All Books

Roxane Gay writes about her body — fat, surveilled, weaponized against her — and the sexual violence that shaped her relationship with it, with unflinching honesty and structural precision.

The story of Christopher McCandless, a young man from a privileged background who walked into the Alaskan wilderness alone in 1992 — and was found dead in an abandoned bus four months later.

The sequel to It Ends with Us, picking up Lily and Atlas's story as they cautiously rebuild a relationship while Lily co-parents with her ex-husband Ryle.

William Lowell Kane and Abel Rosnovski are born on the same day in 1906 — Kane to a wealthy Boston banking family, Abel to a Polish peasant family — and their parallel lives, shaped by the First World War, the Depression, and the Second World War, converge in a rivalry of consuming intensity that spans decades and continents.

Ex-military cop Jack Reacher is arrested for a murder he did not commit in a small Georgia town and uncovers a massive counterfeiting conspiracy that cost his brother his life.

A veteran orc mercenary retires from a life of violence to open the first coffee shop in a fantasy city, navigating the challenges of small business, unlikely friendships, and unexpected romance.

Florentino Ariza waits fifty-one years, nine months, and four days to tell Fermina Daza he loves her — and the novel asks what love is, what it does to a person, and whether it survives time.

The author of Sapiens argues that the defining question of the AI age is not whether AI is intelligent but whether AI is reliable — and traces the history of information networks, from cave paintings through printing presses to social media, to argue that AI represents something qualitatively new in kind.

A welder stumbles on a drug deal gone wrong in the Texas desert and takes the money, setting off a chain of pursuit involving a psychopathic killer and an aging sheriff who can no longer understand the world he patrols.

Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew meet on the night of their graduation in 1988, and the novel follows them on the same date — July 15th, St. Swithin's Day — every year for twenty years.

Intel CEO Andrew Grove introduces the concept of strategic inflection points — moments when the fundamentals of a business are changed by forces beyond its control — and explains how leaders can recognize and navigate them.

An eighteenth-century Paris parfumeur with an extraordinary sense of smell and no odor of his own commits a series of murders to create the world's most perfect perfume.

A family moves to rural Maine and discovers a burial ground in the woods with the power to resurrect the dead — with devastating consequences.

The founder of Bridgewater Associates shares the operating principles that guided his life and built one of the world's most successful hedge funds.

David Epstein argues that in a complex world, generalists who develop broad knowledge and late specialization often outperform narrow specialists — challenging the prevailing gospel of early specialization.

Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli's slim, lyrical introduction to modern physics. In seven short lessons, he illuminates general relativity, quantum mechanics, the architecture of the cosmos, the nature of time, and our place within it — physics rendered as poetry.

Melinda Sordino begins ninth grade as a social pariah after calling the police at an end-of-summer party — haunted by a secret she cannot speak about and slowly losing her ability to function.

New York lawyer Newland Archer is engaged to the perfectly suitable May Welland when the scandalous Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe — and complicates everything he thought he wanted.

Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt documents the sudden rise in adolescent mental illness since 2012 and argues that smartphone-based childhood — specifically social media — is the primary driver.

In 1940s Ohio, a young Black girl named Pecola Breedlove prays for blue eyes, believing beauty — as defined by the white standards she has absorbed — is the one thing that could save her from her world's cruelties.

The first volume of Philip Pullman's Book of Dust trilogy, a companion to His Dark Materials. Set ten years before The Golden Compass, it follows eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead, who discovers a conspiracy around the infant Lyra and must carry her to safety through a catastrophic flood.

Four plants — apple, tulip, cannabis, potato — and four human desires they satisfy — sweetness, beauty, intoxication, control. Pollan inverts the usual perspective: instead of humans cultivating plants, the plants are manipulating humans to spread their genes. A new way of thinking about co-evolution.

The Thursday Murder Club investigates a decade-old unsolved murder of a television journalist — while navigating a threat from a dangerous hitman who has targeted the Club itself.

Holden Caulfield, expelled from his fourth prep school, wanders New York for three days before a breakdown — narrating his alienation with an intensity that defined adolescent literary voice.