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Based off of the bestselling author's family history, this novel tells the story of Kunta Kinte, who is sold into slavery in the United States where he and his descendants live through major historic events. When Roots was first published forty years ago, the book...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A big sweeping novel of friendship and marriage” ( The Washington Post ) by the celebrated author of The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered—and shadowed—by tragedy. Lonely and...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres —and "a diverse and masterly writer” ( The New York Times Book Review)— comes an enthralling epic tale, written in the tradition of the old Norse sagas, that takes us to fourteenth-century Greenland and tells...
Named one of Ten Best Books of 2025 by The Wall Street Journal Named one of Ten Best Books of 2025 by The Washington Post Named a Best Novel of 2025 by NPR and Publishers Weekly Named a Best Historical Novel of 2025 by The New York Times “A powerful and original epic...
From a great master of historical fiction comes a brilliant tale of love amid war. James A. Michener combines powerful storytelling with deep sensitivity in this novel of a U.S. Army man who, against all odds, falls for a fascinating Japanese woman. Stationed in the...
The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus now in a striking American English translation. The Stranger remains vital for its unsettling insights into the impossibility of moral certainty in the face of violence. “Matthew Ward has done Camus and us a great...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “This inventive, boundary-pushing follow-up to Detransition, Baby . . . [takes] on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory.”— People “Hot, heartbreaking, and thrillingly victorious.”—Miranda July,...
"Twining music history with the political tumults of the 20th century, The Prague Sonata is a sophisticated, engrossing intellectual mystery."— The Wall Street Journal Music and war, war and music—these are the twin motifs around which Bradford Morrow, recipient of...
The author of Invisible Cities explores love and war "with enormous realist dignity" in this collection of " wondrous work from [his] early career" ( Kirkus , starred review). In this short story collection, one of Italy's greatest storytellers explores the interior...
A captivating story filled with heart, humor, secrets, and second chances, about two sisters’ incredible journey and a daughter’s quest to reunite her family, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author. READERS ARE SAYING… “A fun read that went by way too quickly.”...