All Books

Travis, a troubled teenager sent to live with his uncle in rural Oklahoma after an incident with his stepfather, finds unexpected purpose in writing — and in watching Casey, a young woman who trains horses, attempt to tame the unrideable Star Runner.

Michael Chabon's big-hearted novel of Oakland. Two friends, one Black and one white, run a beloved used-record store threatened by a new megastore, while their wives work as midwives and their families' secret histories surface — a maximalist comedy of race, friendship, music, and place.

Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman discover that their employer Nick Fleming is actually Nicholas Flamel — the legendary medieval alchemyst — and are drawn into a centuries-old battle between immortal figures from history and mythology over the Book of Abraham the Mage.

Six magicians are recruited into the Alexandrian Society, a secret organization that guards the world's most dangerous knowledge — but only five will be initiated.

Bruce Medway takes on a job in Ivory Coast that involves a dead American, a missing consignment of weapons-grade materials, and the fractious politics of West African civil conflict. The second Medway novel deepens the portrait of the region's corruption and violence while sending its protagonist deeper into danger than the first book managed.

When a narcotics detective is found dead of an apparent suicide, Harry Bosch isn't satisfied with the easy answer. His unauthorized investigation leads from the LAPD's own ranks to the Mexican border and a deadly new drug called black ice, into a case the department would rather he leave alone.

The conclusion of the All Souls trilogy — Diana and Matthew return to the present, the mysteries of Ashmole 782 are resolved, and the conflict between creatures and the Congregation reaches its conclusion.

A sixteen-year-old American boy, Frank Pierson, appears at Tom Ripley's door in France claiming to have pushed his wheelchair-bound millionaire father off a cliff. Ripley, intrigued, takes the boy under his wing and accompanies him to Berlin — where they attend transvestite clubs in West Berlin, encounter kidnappers, and where Ripley must decide how much he cares about what happens to this strange, guilty young man.

A young Chicago lawyer takes on the appeal of a Mississippi death-row inmate convicted of a Klan bombing decades earlier. The catch: the condemned man is his own grandfather, an unrepentant racist, and the clock to execution is running down to weeks.

A vast Edwardian panorama following several interconnected families from the Arts and Crafts movement of the 1890s through the catastrophe of the First World War, centred on Olive Wellwood, a writer of fairy tales for children who uses her stories to contain what she cannot say to her family directly.

The sequel to Jonathan Coe's The Rotters' Club. Reuniting its Birmingham schoolfriends in the New Labour Britain of the millennium, The Closed Circle follows them into disillusioned middle age, anatomizing the Blair years with Coe's trademark blend of social satire, comedy, and melancholy.

Retired from the LAPD and at odds with the department, Harry Bosch is asked by his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, to investigate a murder Haller's client is accused of committing. For a lifelong cop, working for the defense is a betrayal of everything he believes — but if the client is innocent, the real killer is still free.

Robert Forester has been watching a young woman, Jenny, through her kitchen window each evening — not prurient but drawn to the warmth of her domestic life, which contrasts with his disintegrating own. When Jenny discovers him, she is not frightened — she is fascinated. The novel spirals into false accusation, murder, and the complete unravelling of social reality as everyone around Robert becomes convinced he is responsible for things he didn't do.

Saul Bellow's brooding novel of two cities. Albert Corde, a Chicago dean, travels to communist Bucharest to attend his mother-in-law's deathbed, and finds himself contemplating the moral decay of both his American city and the gray totalitarian one — a meditation on civilization, conscience, and ruin.

Thomas finally has the answers he's been seeking — who WICKED is, what the Trials were for, and what the Flare does to its victims. But the cure may cost more than anyone imagined, and WICKED's final phase has only just begun.

Harry Bosch catches two cases at once: a cold-case DNA hit that impossibly points to a suspect who was only eight years old at the time, and the fatal fall of a city councilman's son — investigated at the personal request of Bosch's oldest enemy. With his own retirement clock ticking, Bosch works both to the bone.

Henry James's light, charming early comedy of manners. Two worldly, Europeanized cousins descend on their staid Puritan relatives in rural New England, and the collision of Old World sophistication and New World earnestness produces one of James's sunniest and most accessible novels.

With the recession gutting his business, Mickey Haller has turned to foreclosure defense — until one of his clients, a woman fighting to keep her home, is accused of murdering the banker trying to take it. The case drags Haller back into the criminal courtroom, defending a client whose guilt is far from clear.

A foreign film director is found dead in a luxury Bangkok hotel. Sonchai's investigation leads him to the heroin trade, a Tibetan Buddhist master in Kathmandu who is also a drug lord, and a meditation on the nature of attachment — the root of suffering in Buddhist teaching, and also the engine of the drug trade. The fourth Sonchai novel, expanding the series to Nepal.

Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow address three fundamental questions: Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do the laws of physics have the form they do? What is the nature of reality? Their answer, M-theory, generated significant controversy.

Six years after the catastrophe at Jurassic Park, mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm joins a covert expedition to Isla Sorna — Site B — where InGen's dinosaurs have been breeding and evolving without human interference. What they find there is far more dangerous than anyone anticipated.

Brown University, early 1980s. Madeleine Hanna is writing her senior thesis on the Victorian marriage plot in literary fiction; Mitchell Grammaticus is having a religious crisis; Leonard Bankhead is brilliant, charismatic, and bipolar. Their triangular relationship unfolds against the backdrop of literary theory and manic depression.

In 18th-century Barcelona, an illegitimate child named Miquel Puig becomes a master painter of religious art — navigating the guilds, the Church, and his own turbulent loves in a city of contradictions.

A lawyer faked his own death, vanished with ninety million dollars, and built a new life in Brazil. Four years later the bounty hunters find him. Now Patrick Lanigan must outwit the vengeful partners, the FBI, and a murder charge using the one weapon he never stopped sharpening: the law.