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We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
My Body Keeps Your Secrets

2026

This Is Memorial Device
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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March: Book One

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Almost Completely Baxter: New and Selected Blurtings
After the Crash
Cloud Atlas
Muybridge

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Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City

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Good Girl
Skyward, Vol. 1

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Only Here, Only Now

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George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle
John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs
The Man Who Died Seven Times

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2025

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

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Slough House
The Royal We
The Ballad of a Small Player
The Guinnesses

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Joe Country
London Rules
Spook Street
Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain
Real Tigers

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Dead Lions

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Rise of The Super Furry Animals: A Wild Non-Fiction Account of Welsh Indie Rock and Global Fame
The Colour Of Magic

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Slow Horses

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Killing Thatcher

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The Cider House Rules

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Saga, Vol. 12

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2024

The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the other 99%
Eye of the Tiger: The Jock Shaw Story
The Young Team
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

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Duck Feet

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The Diary of a Secret Tory MP
MC5: An Oral Biography of Rock’s Most Revolutionary Band

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2023

Preacher, Book 1: Gone to Texas

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Saga, Vol. 10

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Ready Player One
Paper Girls, Vol. 1

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The Luminous Incal
The Black Incal

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Our Rangers Heroes: Incredible Stories of Forgotten Heroes from Across the Ages
Revolution: Rangers
The Satsuma Complex
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

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Saga, Vol. 11

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CARRIE KILLS A MAN

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Paper Girls, Vol. 2

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2022

Lonely Boy

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Sing Backwards and Weep
And Away...
Hell in Stalingrad

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Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book One
Saga, Vol. 6

2019

Alan Partridge: Nomad

2018

Saga, Vol. 8

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Saga, Vol. 9

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Beastie Boys Book

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The Conservationist

2017

All the Light We Cannot See

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Saga, Vol. 7

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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE

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John Lennon: The Life

2016

A Dance with Dragons
Alexander Hamilton

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2015

G. John Berger
In a Free State
The Siege Of Krishnapur

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A Feast for Crows
Saga, Vol. 5

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2014

House of Bush, House of Saud : The Hidden Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties

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Something to Answer For
Saga, Vol. 4

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The Elected Member
A Storm of Swords
Saga, Vol. 3

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Troubles

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Eddy Merckx
The Race to Truth: Blowing the whistle on Lance Armstrong and cycling's doping culture
Lanterne rouge

2013

Saga, Vol. 2

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Saga, Vol. 1

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A Clash of Kings
Domestique: The Real-life Ups and Downs of a Tour Pro

2012

A Game of Thrones
Bradley Wiggins: My Time: An Autobiography
Seven Deadly Sins: My Pursuit of Lance Armstrong

2011

Let the Right One In
The Long Midnight Of Barney Thomson
The Barber Surgeon's Hairshirt
Coffin Dodgers

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Rough Ride: Behind the Wheel with a Pro Cyclist
Mockingjay
I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan

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2010

Into the Wild

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No Angel: My Undercover Journey to the Heart of the Hells Angels
The Strain

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

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Catching Fire
Locke & Key, Vol. 3: Crown of Shadows

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2009

The Girl Who Played With Fire

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The Hunger Games
Locke & Key, Vol. 2: Head Games

2008

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft

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2007

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Jupiter's Travels

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The Secret Life of Houdini

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2006

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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2005

The Incredible Adam Spark
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

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2004

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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2003

Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived

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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

2002

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Life of Pi

2001

Hidden Agendas
Well remembered days: Eoin O'Ceallaigh's memoir of a twentieth-century Catholic life

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French Revolutions: Cycling the Tour de France
Racing through the dark
Good Vibrations : Coast to Coast by Harley
The Gangs of New York
The Death of Marco Pantani
Guy Martin: My Autobiography
Breakfast of Champions
Timequake
Cat's Cradle
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Prince

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A Prayer For Owen Meany
The Hotel New Hampshire
A Widow for One Year
The World According to Garp

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The Fourth Hand
The Old Man and the Sea

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Hide & Seek
The Hanging Garden
The Black Book
The Falls
Let It Bleed
Set in Darkness
The Naming of the Dead
A Question of Blood
Fleshmarket Alley
Mortal Causes
Black and Blue
Dead Souls
Resurrection Men
Strip Jack
Knots and Crosses
Tooth and Nail
Exit Music
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

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Hammer of the Gods
The Return of the King
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Life, the Universe and Everything
The Fellowship of the Ring
Mostly Harmless

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1984

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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Two Towers
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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A Short History of Nearly Everything
Notes from a Small Island
The Da Vinci Code
The Road
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood

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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction

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Hellboy, Vol. 2: Wake the Devil

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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Maus

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Blueberry: Fort Navajo, Ukkosta lännessä, Yksinäinen kotka

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