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30 books on sale · up to 70% off recent prices
Updated July 14, 2026
Hardcovers rarely go on sale, so a genuine drop is worth noticing. Everything below is priced under its recent normal price and is a book we have read and reviewed in full, with our honest take on whether it earns a spot on the shelf. Click through to the review before you buy; that is the one thing a plain deals feed can never give you.
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by Katie Hafner
Price dropped Jul 12
Hafner and Lyon's Where Wizards Stay Up Late tells the human story behind the internet's invention, following the engineers who built the ARPANET. A clear, character-rich account of how a network nobody asked for changed everything.
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by Riley Sager
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Riley Sager tells two stories at once: a woman returning to renovate the Victorian estate her father made famous in a bestselling haunted-house memoir, and the chapters of that memoir itself. The dual structure is the whole game, and Sager plays it for maximum doubt about which account, if either, to trust.
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by Lev Grossman
Price dropped Jul 11
Lev Grossman picks up the Arthur legend at its lowest moment — the king dead, Camelot in ashes — and hands the salvage operation to the misfits. The Bright Sword is a melancholy, talky, often funny epic about second-string knights trying to rebuild a world that's already lost its meaning.
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by Jojo Moyes
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Jojo Moyes builds a contemporary romance that refuses the easy save-the-day ending. Me Before You pairs a chatty small-town woman with a sharp, bitter ex-adrenaline-junkie left paralyzed after an accident, and lets their friction warm into something neither of them planned. It's romance with a moral spine, and the emotional arc lands as hard as the premise promises.
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by Tina Fey
Price dropped Jul 13
Tina Fey's Bossypants is a sharp, fast, genuinely funny comic memoir that doubles as a field guide to being a woman in charge of a room. It moves from an awkward Pennsylvania girlhood through Second City and SNL to running 30 Rock, joking the whole way.
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by Sayaka Murata
Price dropped Jul 11
Sayaka Murata's Convenience Store Woman is a slim, strange, and quietly radical novel about Keiko Furukura, a thirty-six-year-old woman who has built a stable self out of the rhythms of a Tokyo convenience store. It's a sharp, deadpan look at conformity and what it costs to fake being normal.
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by N. K. Jemisin
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N. K. Jemisin builds a continent that punishes its own people with earthquakes and ash winters, then hands the power to stop them to a caste of orogenes everyone else fears and controls.
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by Will Gompertz
Price dropped Jul 14
Will Gompertz's What Are You Looking At? is a witty, fast-moving tour through 150 years of modern art that finally makes the whole baffling parade make sense. It's the book for anyone who has stood before a blank canvas in a museum and thought, surely they're joking.
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by Gwen Florio
Price dropped Jul 12
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 Alison Gopnik
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Alison Gopnik's The Gardener and the Carpenter is the rare parenting book that questions the whole project of 'parenting' as a verb. Drawing on developmental science, she argues our job is to make a rich environment, not to engineer a particular product.
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by Rainbow Rowell
Price dropped Jul 13
A tender, true-to-life novel about an anxious college freshman who would rather write fanfiction than face the real world, and slowly learns to step into her own story. Warm, funny, and quietly wise about growing up.
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by John J. Ratey MD
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John Ratey makes the case that exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain, not just your body. Spark is the book that reframes a workout as cognitive medicine, and it's genuinely motivating.
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by Margaret Atwood
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Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake opens with possibly the last man alive, sunburned and half-mad, narrating the end of the world from a tree. The first book of the MaddAddam trilogy is a savage, blackly funny vision of corporate biotech run to its logical extreme — speculation Atwood insists is only a step ahead of us.
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by Shannon Chakraborty
Price dropped Jul 2
Shannon Chakraborty's The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi puts a retired pirate captain back on a ship for a job she can't quite refuse, and it's a rare fantasy adventure that takes a middle-aged heroine seriously. Set in the medieval Indian Ocean and steeped in real maritime history, it's pulpy, funny, and unexpectedly tender about what age and faith do to ambition.
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by Martha Raddatz
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ABC News veteran Martha Raddatz gathers a dozen portraits of post-9/11 service members and the people who love them. It's narrative nonfiction about endurance: what pushes ordinary people to do extraordinary things, and what they keep carrying long after the moment itself has passed.
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by James S. A. Corey
Price dropped Jul 11
A missing-persons case and a derelict ship collide to crack open a solar system on the brink of war, in the muscular space opera that launched The Expanse and reads like noir detective fiction strapped to a rocket.
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by Agatha Christie
Price dropped Jul 14
Ten guilty strangers, one cut-off island, and a killer working through them in the order a nursery rhyme decrees. Christie's tightest, cruelest puzzle still snaps shut like a trap.
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by Peter Attia MD
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Peter Attia, a physician obsessed with longevity, lays out a framework for living not just longer but better. Outlive is dense, demanding, and unusually honest about how much of mainstream medicine waits too long to act.
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by Michael A. Singer
Price dropped Jul 12
Michael Singer's quiet bestseller asks one disarming question: who is the 'you' that hears your own thoughts? From that simple noticing, The Untethered Soul builds a clear, gentle path toward loosening the grip of the inner voice and living with more openness and ease.
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by Neil deGrasse Tyson
Price dropped Jul 14
A pocket-sized hardback that treats one hypothetical alien encounter as two problems at once: a physics question and a mirror held up to us. Tyson plays it as part science explainer, part deadpan etiquette guide, and it carries far more weight than the cute premise lets on.
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by Jeannette Walls
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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 Katherine Arden
Price dropped Jul 12
Katherine Arden spins a snowbound debut out of Russian folklore — a fierce girl, the old household spirits her people are forgetting, and a creeping winter darkness only she can see. Atmospheric, lyrical, and quietly thrilling.
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by H. G. Bissinger
Price dropped Jul 13
Buzz Bissinger spent a year in Odessa, Texas, with a high school football team and came back with one of the most unsparing books ever written about American obsession. Friday Night Lights is about football the way Moby-Dick is about whaling.
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by Octavia Butler
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Octavia Butler pulls a young Black writer from 1976 California back to a pre-Civil War Maryland plantation, again and again, to save the white boy who will become her ancestor. A searing, unforgettable use of time travel to make history physical.
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by Donna Tartt
Price dropped Jul 13
Donna Tartt's Pulitzer-winning novel follows a boy who survives the museum bombing that kills his mother and spends the rest of his life orbiting a small stolen painting, a sprawling coming-of-age story for readers who want grief rendered at the length it actually takes.
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by Emily Brontë
Price dropped Jul 13
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights tells the story of Heathcliff and Catherine's destructive bond on the Yorkshire moors through nested, unreliable narrators. It's less a romance than a gothic study of cruelty passed down through generations, for readers who want dark, difficult classics.
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by Michael Lewis
Price dropped Jul 14
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 Trevor Noah
Price dropped Jul 13
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 Lindsay Ellis
Price dropped Jul 12
Lindsay Ellis's debut Axiom's End is a first-contact thriller set in the late-2000s internet age, where a reluctant young woman becomes humanity's only interpreter to an alien presence the government has hidden for decades. It's a smart, character-driven story about translation as the hardest kind of diplomacy.
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by Michael Pollan
Price dropped Jul 13
Michael Pollan asks the simplest possible question, what should we have for dinner, and follows it all the way back to the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma is the book that taught a generation to think about where food actually comes from.
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