Summer Reads

To beat Takagi-san, Nishikata must think like Takagi-san, and that means everything has contest potential. From a teacher’s proposal to Setsubun, anything is fair game— except for 100% Unrequited. Although, why does Nishikata find it so embarrassing,...

Although the new school year threatens to separate Nishikata and Takagi-san into different classes, one thing remains certain—their continual series of contests will go on! Second-year Nishikata is not the same boy he was before, and he will definitely...

Even without making a sound, Takagi-san proves to be a formidable opponent! But her near-clairvoyant teasing won’t discourage Nishikata. With a surefire Rock, Paper, Scissors strategy and some divine help, he has to win once, right? And when he does,...

Even when Nishikata feels like he’s got the upper hand, Takagi-san never makes things easy for him. Whether he’s doing his best to make her admit she’s cold in her summer uniform, giving her a strict speech while pretending to be her teacher, or simply...

Hearing the word couple is enough to get Nishikata flustered, especially when he and Takagi-san keep getting mistaken for one...(It's gotta be another ploy!) With summer still in the air, hair-raising ghost stories and haunted trails won't be the only...

Roses are red, violets are blue, what's a middle schooler gotta do to win a prank-off or two? As Valentine's Day takes over the school, Nishikata finds himself struggling to maintain a straight face around his sworn enemy Takagi-san for reasons he can't...

Christmas is just around the corner, and Nishikata isn't about to go home for the holidays without a prank! Especially not after Takagi-san appears in his dream and dominates every contest he tries to plan. His bag of tricks may be empty, but his...

The day of the sports tests has arrived once more, and this time, Nishikata is determined to achieve victory over Takagi-san for sure! After last year's disappointing defeat, he's spent every spare moment training for his chance at revenge! If he's able...

The reimagining of Jane Eyre as a gutsy, heroic serial killer that The New York Times Book Review calls “wonderfully entertaining” and USA Today describes as “sheer mayhem meets Victorian propriety”—nominated for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel...

A tale of high adventure and survival!In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi Sugimoto searches the wilderness of Hokkaido for a hoard of hidden gold. With only a cryptic map and a native Ainu girl to help him, Saichi must also...

A tale of high adventure and survival!In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi Sugimoto searches the wilderness of Hokkaido for a hoard of hidden gold. With only a cryptic map and a native Ainu girl to help him, Saichi must also...

A tale of high adventure and survival!In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi Sugimoto searches the wilderness of Hokkaido for a hoard of hidden gold. With only a cryptic map and a native Ainu girl to help him, Saichi must also...

A tale of high adventure and survival!In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi Sugimoto searches the wilderness of Hokkaido for a hoard of hidden gold. With only a cryptic map and a native Ainu girl to help him, Saichi must also...

A tale of high adventure and survival!In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi Sugimoto searches the wilderness of Hokkaido for a hoard of hidden gold. With only a cryptic map and a native Ainu girl to help him, Saichi must also...

A tale of high adventure and survival!In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi Sugimoto searches the wilderness of Hokkaido for a hoard of hidden gold. With only a cryptic map and a native Ainu girl to help him, Saichi must also...

A bighearted and moving debut about a wry retired schoolteacher whose decade-old secret threatens to come to light and send shockwaves through her small Texas town.Billington, Texas, is a place where nothing changes. Well, almost nothing. For the first...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“An informed and entertaining guide to what science can and cannot tell us.” —The Wall Street Journal“Stimulating . . . encourage[s] readers to push past well-trod assumptions […] and have fun doing so.” —Science MagazineFrom...

This great Central Asian epic, passed down through generations and now brought to life in a new translation, carries the reader into a world of nomads, warriors and horselords'I am a steel-fanged lion, a dragon ready to pounce, a mighty poplar with...

All legends begin somewhere, and the two novels here are where one of the world's best-loved legends began. In A Study in Scarlet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson first meet and investigate a seemingly impossible mystery that begins with a corpse in a...

The Penguin English Library editionA dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation.For Mary Marston has received several large pearls - one a year for the...