Summer Reads

Immersive, tender, and funny, this posthumous debut is an intimate collection of stories about Cambodian Americans carving out new paths for themselves in California's Central Valley.INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   A Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club...

Swearing to his dying mother that he'll find the father he has never met, a certain Pedro Paramo, Juan Preciado sets out across the barren plains of Mexico for Comala, the hallucinatory ghost town his father presided over like a feudal lord. Between the...

“Both plain-spoken and luminous . . . [Szymborska’s] is the best of the Western mind—free, restless, questioning.” — New York Times Book ReviewA New York Times Editors’ Choice “Vast, intimate, and charged with the warmth of a life fully imagined to the...

A lyrical and dreamy reimagining of Dracula's brides, A Dowry of Blood is a story of desire, obsession, and emancipation. Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit...

In 1940, the handsome, athletic, and charismatic David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford University to study engineering, unaware of his effect on others—especially on Evert Dax, the lonely son of a celebrated novelist who is destined to become a writer...

“A haunting peek at the life of a teenage girl in 1950s New Orleans.”—Entertainment WeeklyIt’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals...

A tall, quiet gamer boy and a geeky girl whose life revolves around yaoi manga are old friends, but when they start working in the same office, they decide to date. It's a relationship of convenience at first, but could it become something more? This...

(Available after 3-20 days)A tall, quiet gamer boy and a geeky girl whose life revolves around yaoi manga are old friends, but when they start working in the same office, they decide to date. It's a relationship of convenience at first, but could it...

(Available after 3-20 days)“The ultimate expression of intergenerational literary wisdom.” —Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker   A work that has inspired generations, this new edition of Letters to a Young Poet features a fresh translation of Rilke’s ten...

The author of cult favourite The House in the Cerulean Sea returns with another uplifting slice of whimsical fantasy that gifts a freshly deceased jobsworth seven days to discover the meaning of a fun-filled existence. SIGNED EDITION, ONLY IN...

In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians...

New York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable BookNamed one of the Best Books of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, and Kirkus ReviewsFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction)Shortlisted for...

Riveting, elegant, humorous—and illustrated by Smith’s signature Polaroids—New York Times bestseller Year of the Monkey is a moving and original work, a touchstone for our turbulent times. “A picaresque voyage through Patti Smith’s dreams and life,...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A legal thriller that’s comparable to classics such as Scott Turow’s Presumed Innocent . . . tragic and shocking.”—Associated PressNOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED ORIGINAL STREAMING SERIES • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR...

PRISM AWARDS FINALIST 2021Selected as a 2020 LGBTQIA+ Graphic Novel for Young Readers by Publishers Weekly"When I was in school, everyone got to a certain age where they became interested in talking about only one thing: boys, girls and sex. Me though? I...

The international bestselling novel sold in 21 countries, about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected “wind” phone, a place of pilgrimage and solace since the 2011 tsunamiWhen Yui loses...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove shares an irresistible and moving collection of heartfelt, humorous essays about fatherhood, providing his newborn son with the perspective and tools he’ll need to make his way in the world...

(Available after December 30th, 2021)In the second novel of M. A. Carrick's “utterly captivating” Rook & Rose trilogy, a clever con artist, a legendary vigilante, and a dashing crime lord fight to free their city from the clutches of a dark and...

The final novel in the First Law Trilogy by New York Timesbestseller Joe Abercrombie. Logen Ninefingers might only have one more fight in him -- but it's going to be a big one. Battle rages across the North, the king of the Northmen still stands firm,...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED • ALEX AWARD WINNER • New York Times bestselling author Joe Abercrombie’s thrilling series continues in the follow-up to Half a King, which George R. R. Martin hailed as “a fast-paced tale of betrayal...