Local bestsellers for the week ended June 1
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Atria Books
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Berkley
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Knopf
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Doubleday
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Mariner Books
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Little, Brown and Company
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Ballantine Books
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Pamela Dorman Books
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Crown
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Mel Robbins
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Penguin Press
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Penguin Press
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W. W. Norton & Company
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Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster
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Scribner
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The Dial Press
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Random House
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John Green
Crash Course Books
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Berkley
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Harper Perennial
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Vintage
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Harper Perennial
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Transit Books
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Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster
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Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Vintage
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Crown
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Harper Perennial
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Michael Finkel
Vintage
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Vintage
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Haymarket Books
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Knopf
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Milkweed Editions
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Matt Kracht
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