This "celebration of the world of books" (Kirkus) from New York Times bestselling author James Patterson is a collection of riveting stories celebrating the heroic efforts of the people who are on the front lines getting our books into the world.​ To be...

“Enthralling and sharp-witted...Highly recommended.”―Karin Slaughter, New York Times and #1 international bestselling author“Bold, fearless...Prima Facie is a deeply rewarding, absolute must read.”―Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of We...

Two novellas by Peter Handke―his first works to be published since he won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature.The Second Sword and My Day in the Other Land are two novellas by the 2019 Nobel laureate Peter Handke. The first picks up the story where...

“The Blueprint is an astounding work, an unflinching portrait of misogyny and racism in a speculative world terrifyingly close to our own. Rae Giana Rashad chronicles the generational ghosts of womanhood, and how we understand ourselves through the...

Chosen by John Irving in the New York Times as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century“Paul Theroux has exploited this biographical lacuna with great shrewdness and gusto… his fictional account of Blair’s life there [Burma] is a valid and entirely...

A special paperback edition with colored sprayed edges of this compelling multigenerational novel of survival, love, and the families we make.“A family secret, a DNA test, a journey as rich and colorful as the early-day circus itself. Through Cecily...

“Our American Israel is masterful and deserves a larger audience.” ―Ta-Nehisi CoatesAn essential account of America’s most controversial alliance, and how that strong and divisive partnership plays our in our own time.In 1945, it was not inevitable that...

What would happen if I found myself in a black hole?Why is a heart not heart-shaped?Will I ever understand crypto-currency?Would Mr Darcy make a good life partner?What am I doing when I apricate?Is Everything Getting Worse?Dip into A Year of Living...

An ambitious genre-crossing exploration of Black speculative imagination, The Dark Delight of Being Strange combines fiction, historical accounts, and philosophical prose to unveil the extraordinary and the surreal in everyday Black life.In a series of...

Inspired by Mary Shelley's conviction that reading is a socially significant communal activity, this book presents four essays on modern interactions with literary classics. Ancient tragedy, Shakespeare, and Frankenstein are read anew in the context of...

Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity.Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, what we think of now as atrocities have not always invited...

Juxtaposing the world-building of afrofuturism and the world-negating of afropessimism to show how both movements have offered us critical resources of hope.Science fiction imagines aliens and global crises as world-unifying events, both a threat and...

Raised in a rural Oregon town plagued by poverty, the artist and writer Jaydra Johnson excelled in school and chased upward mobility, desperate to escape the adversity that she saw as her inheritance―and the certainty that she grew up as trash. Johnson’s...

Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger.In this book, Iona Heath writes about reading John...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Part of Quindlen’s gift is that you don’t just read about these characters, you inhabit them. . . . Luminous with life, hope and the power of love.”—People (A Book of the Week Pick)“[A] quietly revelatory and gently gleaming...

Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age story, chronicling a life-changing friendship, the interplay between music fandom and identity, and the slipperiness of sanitySet in the suburbs of Los Angeles...

Named a Recommended Read of the Year by The New Yorker and aNew York Times Critics Top Book of the YearOne of The Los Angeles Times's 15 Best Books of the YearOne of The New Statesman's 20 Best Books of the YearAn Electric Literature and Literary Hub...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Today, Electric Literature, Alta, the Chicago Review of Books, and The Millions. One of NPR's Books We Love.“Told by machines from the future, Blackburn’s idiosyncratic...

One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year: TIME, The Washington Post, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Publishers Weekly, Paste, The Millions, Kirkus Reviews, Lit Hub, Real Simple, Nylon, BookPage, The Story Exchange, Sunset, and Zibby MagDisarmingly witty and...

A beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author’s twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, and the writing life.On a cool summer evening in 1977, Mayumi Inaba hears a forlorn cry carried by the breeze of Tokyo’s...