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Ask a Bookseller: ‘It Wasn't Meant to Be Perfect’ by Gaelynn Lea

Ask a Bookseller: ‘We Burned So Bright’ by TJ Klune

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Unicorn Hunters’ by Katherine Arden

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Before the Hunt’ by Barry Lyga

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Left and the Lucky’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Lilac People’ by Milo Todd

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Flourish’ by Daniel Coyle

Ask a Bookseller: ‘This Is Where the Serpent Lives’ by Daniyal Mueenuddin

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Brawler’ by Lauren Groff

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Crow Talk’ by Eileen Garvin

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Theo of Golden’ by Allan Levi

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Lady Tremaine’ by Rachel Hochhauser

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Witchcraft for Wayward Girls’ by Grady Hendrix

Ask a Bookseller: ‘If It Makes You Happy’ by Julie Olivia

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Read This When Things Fall Apart,’ edited by Kelly Hayes

Ask a Bookseller: A few books for understanding how language gets weaponized

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Begin Again’ by Oliver Jeffers

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Elsewhere Express’ by Samantha Sotto Yambao

Ask a Bookseller: ‘To the Moon and Back’ by Eliana Ramage

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Lightbreakers’ by Aja Gabel

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Road to Tender Hearts’ by Annie Hartnett

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Wilder Weather’ by Barbara Boustead

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Mona’s Eyes’ by Thomas Schlesser

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Poppy State’ by Myriam Gurba

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Red Notebook’ by Antoine Laurain

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Burner: And Other Stories’ by Katrina Denza

Ask a Bookseller: ‘I See You’ve Called in Dead’ by John Kenney

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Dominion’ by Addie E. Citchens

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Auditions for the Fox’ by Martin Cahill

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Coming Up Short’ by Robert B. Reich

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Correspondent’ by Virginia Evans

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Mafalda: Book One’ by Quino

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Why On Earth: An Alien Invasion Anthology’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Little Shrew’ by Akiko Miyakoshi

Ask a Bookseller: The Mighty Muskrats mystery series by Michael Hutchinson

Ask a Bookseller: Live at the State Fair

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Absent in the Spring’ by Agatha Christie re-published

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Hounding’ by Xenobe Purvis

Ask a Bookseller: ‘You Better Be Lightning’ by Andrea Gibson

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Bat Kid’ by Inoue Kazuo

Ask a Bookseller: ‘American Mythology’ by Giano Cromley

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Fox: A Novel’ by Joyce Carol Oates

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Sour Cherry’ by Natalia Theodoridou

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Pretender’ by Jo Harkin

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Old School Indian’ by Aaron John Curtis

Ask a Bookseller: ‘No One Was Supposed to Die at This Wedding’ by Catherine Mack

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The River Has Roots’ by Amal El-Mohtar

Ask a Bookseller: ‘My Friends’ by Fredrik Backman

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Buffalo Hunter Hunter’ by Stephen Graham Jones

Ask A Bookseller: ‘The Antidote’ by Karen Russell

Ask a Bookseller: ‘There Are Rivers in the Sky’ by Elif Shafak

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Black Liturgies’ by Cole Arthur Riley

Ask a Bookseller: ‘We Will Be Jaguars’ by Nemonte Nenquimo

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Under the Whispering Door’ by TJ Klune

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Dream Count’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Dictionary of the Undoing’ by John Freeman

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better About the World’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Practice, The Horizon and the Chain’ by Sofia Samatar

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Blob: A Love Story’ by Maggie Su

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Black Woods, Blue Sky’ by Eowyn Ivey

Ask a Bookseller: ‘A More Perfect Party‘ by Juanita Tolliver

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Serviceberry' by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Wealth of Shadows’ by Graham Moore

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Blue Sisters’ by Coco Mellors

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees’ by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Let Us Descend’ by Jesmyn Ward

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Modern Poetry’ by Diane Seuss

Ask a Bookseller: ‘No Two Persons’ by Erica Bauermeister

Ask a Bookseller: ‘North Woods’ by Daniel Mason

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Just Us’ by Minnesota author Molly Beth Griffin

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Smothermoss’ by debut author Alisa Alering

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Colored Television’ by Danzy Senna

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Scrap’ by Calla Henkel

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Spellshop’ by Sarah Beth Durst

Ask a Bookseller: 'Penance' by Eliza Clark

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Everything We Never Had’ by Randy Ribay

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Attack of the Black Rectangles’ by Amy Sarig King

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Tree. Table. Book.‘ by Lois Lowry

Minnesota booksellers talk recommendations, BookTok and how Gen Z is saving bookstores

Ask a Bookseller: ’Dahlia’s Make a Difference Day’ by Jackie Brown

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Bitch: On the Female of the Species’ by Lucy Cooke

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Wedding People’ by Alison Espach

Ask a Bookseller: ‘For the Night’ by Rae Lyse

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Sweet Blue Distance’ and ‘The Frozen River’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Women of Good Fortune’ by Sophie Wan

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Hula’ by Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Star Bringer’ by Tracy Wolff and Nina Croft

Ask a Bookseller: ‘All the Colors of the Dark’ by Chris Whitaker

Ask a Bookseller: ‘We Mostly Come Out at Night’ edited by Rob Costello

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Ministry of Time’ by Kaliane Bradley

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Pest’ by Michael Cisco

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Aednan: An Epic’ by Linnea Axelsson

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea’ by Rebecca Thorne

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Devil’s Element’ by Dan Egan

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Martyr!’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Honey’ by Victor Lodato

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Art and Fear’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Three Little Tardigrades: A Slightly Scientific Fairy Tale’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension’

Ask A Bookseller: ‘The Bullet Swallower’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Is God Is’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Violin Conspiracy’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Yours Truly’

Ask A Bookseller: ‘The September House’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Black Queen’

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Eyes and the Impossible'

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Boys in the Boat’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Best Barbarian’

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Half-White Album'

Ask a Bookseller: 'All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Twelve Hours of Christmas'

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Maniac’

Ask a Bookseller: 'What the River Knows'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Truth about Horses' explores the nature of healing

Ask a Bookseller: ‘The Women’s House of Detention’

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Babel’

Ask A Bookseller: 'A Rake of His Own'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Ke Kumu Aupuni: The Foundation of Hawaiian Nationhood'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Night of the Living Rez'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Blue Bear'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Saints of the Household'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Bathe the Cat'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Dear Mothman'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Wild Guide to Starting School'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Fox and I'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Horse'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Kala' is a rip-roaring thriller

Ask a Bookseller: 'Less'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Chain-Gang All-Stars'

Ask a Bookseller: 'For Her Consideration'

Ask a Bookseller: 'On the Savage Side'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Racism of People Who Love You'

Ask a Bookseller: 'They're Going to Love You'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The English Understand Wool'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Wandering Souls'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Blood Debts' combines family secrets, political intrigue and magic

Ask a Bookseller: 'The God of Endings'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Poetics of Wrongness'

Ask a Bookseller: David Copperfield reimagined in Appalachia

Ask a Bookseller: A fast-paced thriller dives into Indigenous history, culture

Ask a Bookseller: A picture book that makes busy moms feel seen

Ask a Bookseller: 'Here Goes Nothing'

Ask a Bookseller: A mother-daughter story of travel and art

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Measure'

Ask A Bookseller: 'Upgrade' blends sci-fi and thriller genres

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Guest Lecture,' a late-night philosophical debate

Ask a Bookseller: Laziness does not exist

Ask a Bookseller: 'Ahmed Aziz's Epic Year' from April 2022

Ask a Bookseller: 'Inheritance'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Fathers, Sons and the Holy Ghosts of Baseball'

Ask a Bookseller: "Another Appalachia"

A YA thriller delves into the post-WWII history of Poland and Ukraine

Ask a Bookseller: "Found Audio" is a creepy fall read

Ask a Bookseller: An inventive novel maps our spectacular bodies

Ask a Bookseller: part memoir, part Ojibwe cultural toolbox

Ask a Bookseller: Stay True

Ask a Bookseller: the poetry of desire

Ask a Bookseller: A Spoonful of Frogs

Ask a Bookseller: an award-winning graphic novel, soon to be a series

Ask a Bookseller: a portal into a fantastical world

Ask a Bookseller: Middle grades novel examines how history is written, and who gets left out

Ask a Bookseller: Innovative novel explores one 'nuclear' family

Ask a Bookseller: Dorothy Hughes’ classic noir fiction

Ask a Bookseller: 'Nettle and Bone' is a twisted fairy tale with horror and humor

Ask a Bookseller: 'Book Lovers'

Ask a Bookseller: Little Rabbit is a steamy debut

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Lying Life of Adults'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Overnight Guest' is a suspenseful ride

Ask a Bookseller: A summer thriller debut by a Twin Cities author

Ask a Bookseller: a sci-fi romance that steers clear of gender

Ask a Bookseller: Groundhog’s Day meets freshman year of college

Ask a Bookseller: "Brown Girls" is a poetic chorus of voices

Ask a Bookseller: 'Vigil Harbor'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Ogress and the Orphans' leaves you filled with hope

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Verifiers'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Lessons in Chemistry'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Island Queen' celebrates an ambitious Black woman entrepreneur from history

Ask a Bookseller: 'American War,' set in the future, reflects aspects of today

Ask a Bookseller: 'One for the Blackbird and One for the Crow'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Civilizations' imagines a Europe colonized by Incas and Aztecs

Ask a Bookseller: 'Unfamiliar Fishes' is delightful and informative

Ask a Bookseller: 2020 captured in words and images

Ask a Bookseller: 'See Me in the Wonder' is an affirmation of life after loss

Ask a Bookseller: A new exploration of America's last slave ship and its legacy

Ask a Bookseller: Loved the movie? Try reading 'Dune'

Ask a Bookseller: What does it mean to leave a mark on the world?

Ask a Student: Book series elementary school kids love

Ask a Bookseller: What does it mean to be a monster?

Ask a Bookseller: 'Tiny Americans' follows one family over 40 years

Ask a Bookseller: ‘I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness’

Ask a Bookseller: A unique murder mystery

Ask a Bookseller: A climate-change driven YA sci-fi

Ask a Bookseller: Crime-solving, ghost-hunting pet capers

Ask a Bookseller: A picture book for when it’s hard to get the words out

Ask a Bookseller re-sings the tales of Ovid from the women’s points of view

Ask a Bookseller: 'Hola Papi' offers comical memoir in essays

Ask a Bookseller: 'Skunk and Badger'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The House in the Cerulean Sea' is a feel-good read

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Netanyahus'

Ask a bookseller: 'Honey Girl,' a charming story about finding the love you deserve

Ask a Bookseller: 'Bubblegum' offers a 'wonderous slog'

Ask a Bookseller: A novel celebrating everyday beauty

Ask a bookseller recommends very short stories — all about ghosts

Ask a Bookseller: Read this 'totally gripping' novel set in Nazi-occupied Norway

Ask a Bookseller: ‘Solutions and Other Problems’

Ask a Bookseller: A mystery without the procedure in 'Picnic in the Ruins'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Witches Steeped in Gold' is a Jamaican-inspired YA fantasy

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Copenhagen Trilogy' introduces Danish poet Tove Ditlevsen to English readers

Ask a Bookseller: Part memoir, part home redecorating saga

Ask a bookseller: A picture book about recognizing value where others don’t

Ask a Bookseller: 'Milk Fed,' a novel about self-discovery — and frozen yogurt

Ask a Bookseller: 'Saint X' is not your typical thriller

Ask a Bookseller: A northern Minn. author explores the aftermath of a shooting

Ask a bookseller: 'The Magical Language of Others' gives a compassionate look at mother-daughter relationships

Ask a Bookseller: A master class on writing, reading — and life

Ask a Bookseller: 'Gods of the Upper Air'

Ask a Bookseller: Let’s talk about money

Ask a Bookseller: 'Fresh Water for Flowers'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Mercy Falls'

Ask a Bookseller: 'The Most Spectacular Mistake'

Ask a Bookseller: 'A heaping helping of joy'

Ask a Bookseller: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

Ask a bookseller, Halloween edition: An apocalyptic read keeps you asking 'what else could happen?'

'Piranesi,' a perfect fall read leading up to Halloween

A bookseller recommends 'The City in the Middle of the Night'

Ask a Bookseller: 'Sharks in the Time of Saviors'

'Vote for Our Future' answers kids' questions about elections

A book that gives you 'Some Kind of Happiness' on lonely, blue days

A West African fantasy with enveloping world-building

A bookseller recommends 'I Am Every Good Thing' for back to school

A new translation reimagines Beowulf, spotlighting female 'warrior'

'Empire of Wild' interweaves mystery and love

Exploring lives of whales in a time of climate change

A visit to a magical small town that you don't want to end

For fantasy fans looking for their next book series

The latest entry in a new wave of memoirs

'A Burning' has booksellers talking

Stock up on hot chocolate before reading this book

A story of how far people will go for love

'Woman on the Edge of Time' still captivates

The history of Wisconsin's love affair with beer

A hilarious and razor-sharp debut

The book that just keeps selling

'A different way of understanding the story'

A 'beautifully told' family drama

The stunning memoir that could make Hemingway jealous

Your perfect Halloween read

A story of the kidnapped children of Spain

'An incredible depiction of small town life'

A dangerous search for a dozen eggs

The wisdom of Anthony Bourdain

Meet 'the greatest American novelist you’ve never heard of'

A gateway to Greek mythology

If you love Octavia Butler, Colson Whitehead and Toni Morrison

The intricacies of female friendship

A very different dragon tale

An 'excruciatingly beautiful' novel from a celebrated poet

Colson Whitehead's new novel 'is the work of a master'

Constantinople; Michelangelo; Elephants

The absurd, hilarious classic you shouldn't skip

'Beautiful' essays that address race, family, religion and more

'Great writing, great style, a nice long page turner'

An 'absolutely wonderful' novel of hidden identities

'Hands down, it's the best book I've ever read'

The power of an unforgettable character

It begins with a letter in a cemetery

Where myth, magical realism and women's bodies mix

An assassin walks into a library

A family road trip story unlike any you've read

Escaping death -- seven or eight times

From Broadway to your bookshelf

'Grace and power' on full display in this new story collection

A space opera with a side of Byzantine history? Let's do this

A myth-like novel that's 'original in its approach to magic'

A man looks back on those he lost

What does a father mean when you've never had one?

What Shakespeare teaches us about tyrants

The totally fascinating history of ... milk?

Laughs, loss and a spunky goat come together in a new road-trip novel

A story collection with characters so vivid 'you inhabit their bones'

Capturing the 'Voices of Mississippi'

The personal, the political, the poetic

The love story of C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman

'Definitely not for the squeamish, but endlessly fascinating'

This novel delivers a 'mix of horror and elegance'

A shadowy book about the end of the world and the power of letters

'Woman World': Where the future is female

A book that proposes 'every living thing has two bodies'

A 'fresh, unpredictable' Western with a strong female lead

An almost-too-real portrait of modern Russia

Brash, funny and tender: A new poetry collection for your reading list

Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie and the history of protest

'The Wedding Portrait' explains activism for a young audience

An immortal goddess gets her due

When you suddenly become 'internet famous'

A look at the history of Canada's residential schools

Take this book on your next picnic, and hope for rain

Twist alert: Here's the 'perfect mystery for summer'

Historical fiction and magical realism meet in Alaska

This novel is 'a thinker's summer read'

'The writing is just electric': A bookseller on his favorite read of the year

A (cute) lesson in how 'you can be different -- and yet still be friends'

Recipes for a good story

Murakami mesmerizes with his fiction, but his nonfiction is not to be missed

'A good, old-fashioned page turner' from Jennifer Egan

An 'elegant, accessible, transcendent, earthy' poetry collection

When Teddy Roosevelt went to the Amazon

If the Civil War ended with zombies

For Ferrante fans, another story of 'a very strong woman, very well told'

'You're rooting for the good guys, and you can just smell and breathe the bad guys'

Would you want to know the exact date of your death?

An author who starts where most others end

A powerful look at black girls' path through the education system

'Loaded': A look at the complex history of the Second Amendment

'Based on a True Story': A creepy, twisty page-turner

'Black Panther' fans, here's your next read

A novel on the power and pains of sisterhood

Where 'life is locked in an interlude of longing'

A perfect example of 'if these walls could talk'

What does it really take to be a writer?

In a time of wishes, two books for young readers

That time you fell in love with a mutant potato

A brutal crime and the beginning of the FBI

The best fantasy book ever published?

'Stephen Florida' is a study in obsession -- and college wrestling

A book about the "small acts that can turn friends into family"

Finding humanity in a computer lab

A road trip novel that dredges up the past

A cookbook made for tiny, unconventional kitchens

An 'inventive and engrossing' memoir, 10 years in the making

'Beautiful Darkness': A dark story, gorgeously illustrated

Strange occurrences in a rainy Irish valley are just the beginning

A 'hypnotic,' 'pointillistic' novel

Seven fantasy and sci-fi recommendations from a diehard reader

A 'completely hypnotic' book to spend the afternoon with

A look back at the Battle of Hue, in time for the 50th anniversary

For 'Jaws' fans, a look at what it's really like to hunt a shark

The case for short stories: 'How can you not be satisfied with this one perfect, delicious thing?'

Historical fiction and shades of 'Goosebumps': An escapist middle grade read

How to become a 'superforecaster'

Love and arson in rural Virginia

A new spy thriller that's 'very well-researched -- and very scary'

Dive into the twisted world of 18th century New York City

An island inhabited by nine -- and only nine -- orphans

Raising a chimp as part of the family

The stories behind twelve different bullet wounds

This big book could carry you through the summer

A brilliant novel told through ten conversations

Wonder women: A history of female characters in comic books

A novel that asks: How do we forgive the ones we love?

'If you ever want to understand the immigrant experience,' read this book

An underground library and the perfect mystery

A book that offers 'healing to us as a human family'

A thriller for those who loved 'Clueless' and 'Mean Girls'

'A little bit dark, a little bit odd, always absolutely beautiful': The short stories of Carys Davies

The story of 'The Other Einstein': His wife

On Douglas Adams's 65th birthday, pick up 'The Hitchhiker's Guide'

An unnerving thriller that will stick with you for weeks

The story of the 'last true hermit,' who lived alone in the woods for 27 years

'The New Jim Crow' and 'The Communist Manifesto': Best-sellers in the age of Trump

What it's like to have -- and lose -- a sister

A family locks itself away after a series of murders

With wisdom, humor and regret, an 85-year-old takes a walk

'Homesick': An edgy and gritty collection of short stories