All Books

Joan Didion's second essay collection, covering the end of the 1960s through the 1970s — including pieces on the Manson murders, the women's movement, Georgia O'Keeffe, and the experience of nervous breakdown as a diagnostic tool for a decade.

Set in the Igbo village of Umuofia in pre-colonial Nigeria, Things Fall Apart follows the warrior Okonkwo whose rigid commitment to traditional masculine strength ultimately destroys him — and whose world is irrevocably transformed by the arrival of British missionaries and colonial administrators.

Environmental scientist Donella Meadows provides a primer on systems thinking — the art of seeing the world as interconnected structures of feedback, stocks, and flows — with applications from ecology to economics to policy.

Three short masterpieces: 'A Simple Heart,' in which a servant woman's life of devotion is rendered with complete moral seriousness; 'The Legend of Saint Julian Hospitator,' a medieval tale of guilt and redemption; and 'Hérodias,' a retelling of the story of Salome.

Perrin Aybara finally confronts the Prophet of the Dragon while Mat Cauthon prepares a desperate mission to rescue Moiraine from the Aelfinn and Eelfinn. The Last Battle draws close as every major character moves into their final position.

Cheradenine Zakalwe is a man the Culture's covert operations division Special Circumstances keeps pulling out of retirement for impossible missions. Told in two interlocking timelines — one moving forward, one backward — Use of Weapons is a devastating character study disguised as space opera.

Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön offers compassionate teachings on how to work with fear, loss, and groundlessness — arguing that these experiences, properly met, are paths to awakening rather than obstacles to it.

Saint-Exupéry's memoir-essay blends his experiences flying mail routes over Africa and South America with meditations on human dignity, solidarity, and what makes a life worth living — winner of the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française.

Two centuries after The Pillars of the Earth, the city of Kingsbridge is swept up in the arrival of the Black Death, the Hundred Years' War, and the ambitions of builders, healers, merchants, and monks. Follett returns to his most beloved setting with a cast of characters as vivid as the original.

Three Discworld witches — the formidable Granny Weatherwax, the cheerfully bawdy Nanny Ogg, and the romantically-inclined Magrat Garlick — find themselves entangled in a political murder. A king has been killed, the heir spirited away, and the witches are drawn into a plot that echoes Macbeth, Hamlet, and King Lear simultaneously.

Yumi is a yoki-hijo on a world of geothermal heat, summoning spirits through elaborate rituals. Painter is an artist on a world of perpetual darkness, holding back nightmare creatures with his brush. When their lives inexplicably intersect, each must learn from the other while solving the mystery of their connection.

As the Vega twins strengthen their powers and their alliances, darker forces move against Solaria — and the cost of the throne they were born to claim becomes terrifyingly clear.

The Vega twins face their most dangerous challenges yet as the threat from the Shadow Beast grows and the complicated feelings between the twins and the Heirs can no longer be ignored.

A bus crash in a South Dakota blizzard strands Reacher in a small town where a witness to a drug case is under threat, a nearby military installation holds a dangerous secret, and Reacher has 61 hours before everything goes wrong. Child's countdown structure turns each chapter into a timer.

Four months after the events of the first book, Kell is trapped in Red London, confined by King Maxim after the near-catastrophe of the black stone. Lila Bard is somewhere on the seas, pursuing her own ambitions. When the Essen Tasch — a magical tournament held every four years — draws competitors from all three Londons, their paths converge again.

The Chipping Cleghorn Gazette carries a curious advertisement: a murder is announced and will take place on Friday evening at 6:30pm at Little Paddocks. The village assumes it's a party game. When the appointed time arrives and shots are fired, Miss Marple must untangle a mystery where even the victim's identity is uncertain.

Stephen Dedalus grows from infant to young artist through Dublin, school, religious crisis, and the discovery of aesthetic vocation. Joyce's first novel uses style itself as autobiography — the prose changes register as Stephen ages.

Ben Carlson's argument that simplicity beats complexity in investing — a clear, evidence-based guide to building a portfolio that outperforms most professionals over time.

Sir Robert Chiltern, an upright politician, is being blackmailed by Mrs Cheveley over an early indiscretion that made his fortune and his career. Wilde's second great society comedy is his most politically serious — an examination of the gap between public virtue and private corruption, and of what an 'ideal husband' actually is when the idealism is tested.

On the world of Arbre, scholars called avout live cloistered in mathic communities called concents, their contact with the outside world restricted to once every year, decade, century, or millennium — until an alien object enters orbit and changes everything.

Anne Shirley leaves Avonlea for Redmond College, where she discovers new friendships, navigates romantic confusion, and must finally decide between the persistent Roy Gardner and the friend she has always taken for granted.

Chief priest Ezeulu of the Umuaro clan navigates the arrival of British colonial authority while maintaining the traditional religious structures that give meaning to his community. Achebe's most complex novel examines how traditional power and colonial power interact and corrupt each other, and how a community can destroy itself by holding too firmly to what it is.

A brief, luminous 1903 essay arguing that the mind is the garden of human life — that thought determines character, achievement, health, and circumstances.

Pip's final case. Someone is watching her — a killer inspired by her podcast. As the threat closes in and the police fail to act, Pip must choose between safety and justice in the darkest, most consequential investigation of her life.