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The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Behave by Robert M. Sapolsky

Why do we do the things we do?

Over a decade in the making, this game-changing book is Robert Sapolsky's …

Freakonomics by Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt

A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What …

1984 by George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist …

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room is a 1956 novel by James Baldwin. The book focuses on the events in the life of an …

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (Neapolitan, #1)

From one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, comes this ravishing and generous-hearted novel about a friendship that lasts a lifetime. …

Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce

Think Like a Freak by Steven Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt

"In their previous book, Freakonomics, Levitt and Dubner showed that applying counter-intuitive approaches to everyday problems can bear surprising results. …

Belladonna by Adalyn Grace

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an …

My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf

You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer — the most notorious serial killer since Jack the …

The melancholy death of Oyster Boy & other stories by Tim Burton

Habibi by Craig Thompson

Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, …

Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon, Jonathan Wright

This Arab Is Queer by Elias Jahshan

Profoundly moving and uplifting'—Rabih Alameddine

This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers – …