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June 2025 Best Sellers

June 2025 Best Sellers

The Onion20-05-2025
Featured below are the month's most popular books. Our determinations are based on data collected from chain bookstores, independent retailers, and the illegally acquired personal information of private citizens.
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In this memoir, North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-un engages the reader in a deep exploration of technology, art, and the ushering in of an age of nuclear holocaust that will leave the entire planet uninhabitable.
Walter Isaacson writes the definitive biography of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak but refuses to ever refer to him with anything other than this derogatory nickname.
In his latest work, Malcolm Gladwell asks provocative questions like 'Do I still have enough cultural cachet for my book royalties to cover what I owe my bookie?'
Some bullshit that you grabbed in the Hudson News on the way to Houston. Better than thinking about how you're going to break it to the kids that their grandpa is dead.
The heart-wrenching story that's now 782 motion pictures.
With 200-plus pages of never-before-seen concept art, this compendium is a must-have for fans of Allan Alcorn's richly imagined digital universe.
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Why shell out for a Clifford book when the kid will never know it's a knockoff?
Sometimes, you just aren't able to read that many pages before book club.
Can't decide whether to read a book about wizards or space? This book has you covered.
The only time in history that the written word has resulted in the advancement of civilization.
If you loved the 1987 family comedy about a clumsy but affable handyman saving a camp, you'll surely find this book okay.
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