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The third novel of the Regeneration Trilogy. Billy Prior returns to the front in 1918 alongside Wilfred Owen. Rivers, in London, treats surviving casualties while recovering memories of his anthropological fieldwork in Melanesia — and the parallels between the savagery of the islanders' head-hunting rituals and the Western Front's industrial slaughter become unavoidable.

Coleman Silk, a 71-year-old classics professor, is accused of making a racist remark about two Black students he has never met and whose names he did not know. The accusation ends his career. He is, in a secret he has kept for fifty years, Black himself — a light-skinned man who chose to pass as Jewish.

A collection of linked short stories introducing Geralt of Rivia, a witcher — a professional monster hunter whose moral compass is tested by the creatures he hunts, the people who hire him, and the world that neither trusts nor welcomes him.

Le Guin's landmark science fiction novel about an envoy from a galactic federation who visits a planet whose inhabitants are ambisexual — neither male nor female — and the profound implications for society and consciousness.

Detective Cassie Maddox is pulled back into undercover work when a murder victim is found bearing her exact face — and carrying the identity Cassie once used as an alias.

In the final volume of the Wolf Hall trilogy, Thomas Cromwell reaches the peak of his power as Henry VIII's chief minister — and begins the long fall that history has already pronounced inevitable. Mantel renders his last years with the same unflinching interiority that made the first two volumes masterpieces.

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home and remembers an extraordinary summer when he was seven, a magical neighbor girl, and a darkness that threatened to consume the world.

A theoretical physicist's meditation on the nature of time — what it is, why it flows in one direction, and what physics reveals about its deepest structure.

Jernau Gurgeh, the Culture's greatest game player, is sent to the Empire of Azad to compete in the civilization-defining game that gives the empire its name. The game is a mirror of the empire's values — and Gurgeh's progress through it is a confrontation with everything the Culture stands against.

Set in the same world as Perdido Street Station — Bellis Coldwine flees New Crobuzon on a ship that is captured by pirates and brought to Armada, a city built on a raft of lashed-together ships on the open sea.

A strategy for aggressive, self-directed learning that can help you master hard skills quickly and advance your career in the process.

Macfarlane descends — into caves beneath Somerset, into the Paris catacombs, into a salt mine in Slovenia, into the bedrock of Finland where nuclear waste will be buried for 100,000 years. A book about what lies beneath: time, death, and the dark matter of the planet.

A practical and philosophical guide to long-term travel — arguing that extended independent travel is not a luxury but a choice, and that most people can afford it if they are willing to rethink their relationship to money, time, and consumer culture.

A novelist travels to Jeju Island in the middle of a snowstorm to care for her friend's injured bird — and confronts the buried history of the Jeju April Third Incident, the 1948 massacre in which tens of thousands of Koreans were killed.

Long-Term Capital Management was a hedge fund run by Nobel laureates and bond-trading legends that nearly collapsed the global financial system in 1998. Lowenstein reconstructs the fund's rise — based on sophisticated arbitrage models — and its catastrophic fall when Russia defaulted and the models stopped working.

Dave Eggers, twenty-one, loses both parents to cancer within weeks of each other and becomes the primary guardian of his eight-year-old brother — a memoir that is also a meditation on memoirs and on the absurdity of claiming to capture grief in prose.

Peter Handke's mother killed herself in 1971 at the age of 51. He wrote this account six weeks later: an attempt to write a biography of someone who has been erased from history by her ordinariness, and a meditation on whether literary language can represent a real person without falsifying her. One of the great grief memoirs.

Peter Mayle and his wife abandon advertising careers in England to restore a farmhouse in the Luberon region of Provence — and spend a year navigating unpredictable tradesmen, extraordinary markets, and a way of life entirely organised around food.

Thomas Sutpen arrives in Jefferson, Mississippi in 1833 with a hundred slaves and a design: to build a dynasty. By the time Quentin Compson and his Harvard roommate Shreve piece the story together in 1910, the design has produced only catastrophe. Faulkner's most ambitious novel, told through multiple narrators across multiple decades.

The history of probability and risk management — from Pascal and Fermat's correspondence on gambling through the development of modern portfolio theory, the Black-Scholes formula, and derivatives. Bernstein argues that the mastery of risk is the defining achievement of the modern world.

Young Varguitas, an eighteen-year-old aspiring writer working at a Lima radio station, falls in love with his Aunt Julia (his uncle's ex-wife, fifteen years older). Meanwhile, the brilliant and possibly mad scriptwriter Pedro Camacho is turning out radio soap operas at an impossible rate—and slowly losing his mind. Vargas Llosa's most autobiographical and most comic novel.

Rebus investigates a murder that connects to the unsolved Bible John killings of the 1960s while simultaneously investigating the oil industry in Aberdeen and a copycat killer. The book that won the Gold Dagger and established Rebus as a major series.

Paul Theroux, one of the great travel writers in the English language, travels overland from Cairo to Cape Town — by bus, truck, ferry, and train — through some of the most troubled and beautiful countries in Africa, forty years after teaching there as a Peace Corps volunteer.

Kenzie and Gennaro are hired to protect a psychologist who has received death threats from a patient. As they investigate, they are drawn into a twenty-year pattern of murders in Dorchester and Charlestown — and into personal danger that will alter the series permanently.