Non Fiction

What if there's a hidden dimension to Donald Trump; a sensitive, poetic side? Driven by this question, Rob Sears began combing Trump's words for signs of poetry. What he found was a revelation. By simply taking the 45th President of the United States' tweets...

In The Hidden Ways, Alistair Moffat traverses the lost paths of Scotland - its Roman roads tramped by armies, its byways and pilgrim routes, drove roads and railways, turnpikes and sea roads - in a bid to understand how our history has left its...

FSG 80th Anniversary Special Edition. A groundbreaking collection of essays that examines the powerful and often contradictory role images play in modern life. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, the book has influenced generations of writers, critics, and thinkers since...

From the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World comes a fascinating history of one of the most ordinary (and influential) substances in human civilization: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has played a remarkable role in shaping the...

Few relationships are as meaningful as the bond between people and their dogs. In this heartfelt anthology, fifteen acclaimed authors reflect on the canine companions who shaped their lives, sharing stories that capture the joy, comfort, loyalty, and love that dogs bring to the...

And Here My Troubles Began. Widely regarded as one of the most important graphic novels ever created, Maus is a devastating and deeply personal account of survival, memory, and inherited trauma. Through stark, unforgettable imagery—Jews rendered as mice, Nazis as predatory cats—Art Spiegelman recounts...

A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family's Search for Truth. In the early hours of November 29, 2019, security cameras near MI6 headquarters captured a young man pacing a balcony above the Thames before jumping into the river. Days later, London...

These days, anxiety is just part of being human. Part journal, part coloring book, part quirky coping toolkit, and part collection of calming facts, The Big Activity Book for Anxious People offers a playful, comforting outlet for anyone looking to take a pause, laugh...

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...

Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation.  Drawn from Rainer Maria Rilke’s vast body of previously untranslated letters to grieving friends and acquaintances, The Dark Interval offers a profound exploration of mourning and a deeply humane meditation on death’s place in our lives. Modeled on...

A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language Why is a mortgage literally a “death pledge”? Why do guns bear girls’ names? How is “salt” connected to “soldier”? The Etymologicon unravels these mysteries—and countless more—offering a dazzling journey through the hidden...

This elegant clothbound edition features Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm on December 7, 2017. Awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature for the emotional depth and precision of his fiction, Ishiguro reflects in this lecture on...

My Life with Autism (Expanded Edition). First published in 1995, this groundbreaking book presents an unprecedented perspective: Temple Grandin writes as both a scientist and a person with autism, offering an insider’s view of a world rarely understood from within. In her vivid and...

A True Story, Allegedly. Los Angeles, 2003: America is unraveling beneath a glossy surface of reality TV, low-rise jeans, and celebrity tabloids. At the heart of it all stands Britney Spears—young, iconic, endlessly scrutinized. Chasing rent and elusive literary ambitions, a fledgling writer finds...

53 Ways to Get Closer to Books. With warmth and quiet reflection, Bo-reum explores the simple pleasures of wandering through bookstores, revisiting beloved stories, falling in love with fictional characters, and venturing beyond familiar literary borders. She muses on the delicate link between reading...

Dog Affirmations is a charmingly illustrated guide to life, as told by your four-legged best friend. Inspired by her viral Instagram series, New York–based artist Andrea Cáceres invites readers into the tender, often hilarious inner world of dogs—those soulful companions who somehow always know...

What do the English “daughter,” the Sanskrit duhitár, the Armenian dustr, and the Lithuanian dukte have in common? They all carry the echo of a long-lost language—Proto-Indo-European—spoken thousands of years ago on the steppes between Europe and Asia. Though its last speaker vanished millennia...

Readers of all ages and walks of life have drawn inspiration and empowerment from Elizabeth Gilbert’s books for years. Now this beloved author digs deep into her own generative process to share her wisdom and unique perspective about creativity. With profound empathy and radiant...

In Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy, and great voyages from literature, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness.

Want to be a rocket-riding tech titan? You've come to the right school. Elon Musk's Billionaire School makes it simple to follow in Elon's footsteps and accumulate the wealth and power of a medium-sized nation in just 30 days. Discover lessons drawn from the lives,...

A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge...

Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot. Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe...

The Stories We Tell About the End of the World. A rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factors drive our perennial obsession with...

Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In...

In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions of North Korean people continue to endure to this day, but also onto...

In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set out to find the answer. A successful fiction writer, Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and ’70s...

In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah’s regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and the devastating effects of war with Iraq. The...

Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in 1966. Nabokov's memoir is a moving account of a loving, civilized family, of adolescent awakenings, flight from Bolshevik terror, education in England, and émigré...

Landscapes #4. For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane has been collecting place-words: terms for aspects of landscape, nature, and weather, drawn from dozens of languages and dialects of the British Isles.  In this, his fifth book, Macfarlane brilliantly explores the linguistic and...

Sixteenth-century Europe saw an explosion of female rule. From Isabella of Castile, and her granddaughter Mary Tudor, to Catherine de Medici, Anne Boleyn, and Elizabeth Tudor, these women wielded enormous power over their territories, shaping the course of European history for over a century....

Mary Karr synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker, recovered alcoholic and “black belt sinner,” providing a unique window into the mechanics and art of the form that is as irreverent, insightful, and entertaining as her own work in...

Unleash your inner autocrat with this darkly comic guide to everyday success—drawing dubious inspiration from the world’s most notorious strongman. The perfect stocking filler for the would-be tyrant in your life. What can the rise of one of the 21st century’s most feared leaders...

John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring, protecting and celebrating the British landscape and its wildlife. Lister-Kaye’s joyous childhood holidays - spent scrambling through hedges and ditches after birds and small beasts, keeping pigeons in the loft and tracking foxes around the edge of...

There are still wild places out there on our crowded planet.Through a series of personal journeys, Dan Richards explores the appeal of far-flung outposts in mountains, tundra, forests, oceans, and deserts. Following a route from the Cairngorms of Scotland to the fire-watch lookouts of...

Widely considered the greatest graphic novel ever written, Art Spiegelman’s Maus is a haunting, monumental work of history and memory. Depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, this unforgettable story contrasts the harrowing realities of the Holocaust with the author's complex, fraught relationship...

Before patriarchal religions reshaped human culture, the Supreme Deity of the ancient world was a woman. This landmark work reveals the forgotten history of Goddess worship—and how women’s power was systematically erased. For thousands of years across the Near and Middle East, societies revered...

In this essential work, Angela Davis examines the history of racism, classism, and elitism within feminism, from abolitionist movements to the present. She shows how these divisions repeatedly undermined efforts toward collective liberation, even as figures such as the Grimké sisters and Frederick Douglass...

When Virginia Woolf met Vita Sackville-West in 1922, the acclaimed novelist and the charismatic aristocrat formed a connection that would evolve into one of the most celebrated literary relationships of the twentieth century. What began with curiosity and attraction grew into nearly two decades...

A Fragment of Life In Either/Or, Søren Kierkegaard explores what it means to live a meaningful life through the contrasting voices of two characters: “A,” a young man devoted to aesthetic pleasure, and Judge Vilhelm, who argues for the value of an ethical, responsible life....

My Year Transforming Lives. One Book at a Time. After the collapse of her marriage, Tokyo bookseller Nanako Hanada finds unexpected connection through a website where strangers meet to share ideas—and the books that might change their lives. Warm, witty, and uplifting, The Bookshop...

 Meditate. Move beyond thinking. Find clarity. Modern life places constant demands on our attention, energy, and wellbeing. Even on the best days, stress, fatigue, and mental overload can take their toll. The challenge is not how to eliminate these pressures, but how to recover...

A new way to move through change. Loss touches every life. It can arrive unexpectedly or unfold over time—a career change, the end of a relationship, children leaving home, declining health, or a shift in identity. Whatever form it takes, navigating loss can feel...

How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And sit with an accomplished surgeon as he tries,...

How to Make Decisions without Losing Your Mind. We always intuitively know what to do deep down. It’s only when we’re clouded by racing thoughts (driven by anxiety and external influences) that we get stuck and don’t know what to do. Your intuition will...

A meditation on suicide. In this influential collection of essays, Nobel Prize–winning writer Albert Camus confronts one of philosophy’s most urgent questions: whether life is worth living in a universe that appears to lack order or meaning. Drawing inspiration from figures like Don Juan and...

In this collection of her most celebrated essays, Natalia Ginzburg examines the everyday and the catastrophic with the wit and grace that have secured her place among mid-century literary greats. Whether reflecting on the loss of a friend like Cesare Pavese, the indelible impact...

Conversations with David Barsamian A wide-ranging and illuminating collection of conversations with award-winning writer Arundhati Roy, this volume explores subjects ranging from U.S. imperial power and Indian nationalism to the responsibilities and possibilities of a writer’s work. Known as a novelist for the richness...

Aspiring writers and readers who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his strangely surreal worlds will be fascinated by this engaging book from the internationally best-selling author. Haruki Murakami now shares with readers his thoughts on the...

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...

What We Can Learn From History’s Greatest Civilizations Throughout history, golden ages have been defined by extraordinary bursts of cultural creativity, scientific discovery, technological innovation, and economic expansion. Yet no two have looked alike. Each was shaped by its own beliefs, institutions, and position...