Summer Reads

In a dystopian future Japan, forty-two junior high school students are outfitted with weapons and bid to kill one another until there is only one left standing.Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller envisions a nightmare scenario: a class of...

The Penguin English Library Edition of Howards End by E. M. Forster'The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer. We rich can''Only connect.' is the idea at the heart of...

Favorites for nearly 100 years, these classic novels follow the adventures of the spirited redhead Anne Shirley, who comes to stay at Green Gables and wins the hearts of everyone she meets. Complete 8-book box set: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the...

From the best-selling author of How To Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee's award-winning debut is "One of the great queer novels . . . of our time."—Brandon Taylor, GQTwelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean-American boy growing up in Maine...

(Available after November 30th, 2022)#1 New York Times Bestseller   What would happen if we called on God for help and God actually appeared? In Mitch Albom’s profound new novel of hope and faith, a group of shipwrecked passengers pull a strange man from...

Constantly rebuffed from the social circles he aspires to frequent, the timid clerk Golyadkin is confronted by the sudden appearance of his double, a more brazen, confident and socially successful version of himself, who abuses and victimizes the...

'They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.'Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a...

A vividly imagined debut fantasy of court intrigue in a steampunk-inflected magical world from Katherine Addison.Unbound Worlds 100 Best Fantasy Novels of All TimeThe youngest, half-goblin son of the Emperor has lived his entire life in exile, distant...

From Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes an original and subversive fantasy adventure.*A very special hardcover edition, featuring gold foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.*This isn't the...

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022Oprah Daily・TIME Magazine・Bustle・The Guardian・Financial Times・A.V. Club・Cosmopolitan・Marie Claire・Fortune.  Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. In...

"Sutanto brilliantly infuses comedy and culture into the unpredictable rom-com/murder mystery mashup as Meddy navigates familial duty, possible arrest and a groomzilla. I laughed out loud and you will too.”—USA Today (four-star review)“A hilarious,...

2020 Palestine Book Awards Winner2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist“Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts, horrendous injustices, and dares to shine light that can illuminate hidden...

One of the very best must-read novels of all time - with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle'A well told tale signifying a good deal; one to be read again and again' --  THE TIMES'The book I wish I had written ... It's so far away from my own imagination,...

A beautifully illustrated guide to slowing down, finding true happiness and feeling calm, by Zen Buddhist monk Shunmyo Masuno.  Zen is the perfect antidote to the chaos of modern life . . . In clear, practical and easy to follow lessons - one a day for...

Follow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India.An acclaimed bioarchaeologist, Catrine Jarman has used cutting-edge...

The Atlas Paradox is the long-awaited sequel to the New York Times bestselling dark academic sensation The Atlas Six—guaranteed to have even more yearning, backstabbing, betrayal, and chaos.Six magicians were presented with the...

Juliette can kill with a touchwill she wield her power for good, or will it turn her into the monster shes always feared she truly is? Find out in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me seriesall six novels are now...

This harrowing mystery, winner of the Philippine National Book Award, follows two Catholic priests on the hunt through Manila for a brutal serial killerPayatas, a 50-acre dump northeast of Manila’s Quezon City, is home to thousands of people who...

The journey that began with The Shadow of What Was Lostreaches its spectacular conclusion in The Light of All That Falls, the final chapter of the Licanius Trilogy by acclaimed epic fantasy author James Islington.After a savage battle, the Boundary is...

Niccolo Machiavelli's brutally uncompromising manual of statecraft, The Prince is translated and edited with an introduction by Tim Parks in Penguin Classics.As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolo Machiavelli knew how quickly...