Whether you're going back to school or just feeling nostalgic about syllabi (it happens!), fall into that new book smell with these essential reads.
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY AND TIME’S 10 BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE
In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search...
When Breath Becomes Air
This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?
In Cold Blood
This masterpiece created a sensation when it was first published and is a seminal work of "new journalism." Capote’s account of the Clutter family and their killers is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant.
Educated
“Extraordinary . . . an act of courage and self-invention.”
—The New York Times
Just Mercy
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX
An unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer’s coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.
The Vegetarian
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
Sentence by sentence, The Vegetarian is an extraordinary experience.”
—The Guardian
Cloud Atlas
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
“One of those how-the-holy-hell-did-he-do-it? modern classics that no doubt is—and should be—read by any student of contemporary literature.”
—Dave Eggers
The Hobbit
The stirring adventure that begins The Lord of the Rings trilogy, the greatest fantasy epic of all time.
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content)
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY
The epic, beloved novel of two boy geniuses dreaming up superheroes in New York’s Golden Age of comics.
Meditations
“It is unbelievable to see how the emperor’s words have stood the test of time. . . . Read a page or two anytime you feel like the world is too much.”
—Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Wall Street Journal
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid
“Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be forgotten.”—Esquire
Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.
Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man...
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