Books to Read

Inside this ranking: 15 headline-making yachts, following the source's published order and reported estimates. Prices can change and should be read as editorial estimates rather than live appraisals.

• Piranesi — For a Beautiful, Solvable Mystery — Piranesi — For a Beautiful, Solvable Mystery. Susanna Clarke's compact novel begins inside a seemingly endless House of halls, tides, and statues.
• Braiding Sweetgrass — For Science Joined With Reciprocity — Braiding Sweetgrass — For Science Joined With Reciprocity. Robin Wall Kimmerer brings botany, teaching, Indigenous knowledge, and personal experience into essays about how people attend to the living world.
• A Gentleman in Moscow — For a Long Stay in One Place — A Gentleman in Moscow — For a Long Stay in One Place. Amor Towles confines his protagonist to a grand hotel and then uses rooms, rituals, friendships, and historical change to keep the setting expansive.
• The Warmth of Other Suns — For History Through Lives — The Warmth of Other Suns — For History Through Lives. Isabel Wilkerson traces the Great Migration through three individual journeys, connecting private decisions to housing, labor, family, and regional change.

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