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Bestsellers Titles: December

December Bestsellers Items

Skinship

The breathtaking debut of an important new voice--centered on a constellation of Korean American families

The Judge's List

Investigator Lacy Stoltz follows the trail of a serial killer, and closes in on a shocking suspect--a sitting judge.

Gold Diggers

A magical realist coming-of-age story, Gold Diggers skewers the model minority myth to tell a hilarious and moving story about immigrant identity, community, and the underside of ambition.

Velvet Was the Night

From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting noir about a daydreaming secretary, a lonesome enforcer, and the mystery of a missing woman they're both desperate to find.

The Love Songs of W. E. B. du Bois

The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about the Problem of race in America, and what he called "Double Consciousness," a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. Since childhood, Ailey Pearl Garfield has understood Du Bois's words all too well...

The War for Gloria

Gritty, visceral, and profoundly stirring, The War for Gloria tells the story of a young man, straddling childhood and adulthood, whose yearning to protect his mother requires him to risk destroying his father. An indelible work from a strikingly original voice in American fiction.

One Last Stop

From the New York Times bestselling author of Red, White & Royal Blue comes a new romantic comedy that will stop readers in their tracks...

My Monticello

"A badass debut by any measure--nimble, knowing, and electrifying." --Colson Whitehead

Last Girl Ghosted

Secrets, obsession and vengeance converge in this riveting thriller about an online dating match turned deadly cat-and-mouse game.

All of Us Villains

An Indie Next Pick! Every generation, at the coming of the Blood Moon, seven families in the remote city of Ilvernath each name a champion to compete in a tournament to the death. The prize? Exclusive control over a secret wellspring of high magick, the most powerful resource in the world--one thought long depleted.

Termination Shock

From Neal Stephenson comes a sweeping, prescient new thriller that transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of superstorms, rising sea levels, global flooding, merciless heat waves, and virulent, deadly pandemics.

Crossroads

Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision has never been more dazzlingly evident than in Crossroads.

Burnt Sugar

Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, a searing literary debut novel set in India about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal

Dirty Work

Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the "kill floors" of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States' most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press offers a paradigm-shifting view of the moral landscape of contemporary America through the stories of people who perform society's most ethically troubling jobs.

The Magician

A dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II, and the Cold War.

No One Is Talking about This

A book that reads like a prose poem, at once sublime, profane, intimate, philosophical, witty and, eventually, deeply moving." --New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice

Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan's landmark new novel, a tale of one man's courage and a remarkable portrait of love and family