Summer Reads

The modern classic of contemporary war fiction from Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsRecommended by Richard OsmanRegeneration is the first novel in Pat Barker's Booker Prize-winning Regeneration trilogy - a powerfully moving...

From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel—her first to be translated into English—about a mysterious child with the power to change a family’s history in a country on the verge of revolution.   From the day that old Nana Reja...

From the bestselling author of The Murmur of Bees comes a transportive novel of two families uprooted by war and united by the bonds of love and courage.   With war looming dangerously close, Ilse’s school days soon turn to lessons of survival. In the...

(Available after November 14, 2021)Optioned by Netflix and a most anticipated book from Bustle, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, and LitHub!   An unsettling, seductive psychological thriller about a young woman with multiple personalities, perfect for...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A heartfelt story of love, grief, and renewal about two unlikely friends who discover that sometimes you don’t know you’ve lost someone until you’ve found them“A dazzling debut novel.”—O: The Oprah Magazine“Tremendously moving...

(Available after 3-20 days)Have you ever been called upon to speak at an event and the mere thought of doing it is giving you sleepless nights? Do you want to learn how to captivate a crowd with ease just like the pros? Are you looking to make your mark...

This new translation, in rhymed verse, of Goethe's Faust—one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature—preserves the essence of Goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an...

'Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit. Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste. Brought death into the world... Sing heavenly muse'From almost the moment of its first publication in 1667, Paradise Lost was considered a classic. It is difficult...

Comprises such sacred books of India as the hymns of the "Rig-Veda", the world's first recorded poems, the stirring pantheistic speculations of the "Upanishads" and the "Bhagavad-Gita", a cosmic drama of God's self-revelation in human history, on the...

Traditionally known as the Father of History, the Greek writer Herodotus(c. 484-420 BC), was the first man to tell a story in prose on the scale of the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY. His subject is the war between the Persians and the Greeks but, in order to...

From the Author of the Sunday Times Bestseller, Mrs. England!In 1612 Lancaster, England, the hunt for witches has reached a fever pitch…But in a time of suspicion and accusation, to be a woman may be the greatest risk of all.Fleetwood Shuttleworth, the...

SOON TO BE A TELEVISION ADAPTATION STARRING CLAIRE DANES   A Kirkus Review Best Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction * Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year and overall Book of the Year * Waterstones Book of the...

Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam—a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion—a masterful debut steeped in atmosphere and shimmering with mystery, in the tradition of Emma Donoghue, Sarah Waters, and Sarah Dunant. ”There is nothing...

From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Pompeii, comes the first novel of a trilogy about the struggle for power in ancient Rome.In his “most accomplished work to date” (Los Angeles Times), master of historical fiction Robert Harris lures readers...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 WOMEN’S PRIZEA LIBRARY JOURNAL EMERGING STARS PICKA mesmerizing novel of World War II Singapore, “a story about memory, trauma, and ultimately love” (New York Times)—for fans of Pachinko and We...

In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales—an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama.The year is 1348. The Black Plague grips the country. In a world ruled by...

Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary AwardFinalist for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction"A powerfully expansive novel…Thien writes with the mastery of a conductor." —New York Times Book...

Two wildly different women—one a grifter, the other an heiress—are brought together by the scam of a lifetime in a page-turner from the New York Times bestselling author of Watch Me Disappear. “Pretty Things is awesome. Simple as that. I loved every page...

A witch is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist, in this haunting debut novel.Helen Lambert has lived several lives-a young piano virtuoso in 1890s Paris, an actress in 1930's...

(Available after February 14th, 2021) Mystical and harrowing, Victoria Schwab’s debut transports the reader into a remote village on the moors, where children start disappearing from their beds and tales of old spring to life.   The Near Witch is...