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***DECEMBER'S BEST SELLING NEW FICTION*** 1.  Testaments by Margaret Atwood 2. Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami 3.  Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates 4.  Memory Police  by Yoko Ogawa 5. Little Women (new ed.) by Louisa May Alcott 6. Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer 7. Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq 8. McSweeney's #57 by various 9.  Song For A New Day by Sarah Pinsker 10. Secret Commonwealth: Book Of Dust Volume 2 by Philip Pullman ***DECEMBER'S BEST SELLING NEW NON-FICTION*** 1. Your Psilocybin Mushroom Companion by Michelle Janikian 2. The Beautiful Ones by Prince 3. My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters With Lou Reed by Michael Heath / Pat Thomas 4. Little Weirds by Jenny Slate 5. That Was Awkward by Emily Flake 6. Little Book Of Lost Words by Joe Gillard 7. Serial Killer Trivia by Michelle Kaminsky 8. Lost Restaurants Of Baltimore by Suzanne Loudermilk / Kit Waskom Pollard 9. Abandoned Balt...

***OCTOBER'S BEST SELLING NEW FICTION*** 1. Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman 2. Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami 3.  Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates 4.  Testaments by Margaret Atwood 5.  Memory Police  by Yoko Ogawa 6.  Song For A New Day by Sarah Pinsker 7. Grand Union by Zadie Smith 8. Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers 9.  Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata 10. There There by Tommy Orange ***OCTOBER'S BEST SELLING NEW NON-FICTION*** 1. Face It by Debbie Harry 2. Year Of The Monkey by Patti Smith 3. Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting by Joe Gillard 4.  Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder by John Waters 5. Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit 6. Jack The Ripper's New Testament by Nigel Graddon 7. What If This Was Enough? by Heather Havrilesky 8. That...

***SEPTEMBER'S BEST SELLING NEW FICTION*** 1.  Testaments by Margaret Atwood 2.  Song For A New Day by Sarah Pinsker 3.  Things To Do When You're Goth In The Country by Chavisa Woods 4.  Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata 5.  Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates 6.  Overstory by Richard Powers 7.  New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft: Beyond Arkham by H. P. Lovecraft 8.  Memory Police  by Yoko Ogawa 9.  The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem 10. Florida by Lauren Groff ***SEPTEMBER'S BEST SELLING NEW NON-FICTION*** 1.  Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder by John Waters 2.  Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion  by Jia Tolentino 3.  Big Book of the Dead by Marion Winik 4.  Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier 5. Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms...

***AUGUST'S BEST SELLING NEW FICTION*** 1. Lady In The Lake by Laura Lippman 2. Book Of Dust by Philip Pullman 3. Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country: and Other Stories by Chavisa Woods 4. Cherry by Nico Walker 5. The Witch Elm by Tana French 6. My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel by Oyinkan Braithwaite 7. Vox by Christina Dalcher 8. My Year Of Rest And Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 9. Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa 10. Stay And Fight by Madeline Ffitch ***AUGUST'S BEST SELLING NEW NON-FICTION*** 1. Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber 2. Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City by P. Nicole King / Kate Drabinski / Joshua Clark Davis (eds.) 3. Unfuck Your Anger: Using Science to Understand Frustration, Rage, and Forgiveness by Faith Harper 4. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown 5. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino 6. So Real It Hur...

***JULY'S BEST SELLING NEW FICTION*** 1. Lady In The Lake by Laura Lippman 2. My Year Of Rest And Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh 3. The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead 4. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 5. Tell The Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams 6. Avatar Last Air Bender: The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee 7. Ten Loves Of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami 8. Colorado Kid by Stephen King 9. Fleishman Is In Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner 10. Vox by Christina Dalcher ***JULY'S BEST SELLING NEW NON-FICTION*** 1. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown 2. Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder by John Waters 3. So Real It Hurts by Lydia Lunch 4. Voices From Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich 5. Making Spaces Safer by Shawna Potter 6. Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber 7. Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City by P. Nicole King / Kate Drabinski / Joshua...

***JUNE'S BEST SELLING NEW FICTION*** 1. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 2. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan 3. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman / Terry Pratchett 4. Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett 5. There There by Tommy Orange 6. Tell the Machine Goodnight by Katie Williams 7.  Overstory by Richard Powers 8. Magic For Liars by Sarah Gailey 9. Severance by Ling Ma 10. The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer ***JUNE'S BEST SELLING NEW NON-FICTION*** 1. Mr. Know It All by John Waters 2. Yes, I'm That Guy by William Sanderson 3. How To Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan 4. The Mueller Report by Robert S. Mueller 5. Revenge Of The She Punks by Vivien Goldman 6. Calypso by David Sedaris 7. The Lines Between Us by Lawrence Lanahan 8. More Fun In The New World by John Doe / Tom DeSavia 9. Stay Sexy And Don't Get Murdered by Karen Kilgariff  / Georgia Hardstark 10. Meander Spiral Explode by Jane Alison ***JUNE'S BEST SELLING NEW COMICS*...

***MAY'S BEST SELLING NEW FICTION*** 1. Severance by Ling Ma 2. There There by Tommy Orange 3. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman / Terry Pratchett 4. Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang 5. Adjustment Day by Chuck Palahniuk 6. Mars Room by Rachel Kushner 7. Washington Black by Esi Edugyan 8. Oval by Elvia Wilk 9. Sea Beast Takes A Lover: Stories by Michael Andreasen 10. Sing To It: Stories by Amy Hempel ***MAY'S BEST SELLING NEW NON-FICTION*** 1. Mr. Know It All by John Waters 2. The Mueller Report by Robert S. Mueller 3. This searing light, the sun and everything else: Joy Division: The Oral History by Jon Savage 4. Begin the Begin: R.E.M.'s Early Years by Robert Dean Lurie 5. Meander Spiral Explode by Jane Alison 6. We Speak For Ourselves by D. Watkins 7. Everything In Its Place by Oliver Sacks 8. Chasing American Monsters by Jason Offutt 9. The Lines Between Us by Lawrence Lanahan 10. Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber ...