A country nature columnist is accidentally sent to cover a war in the fictional African nation of Ishmaelia by a press baron who wanted a different journalist — Waugh's satire of foreign correspondents, Fleet Street, and the construction of news.
The Vestrit family's liveship — a wizardwood vessel that becomes sentient after absorbing three generations of deaths at the helm — is contested between family members as debt, grief, and ambition pull it in different directions. Hobb's second Realm of the Elderlings trilogy expands the world of the Farseer books outward into the sea-trading culture of Bingtown.
A new Grishaverse story from Leigh Bardugo, releasing June 30, 2026. Set after Crooked Kingdom, A Darker Shore is a mystery told through found documents from Ketterdam, with illustrations, original music, and in-world collectible items.
Paul Morel grows up in a Nottinghamshire mining village, caught between his possessive mother's ambitions for him and his own desires — for art, for independence, for women who are not his mother. The first great working-class bildungsroman in English.
River Cartwright's legendary grandfather David — the Old Bastard, founder of a generation of British intelligence — appears to be losing his mind. But the intelligence world doesn't really lose its old warriors: it uses them up, and someone is using David Cartwright very deliberately.
Barbara Tuchman's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of General Joseph Stilwell, through whose career she traces half a century of American policy toward China — and the folly of American assumptions about that country.
The quiet, ordinary life of William Stoner — Missouri farm boy, English professor, failed husband and father — told with such precision and compassion that it becomes a meditation on what makes a life worth living.
The new novel from R. F. Kuang, releasing September 8, 2026. Taipei Story is a wryly humorous, profoundly moving coming-of-age novel about grief, language, and culture shock, set against the backdrop of an unforgettable summer in Taipei.
Rich Dad Advisor Tom Wheelwright's guide to using tax law as a wealth-building tool — legally reducing your tax burden through the same strategies wealthy investors use.
Victoria Aveyard's adult fantasy debut, releasing September 8, 2026. Tempest is the first book of the Lyrian Sea duology — a romantic, pirate-flavored epic billed as the Red Queen author's most romantic book yet.
Dick Diver, a brilliant American psychiatrist on the French Riviera in the 1920s, has married his former patient Nicole and constructed a life of exquisite social grace — which we watch unravel across the novel.
The title story — in which the narrator discovers a point in space that contains all other points simultaneously — is Borges's most ambitious and most affecting piece, alongside 'The Zahir,' 'The Dead Man,' 'The Theologians,' and other stories engaging with infinity, identity, and the impossibility of complete knowledge.
Wax and Wayne pursue the legendary Bands of Mourning — a set of metalminds said to grant any user the full power of the Lord Ruler — leading them into uncharted lands and the revelation of a hidden civilization.
The story of Michael Oher — a homeless Black teenager taken in by a wealthy white family in Memphis who goes on to become an NFL first-round pick — intertwined with an economic history of how American football came to value the left tackle, the position that protects a quarterback's blind side, above almost any other.
Activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor argues that radical self-love — the unconditional acceptance of your body exactly as it is — is not a personal practice but a political act that dismantles systems of oppression.
Atul Gawande argues that the humble checklist is the most powerful tool available for reducing failure in complex environments — drawing on evidence from surgery, aviation, construction, and finance to make the case.
Roland the Gunslinger, wounded and feverish on a beach between worlds, must draw three companions from our world through mysterious doors: Eddie Dean, a heroin addict from 1987 New York; Odetta Holmes, a woman with a fractured personality; and Jack Mort, a serial killer whose removal from his world has unforeseen consequences.
Roland's ka-tet journeys through a decaying post-apocalyptic landscape toward the city of Lud, where a murderous computer named Blaine the Mono issues riddles to all who would ride him out of the dying city. Jake Chambers returns to the group, but his paradoxical existence threatens to destroy Roland's mind.
After resolving the Blaine cliffhanger, Roland tells his ka-tet the story of his first quest at fourteen: his love affair with Susan Delgado in the town of Hambry, and the betrayal that shaped everything he became. A 600-page flashback that is simultaneously the longest and most essential Dark Tower novel.
Based on the true story of Mila Pavlichenko — a Soviet history student turned Red Army sniper who becomes the most lethal female sniper in history with 309 confirmed kills. When she travels to America in 1942 on a propaganda tour, a shadowy figure begins targeting her, and Mila must use the same precision that kept her alive at Sevastopol.
As the American Revolution approaches, Jamie and Claire build a community at Fraser's Ridge through the early 1770s. The longest Outlander novel follows multiple characters through births, marriages, illnesses, and the Regulators uprising — a vast portrait of colonial life on the frontier of history.
Maia, the half-goblin, despised youngest son of the elvish emperor, wakes one morning to learn that his father and all three of his elder brothers have been killed in an airship accident — making him, utterly unprepared, the new emperor of the Elflands.
Nobody Owens was raised by ghosts in a graveyard after the murder of his family. Growing up among the dead, learning their ways and secrets, Bod must eventually reckon with the world of the living — and the man who killed his family is still out there, waiting. A coming-of-age story set among the most protective community imaginable.
The narrator moves to Paris and becomes obsessed with the aristocratic Guermantes family — particularly the Duchess — whose drawing rooms represent the pinnacle of French society, while his grandmother's death delivers the most affecting grief in any novel.
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