A communist spy embedded in the South Vietnamese army narrates his journey from the fall of Saigon through Los Angeles exile to reeducation camp, examining what it means to be perpetually between worlds.
Set fifteen years after The Handmaid's Tale, three women's testimonies reveal how Gilead began to crumble from within, led by the most unlikely of architects.
Four retirement village residents — including a former spy and a retired psychiatrist — meet weekly to solve cold cases, and find themselves entangled in a very live one.
A collective autobiography of twentieth-century France, told through the pronoun 'one' rather than 'I,' assembling a life from photographs, memories, and the shared experience of an entire generation.
A woman arrives in a small town to rescue her twin sister and ends up stranded there, falling into an unlikely arrangement with the town's most infuriating man while raising her niece.
Daniel Pink argues that we are all in sales now — persuading, convincing, and moving others is a universal human activity, not just a profession — and explains the new science behind doing it well.
A Ghanaian-American neuroscience PhD student at Stanford studies the science of addiction and depression while caring for her catatonic mother and processing the loss of her brother to an opioid overdose.
Four interlocking narratives circle the same story of a Gilded Age financier and his wife, each version revealing how wealth constructs, revises, and suppresses the truth.
Daniel Pink synthesizes research from biology, economics, and psychology to explain when to make decisions, take breaks, and start projects for optimal performance.
Two North London families — one Bangladeshi, one English — collide across generations in a novel about race, identity, history, and the inheritance that binds us.
After the collapse of her marriage and her mother's death, Cheryl Strayed impulsively hiked 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail alone — unprepared, grieving, and ultimately transformed.
Will Smith's memoir traces his journey from West Philadelphia to global superstardom while exploring the fears, failures, and family dynamics that shaped him.
San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer, recently diagnosed with a blood disease, teams up with a journalist, an assistant DA, and a medical examiner to catch a serial killer targeting newlywed couples. The first Women's Murder Club novel launched a beloved second Patterson series.
A multigenerational story spanning 60 years and several continents, beginning with a poor Afghan family's decision to give away a daughter and rippling outward through the lives of those touched by that act of sacrifice. Hosseini's most structurally ambitious novel.
A romance novelist and a literary fiction author spend a summer as reluctant neighbors, challenge each other to write outside their genres, and fall unexpectedly in love.
Grace and Jack Angel appear to have the perfect marriage, but behind their elegant facade lies a nightmare of control, captivity, and carefully maintained appearances.
Malcolm Gladwell argues that what we consider disadvantages — dyslexia, class backgrounds, weak institutions — can become hidden sources of strength in the right circumstances.
In a future Chicago divided into five virtue-based factions, sixteen-year-old Tris Prior must choose where she belongs — and discovers she may not belong anywhere.
After a painful divorce, Elizabeth Gilbert spends a year travelling — eating in Italy, praying in India, and finding love in Bali — in this memoir that became one of the bestselling travel narratives of the century.
Susan Jeffers argues that fear never goes away, but that acting in spite of it is a learnable skill that builds confidence and opens life to new possibilities.
A woman left at the altar moves in with her ex-fiance's new girlfriend's ex-boyfriend, and the two jilted parties discover they might be exactly what the other needs.
After a near-death experience, Chloe Brown makes a list of things she wants to do before she becomes too ill to do them, and finds an unlikely partner in her brooding building superintendent.
Adam Grant challenges the talent-worship culture and argues that character skills, not innate ability, are the true engines of extraordinary achievement.