterintuitive findings about friendships and relationships, as well as research-backed methods to help us improve and build strong, lasting connections with others.

A November 2021 Indie Next Pick. In Wanda Morris's thrilling debut novel, Ellice Littlejohn is a corporate attorney in midtown Atlanta who seemingly has it all—until she discovers that her boss has been killed. She tries to walk away, burying the truth of her romantic relationship with the dead man along with a lifetime of secrets, but soon finds herself forced to confront the firm's shady dealings.

A #1 New York Times bestseller. In this devastating account of deception and indecision, Craig Whitlock uses records obtained by The Washington Post to dissect the policy failures that made the War in Afghanistan America's longest war.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The first inside story of one of TV's most popular and beloved dramas, Grey's Anatomy. Lynette Rice's How to Save A Life takes a totally unauthorized deep dive into the show’s humble start, while offering exclusive intel on the behind-the-scenes culture, the most heartbreaking departures and the more polarizing plotlines. This exhaustively enthusiastic book is one that no Grey’s Anatomy fan should be without.

Winner of the 2021 Thriller Award for Best First Novel. In David Heska Wanbli Weiden's bracing crime thriller, a local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota sets out to stop the sale of heroin into his community.

Winner of the PEN Bingham Award. Vanessa Veselka's frightening, phantasmagoric novel follows a young woman trapped in a city ripped apart by bombings.

Winner of the Oregon Book Awards' Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and longlisted for the National Book Award. In Vanessa Veselka's wild, tender epic, half-sisters set out to gain an inheritance—and end up traveling across the country in search of a family secret.

A New York Times and USA Today bestseller. In this unnerving thriller, Riley Sager tells the story of Charlie, a movie-loving college student who begins to fear that she may have hitched a ride with a killer.

A Publishers Weekly bestseller. Hazel Gaynor's unforgettable novel follows the lives of teachers and students at a British-run missionary school in northern China under Japanese occupation during WWII.

A New York Times bestseller. Craig Unger delves into the bizarre and salacious modern history of compromising secrets leveraged by the Russian government, arguing that Donald Trump was long courted as a Russian asset.

A New York Times bestseller. In his deeply moving memoir, Hunter Biden reflects on his long and harrowing battle with substance abuse and the tragic loss of his older brother, Beau.

A New York Times bestseller. Acclaimed columnist Charles Blow offers an impassioned corrective to myths that have long governed our thinking about race and geography in America.

A Sunday Times bestseller. Nick Pettigrew gives readers a window into the hysterical, disturbing, and chaotic life of a council worker responsible for keeping the community intact.

A Midwest Independent bestseller. In Andrew J. Graff's heart-pounding novel, ten-year-old boys Bread and Fish flee into the wilderness, believing they have committed murder.

A Los Angeles Times bestseller. In this revelatory biography, reporter Dan Morain paints a vivid picture of the life and career of Kamala Harris.

A New York Times bestseller. In this dazzling collection of essays, actor-writer Casey Wilson ranges from humorous dives into her personal obsessions to touching meditations on contemporary womanhood.

A New York Times bestseller. In his surprising and intimate memoir Brat, McCarthy reflects on his career as an actor and his life as a member of Hollywood's Brat Pack.

Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Trillium Book Award. Souvankham Thammavongsa's revelatory story collection honors characters struggling to find their bearings far from home.

A New York Times bestseller. In this fearless semi-autobiographical novel, a character named Jim Carrey navigates stardom, its excesses, and apocalypses within and without.

A New York Times and USA Today bestseller. Sager's latest thriller is the story of a house with long-buried secrets and a woman’s quest to uncover them—even if the truth is far more terrifying than any haunting.

A USA Today bestseller. The HGTV star and celebrity nutritionist partner up to help readers remodel their lives—in mind, body and spirit.

A New York Times bestseller. In this oral history, Greene offers fans a behind-the-scenes look at the most iconic sitcom of the 2000s.

A New York Times bestseller. This vivid, factually rigorous examination of a crucial period in Trump's presidency brings to life the findings of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

A New York Times bestseller. A profound new rendering of Reconstruction, centering the struggle for African-American equality and the violent counter-revolution that was the rise of Jim Crow.

A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller. After decades of silence, Robyn Crawford, close friend, collaborator, and confidante of Whitney Houston, shares her story with warmth and candor.

A New York Times and Indie bestseller. The award-winning actor and writer takes readers through the history of Donald Trump's presidency in this rip-roaring collection of satirical verse.

A New York Times bestseller. Max and her friends from the Change Makers Institute tackle a water crisis in the second installment of the only kids' series authorized by the Einstein Archives.

A New York Times bestseller. In this third book, Misfit violinist Theo Stein-Meyer takes center stage in a story filled with secrets, friendship—and of course, magic.

A New York Times bestseller. Seven years in the making, Christopher Leonard's deeply reported account provides extraordinary insight into the workings of corporate giant Koch Industries.

A New York Times Bestseller. Singer-songwriter Ben Folds delivers hard-earned wisdom about both art and life in his witty and relatable memoir.

A New York Times Bestseller. Riley Sager's heart-pounding thriller follows a young woman whose new job apartment sitting in one of New York’s oldest and most glamorous buildings may cost more than it pays.

A New York Times Bestseller. Celebrated singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco combines personal expression with music, feminism, and political activism in this frank memoir.

A James Beard Foundation Award Winner. Chef Kwame Onwuachi shares the remarkable story of his culinary coming-of-age at the intersection of race, fame, and food in this daring and honest memoir.

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller. Twenty-five years after Kurt Cobain's death, former Nirvana manager Goldberg offers a new perspective on the icon.

A #1 New York Times and Amazon Bestseller. The Washington Post presents the findings of the Special Counsel’s investigation, with accompanying analysis by the reporters who’ve covered the story from the beginning.

A New York Times Bestseller. In his elegant memoir, the inimitable designer offers a poignant, candid, and touching look back on his life so far.

A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestseller. A backstage look at the explosive inside story of The View.

A New York Times Bestseller and TODAY Show Read with Jenna Pick. Written in the months following her diagnosis with terminal cancer, Julie Yip-Williams' moving memoir offers an incomparable guide to living vividly.

A #1 New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal Bestseller. The former Deputy Director the FBI tells the true story of how the FBI works to protect America in the age of Trump.

A New York Times Bestseller and TODAY Show Read with Jenna Pick. A sweeping yet intimate epic about four siblings and the power of stories to help us navigate through difficult times, understand the past, and point the way toward our future.

A New York Times Bestseller. Girl genius Max Einstein is an inventor, computer whiz, and the heroine of the first and only kids' book series officially approved by the Albert Einstein Archives.

A #1 New York Times Bestseller. The magical second book in Neil Patrick Harris' bestselling series for kids has even more tricks up its sleeve.

A New York Times Bestseller. Award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera brings together a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.

A New York Times Bestseller. A poignant, evocative, and wonderfully gossipy account of Jackie Kennedy Onassis and Lee Radziwill—the two sisters who represented style and class above all else.

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller. Buckle up and enjoy the journey of Posey's "self-mythologizing memoir," which delights with personal stories and whimsical how-tos.

A New York Times Bestseller. This essential account offers the first comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Mafia.

A LA Times Bestseller. The riveting tale of innovation and ingenuity behind the race to build the world's fastest clipper ship.

A New York Times Bestseller. This compulsively readable, behind-the-scenes memoir takes readers inside the Obama White House, through the eyes of a young staffer learning the ropes, falling in love, and finding her place in the world.

A New York Times Bestseller. In this thriller from the bestselling author of Final Girls, a young woman returns to her childhood summer camp to uncover the truth about a tragedy that happened there fifteen years ago.

A New York Times Bestseller. A sweeping and revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of the world's finest young scientists.

A New York Times Bestseller. Vanity Fair journalist Emily Jane Fox's dishy, deeply reported, and richly detailed look at Donald J. Trump’s five children.

A New York Times Bestseller. A declaration for our times from two survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement.

A New York Times Bestseller. Covering the years 1967 to 2017, Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society.

A New York Times Bestseller. The go-to voices in personal development reveal strategies for changing thought patterns and daily habits to bounce back from tough times.

A New York Times Bestseller. A lyrical ode to loving who you are from Empire actor and activist Grace Byers.

A New York Times Bestseller and #1 Amazon Bestseller in Spiritual Meditations. An essential guide to Transcendental Meditation from world authority Bob Roth, teacher of Oprah Winfrey, Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, Tom Hanks, and others.

An International Bestseller. A poignant and timely exploration of the true path from anger to peace, as recounted by Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson.

A New York Times Bestseller. Scott Carney reveals the science that allows us to push past our perceived limitations.

Winner of the NAACP Image Award in Fiction. Gates and Tatar collect nearly 150 African American folktales that animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature.

A Washington Post Bestseller. Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham offers easy-to-apply, scientifically-based approaches for engaging students in the classroom.

A New York Times Bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award. A poignant tale about coming of age amid the expectations and stereotypes of a Mexican-American home.

A National Bestseller. Dr. Newman, president and CEO of Children’s National Medical Center, shares his knowledge of what children need to thrive.

A Globe & Mail and USA Today Bestseller. New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create an unforgettable novel of the Great War.

A New York Times Bestseller. The critically acclaimed star of Being Mary Jane brings us stories that are funny, complicated, and true.

A National Bestseller. Liza Mundy reveals the secret history of more than ten thousand women who served as codebreakers during World War II.

A New York Times Bestselling retrospective of the largest global protest in modern history, with exclusive interviews, never-before-seen photographs, and essays by feminist activists.

A New York Times Bestseller, and a USA Today Bestselling Book. The first book in a new middle grade series by award-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris.

A New York Times Bestseller. Twenty-three-year-old Zac Bissonnette demystifies the many traps young people fall victim to in their post-college years.

A New York Times Bestseller. Glamour magazine's hundred most-loved, best-reviewed dishes.

A New York Times Bestseller. Jack Viertel shows us how musicals happen, what makes them work, how they captivate audiences, and how one landmark show leads to the next.

A New York Times Bestseller. Kate Betts’s captivating memoir magically re-creates that moment in life when a young woman discovers who she’s meant to be.

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller. Questions and answers about our spiciest Americans from the popular author of the ¡Ask a Mexican! column.

A New York Times Bestseller. The editor of SELF magazine and her team of nutrition experts have created a revolutionary, flexible diet to help trigger weight loss and instill better body health.

An Amazon Best Book in 2013 and James Beard Award Nominee. A comprehensive cookbook from a chef renowned for her award-winning sweets and baked goods.

An NAACP Award Nominee for Outstanding Literary Work in Biography / Autobiography. Oscar-nominated actress Rosie Perez’s never-before-told story of surviving a harrowing childhood and of how she found success.

A New York Times and USA Today bestseller. The story of Hillary Clinton’s political rebirth, based on eyewitness accounts from deep inside her inner circle.

A New York Times bestseller. This book is about America’s broken political system: how it got that way, who benefits, and who loses.