Summer Reads

A runaway French hit, this opening novel in Christelle Dabos’ The Mirror Visitor quartet is reminiscent of His Dark Materials in its scope and vision. Ethereal and impossibly romantic, Winter’s Promise is set in a world of floating arks and courtly...

A collection of science fiction stories for people who don’t like science fiction, Chiang’s work abounds in philosophical enquiry and nuanced approaches to the human condition. Fantastically rich and varied, the pieces gathered...

As ripe for revisiting as The Night Manager, John le Carré’s 1983 thriller - now adapted for television - brilliantly presages the duplicity of our times. Razor-sharp, precisely plotted and gripping. Soon to be a major BBC TV series...

A fogbound Japanese coastal town is held in the thrall to the mysterious spiral in Ito’s darkly atmospheric and unnerving classic of uncanny, encroaching dread. Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi...

Robert Jordan’s vast Wheel of Time sequence is one of the most astounding achievements in fantasy literature. Spanning 14 volumes, this is world-building on an unprecedented scale as well as a kaleidoscopic fusion of myth, religion, folklore and Eastern...

A crumbling house, a woman alone and an ancient diary set the scene for this supernatural debut. Echoing the gothic tone of Susan Hill, this is a thumb-pricking, heart-stopping delight. Chosen for the Zoe Ball Book Club Inspired by the work of...

For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an alternative vision of the good life: aesthetically austere, socially aristocratic, and imbued with spirituality. The Book of...

An all-new 120-page Stormlight Archive novella, Edgedancer, is the crown jewel of Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection, the first book of short fiction by #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson.These wonderful works convey the...

From National Book Award finalist Laini Taylor comes an epic fantasy about a mythic lost city and its dark past.The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around—and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream...

A New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller about a good girl dangerously drawn to the ultimate bad boy.The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she...

*A People Top Ten Book of the Year* The beloved, mega bestselling first novel from Audrey Niffenegger, “a soaring celebration of the victory of love over time” (Chicago Tribune).A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry...

“A powerful new epic . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review   The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by...

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. A dark, haunting masterpiece by the author of The Melancholy of Resistance and Seiobo There Below. Now in paperback, Satantango, the novel that inspired Béla...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The highly anticipated new thriller in Caroline Kepnes’s hit You series, now a blockbuster Netflix show—a compulsively readable trip into the deviant mind of the uniquely antisocial, savvy bookseller Joe Goldberg.“Fiendish,...

The second novel by Donna Tartt,  bestselling author of The Goldfinch (winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize),  The Little Friend  is a grandly ambitious and utterly riveting novel of childhood, innocence and evil. The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi,...

A lyrical and dreamy reimagining of Dracula's brides, A Dowry of Blood is a story of desire, obsession, and emancipation. Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit...

This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Timesbestseller is “a captivating story of love lost and found” (Kirkus Reviews) set in the lush Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace...

One of fantasy’s finest next-generation storytellers continues to break new ground.Michael J. Sullivan’s trailblazing career began with the breakout success of his Riyria series: full-bodied, spellbinding fantasy adventures whose imaginative scope and...

In The Women of Rothschild, Natalie Livingstone reveals the role of women in shaping the legacy of the famous Rothschild dynasty, synonymous with wealth and power.From the East End of London to the Eastern seaboard of the United States, from Spitalfields...

WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN GENERAL NONFICTION"The Undying is a startling, urgent intervention in our discourses about sickness and health, art and science, language and literature, and mortality and death. In dissecting what she terms 'the...