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29 books on sale · up to 85% off recent prices · showing drops of 20%+
Updated August 13, 2026
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by Yaa Gyasi
Price dropped Aug 11
Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing follows two half sisters in eighteenth-century Ghana and the eight generations that branch out from them, one line through slavery and America, the other staying behind on the Gold Coast. It's historical fiction built like a relay race, and it carries enormous emotional weight in a compact frame.
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by Snowden Wright
Price dropped Aug 9
Snowden Wright's The Queen City Detective Agency drops a jaded ex-cop turned private investigator into 1985 Meridian, Mississippi, where a real-estate developer's murder and a Dixie Mafia affiliate's suspicious jailhouse death pull her into a web of old-guard corruption — a Southern noir that earns its atmosphere through moral specificity rather than regional sentiment.
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by David Foster Wallace
Price dropped Aug 1
David Foster Wallace turns a Maine food festival, a porn-industry awards show, and a war over dictionaries into dazzling, branching essays about how to think, how to live, and how to actually pay attention. The premise is always a doorway, never the destination.
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by Ted Chiang
Price dropped Aug 9
Nine luminous stories from the most thoughtful science fiction writer alive, each one a fully built thought experiment that arrives at something genuinely moving about free will, memory, and how we choose to live. Quietly profound.
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by Stephen Graham Jones
Price dropped Aug 4
Stephen Graham Jones builds a revenge story around four Blackfeet men hunted, years later, by something they wronged on a snowbound day in their youth. It is bloody, formally daring horror that is also a sustained meditation on heritage, guilt, and what you owe the land that raised you.
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by Ann Leckie
Price dropped Aug 13
Ancillary Justice swept science fiction's major awards for a reason: Ann Leckie's debut is narrated by a warship reduced to a single human body, out for revenge against the many-bodied emperor who destroyed her. Space opera that plays with identity, empire, and pronouns while telling a first-rate revenge story.
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by Pierce Brown
Price dropped Aug 13
Pierce Brown's Red Rising sends a Martian miner named Darrow undercover into the academy that trains humanity's ruling caste, using their own brutal games to bring the whole system down. It's science fiction with the pulse of a war novel, built for readers who want their dystopias to actually fight back.
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by Charles Duhigg
Price dropped Aug 10
Charles Duhigg's The Power of Habit is the rare behavior-science book that doubles as a page-flipping set of stories, tracing how the cue-routine-reward loop quietly runs our mornings, our companies, and even civil-rights movements. If you want to understand why you do what you do, this is the place to start.
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by Lois Lowry
Price dropped Aug 1
Lois Lowry's Newbery-winning novel drops a boy into a community that has traded color, pain, and choice for perfect order, then hands him the one job that lets him see what was given up. It's the rare dystopia built for readers just old enough to notice the wiring under the floorboards.
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by Stephen Fry
Price dropped Aug 5
Stephen Fry retells the Greek myths from the birth of the cosmos through the age of gods and mortals, and does it with the wit, warmth, and erudition you would hope for. A genuinely delightful guided tour of the foundational stories of the West.
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by Trevor Noah
Price dropped Aug 11
Trevor Noah's memoir of growing up mixed-race in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa is funnier and stranger than its premise lets on. Eighteen linked essays turn a childhood spent partly in hiding into a sharp, generous portrait of language, survival, and one ferociously willful mother.
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by Margaret Belle
Price dropped Aug 11
Margaret Belle's Brainstorm runs its suspense through an anxious witness: Audrey Dory, who could identify a bank robber from a decade ago but never spoke up, and whose returning panic disorder now muddies every choice she makes. If you like a thriller where the heroine's own judgment is the wild card, this one's worth a look.
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by Margaret Belle
Price dropped Aug 11
A propulsive supernatural medical thriller that trades plausibility for momentum, carried by a heroine you actually root for.
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by Freida McFadden
Price dropped Aug 5
Freida McFadden's The Divorce takes a woman scorned and lets her curdle, slowly, into something dangerous. Naomi loses the house, the husband, the whole storybook life she built. Then she skips grief entirely and starts watching the new girlfriend. A domestic thriller about obsession that keeps tightening the noose around its own narrator until quitting costs more than continuing.
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by Tess Gunty
Price dropped Aug 9
Tess Gunty's debut, The Rabbit Hutch, drops you into a low-income apartment building in a dying Indiana factory town and follows a luminous, foster-system-scarred teenager named Blandine through one sweltering July week. It's literary fiction with teeth — strange, funny, formally restless, and aching with loneliness.
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by Isabel Wilkerson
Price dropped Aug 10
Isabel Wilkerson tells the vast epic of the Great Migration through three unforgettable lives, a decade of interviews distilled into history that reads with all the pull of a novel. It restores six million private acts of courage to the center of the American century.
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by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Price dropped Jul 19
Freakonomics asks the questions a normal economist never would, then answers them with data and a wicked grin. Levitt and Dubner pull on threads connecting schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers, drug dealers and real-estate agents, and unravel a surprisingly entertaining theory of how the world actually works.
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by Jeannette Walls
Price dropped Aug 3
Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle is a memoir of growing up poor and nomadic under two parents who were equal parts magnetic and ruinous. It's a clear-eyed account of childhood neglect that somehow refuses to curdle into bitterness, and that restraint is exactly what makes it land.
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by Arundhati Roy
Price dropped Aug 9
Arundhati Roy's Booker-winning debut, The God of Small Things, follows seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel through one catastrophic season in 1969 Kerala. It's a literary family saga and tragic love story told in fractured, spiraling prose for readers who want sentences that work as hard as the story does.
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by Lisa Jewell
Price dropped Jul 21
Lisa Jewell sends a stray terrier and a missing teenager to unlock a house with a twenty-five-year-old body count, and the dual-timeline plotting is tight enough to reward careful readers without insulting them.
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by Ernest Cline
Price dropped Aug 3
Ernest Cline sends Wade Watts back into the OASIS with a new piece of tech that can read minds, a new villain, and a race against a countdown that could end human consciousness itself, in this sequel to Ready Player One.
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by Stephen King
Price dropped Aug 11
Stephen King sends a small-town English teacher back to 1958 through a portal in a diner pantry, with one mission: stop the Kennedy assassination. The result is a sprawling, deeply human time-travel epic that's as much love story as thriller.
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by Gwen Florio
Price dropped Aug 2
Gwen Florio's BEST LAID PLANS opens a cozy mystery series with a heroine who's just torched her old life at fifty. Nora Best has swapped a faithless marriage for an Airstream and a cross-country escape, but a night at a Wyoming campground goes wrong, a man vanishes, and Nora finds herself the prime suspect in his apparent murder.
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by Chris Whitaker
Price dropped Aug 12
Chris Whitaker's All the Colors of the Dark starts with girls vanishing from a 1975 Missouri town and a boy named Patch who stops the predator at terrible cost. Across the decades that follow, it grows into a missing-person mystery, a serial-killer hunt, and a lifelong love story between two people the same wound keeps pulling back together.
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by Audrey Niffenegger
Price dropped Jul 23
Audrey Niffenegger's debut gives Henry a genetic disorder that flings him uncontrollably through his own timeline, and Clare the impossible task of loving a man who keeps vanishing. A swooning, inventive, deeply romantic time-travel love story.
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by Ann Patchett
Price dropped Jul 22
Ann Patchett's Whistler opens on two people who shared a single strange year decades ago and place each other again, much older now, across a crowded gallery at the Met. It's a hushed, deeply felt novel about memory and the small choices that quietly turn out to be the large ones. Best for readers who live for character-driven literary fiction.
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by Michael Lewis
Price dropped Aug 5
Michael Lewis turns the 2008 financial crisis into the story of a few outsiders who saw the mortgage bond market for the disaster it was and bet against it. The Big Short is narrative nonfiction at its sharpest, explaining how Wall Street built something almost nobody understood, and finding grim comedy in the wreckage.
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by Madeline Miller
Price dropped Aug 5
Madeline Miller retells the Iliad through the eyes of Patroclus, the boy who loved Achilles, and turns the most famous war story in the world into an aching love story. It is myth made tender, and almost unbearably moving by its close.
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by Orson Scott Card
Price dropped Aug 8
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game puts a six-year-old genius in command school built to produce Earth's next great general, and the real war turns out to be inside his own head.
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