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Updated July 14, 2026

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Book cover of The Hobbit: Tolkien's Classic Epic Fantasy Adventure by J.R.R. Tolkien

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The Hobbit: Tolkien's Classic Epic Fantasy Adventure

by J.R.R. Tolkien

4.7/ 5
$2.99$11.9975%

Price dropped Jul 3

J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit follows Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who wants nothing more than a quiet life, as he's dragged out his front door and onto a road that leads to a dragon's treasure. It's a cozy-then-perilous quest fantasy, funny and frightening by turns, and surprisingly tender about what courage actually costs an ordinary person.

Book cover of The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden Wright

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The Queen City Detective Agency

by Snowden Wright

4.0/ 5
$12.99$16.2420%

Price dropped Jun 27

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.

Book cover of The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

by Michael Lewis

4.6/ 5
$8.65$9.9913%

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.

Book cover of The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

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The Sympathizer

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.2/ 5
$8.00$8.678%

Price dropped Jul 8

Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer-winning debut, The Sympathizer, hands you a narrator who is literally a man of two minds: a communist spy embedded among South Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles. Part confession, part espionage novel, part savage comedy of identity, it's a book that talks back to every American story you think you know about the Vietnam War.

Book cover of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

4.6/ 5
$13.99$14.997%

Price dropped Jul 8

Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score is the rare trauma book that explains why the past lodges in the nervous system and won't be reasoned away. Part neuroscience, part clinical memoir, it reframes recovery as something the body has to relearn, not just talk through.

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