Local bestsellers for the week ended Feb. 2
Riverhead Books
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Rebecca Yarros
Entangled: Red Tower Books
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Grove Press
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Henry Holt and Co.
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Grady Hendrix Berkley
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Hogarth
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Entangled: Red Tower Books
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St. Martin's Press
HARDCOVER NONFICTION
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Mel Robbins
Hay House LL
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Scribner
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Chris Hayes
Penguin Press
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Neko Case
Grand Central Publishing
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Erik Larson
Crown
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Knopf
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Oliver Burkeman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Ecco
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St. Martin's Press
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Doubleday
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Vintage
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Entangled: Red Tower Books
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Grove Press
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Vintage
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Catapult
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Poisoned Pen Press
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Octavia E. Butler
Grand Central
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Harper Perennial
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Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Atria Books
PAPERBACK NONFICTION
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Crown
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Knopf
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Milkweed Editions
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Vintage
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Vintage
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Penguin
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Morrow
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Penguin
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Julia Cameron
TarcherPerigee
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Vintage
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