Summer Reads

#26 on The Guardian's list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in AmericaIn an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad...

A whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Ephron, America’s funniest—and most acute—writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as we’ve been living it these last forty years.Everything you could possibly want from Nora Ephron is...

There was only one woman who could set me free. But I would rather set myself on fire than ask Sloane Walton for anything.Lucian Rollins is a lean, mean vengeance-seeking mogul. On a quest to erase his father’s mark on the family name, he spends...

The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty,...

Two childhood friends. Two broken hearts. One impromptu road trip to get away from everything. That's all this was supposed to be. After all, I've been living in the friend zone for years now But hockey heartthrob Jasper Gervais isn't looking at me like...

All five of the Court of Thorns and Roses paperbacks in a gorgeous box set. 'Passionate, violent, sexy and daring ... A true page-turner' -- USA TODAY on A Court of Thorns and Roses Feyre is a huntress. The skin of a wolf would bring enough gold to feed...

A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain   Acclaimed as one of the best books of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Time, and Amazon, and named a Top 10...

You've just passed someone on the street who could be the love of your life, the person you're destined for - what do you do? In Murakami's world, you tell them a story. The five weird and wonderful tales collected here each unlock the many-tongued...

From the #1 bestselling author in Japan comes a celebration of books, cats, and the people who love them, infused with the heartwarming spirit of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles. Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki...

Now an original movie on Disney+, here is the book that started it all, the international bestseller about a teenage criminal mastermind and his siege against dangerous, tech-savvy fairies.New York Times best-selling author, Eoin Colfer and series,...

Set in a Norse-inspired world and packed with myth, magic, and vengeance, this epic saga follows a band of warriors as they face the wrath of ancient gods and change the shape of the world.   Lik-Rifa, the dragon god of legend, has been freed from...

NADJA is a Surrealist romance, and has come to be known as a book which defined that movement's attitude towards life. With its blend of intimate confession and sense of the marvellous, NADJA weaves a myterious and compelling tapestry of daily life as...

The third book in the Dreamland Billionaires series not only adds to the spice but surprises, too, as it’s the first in print. You’ve read The Fine Print. Agreed to Terms & Conditions. There’s only 448 pages to the Final Offer. We are sure you’ll...

Dostoesky's drama of sin, guilt and redemption transmutes the sordid story of an old woman's murder by a desperate student into the nineteenth century's profoundest and most compelling philosophical novel. Grim in theme and setting, the book nevertheless...

An intoxicating blend of thriller, campus drama and Shakespearian tragedy, Rio’s international bestseller is now available in a breathtakingly designed anniversary edition, complete with stunning illustrations and deluxe finishes. A gorgeous...

Permafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, 'because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like';...

Author of the acclaimed novel Hurricane Season, Fernanda Melchor leads us into a different kind of hell: paradise   Inside a luxury housing complex, two misfit teenagers sneak around and get drunk. Franco Andrade, lonely, overweight, and addicted to...

I would never have chosen this path, but I am very glad to be who I am, here. The Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from biopsy to mastectomy, told by the great feminist and activist Audre...

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery. Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no...

The rules were simple. Keep my hands off his daughter and stay out of trouble. But now I'm stuck with her. There's only one bed. And well, rules are made to be broken. I'm the face of professional bull riding-the golden boy. Or at least I was, until it...