Harper Perennial

“From Sputnik to the International Space Station, Jay Barbree has seen it all, and reported it well. ‘Live from Cape Canaveral’ encapsulates the mo...

From journalists Agnes Hooper Gottlieb and Henry Gottlieb, and Brent Bowers and Barbara Bowers, the acclaimed co-authors of 1,000 Years, 1,000 Peop...

“This clever collection of travel advisories lists all the places that are definitely not worth a trip, including a rendering plant, Times Square o...

"Without question this is the best popular account of the last war fought between the United States and Great Britain. . . . In a gripping narrativ...

How did two men move the world away from wars for land and treasure to wars over ideas and ideologies—a change that would go on to kill millions?In...

"In this remarkable memoir, the qualities that have long distinguished Francine Prose’s fiction and criticism—uncompromising intelligence, a gratif...

Jason Mulgrew, popular blogger and author of Everything Is Wrong with Me, continues his depreciating yet hilarious self-reflection with 236 Pounds ...

Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels—the first three of which are collected in this omnibus volume—have earned a uniqu...

“The skill with which Ellen Horan has braided true crime with thoughtful novelizing is pure pleasure. . . . Caleb Carr meets Scott Turow. What coul...

“Fantastically original doesn’t begin to describe this exhilarating globe-spanning, decade-hopping masterpiece. Lee has achieved the impossible—fro...

The critically acclaimed author of Lovecraft Country returns with a thrilling and immersive virtual reality epic—part cyberthriller, part twisted r...

Finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club Book Award, muse to a Givenchy fashion collection, and recommended by the The New York Times, The Skimm, US...

Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist | O Magazine Best Book of the Year“A compelling take on the eternal question of how good people morph into cr...

“Laurie Colwin’s beautiful final book, A Big Storm Knocked It Over, is funny and moving and rich with complicated happiness—a love story for anyone...

Shortlisted for the Costa AwardLonglisted for the Baillie Gifford PrizeThe acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers th...

From the author of The Gospel According to Jesus comes a new adaptation of the psalms.Leading biblical scholar and translator Stephen Mitchell tran...

A beautiful and compulsively readable literary debut that introduces Owen Burr—an Olympian whose dreams of greatness are dashed and then transforme...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER"The most succinct and accessible overview of philosophy I have come across, and perfect for anyone who wants to dip their toe i...

“[An] impressive debut. . . . The intricate plotting, a grisly sense of realism and numerous topical motifs . . . make this a compulsively readable...

“Francine Prose has a knack for getting to the heart of human nature. . . . We are allowed to enter the moral dilemmas of fascinating characters wh...

The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that lev...

A haunting, suspenseful literary debut that combines a classic coming of age story with a portrait of a fractured American family dealing with the ...

“If you love historical drama…then look no further.” —Boston Globe Bernard Cornwell, the perennial New York Times bestselling author of the Richard...

Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dange...