Essentials

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how...

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to...

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...

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...

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life...

Clementine is a book publicist with her future carefully mapped out. After surviving the worst day of her life, she’s sworn off emotional risks and clings to a simple plan: work hard, find someone safe to love and never stop chasing her dreams. Then...

A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor. On an unnamed island, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses... Most of the inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those...

You always knew I’d write a book about you. Our narrator understands love stories—how they rise and crest, what they hide, what they reveal. But the greatest love story she lived refused to follow any script. In the fall of her senior year, she...

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...

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 lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life. The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about...

The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, growing older, and learning to navigate friendships, jobs, loss, and love along the ride When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming an adult, journalist and former Sunday Times columnist Dolly...

You know what’s worse than breaking up with your girlfriend? Being stuck with her prize-winning show cat. You know what’s worse than that? An alien invasion that wipes out every man-made structure on Earth and turns the surviving humans into unwilling contestants on a...

At school, Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne's...

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...

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....

Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution. Orphaned in Canton, Robin Swift is taken to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell and trained in languages to attend Oxford’s Royal Institute of Translation—known as Babel. There, scholars use magical...

An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson. Maybe it was a grandparent, a teacher, or a colleague—someone older, patient, and wise who saw you for who you were when you were young and searching. Someone who helped you view the world...

The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the "wicked and sentimental" Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons--the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and...

Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry and letters have long inspired readers with their profound reflections on how art and love can expand human life beyond the limits of religion, politics, or ideology. Presented here in new translations, this collection gathers Rilke’s most candid and lyrical...

First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single...

All her life, Sybil Van Antwerp has used letters to make sense of the world and her place within it. Most mornings, around half past ten, she sits down to write—to her brother, her best friend, the university president who refuses to let her...

Deluxe Edition. In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is the rise of the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that enforces rigid social roles and enslaves the few remaining fertile...

New York Review Books Classics. William Stoner is born at the close of the nineteenth century to a destitute farming family in rural Missouri. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he unexpectedly discovers a passion for English literature and chooses the life...

First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single...

A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. With courage, grace, and powerful insight,...

Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a...

In White Nights, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of a lonely young dreamer wandering the streets of Saint Petersburg, burdened by isolation and longing. His solitary existence changes when he meets a young woman and forms a tender, intimate bond with her over the...