Summer Reads

A TASTE OF HONEYIndulge in more sweetness! Volume 4 of Syrup serves up a second helping of stories about love between women that focus on that first magical night.Number of pages: 168Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 13 mm

TROUBLE IN PARADISE After her life fell apart, Mayumi decided to ditch the city and live in the countryside. While things haven’t always gone smoothly between her and her boisterous landlady, Mayumi and Rin have grown close and even shared a kiss or two...

BETWEEN FRIENDSHIP AND ROMANCEHinako wants to get closer to Asahi, but there is still a lot she needs to work out. What will happen when she turns to Fuuka in her time of need? And how will Fuuka handle her own feelings for Asahi?Number of...

(Available after 3-20 days)MORE THAN FRIENDSThe distance between Hinako and Asahi is closing! What started as a typical coworker relationship has blossomed into friendship. But now, Hinako has started to wonder if her feelings for Asahi go even deeper...

GOODBYE AUTUMN, WELCOME WINTER!Winter is in full swing, and Adachi and Shimamura are about to celebrate their second Christmas together–so what better time to pause and reflect on the journey that brought them this far? This holiday season, perhaps even...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER and an award-winning novel in stories surrounding a young, half-white, half-Puerto Rican boy grappling with life, love, and identity as he comes of age.In this groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of...

By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Longlisted for the Man Booker PrizeSelected by Time as One of the Ten Best Books of the Year | A New York Times Notable Book | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The...

A profound portrait of family dynamics in the rural South and “an essential novel” (The New Yorker) “As close to flawless as any reader could ask for . . . The living language [Allison] has created is as exact and innovative as the language of To Kill a...

“One of the most vital and original novelists of her generation.” —Larissa MacFarquhar, The New YorkerFrom the bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be FeministsFifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in...

On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover   A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily...

"Poignant . . . Powerful . . . Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." —The New York Times Book ReviewAcclaimed writer Julia Alvarez’s beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as...

'The Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel. Search no further' -- Martin AmisA penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations,...

The fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to rediscover the world-and more especially, twentieth-century America. This expansive comedy of American...

Told through the breathtakingly frank monologue of a sexually obsessed patient to his psychoanalyst, Roth’s opus to onanism is one of the supreme achievements of the American comic novel and a devastating critique of twentieth century US society...

'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' -- Salman RushdieFrom the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo makes his home among ash, elm, magnolia, plum and almond, living up...

A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City   Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe, and her Jewish...

'Fiercely intelligent, very funny and unlike anything else I've ever read' -- MARK HADDON'Original...witty...playful...a wonderfully funny book' -- JAMES WOOD'A triumph - a genuinely new story, a genuinely new form' -- A. S. BYATTEleven-year-old Ludo is...

"Dramatic....One of the most ambitious and accomplished debut novels in recent memory."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review.   "This masterly novel is not only bold and challenging but also beautifully written. The reader will be left breathless by the ending...

A dark coming-of-age tale where slice-of-life slices back.This is Punpun Onodera’s coming-of-age story. His parents’ marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail, and his mom goes to the hospital. He has to live with his loser uncle. He has a crush on...

A dark coming-of-age tale where slice-of-life slices back.This is Punpun Onodera’s coming-of-age story. His parents’ marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail, and his mom goes to the hospital. He has to live with his loser uncle. He has a crush on...