Summer Reads

Witty and satirical, this cosmological fable from the great Japanese author finds an extra-terrestrial family living in 1960s Japan desperately trying to save humanity from the folly of nuclear war.   The Osugi family have come to a realization. Each...

(Available after July 30th, 2022)IS HOPE ITSELF THE ONLY ANSWER?The renowned author of the Ring novels unravels a story of lovers wrestling with the darkness within themselves—be it selfishness, lust, or despair—in a deeply introspective romantic mystery...

(Available after June 30th, 2022)A fiendish, classic locked room murder mystery, from one of Japan's greatest crime writersLoosely inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, the brilliant Gokumon Island is perhaps the most highly regarded of...

(Available after 3-20 days) Change Your Life the Easy Way! What if a few simple strategies could radically transform your life? What if exercising, eating healthy, staying organized, saving money, and reading was something you did automatically?Certified...

You will never diet again.Say goodbye to calorie counting, restrictive food bans, or other forced behaviors. In Mini Habits for Weight Loss, you will learn how to lose weight naturally, in the precise way your body and brain are meant to change.We've...

A woman ready to give up on love meets her match in a man she never expected to fall for in this heartwarming and steamy new romantic comedy by USA Today bestselling author Nicola Marsh.For almost a decade, successful 37-year-old Samira Broderick has...

From the USA Today bestselling author of West Side Love Story, an acclaimed romantic comedy series with its own set of complex family dynamics set in Key West, Florida filled with humor, fake dating, Latinx culture, and perfect for summer beach...

(Available after 3-20 days)One starship, six friends, 10,000 lives in the balance Young captain-for-hire Kitra Yilmaz has gotten her first contract: escort the mysterious Princess of Atlántida beyond the Frontier and find her a new world. It's a risky...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!!Named a Best Book of 2019 by TIME, Amazon, and The Washington PostA Wired Must-Read Book of Summer  “Gretchen McCulloch is the internet’s favorite linguist, and this book is essential reading. Reading her work is...

(Available after 3-20 days)"Bored and Brilliant shows the fascinating side of boredom. Manoush Zomorodi investigates cutting-edge research as well as compelling (and often funny) real-life examples to demonstrate that boredom is actually a crucial tool...

Introduction and Notes by Dr Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christ Church University College. Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz).Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on...

From the bestselling author of The Minute I Saw You comes a heartrending tale of unlikely youthful alliances and the secrets and conflicts that must be resolved in the present day. So much can change in half a lifetime... Then At fifteen, George is...

(Available after June 30th, 2022) Jason Rekulak lives to dream up stories. From publishing and editing to writing, there is not a single second where Rekulak isn’t thinking of ways to get YOU reading and imagining. Follow the story that he conjures up...

Inception meets True Detective in this science fiction thriller of spellbinding tension and staggering scope that follows a special agent into a savage murder case with grave implications for the fate of mankind....“I promise you have never read a story...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The end of the world was only the beginning. In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This thrilling novel kicks off what Stephen King calls “a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.”NOW A FOX TV SERIES!NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST HORROR BOOKS OF THE DECADE • NAMED...

A new edition of Henry James's searing study of marriage and InfidelitySet in England, The Golden Bowl is Henry James's highly charged exploration of adultery, jealousy, and possession that continues and challenges James's characteristic exploration of...

The hauntingly beautiful epistolary novel from “a glowing light of modern Italian literature” (New York Times Book Review)Longlisted for the PEN Translation Award   At the heart of Happiness, as Such is an absence—an abyss that pulls everyone to its...

Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath“Married five times. Mother. Lover. Aunt. Friend.She plays many roles round here. And neverScared to tell the whole...

(Available after June 30th, 2022)NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set against London's racial and cultural tapestry, venturing across the former empire and into the past as it barrels toward the future, White Teeth revels in the ecstatic hodgepodge of modern life,...