Books

Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury,...

From Akutagawa Prize–winning author Yoko Ogawa comes a trio of unsettling novellas that explore love, motherhood, fertility, and obsession — and the quiet cruelty that can hide within even the gentlest human acts. In one story, a solitary teenage girl becomes fixated on her...

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit." So begins one of the most beloved and delightful tales in the English language—Tolkien's prelude to The Lord of the Rings. Set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth, at once a classic myth and...

Foundation #4. Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire - still the mightiest...

Foundation #3. The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series.For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future to...

Trainspotting is the novel that launched Irvine Welsh’s explosive career — a raw, relentless, and darkly exhilarating portrait of lives lived on the edge. Told in sharp, episodic bursts, it captures a world of addiction, rage, and survival with unflinching authenticity. For its time...

Dune Messiah continues the saga of Paul Atreides—known across the universe, and feared, as Muad’Dib. Now Emperor, Paul commands a level of power no single man was ever meant to hold. Revered as a living god by the fervent Fremen, he is also beset...

Red Rising Saga, 2. Born a Red, Darrow toiled in the mines beneath Mars’s surface, enduring brutal labor while believing he was helping build a brighter future for generations to come. That faith proves a lie. The Society he served thrives on deception, and...

With the sharp wit and emotional intelligence of Dolly Alderton and Sally Rooney, this fierce, funny, and unsparing memoir explores the dizzying highs of love and the devastation of its end, from an acclaimed British Vogue writer. You never forget your first love —...

Red Rising Saga, 3. Darrow would have chosen a life of peace, but his enemies forced him into war. The Gold overlords demanded submission, executed his wife, and bound his people in chains. Now Darrow is resolved to strike back. By risking everything to...

Harry Dresden has survived more than most—and so has Chicago. After he and his allies barely prevented the city from being reduced to ashes, nothing is the same. And it’s not just the blackout. The battle cost Harry dearly, taking people he loved, the...

Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet. In “The...

Though her sisters are keen on finding men to marry, Elizabeth Bennet would rather wait for someone she loves - certainly not someone like Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, whom she finds to be smug and judgmental, in contrast to the charming George Wickham. But soon...

The weird tales in this slim volume are all linked by a play, the second act of which reveals truths so terrible and beautiful that it drives all who read it to despair: The King in Yellow. I cannot forget Carcosa where black stars...

 Elements of Cadence #1 A Scottish-inspired fantasy rich with elemental magic, ancient spirits, and a simmering enemies-to-lovers romance. Jack Tamerlaine’s return to the island of Cadence begins with a summons he cannot ignore and a perilous crossing over dark, restless waters. A decade after...

Elements of Cadence #2 East and west. Humans and spirits. Breccans and Tamerlaines. The Isle of Cadence has long survived on a fragile balance—but that harmony is now shattered. Bane, the merciless spirit of the North Wind, has risen to claim dominion over both...

Unsettling, darkly funny, and deeply humane, Cat’s Eye follows Elaine Risley, a provocative painter who returns to Toronto—her childhood home—for a major retrospective of her work. As she revisits the city, she is overwhelmed by memories of the past, particularly of three girls who...

Scottish Highlands, 1945. Recently returned from the war, former British combat nurse Claire Randall is reunited with her husband for a second honeymoon when an accidental step through a standing stone in an ancient circle changes everything. In an instant, she becomes a Sassenach—an...

Eileen Merriweather believes in happily-ever-afters—at least the fictional kind. Books are safer than real life, where grooms can walk away and heartbreak doesn’t come with neat endings. Stories are where she feels at home. Maybe that’s why she’s determined not to miss her annual...

Born into a household dominated by an omnipresent mother obsessed with her own anxieties, a father consumed by hygiene and architectural quirks, and a precocious genius brother who commands the family’s attention, Vero drifts through childhood in a haze of boredom and confinement. Trapped...

She can handle anything—except her own heart.Hannah Brooks might look like the kind of woman who hands out juice boxes, but she’s trained to handle threats most people can’t even imagine. Executive Protection is her game, and right now her assignment is superstar actor...

 A Cosmere Novel. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie....

Percy Jackson & the Olympians. Now a high school senior, Percy needs three letters of recommendation from the Greek gods to secure his spot at New Rome University. He earned the first by retrieving Ganymede’s chalice—and Hecate’s “opportunity” is his next task: care for...

Percy Jackson and the Olympians. After saving the world more times than he can count, Percy Jackson just wants a normal senior year. But the gods have other plans. To earn the three letters of recommendation he needs from Mount Olympus for college, Percy...

Isobel is an artistic prodigy with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly...

All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains....

After living through a dumpster fire of a Valentine’s Day, Emilie Hornby escapes to her grandmother’s house for some comfort and a consolation pint of Ben & Jerry’s. She passes out on the couch, but when she wakes up, she’s back home in her...

Kristen Peterson doesn't do drama, will fight to the death for her friends, and has no room in her life for guys who just don't get her. She's also keeping a big secret: facing a medically necessary procedure that will make it impossible for...

Artist Sloan Monroe just can't seem to get her life on track. But one trouble-making pup who randomly jumps into her car with a "take me home" look in his eyes is about to change everything. With Tucker by her side, Sloan finally starts...

Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They live in a beautiful house, with a caring family, and attend an exclusive missionary school. They're completely shielded from the troubles of the world. Yet, as Kambili reveals in...

Grace Woodhouse has left a lot behind. She used to have a great friend group, an amazing girlfriend, and a right foot set to earn her a Division I football scholarship—before she came out as trans. As senior year begins, Grace is struggling to...

Gael Song Trilogy #1 The first novel in a sweeping historical fantasy series where Irish mythology collides with real history. They believe they’ve wiped us out… Ireland, 981 AD. The Viking King of Dublin is dead, and his widow, Gormflaith, knows how quickly power...

A story where girl meets printer Trapped in a claustrophobic office cubicle, a lonely customer service assistant is quietly coming undone. Isolated and exhausted, she finds solace in the one constant in her workday: the office printer. To him, she confesses her fears, her...

A sweeping, fictional autobiography that follows the life of Logan Mountstuart, a British writer, through the 20th century. Told through a series of intimate journal entries, the novel traces Logan’s journey from his privileged schooldays in 1920s England through a tumultuous life marked by personal...

New York Review Books Classics. Chess Story—also known as The Royal Game—is Stefan Zweig’s final and haunting work, written in exile in Brazil and sent to his American publisher just days before his suicide in 1942. It is the only fiction in which Zweig...

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 tour de force that set the gold standard for dystopian YA fiction — in a compelling paperback edition. For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon — a chance to party during spring break. But that...

(But Some Were) Eve Babitz was never more electric than when she was writing letters. In this first-of-its-kind collection, her correspondence takes center stage, revealing the voice she wielded with unmatched charm: candid yet mischievous, glamorous yet razor-sharp, effortlessly funny and startlingly perceptive. Consider...

New York Review Books Classics In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearing the end of...

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...

It is the 1870s when Will Andrews, inspired by Emerson’s call to seek “an original relation to nature,” abandons Harvard and travels west in search of something truer and more elemental. He arrives in Butcher’s Crossing, a rough Kansas settlement perched on the edge...

The Bridge Kingdom #5  A commander who bled to defend her people, Ahnna carries two haunting truths: she could not protect Ithicana from invasion, and saving her homeland may require leaving it behind forever. The Maridrinians left Ithicana in ruins, its people scattered and...

The Bridge Kingdom #4 Newly crowned, Keris faces a kingdom that questions his authority, and a love he can no longer hide. His forbidden bond with Zarrah has been exposed, and when she is imprisoned by the ruthless Empress, he knows there is only...

Saga of the Unfated #2 A shield maiden fights to defy prophecy, and confront the betrayal of the man who shattered her heart—in the thrilling conclusion to the Norse-inspired fantasy romance duology. With the secret of her divine heritage unveiled, Freya faces a devastating...

When Jim, an enslaved man in antebellum Missouri, learns he’s about to be sold away from his family, he flees to Jackson Island, determined to claim his own fate. At the same time, Huck Finn stages his death to escape his violent father. Together,...

The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright. Frank Lloyd Wright is often remembered as a towering egotist who valued little beyond his own genius. Less visible is the man who understood—and suffered for—the choices he made. In this masterful biography, Paul Hendrickson reveals...

Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s razor-sharp satire of modern humanity and its talent for self-destruction. Framed as an inquiry into the legacy of a scientist involved in the creation of the atomic bomb, the novel spirals into an apocalyptic vision of the world’s end—both...

Suspenseful and spellbinding, this stunning debut sweeps across centuries, intertwining love, family, history, and myth through the eyes of a woman who cannot die. Collette LeSange has guarded a dangerous secret for generations: she is immortal. In 1834, her grandfather bestowed upon her the...

Once Upon a Broken Heart, 2. Not every love is meant to be. After being betrayed by Jacks, the Prince of Hearts, Evangeline Fox vows never to trust him again. Now aware of her own magic, she’s determined to reclaim the happily ever after...

After dozing off with a romance novel—on the heels of a visit to a dubious sex psychic—Emmy Miura wakes up in the bed of its hero, Will Barrett. Will lives a quiet, perfect life in the idyllic (and entirely fictional) town of Cobalt, Massachusetts—until...