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David Mitchell is the author of the international bestseller The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, named a best book of the year by Time, The Washington Post, Financial Times, The New Yorker, The Globe and Mail, and The New York Times; Black Swan Green, which was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by Time; Cloud Atlas, which was a Man Booker Prize finalist; Number9Dream, which was short-listed for the Man Booker as well as the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; and Ghostwritten, awarded the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for best book by a writer under thirty-five and short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award. Hailed as “the novelist who’s shown us fiction’s future” by The Washington Post, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time in 2007. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.
author bookshelf
The Reason I Jump
The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Written by Naoki Higashida
Translated by Ka Yoshida and David Mitchell
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: August 27, 2013
Price: $22.00
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The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Written by Naoki Higashida
Translated by Ka Yoshida and David Mitchell
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: August 27, 2013
Price: $22.00
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The Reason I Jump
The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Written by Naoki Higashida
Translated by Ka Yoshida and David Mitchell
Format: eBook, 192 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: August 27, 2013
Price: $11.99
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The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism
Written by Naoki Higashida
Translated by Ka Yoshida and David Mitchell
Format: eBook, 192 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: August 27, 2013
Price: $11.99
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Black Swan Green
A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $15.00
***One of ALA's Best Books for Young Adults
From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.
Black Swan tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire... Read more >
A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 27, 2007
Price: $15.00
***One of ALA's Best Books for Young Adults
From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.
Black Swan tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire... Read more >
Black Swan Green
A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $11.99
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A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: April 11, 2006
Price: $11.99
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Cloud Atlas
A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $23.00
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A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: Hardcover, 528 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $23.00
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Cloud Atlas
A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: August 17, 2004
Price: $15.00
From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood... Read more >
A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: August 17, 2004
Price: $15.00
From David Mitchell, the Booker Prize nominee, award-winning writer and one of the featured authors in Granta’s “Best of Young British Novelists 2003” issue, comes his highly anticipated third novel, a work of mind-bending imagination and scope.
A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood... Read more >
Cloud Atlas
A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: eBook, 528 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $11.99
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A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: eBook, 528 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $11.99
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Cloud Atlas (Movie Tie-in Edition)
A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $15.00
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A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $15.00
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Ghostwritten
Written by David Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $15.95
David Mitchell’s electrifying debut novel takes readers on a mesmerizing trek across a world of human experience through a series of ingeniously linked narratives.
Oblivious to the bizarre ways in which their lives intersect, nine characters—a terrorist in Okinawa, a record-shop clerk in Tokyo, a money-laundering British financier in Hong Kong... Read more >
Written by David Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 9, 2001
Price: $15.95
David Mitchell’s electrifying debut novel takes readers on a mesmerizing trek across a world of human experience through a series of ingeniously linked narratives.
Oblivious to the bizarre ways in which their lives intersect, nine characters—a terrorist in Okinawa, a record-shop clerk in Tokyo, a money-laundering British financier in Hong Kong... Read more >
Ghostwritten
Written by David Mitchell
Format: eBook, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
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Written by David Mitchell
Format: eBook, 448 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
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Number9Dream
A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 11, 2003
Price: $15.00
Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy—an intoxicating ride through Tokyo’s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams.
David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work that is in its way even more... Read more >
A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: February 11, 2003
Price: $15.00
Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy—an intoxicating ride through Tokyo’s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams.
David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious, globe-striding first novel, Ghostwritten, with a work that is in its way even more... Read more >
Number9Dream
A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
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A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, and costly courtesans comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout young clerk who has five years... Read more >
A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: March 8, 2011
Price: $15.00
The year is 1799, the place Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor, the Japanese Empire’s single port and sole window onto the world, designed to keep the West at bay. To this place of devious merchants, deceitful interpreters, and costly courtesans comes Jacob de Zoet, a devout young clerk who has five years... Read more >
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $26.00
In 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times Book Review called him simply “a genius.” Now David Mitchell lends fresh credence to The Guardian’s claim that “each of his books... Read more >
A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $26.00
In 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times Book Review called him simply “a genius.” Now David Mitchell lends fresh credence to The Guardian’s claim that “each of his books... Read more >
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $11.99
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A Novel
Written by David Mitchell
Format: eBook
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: June 29, 2010
Price: $11.99
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