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**New York Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2013****GoodReads Reader’s Choice Award Winner**Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who wa...

From the widely acclaimed author of Waiting for Eden: a stirring, timely new novel that unfolds in Istanbul over the course of a single day, when a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes, the consequences of which still resonate today, as Russia has ...

What would you do if you were a few months from collecting early retirement—a pension for which you’d sucked up and sycophanted almost twenty years...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARA bold new novel about searching for order in a world that frames madness as truth from the widely acclaim...

A dark, powerful, and subtly crafted novel that traces the intertwined fates of a CIA case officer and a young woman who is forced to confront her ...

Updated Edition—Ten Years LaterThe scene of this enchanting (and true) story is the Ramble, an unknown wilderness deep in the heart of New York's f...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a sparkling novel about misperception, second ch...

From one of the world's most beloved and respected public intellectuals comes a collection of essays examining culture, the literary canon, and the...

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to ...

Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion duri...

When Locke High School opened its doors in 1967, the residents of Watts celebrated it as a sign of the changes promised by Los Angeles. But four de...

From one of the nation's preeminent experts on economic policy, a major reassessment of the foundations of modern economic thinking that explores t...

What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? Alain de Botton’s bold and provocative book argues that we can benefit from the wisdom and...

A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it.Then, one ...

A man is severely injured in a mysterious accident, receives an outrageous sum in legal compensation, and has no idea what to do with it.Then, one ...

Science/Engineering"Petroski has an inquisitive mind, and he is a fine writer. . . . [He] takes us on a lively tour of engineers, their creations a...

Winner of the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for Best American Historical Fiction Francis "Gil" Gilheaney is a sculptor of boundless ambition, but bad...

Langston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance -- a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have b...

Winner of the IMPAC Award and Booker Prize nomineeIn this rich and compelling novel, written in language of astonishing poise and resonance, one of...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes "the most powerful and disturbing true crime narrative to appear since Truman Cap...

From the French intellectual, novelist, essayist, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the first volume of Proust's monumental...

From the French intellectual, novelist, essayist, critic, and one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century: the second volume of Proust's m...