Best Sellers

In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined...

It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert...

In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses...

A hypnotic descent into obsession, intellect, and the seductive pull of darkness. At an elite New England college, a tightly knit group of eccentric students falls under the spell of their enigmatic Greek professor—a man who teaches them to seek truth not through conventional...

Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day...

Neapolitan Novels #1.A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, "My Brilliant Friend" is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante's inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is...

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms...

The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by...

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties―successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and...

As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later,...

A little life follows the lives of four college friends—Jude, Willem, JB, and Malcolm—as they build their lives in New York City, chasing careers, connection, and meaning. Over the decades, their incredibly strong bond is tested by ambition, addiction, and personal demons, and at...

Paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own.It tells the story of three...

Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband led an ordinary, orderly life. But when violent dreams filled with blood and brutality invade her sleep, Yeong-hye resolves to cleanse herself—first by refusing meat, then by rejecting the constraints of her existence altogether. What begins...

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn’t heard...

A luminous meditation on grief, memory, and the fragile threads of life. In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion chronicles the year that followed the sudden death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, and the near loss of their only daughter, Quintana....

More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three women...

Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student who subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person...

In this French bestseller, renowned philosopher Frédéric Gros explores the many forms walking can take—from pilgrimages and leisurely strolls to protest marches and nature walks—and what each reveals about the human condition. Gros reflects on how walking shaped the lives and minds of great...

Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der...

In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene,...

The world-renowned bestseller for women addicted to unhealthy relationships, updated and with a new introduction. Robin Norwood, a therapist who’s worked with countless women in troubled relationships, explores why some women are drawn to partners who are emotionally unavailable, distant or even destructive. With...

 The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond. Learn how to play—and win—chess with International Master and YouTube sensation Levy Rozman, better known as GothamChess. In this lively and accessible guide for beginners and intermediate players, Rozman brings his signature humor and insight to every...

Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the...

Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more. Chapters here include:* Can Snow-Clearing Be Sexist* The Myth...

A young escape artist and budding magician named Joe Kavalier arrives on the doorstep of his cousin, Sammy Clay. While the long shadow of Hitler falls across Europe, America is happily in thrall to the Golden Age of comic books, and in a distant...

My Life with Asperger's. From an early age, John Robison struggled to connect with the world around him. As a teenager, his unusual behaviors earned him a reputation as a social misfit. It wasn’t until he was forty that Robison received a life-changing diagnosis:...

Julia Cameron’s groundbreaking approach helps readers identify the blocks and inner barriers stifling their creativity, offering practical tools to unlock inspiration, purpose, and flow. At the heart of Cameron’s method are two core practices: The Morning Pages, a daily ritual of three pages of...

In the summer of 1970, fifteen-year-old Fern is sent to Wellwood House—a secluded home for unwed pregnant girls—where silence, shame, and strict rules define daily life. Stripped of their names and autonomy, the girls are expected to give birth and disappear quietly. But when...

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people,...

David Byrne’s incisive and enthusiastic look at the musical art form, from its very inceptions to the influences that shape it, whether acoustical, economic, social, or technological—now updated with a new chapter on digital curation. Utilizing his incomparable career and inspired collaborations with Talking...

When struggling white author June Hayward witnesses the sudden death of her friend and rising literary star Athena Liu, she makes a split-second decision: she steals Athena’s unpublished manuscript—a brilliant novel about Chinese laborers in World War I—and publishes it as her own. Rebranded...

Haunted by trauma and memory, Sethe is a woman who escaped slavery but cannot escape its scars. Living in a house shadowed by a restless spirit—the ghost of her baby, whose tombstone bears only the word Beloved—Sethe tries to forge a life of peace...

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart, caught...

Wouldn’t you like to live longer? And better? In this operating manual for longevity, Dr. Peter Attia draws on the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional interventions, techniques for optimizing exercise and sleep, and tools for addressing emotional and mental health. For all its successes,...

The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism. Unable to speak aloud, Naoki used an alphabet grid to painstakingly construct his thoughts, letter by letter. The result is a book that answers the questions so many have wanted to ask but never knew...

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley. In the near...

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson...

Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime, Jessica Knoll—author of the bestselling novel Luckiest Girl Alive and the writer behind the Netflix adaption starring Mila Kunis—delivers a new and exhilarating thriller in Bright Young Women. The book opens on a Saturday night...

The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her Black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London’s funding-deprived schools; Carole, one...

Powerful, richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go.  At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to...

Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister...

The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie’s once-lucrative car business is going under―but Dickie is spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife, Imelda, is selling off her jewelry on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attention...

What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the...

Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow...

In this powerful novel set in a divided Naples by Elena Ferrante, fourteen-year-old Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: Naples of the heights, which wears a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths,...

How Something Comes from Nothing. What makes a work of art truly extraordinary? In What Is the Work of Art?, Adam Moss takes readers on a guided tour inside the minds of creators, tracing the evolution of remarkable novels, paintings, jokes, movies, songs, and...

A luminous meditation on grief, memory, and the fragile threads of life. In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion chronicles the year that followed the sudden death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, and the near loss of their only daughter, Quintana....

In the summer of 1970, fifteen-year-old Fern is sent to Wellwood House—a secluded home for unwed pregnant girls—where silence, shame, and strict rules define daily life. Stripped of their names and autonomy, the girls are expected to give birth and disappear quietly. But when...

40 Songs, One Story. As one of the most iconic figures in music, and the cofounder of the organizations ONE and (RED), Bono has been written about for decades. But in Surrender, he finally tells his own story. In his unmistakable voice, Bono takes...

A little life follows the lives of four college friends—Jude, Willem, JB, and Malcolm—as they build their lives in New York City, chasing careers, connection, and meaning. Over the decades, their incredibly strong bond is tested by ambition, addiction, and personal demons, and at...