All Books

George Orwell's first book: a memoir of destitution — months spent penniless in Paris, working as a plongeur in restaurant kitchens, and then weeks tramping between workhouses in England — written with the observational precision that would define everything that followed.

Ten stories of Dominican-American life in New Jersey and the Dominican Republic — the father who abandons his family, the brother who sells drugs, the immigrant boy who discovers he is too Dominican for America and too American for the Dominican Republic. Díaz's debut introduced Yunior and the code-switching prose that would define his voice.

Hurston's autobiography — the most unreliable and most revealing of the Harlem Renaissance — traces her childhood in Eatonville, Florida, her years studying under Franz Boas, her folk research in the South and Caribbean, and her life as a writer. Hurston revises, omits, and invents throughout; the book is most honest about what it refuses to say.

Ryan Holiday examines how ego — the sense of entitlement and inflated self-image — undermines people at every stage of life, from aspiration through success to failure.

In a world where a magical city of gods has fallen and its inhabitants are cursed with a living death, a prince, a princess, and a priest navigate politics, religion, and the mystery of what destroyed Elantris.

Elmer Gantry, a salesman who discovers that religious revivals are a better business than hardware, becomes a successful evangelist — fraudulent, lustful, charismatic, and eventually powerful. Lewis's most controversial novel provoked death threats and bans across the United States and remains the definitive account of American religious hypocrisy and the specific American type — the con man who believes his own con.

Eva Luna, an illegitimate child who grew up among eccentric employers, becomes a storyteller and eventually a writer of telenovelas, navigating a South American country's political violence and social upheaval. Allende's most playful novel — a celebration of the female storyteller whose power resides entirely in her ability to invent.

Former military operative Maya Stern installs a nanny cam after her husband is murdered — and sees him on the footage two weeks later, alive and playing with their daughter.

Nassim Taleb's first major book explores how humans systematically mistake luck for skill, especially in financial markets, and the psychological machinery that makes the mistake so persistent.

Three editors at a Milan publishing house, bored with the occult manuscripts they process, invent an elaborate conspiracy theory connecting the Knights Templar to every secret society in history — only to find their fiction taking on a terrifying life of its own.

Anthony Doerr and his wife win the Rome Prize and spend a year at the American Academy in Rome with their newborn twin sons. A memoir about learning to see in a city built from layers of history, trying to write with two newborns, and what the death of John Paul II looks like from inside Rome.

The second volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography, covering her late teens in post-war California — working as a cook, a dancer, a madam, and eventually a prostitute, while raising her young son alone.

Will Klein's brother Ken disappeared eleven years ago after a girl was murdered — and everyone assumed he was guilty. Now that girl's sister has been murdered, and Ken may be connected again.

The science of the human digestive tract from mouth to the other end — saliva, stomach acid, intestinal bacteria, fermentation, gas, and the specific history of what researchers have learned by investigating each component of the alimentary canal.

Anne Lamott's short, accessible book on prayer reduces the practice to its three essential forms — asking for help, giving thanks, and expressing wonder — arguing that anyone can pray, regardless of belief.

Three families — the cultivated Schlegels, the commercial Wilcoxes, and the struggling Basts — collide and connect in Edwardian England around the meaning of a country house and the possibilities of human connection.

Not Sidney Poitier — named at birth for the actor by his eccentric mother — grows up in the care of Ted Turner after inheriting a fortune, and survives a series of misadventures that mirror famous Sidney Poitier films, encountering racism, absurdity, and a world that insists on seeing him as someone else.

A barnstorming pilot meets a modern-day messiah who has quit saving people and just wants to fly, sparking a philosophical journey about belief, reality, and personal freedom. Through their conversations and a mysterious Messiah's Handbook, Bach weaves a fable about the unlimited potential of the human spirit.

Beginning with a woman's gesture in a swimming pool — a wave that contains an entire personality — Kundera meditates on the desire for immortality, the nature of fame, and the difference between the person and their image. Characters from the present alternate with Goethe and Bettina von Arnim from the nineteenth century, and the narrator himself appears as a character.

Stories including 'I CAN SPEAK!™' and 'Jon' take Saunders's corporate satire to its extreme: fiction that uses the language and logic of advertising to anatomise what advertising has done to human interiority. The most formally experimental of his collections.

In a world where humans have nearly vanished, a young man named Vic lives in a forest with his found family of robots. When Vic's mechanical father is taken by the Authority — the machine system that controls what remains of civilisation — Vic and his companions must venture into a world of metal and memory to bring him home. Klune's retelling of Pinocchio.

During the sweltering London summer of 1976, Robert Riordan walks out to buy a newspaper and disappears — prompting his wife and three adult children to converge on the family home and confront the secrets they have all been keeping.

Nine stories about Indians and Indian-Americans navigating displacement, longing, and the distances between people. Pulitzer Prize winner.

Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death for 'gnostical turpitude' — the crime of being opaque in a world where everyone is transparent. A surreal novel of imprisonment and execution that is also a meditation on consciousness, totalitarianism, and the artist's isolation.