Pile of Books

“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain […]

Moonglow unfolds as a deathbed confession. An old man, tongue loosened by powerful painkillers, memory stirred […]

On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, […]

Many people dream of escaping modern life, but most will never act on it. This is the […]

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years-the story spooling outwards […]

Art Sex Music is the autobiography of a musician who, as a founding member of the […]

In a ruined, nameless city of the future, a woman named Rachel, who makes her living […]

The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture […]

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016 From the writer of one of the most memorable debuts […]

The bestselling author of The Kind Worth Killing returns with an electrifying psychological thriller As tantalizing […]

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and […]

The shadow of a tree in upstate New York. A hotel room in Switzerland. A young […]

The stories in A Manual for Cleaning Women make for one of the most remarkable unsung collections in […]

A blazingly intelligent first collection of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every […]

A biting satire about a young man’s isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him […]

A compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning […]

LRB BOOK OF THE WEEK CAUGHT BY THE RIVER BOOK OF THE MONTH ‘Beautifully believable and […]

WHAT DOES MASCULINITY ADD UP TO IN THE 21ST CENTURY? Jack Urwin traces modern ideas of […]

There is Britain before 1965 and Britain after 1965 – and they are not the same […]

A prescient interwar masterpiece, available in English for the first time ‘Absolutely, definitively alone’, a young […]

Blood and Land is a dazzling, panoramic account of the history and achievements of Native North […]

Zwei rechtsradikale Mörder brechen aus dem Gefängnis. Was haben die Fanatiker mit der Schmutzkampagne gegen den […]

In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. […]

Over half a century since The Spy Who came in from the Cold made John le […]

In The Naked Swiss: A Nation Behind 10 Myths, Clare O’Dea promises to change the way […]

When she is born her parents hand her over to a childless peasant couple in the […]

A great thinker’s final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author […]

By the time she was 14, Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron, […]

Vivienne Westwood began Get A Life, her online diary, in 2010 with an impassioned post about […]

The wisest, richest, funniest, and most moving novel in years from Don DeLillo, one of the […]

A Writer’s Journey From the author of My Brilliant Friend This book invites readers into Elena […]

In these pages, Richard Russo returns to North Bath, the Rust Belt town first brought to […]