All Books

Vietnam, 1963 to 1983. Skip Sands is a CIA officer working for his uncle, a legendary colonel running a psychological operations program called Tree of Smoke. Around him: two brothers from Arizona, a Canadian missionary, a double agent. Johnson's National Book Award winner is the major American novel about the Vietnam War.

A desk-bound travel editor retraces Hiram Bingham's 1911 journey to Machu Picchu through the Peruvian Andes, interweaving his own misadventures with the controversial history of the 'discovery' that wasn't.

Written in 1920–21, We follows D-503, a mathematician-engineer of the One State's Glass City where citizens are reduced to numbered ciphers under total surveillance — the novel that invented modern dystopia and quietly handed its blueprints to Orwell and Huxley.

Christopher Banks, London's most celebrated detective in the 1930s, returns to Shanghai where his parents disappeared when he was a child. As the Sino-Japanese War rages around him, his investigation into his parents' fate reveals that his entire understanding of his childhood was a kind construction rather than reality.

Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler Studies at a Midwestern college, faces a toxic chemical disaster and an existential terror of death. DeLillo's National Book Award winner and a defining postmodern American novel.

Two investigations fifty years apart — a contemporary Lisbon detective uncovering a murdered girl's story, and a German SS officer managing Portugal's wartime wolfram trade — whose threads converge in a single act of historical violence.

A Swiss teacher abandons his life on impulse to follow a Portuguese philosopher's book to Lisbon, where he tries to reconstruct a life lived in the resistance against Salazar's dictatorship.

Seven short stories set across contemporary Thailand — a beach resort, a Bangkok suburb, a provincial festival, a military barracks — told from the perspectives of Thai characters navigating the friction between their country's traditions and its tourist economy.

On a Friday noon in July 1714, the finest bridge in Peru collapses and sends five travellers to their deaths. Brother Juniper, who witnesses the accident, spends the next six years investigating their lives to determine whether their deaths were divine plan or pure accident.

Three American expatriates travel through North Africa after World War II — and the desert progressively unmakes them, exposing what lies beneath their identity, their marriage, and their sense of self.

Ryder, a famous pianist, arrives in a Central European city for a concert. But the city's problems keep expanding to include him, his errands take impossible amounts of time, the streets rearrange themselves, and the people he meets keep revealing connections to his own forgotten past. Ishiguro's most formally radical novel, operating entirely in dream logic.

Thai detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep investigates the murder of an American Marine in Bangkok — a case involving jade smuggling, exotic snakes, and the city's sex industry, narrated with Buddhist equanimity and dark humour.

A five-year-old girl's-eye view of Marrakech in the early 1970s, as her unconventional mother pursues Sufi mysticism while her daughters navigate a world of souks, street life, and Moroccan school.

Twelve stories from The Strand Magazine collected into the first Holmes short story anthology, including A Scandal in Bohemia, The Red-Headed League, and The Speckled Band. The short story format reveals Conan Doyle's genius at compression — twelve complete puzzles delivered at full intensity.

Paul Bäumer enlists in the German army at 18, full of patriotic idealism, and spends the next few years watching his friends die one by one on the Western Front while the world that sent them there carries on. Remarque's novel is the definitive anti-war testimony: written in the flat, precise language of men who have stopped expecting rescue.

Maya Angelou's landmark collection of verse celebrating Black joy, female resilience, and the unbreakable human spirit in the face of oppression.

A convicted murderer has escaped Azkaban prison and is believed to be hunting Harry Potter, forcing Harry to confront the true story of his parents' betrayal and death. The mystery that unravels is more complicated, more painful, and more morally instructive than any straightforward threat.

A brave Scottish general is corrupted by ambition and prophecy, murders his king, seizes the throne, and descends into a tyranny from which there is no return.

Part memoir, part writing guide, Stephen King reflects on his life, his near-fatal accident, and the craft principles that have made him one of the most productive writers in American literature.

Two teenagers from feuding Verona families fall in love and die for it in the span of five days. Shakespeare's greatest love story is also his most formally perfect tragedy — the balcony scene, the potion plot, the final tomb — all locked into a structure so tight it compels a fatal outcome from the very first line.

Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, unadventurous hobbit, is swept away by the wizard Gandalf and thirteen dwarves on a quest to reclaim a mountain kingdom from the dragon Smaug. The predecessor to The Lord of the Rings — shorter, lighter in tone, and the perfect entry point to Middle-earth.

Robert Caro's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert Moses, the unelected master planner who shaped New York City for four decades and accumulated more power than any other American in the 20th century.

D'Artagnan arrives in Paris from Gascony, nearly duels Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, and promptly makes them all friends. Together the four Musketeers serve King Louis XIII while foiling the schemes of Cardinal Richelieu and the mysterious Milady de Winter. Dumas's greatest adventure novel is relentless entertainment — swashbuckling, witty, morally simple, and structurally impeccable.

In the kingdom of Westeros, the death of King Robert Baratheon sets off a brutal power struggle among the great houses. Ned Stark, appointed the King's Hand, finds himself in a web of treachery that threatens not only his family but the entire realm — while beyond the Wall, an ancient threat stirs.