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30 books on sale · up to 87% off recent prices · showing drops of 30%+
Updated October 12, 2026
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by Peter Thiel
Price dropped Oct 7
Peter Thiel's Zero to One distills a Stanford lecture series into a lean argument about building genuinely new companies rather than copying existing ones. It's a contrarian business book for founders and curious readers who want a framework for thinking about monopoly, technology, and the value of doing something that's never been done.
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by Susan Cain
Price dropped Oct 5
Susan Cain builds a research-backed case that introversion is a durable trait, not a flaw to fix, and hands quiet people a real framework for working with their wiring instead of against it.
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by Adam Savage
Price dropped Oct 4
Adam Savage, longtime Mythbusters host, puts the maker mindset on the page. Forty-plus years of hands-on building become a practical creativity guide, and the real move is how it translates shop-floor thinking into lessons anyone who makes things, with their hands or their head, can actually put to use.
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by Theo Baker
Price dropped Oct 8
Theo Baker's How to Rule the World follows a tech-obsessed teenager who arrived at Stanford expecting paradise and ended up, as a freshman reporter, breaking the story that toppled the university president. It's a sharp, funny, sometimes anxious account of how elite institutions sort and groom their next generation of insiders.
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by Snowden Wright
Price dropped Oct 11
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 Lois Lowry
Price dropped Oct 11
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 A. J. Finn
Price dropped Oct 9
A. J. Finn's The Woman in the Window locks the reader into a Harlem brownstone with Anna Fox, an agoraphobic child psychologist who drinks through her prescriptions, watches old noir on a loop, and swears she saw the neighbor across the park murdered. Nobody believes her. Neither, for a long stretch, do you.
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by qntm
Price dropped Oct 12
There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm turns forgetting into a weapon: a secretive containment agency fights ideas that erase themselves, and anyone who notices them, from memory. It's science fiction horror built on a genuinely nasty premise, and the fragmented, document-driven structure makes you feel the amnesia instead of just reading about it.
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by Danielle Steel
Price dropped Oct 12
Danielle Steel's new novel follows a chic Parisian-born wedding dress designer whose daughter's engagement cracks open three generations of women's unresolved questions about love, safety, and whether marriage is worth the risk. It's a book club natural, built for readers who want their family drama laced with real emotional stakes.
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by Heather Morris
Price dropped Oct 12
Based on the real testimony of Auschwitz survivor Lale Sokolov, Heather Morris's novel follows the man forced to tattoo prisoner numbers onto fellow inmates, and the woman he falls for in the middle of the camp's daily horror.
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by Grady Hendrix
Price dropped Oct 3
Grady Hendrix sets a literal vampire loose in 1990s suburban Charleston and lets a book club of underestimated housewives be the only ones who notice. It is a horror novel that earns its scares and its heart in equal measure, and it is far nastier and far more moving than the cheeky title lets on.
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by Josh Malerman
Price dropped Oct 12
Something outside makes anyone who sees it turn violent. Josh Malerman's debut follows Malorie down twenty miles of river in a rowboat, blindfolded, with two children trained from birth to listen for what she cannot look at. Horror stripped back to sound, and one of the tensest survival novels of the last decade.
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by Paul Kalanithi
Price dropped Oct 7
A neurosurgeon at the threshold of a brilliant career is diagnosed with terminal lung cancer at thirty-six, and turns the same disciplined attention he gave the brain onto the question of how to live when the time left is unknown. It is unbearably moving and, somehow, never maudlin.
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by Victor LaValle
Price dropped Oct 7
Victor LaValle's Lone Women drops a woman with a locked steamer trunk into 1915 Montana, where free homesteading land comes with brutal winters and no neighbors close enough to hear anything. It's frontier historical fiction laced with horror and a fierce streak of found-family warmth, built around a heroine who watches every stranger like her life depends on it, because it does.
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by Michael Crichton
Price dropped Oct 7
Michael Crichton's 1990 novel about a dinosaur theme park built on cloned DNA is smarter, darker, and considerably more damning about corporate hubris than the movie that made it a household name.
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by George R. R. Martin
Price dropped Oct 11
George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones launches the Song of Ice and Fire saga with a brutal, intricately plotted fantasy where honor gets people killed and the real threat is gathering while everyone fights over a chair. A landmark of grown-up epic fantasy for readers who want politics with teeth.
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by Robert Jones Jr.
Price dropped Sep 26
Robert Jones, Jr.'s debut novel The Prophets centers on Isaiah and Samuel, two enslaved young men whose love becomes both sanctuary and target on a Deep South plantation. It's historical fiction told in a chorus of voices, lyrical and unflinching, written for readers who come to a novel for its language and its ache as much as its story.
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by Brit Bennett
Price dropped Oct 10
Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half follows identical twins who run from a small Black Louisiana town and wind up living on opposite sides of the color line, one passing as white, the other returning home with a dark-skinned daughter. It's a literary family saga about identity, inheritance, and the cost of reinvention, told across four decades.
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by Veronica Roth
Price dropped Oct 12
Veronica Roth opens a dystopian romantasy series with a prophecy that names two enemy soldiers, both women: one is promised victory, one a love story. It never says which fate belongs to whom, or which belongs to the man standing at the center of both. The uncertainty is the engine.
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by Lev Grossman
Price dropped Oct 2
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 Bethan Croome
Price dropped Oct 5
Reign, Bethan Croome's romantasy debut, sends a banned witch into her king's war disguised as a man, and the disguise turns into the engine for two men falling for a soldier who doesn't exist. It's a fast, blood-and-sparks read where the back half lands harder than the setup promises.
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by Kim Gordon
Price dropped Oct 1
Kim Gordon's Girl in a Band is a cool, clear-eyed memoir from a founder of Sonic Youth, as much about being a woman in a man's scene and an artist who fell into music as it is about the band. It opens with the breakup that ended both her marriage and the group.
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by John Gottman PhD
Price dropped Sep 4
John Gottman's The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work distills decades of watching real couples in his lab into practical, testable habits. It's the rare relationship book whose advice rests on actual data about what makes marriages last.
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by Toni Morrison
Price dropped Aug 28
Toni Morrison's Beloved follows a formerly enslaved woman haunted, literally, by the daughter she lost, in a novel about memory, motherhood, and the debts slavery leaves on a family long after freedom arrives.
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by Michelle Zauner
Price dropped Aug 28
Michelle Zauner's memoir grows out of a single, specific grief: the death of her Korean mother from cancer, and what it does to a daughter who realizes too late how much of her own identity was tied to that bond. It uses food as its compass, and the result is both a love story and a reckoning.
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by Rolf Potts
Price dropped Aug 24
Rolf Potts argues that long-term travel is a matter of time and intention, not wealth. Vagabonding is less a packing list than a philosophy, and a quietly liberating one that has sent countless readers out into the world.
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by Vicki Robin
Price dropped Oct 8
Your Money or Your Life isn't really a budgeting book; it's a philosophy of money disguised as one. Vicki Robin's nine-step program asks you to measure spending in hours of your life rather than dollars, and that one reframing has quietly launched a movement.
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by Ernest Cline
Price dropped Sep 3
Ernest Cline's Ready Player One argues that the culture you obsess over as a teenager never really lets go of you, and builds a whole virtual-world treasure hunt to prove it, with real consequences waiting outside the headset.
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by Matthew Desmond
Price dropped Aug 25
A Harvard sociologist embeds for years with eight families and two landlords in Milwaukee, and turns eviction from a dry statistic into a human catastrophe you cannot look away from. Reported nonfiction that reads with the propulsion of a novel and the moral weight of a verdict.
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by Don Miguel Ruiz
Price dropped Aug 24
Don Miguel Ruiz's follow-up to The Four Agreements applies Toltec teachings directly to romantic relationships, arguing that most relationship pain comes from expecting a partner to supply happiness that only self-love can provide.
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