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27 books on sale · up to 50% off recent prices · showing drops of 15%+
Updated August 27, 2026
Hardcovers rarely go on sale, so a genuine drop is worth noticing. Everything below is priced under its recent normal price, is a new copy with free delivery, and is a book we have read and reviewed in full. 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 John Steinbeck
Price dropped Aug 18
John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men follows two migrant ranch hands chasing a small, shared dream of land in Depression-era California, and its short length hides one of American fiction's most devastating endings.
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by Susanna Clarke
Price dropped Aug 19
Susanna Clarke's Piranesi is a slim, dreamlike puzzle of a novel set inside an endless house of statues and tides. It's literary fantasy that trusts its reader: part mystery, part meditation on solitude and wonder, narrated by a man whose innocence runs the whole engine of the book.
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by Isabel Wilkerson
Price dropped Aug 22
Isabel Wilkerson tells the vast epic of the Great Migration through three unforgettable lives, a decade of interviews distilled into history that reads with all the pull of a novel. It restores six million private acts of courage to the center of the American century.
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by Jeannette Walls
Price dropped Aug 24
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 Freida McFadden
Price dropped Aug 26
Freida McFadden's The Divorce takes a woman scorned and lets her curdle, slowly, into something dangerous. Naomi loses the house, the husband, the whole storybook life she built. Then she skips grief entirely and starts watching the new girlfriend. A domestic thriller about obsession that keeps tightening the noose around its own narrator until quitting costs more than continuing.
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by Ann Patchett
Price dropped Aug 17
Ann Patchett's Whistler opens on two people who shared a single strange year decades ago and place each other again, much older now, across a crowded gallery at the Met. It's a hushed, deeply felt novel about memory and the small choices that quietly turn out to be the large ones. Best for readers who live for character-driven literary fiction.
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by Maggie Haberman
Price dropped Aug 15
Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan's Regime Change is a reported nonfiction account of Donald Trump's second term, built from hundreds of interviews inside the West Wing, and it reads less like a news roundup than a portrait of a White House that has stopped pretending anyone can tell the president no.
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by Mary Kay Andrews
Price dropped Aug 15
Mary Kay Andrews drives two estranged sisters from a Savannah funeral into the back lanes of Ireland, chasing a possibly priceless painting and the family story tangled up in it. Road Trip is warm, funny, and quietly bittersweet, a summer novel about grief, old grudges, and what it costs to stop speaking to the one person who remembers everything.
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by Gwen Florio
Price dropped Aug 2
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 Audrey Niffenegger
Price dropped Jul 23
Audrey Niffenegger's debut gives Henry a genetic disorder that flings him uncontrollably through his own timeline, and Clare the impossible task of loving a man who keeps vanishing. A swooning, inventive, deeply romantic time-travel love story.
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by Stephen Graham Jones
Price dropped Aug 24
Stephen Graham Jones turns The Buffalo Hunter Hunter into a horror novel built from the actual bones of American history: a vampire who was once Blackfeet, a massacre that really happened, and a descendant transcribing the journal that ties them together. It's historical fiction with fangs, patient and vicious in equal measure.
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by Madeline Miller
Price dropped Aug 18
Madeline Miller hands the page to Circe, the lesser goddess of myth, and lets her tell her own long life in luminous first person. It is mythological retelling at its most intimate: a story of exile, witchcraft, and the slow, hard-won making of a self.
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by Patricia Cornwell
Price dropped Aug 24
In True Crime: A Memoir, Patricia Cornwell traces the wreckage of her own childhood to explain how a neglected, shuttled-around kid became the forensic mind behind Kay Scarpetta, and the result is a memoir as unsparing as anything in her thrillers.
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by Caro Claire Burke
Price dropped Aug 17
Caro Claire Burke's Yesteryear is the rare satire that keeps sharpening after its premise lands: a tradwife influencer with eight million followers wakes inside the actual 1855 she's spent years performing, and her curated fantasy becomes a survival problem. Darkly funny, genuinely unsettling, and built for arguments.
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by Freida McFadden
Price dropped Aug 22
Freida McFadden turns an advice columnist into a woman done giving advice in Dear Debbie, a dark-comedy revenge thriller about a wife and mother who decides other people's consequences are finally due. It's a mean, funny, fast psychological thriller for readers who want their catharsis served cold.
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by Alexandre Dumas
Price dropped Aug 16
Alexandre Dumas's nineteenth-century revenge epic follows Edmond Dantès from a wedding-day arrest to a slow, calculated reckoning with the men who buried him. It's a sweeping adventure about patience, justice, and the cost of getting exactly what you wished for, and it earns every one of its many pages.
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by Amor Towles
Price dropped Aug 26
Amor Towles confines an aristocrat to a single hotel for the rest of his life and somehow writes one of the most expansive novels of the decade. A Gentleman in Moscow turns house arrest into a wry, deeply civilized meditation on how a person keeps their soul while the world outside is remade.
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by Grady Hendrix
Price dropped Aug 26
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 David McCullough
Price dropped Aug 25
David McCullough narrows the sprawling story of the American Revolution to a single, near-catastrophic year, following Washington's ragged army from the siege of Boston to the icy retreat across the Delaware.
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by Douglas Stuart
Price dropped Aug 21
Douglas Stuart's John of John is a Hebridean coming-of-age novel about a young gay man who returns to his father's croft and finds that the silence he grew up in has a cost for everyone, not just him. Fans of literary fiction built on family duty and buried truth will find this one hard to shake.
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by Emily Henry
Price dropped Aug 27
Emily Henry's dual-timeline romance follows two best friends who spend one week a year together on vacation and everything else avoiding what that actually means, a friends-to-lovers slow burn for readers who want the ache to stretch across a full decade before it breaks.
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by Christina Lauren
Price dropped Jul 17
The Unhoneymooners is a bright, fast, laugh-out-loud fake-dating romp: when food poisoning wipes out an entire wedding party, the bride's unlucky sister and the groom's insufferable best man are the only two left standing, so they grab the free Hawaii honeymoon and have to pretend to be newlyweds.
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by Rachel Gillig
Price dropped Aug 4
Rachel Gillig's The Knight and the Moth is a gothic romantasy about a prophetess bound to a cathedral of vanishing seers and the heretic knight she needs to find them. It's moody, funny in flashes, and built around a slow burn that actually earns its swoon.
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by Brandon Sanderson
Price dropped Aug 18
Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn: The Final Empire drops a street thief with a hidden power into a heist against a thousand-year tyrant, and builds one of fantasy's most rigorously logical magic systems along the way.
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by Andy Weir
Price dropped Aug 15
Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary wakes a man on a spaceship with no memory, no living crew, and a job that decides whether humanity survives. It's hard SF built as a survival puzzle, an amnesia story used as a working engine rather than a hook, and it's warm in ways the genre rarely manages.
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by Carley Fortune
Price dropped Aug 11
Carley Fortune strands two lifelong best friends on a honeymoon that was meant for someone else. Frankie and George have known each other since they were eight, and Our Perfect Storm puts all that history in a single rainy week on the Tofino coast. A friends-to-lovers romance that understands how much a shared past can cost.
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by Misha Brown
Price dropped Jul 29
Misha Brown turns a viral social-media voice into a four-step program for self-talk and boundaries he calls the SASS Method. Be Your Own Bestie is for anyone who's mastered being kind to everyone except themselves and wants a warmer, more workable route to holding limits and rewriting the running commentary in their own head.
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