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2020 Top 40

2020's Top 40 List was, as expected, topped by Barack Obama's autobiography, far outpacing second place.   Our customers were extremely interested in learning more about race and antiracism this year as reflected by many of the nonfiction (and fiction!) books on the list.  The pandemic also helped drive a number of cookbooks to the top, and Mystery to a top selling category  - though aside from Louise Penny, no one author or book dominated that list - while perfecting your sourdough you were also busy working your way through all twenty-two  of No. 1 Ladie's Detective Agency, or  Ilona Whishaw's series or even hitting the alphabet through Y with Sue Grafton! 

A Promised Land By Barack Obama Cover Image
$45.00
ISBN: 9781524763169
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Published: Crown - November 17th, 2020

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism By Dr. Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by) Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780807047415
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Published: Beacon Press - June 26th, 2018

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents By Isabel Wilkerson Cover Image
$32.00
ISBN: 9780593230251
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Published: Random House - August 4th, 2020

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The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (A Novel) By Brit Bennett Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525536291
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Published: Riverhead Books - June 2nd, 2020

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse By Charlie Mackesy Cover Image
$22.99
ISBN: 9780062976581
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Published: HarperOne - October 22nd, 2019

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Untamed By Glennon Doyle Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781984801258
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Published: The Dial Press - March 10th, 2020

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz By Erik Larson Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9780385348713
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Published: Crown - February 25th, 2020

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So You Want to Talk About Race By Ijeoma Oluo Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781580058827
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Published: Seal Press - September 24th, 2019

How to Be an Antiracist By Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780525509288
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Published: One World - August 13th, 2019

American Dirt (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel By Jeanine Cummins Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250209764
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Published: Flatiron Books - January 21st, 2020

All the Devils Are Here: A Novel (Chief Inspector Gamache Novel #16) By Louise Penny Cover Image
$28.99
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ISBN: 9781250145239
Published: Minotaur Books - September 1st, 2020

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The Dutch House: A Read with Jenna Pick By Ann Patchett Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780062963680
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Published: Harper Perennial - January 5th, 2021

Anxious People: A Novel By Fredrik Backman Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781501160837
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Published: Atria Books - September 8th, 2020

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The Cold Millions: A Novel By Jess Walter Cover Image
$28.99
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ISBN: 9780062868084
Published: Harper - October 27th, 2020

Where the Crawdads Sing: Reese's Book Club (A Novel) By Delia Owens Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780735219090
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - August 14th, 2018

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The Guest Book: A Novel By Sarah Blake Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250110275
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Published: Flatiron Books - May 5th, 2020

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man By Mary L. Trump, Ph.D. Cover Image
$28.00
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ISBN: 9781982141462
Published: Simon & Schuster - July 14th, 2020

The Glass Hotel: A novel By Emily St. John Mandel Cover Image
$26.95
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ISBN: 9780525521143
Published: Knopf - March 24th, 2020

Half Baked Harvest Super Simple: More Than 125 Recipes for Instant, Overnight, Meal-Prepped, and Easy Comfort Foods: A Cookbook By Tieghan Gerard Cover Image
$29.99
ISBN: 9780525577072
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Published: Clarkson Potter - October 29th, 2019

Rage By Bob Woodward Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781982131739
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Published: Simon & Schuster - September 15th, 2020

Such a Fun Age: Reese's Book Club (A Novel) By Kiley Reid Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780525541905
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - December 31st, 2019

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Hamnet By Maggie O'Farrell Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780525657606
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Published: Knopf - July 21st, 2020

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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor By Layla Saad, Robin DiAngelo (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Layla Saad, Robin DiAngelo (Foreword by)
$25.99
ISBN: 9781728209807
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Published: Sourcebooks - January 28th, 2020

Modern Comfort Food: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook By Ina Garten Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9780804187060
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Published: Clarkson Potter - October 6th, 2020

The Giver of Stars: A Novel By Jojo Moyes Cover Image
$28.00
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ISBN: 9780399562488
Published: Pamela Dorman Books - October 8th, 2019

A Long Petal of the Sea: A Novel By Isabel Allende, Nick Caistor (Translated by), Amanda Hopkinson (Translated by) Cover Image
By Isabel Allende, Nick Caistor (Translated by), Amanda Hopkinson (Translated by)
$28.00
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ISBN: 9781984820150
Published: Ballantine Books - January 21st, 2020

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Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812993547
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Published: One World - July 14th, 2015

The Cloven: Book One By Garth Stein, Matthew Southworth Cover Image
$24.99
ISBN: 9781683963103
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Published: Fantagraphics - July 28th, 2020

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants By Robin Wall Kimmerer Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9781571313560
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Published: Milkweed Editions - August 11th, 2015

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Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) By Bernardine Evaristo Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780802156983
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Published: Grove Press, Black Cat - November 5th, 2019

Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team By Elise Hooper Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062937995
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - July 7th, 2020

Ready Player Two: A Novel By Ernest Cline Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781524761332
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Published: Ballantine Books - November 24th, 2020

A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith By Timothy Egan Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780735225251
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Published: Penguin Books - June 16th, 2020

The Evening and the Morning (Kingsbridge #4) By Ken Follett Cover Image
$36.00
ISBN: 9780525954989
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Published: Viking - September 15th, 2020

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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art By James Nestor Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780735213616
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Published: Riverhead Books - May 26th, 2020

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness By Michelle Alexander Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781620971932
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Published: New Press - January 7th, 2020

The Mirror & the Light: A Novel (Wolf Hall Trilogy #3) By Hilary Mantel, John Sterling (Editor) Cover Image
$30.00
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ISBN: 9780805096606
Published: Henry Holt and Co. - March 10th, 2020

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Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA By Amaryllis Fox Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780525564089
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Published: Vintage - September 29th, 2020

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A Burning: A novel By Megha Majumdar Cover Image
$25.95
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ISBN: 9780525658696
Published: Knopf - June 2nd, 2020