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From staff picks to reader favorites to media honors, we've compiled our list of the Best Books of the Year. Check below to see if there's a must-read you missed. There's still time before the year is out!
Holly

Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town.

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Let Us Descend

A Novel

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.

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Murder Your Employer

The McMasters Guide to Homicide

A New York Times bestseller! From Edgar Award–winning novelist, playwright, and story-songwriter Rupert Holmes comes a diabolical thriller with a killer concept: The McMasters Conservatory for the Applied Arts, “a fantasy academy laid out like a combination of Hogwarts, Downton Abbey, and a White Lotus–style resort” (Los Angeles Times) dedicated to the art of murder where students study how best to “delete” their most deserving victim.

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The Book of Charlie

Wisdom from the Remarkable American Life of a 109-Year-Old Man

One of our nation’s most prominent writers finds the truth about how to live a long and happy life in the centenarian next door.

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Temple Folk

A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America.

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Elon Musk

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era—a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter.

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Class

A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner—a gripping memoir about college, motherhood, poverty, and life after Maid.

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Making It So

A Memoir

The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart!

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Shark Heart

A Love Story

New York Times Editor’s Choice

Newlyweds face the unimaginable in this epic tale about marriage, motherhood, and enduring love. “Surprising and pleasurably uncategorizable. Shark Heart is wild, in every sense of the word” (The New York Times Book Review).

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Bright Young Women

A Novel

Instant New York Times Bestseller

Two women from opposite sides of the country are brought together by violent acts of the same man, and become allies and sisters in arms as they pursue the justice that would otherwise elude them in one of the most acclaimed, highly anticipated thrillers of the year.

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