Scribner Book Company, June 1998. Trade Paperback. Ishmael Reed's classic, sharp and characteristically funny story of the Civil War, now updated with a new foreword by the author and a fresh introduction by Victor Lavalle. Three slaves infected with Dysaethesia Aethipica (a term coined in the 19th century for the..... More
Vintage, July 2018. Trade Paperback. A New York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club Pick From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading--and reliving--Homer's epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate..... More
Vintage, January 2010. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of The Covenant of Water A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of Ethiopia and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. - "Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist."..... More
Vintage, February 2025. Trade Paperback. PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION - A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - From one of our most accomplished novelists, a mesmerizing story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in the chaotic aftermath of the..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, April 2026. Hardcover. THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE - OPRAH'S #1 MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 - A luminous memoir in essays from the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, who reflects on her origins and the mysteries of memory. "A brilliant, wide-ranging book, nostalgic and tough-minded..... More
Riverhead Books, August 2026. Hardcover. NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE BOSTON GLOBE, GOODREADS, LITERARY HUB, AND THE MILLIONS "Who is a greater novelist than Chang-rae Lee?"--The Los Angeles Times "He has redefined not only what it means to be American, but the..... More
Ballantine Books, August 2013. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The shark-versus-man classic that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg movie--now in a fiftieth anniversary edition with an exclusive foreword from the author's wife, renowned ocean conservation advocate Wendy Benchley "A tightly written, tautly paced study of terror."--The Washington Post..... More
Vintage, March 2021. Trade Paperback. The New York Times BEST HISTORICAL FICTION OF THE YEAR The Guardian's BEST FICTION OF THE YEAR Thrillist's BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Daniel Kehlmann, author of The Director, transports the medieval legend of the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel to the seventeenth century in an enchanting..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2023. Hardcover. This slim volume of letters from the poet and mystic, Rainer Maria Rilke, to a nineteen-year-old cadet and aspiring poet named Franz Xaver Kappus, has touched millions of readers since it was first published in English in 1934. The translator, Mary Dows..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2026. Hardcover. In American popular music, we often glorify rebellious artists and "outlaws." But in The Midnight Special, Colin Asher tells a deeper story about the criminal justice system's impact on our musicians, explored through compelling portraits of five artists whose careers span the..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2022. Trade Paperback. Hailed in the New York Times as "a naturalist who can unfurl a sentence with the breathless ease of a master angler," Robert Macfarlane brings his glittering style to a profound work of travel writing, reportage, and natural history. Is a...... More
Liveright Publishing Corporation, April 2026. Hardcover. Originating nearly four thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, the epic of Gilgamesh tells the story of a tyrannical king and his wild counterpart, Enkidu, spawned by the gods to rein in the king's cruel tendencies. They face off in a violent wrestling match..... More
Little Brown and Company, July 2026. Hardcover. A searing and strikingly intimate debut set in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, about a newly married lesbian couple who move into a flipped foreclosure, unaware that the former homeowners are still living in the attic. Months after the housing bubble..... More
Mulholland Books, September 2022. Trade Paperback. In this deliciously noir novel from the creator of HBO's Bored to Death, idiosyncratic private detective Happy Doll embarks on a quest to help a dying friend in a sun-blinded Los Angeles as "quirky, edgy, charming, funny and serious" as its protagonist (Lee Child)..... More
Back Bay Books, May 2005. Trade Paperback. David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveler. He eats a hamburger..... More
Little, Brown Paperbacks, June 2001. Trade Paperback. This vibrant collection of expat essays from legendary humorist David Sedaris is a cause for jubiliation. Sedaris's move to Paris in the early aughts inspired hilarious pieces, such as "Me Talk Pretty One Day", about his attempts to learn French. His family is..... More
New Directions Publishing Corporation, June 2022. Trade Paperback. While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions..... More
New Directions Publishing Corporation, November 2024. Trade Paperback. A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 The first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at the edge of..... More
New Directions Publishing Corporation, November 2024. Trade Paperback. A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024 A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE Tara Selter, the heroine of On the Calculation of Volume, has involuntarily stepped..... More
Back Bay Books, November 2012. Trade Paperback. In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 2018. Trade Paperback. The Great Lakes--Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior--hold 20 percent of the world's supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems..... More
New Directions, January 2014. Trade Paperback. A bestseller in France and winner of Japan's Kiyama Shohei Literary Award, The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A...... More
New Directions, May 2020. Trade Paperback. Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba--the catastrophe that led to the displacement and exile of some 700,000 people--and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers murder an..... More
Wayne State University Press, May 2026. Trade Paperback. A vivid portrait of trying to find home when two places are calling. Alex Vartan Gubbins paints a stunning portrait of a life lived between his two homelands: Michigan and Armenia. Written primarily in English with some poems in Armenian, this collection..... More
Tachyon Publications, February 2026. Trade Paperback. Discover the vast worlds and pocket universes of Michael Swanwick (Stations of the Tide), the only author to win science fiction's most prestigious award five times in six years. In his dazzling new collection, the master of speculative short stories returns with new tales..... More