All Books

The sixth volume of In Search of Lost Time. After Albertine flees and then dies, the narrator descends into a forensic study of grief, jealousy, and the slow, uneven work of forgetting — Proust's most piercing anatomy of love's aftermath.

Set in the small town of Ayemenem in Kerala, India, Arundhati Roy's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the lives of fraternal twins Rahel and Estha and the catastrophic consequences of their family's transgression of the Love Laws — the laws that determine who can love whom, and how, and how much.

Two love stories separated by twenty-five years, united by the shared structure of DNA, Bach's Goldberg Variations, and Poe's cryptography tale — a novel about what science, music, and love have in common.

Rand al'Thor and his companions pursue the stolen Horn of Valere across the world — a legendary instrument that can call the dead heroes of the Ages back from beyond death — while Rand struggles to accept a destiny he cannot escape.

Two years after losing her fiancé, Sloane is still not okay. Then she accidentally adopts a dog named Tucker — whose owner, Jason, is a musician on tour who keeps showing up in her life. A love story about grief, music, and the way connection can arrive when you've stopped looking for it.

A trio of Nazi hunters — a war correspondent, a Soviet night-bomber, and a young Boston woman — track a female war criminal known as the Huntress across postwar Europe and America. Based on the all-female Night Witches regiment of the Soviet air force.

Prince Lev Myshkin returns to Russia after years of Swiss treatment for epilepsy — gentle, sincere, and incapable of the social calculus that governs everyone around him. Dostoevsky's attempt to portray a truly good man, and what happens when such a man meets the world.

Eric Ries argues that startups can shorten their product development cycles and discover what customers actually want through validated learning, scientific experimentation, and iterative product releases. The Lean Startup changed how the world builds companies.

A British poet working in Hollywood attends a funeral at the Forest Lawn-inspired Whispering Glades and falls in love with the cosmetician for the corpses. Waugh's novella about the American funeral industry and Hollywood expatriate culture.

The origin story of Narnia: Digory Kirke and Polly Plummer travel between worlds using magic rings and witness the creation of Narnia by the lion Aslan.

San Francisco private detective Sam Spade is hired by a woman who calls herself Miss Wonderly to follow a man — and within twenty-four hours his partner Miles Archer is dead, he is tangled with the San Francisco police and a group of international criminals, and at the centre of it all is a statuette of a black bird supposedly worth a fortune.

A series of linked stories following the colonisation of Mars by humans fleeing an increasingly troubled Earth — a work less concerned with the science of space travel than with what humanity brings with it, and what it destroys in the process.

Three interconnected novellas — City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room — in which Paul Auster dismantles the detective genre to explore identity, surveillance, authorship, and the unreliability of language, all set in a New York that is both hyper-real and increasingly abstract.

Essun searches for her daughter while learning to control the obelisks — floating crystals that could either save or destroy the world — in the second Hugo Award-winning volume of the Broken Earth trilogy.

Michael Pollan traces four meals from their origins to the table — industrial, industrial organic, local pastoral, and hunted-gathered — and asks what we should eat in a world of infinite choice.

Charles Darwin's world-changing 1859 work, which set out the theory of evolution by natural selection. Marshalling two decades of evidence with patience and care, Darwin transformed our understanding of life on Earth and the place of humanity within it.

In eleventh-century England, a young orphan named Rob Cole discovers he has an uncanny gift for sensing when people are near death; driven by this gift and a burning desire to understand medicine, he makes an extraordinary journey across the medieval world to study under the greatest physician of the age, Ibn Sina, in Persia.

Three generations of the Brangwen family in the English Midlands — from the 1840s to the early twentieth century — each straining toward something beyond the agricultural life that made them. Seized and destroyed by police on publication for its frank treatment of sexuality.

Two Indian actors survive the explosion of a hijacked plane over the English Channel — one becomes angelic, the other demonic. Rushdie's most controversial novel is also his most formally ambitious: a vast, satirical, visionary work about migration, identity, faith, and the relationship between the sacred and the profane. The Iranian fatwa issued against Rushdie in 1989 makes it the most politically significant novel of the late twentieth century.

Hester Prynne, condemned to wear the scarlet letter A for adultery in Puritan New England, lives with her illegitimate daughter Pearl while the father of her child — the revered minister Dimmesdale — declines into secret guilt.

A spoiled orphan comes to live on the Yorkshire moors and discovers a secret walled garden that transforms her — and everyone around her.

Carter and Sadie face the final battle: Apophis is about to rise and consume the sun itself. They must bring Ra back at full power and deploy a shadow magic that has never successfully worked — while their entire network of nome magicians faces obliteration. The Kane Chronicles comes to its conclusion.

Loki is free and racing to launch Naglfar, the ship of the dead, to bring about Ragnarok. Magnus Chase and his crew set sail to stop him in Rick Riordan's rousing Norse finale, a voyage of flyting battles, hard goodbyes, and earned triumph.

Naomi Klein's investigation into how disaster capitalism exploits crises to implement radical free-market policies that could not survive democratic scrutiny in normal times.