A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Written by James Joyce

Format: Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: January 1, 1992
Price: $4.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21404-8 (0-553-21404-7)

Perhaps Joyce's most personal work, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man depicts the intellectual awakening of one of literature's most memorable young heroes, Stephen Dedalus. Through a series of brilliant epiphanies that parallel the development of his own aesthetic consciousness, Joyce evokes Stephen's youth, from his impressionable years... Read more >

The Metamorphosis

Written by Franz Kafka
Translated by Stanley Corngold

Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: February 1, 1972
Price: $5.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21369-0 (0-553-21369-5)

"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetlelike... Read more >

Blindspot
A Novel
Written by Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: December 29, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52620-3 (0-385-52620-2)

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice

Written with wit and exuberance by longtime friends and distinguished historians, Blindspot is at once history and fiction, mystery and love story, tragedy and farce. Set in boisterous, rebellious Boston on the eve of the American Revolution, it ingeniously weaves together the fictional stories... Read more >

The Gospel of Judas, Critical Edition
Together with the Letter of Peter to Phillip, James, and a Book of Allogenes from Codex Tchacos
Written by Rodolphe Kasser and Gregor Wurst

Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: National Geographic
On Sale: June 19, 2007
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 978-1-4262-0191-2 (1-4262-0191-5)

For the first time in a single volume, discover the complete text of Codex Tchacos--the remarkable ancient papyrus book that contains the Gospel of Judas. Hidden for 1,600 years in an Egyptian cave, only to be found, traded, and all but destroyed before its restoration began in 2001, Codex Tchacos contains... Read more >

The Book of Lost Books
An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read
Written by Stuart Kelly

Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: April 18, 2006
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-6297-3 (1-4000-6297-7)

In an age when deleted scenes from Adam Sandler movies are saved, it’s sobering to realize that some of the world’s greatest prose and poetry has gone missing. This witty, wry, and unique new book rectifies that wrong. Part detective story, part history lesson, part exposé, The Book of Lost Books... Read more >

They Burn the Thistles

Written by Yashar Kemal
Translated by Margaret E. Platon
Introduction by Bill McKibben

Format: Trade Paperback, 424 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: November 21, 2006
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-185-1 (1-59017-185-3)

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The Elements of Journalism
What Newspeople Should Know and the Public Should Expect, Completely Updated and Revised
Written by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-34670-4 (0-307-34670-6)

Drawn from years of intensive research, The Elements of Journalism spells out–both for those who create and those who consume the news–the principles and responsibilities of journalism. The newly updated material on current media trends addresses the rise of blogging and online media, coverage of 9/11 and the Iraq war, and... Read more >

One Foot Wrong

Written by Sofie Laguna

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: August 18, 2009
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-1-59051-316-3 (1-59051-316-9)

“The stars shine brightest out of the deepest dark . . .” A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive, religious parents. Hester Wakefield has never spoken to another child, nor seen the outside world. Her one possession is an illustrated children’s Bible, and its imagery forms the sole... Read more >

Bird by Bird
Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Written by Anne Lamott

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: September 1, 1995
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-48001-7 (0-385-48001-6)

An honest and humorous step-by-step guide on how to write and how to manage the writer's life. From "Getting Started," with "Short Assignments," through "Shitty First Drafts," "Character," "Plot," "Dialogue." All the way from "False Starts" to "How Do You Know When You're Done?" She discusses writer's Block, writing Groups, and... Read more >

Crooked Little Heart
A Novel
Written by Anne Lamott

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: May 18, 1998
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49180-8 (0-385-49180-8)

With the same combination of humor and honesty that animates her nonfiction works Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Lamott's new novel portrays a not-untypical family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified by the unexpected. By bringing normally subsurface issues into relief, Lamott asks big questions... Read more >

Aloft

Written by Willia Langewiesche

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 19, 2010
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-74148-6 (0-307-74148-6)

More than a decade after the publication of Inside the Sky, Aloft is a completely revised, expanded, and updated edition of this classic text, which is widely regarded as the most lyrical and incisive book on flying.

In these essays, William Langewiesche considers how flying has altered not only how we... Read more >

The Blue Notebook
A Novel
Written by James A. Levine

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: July 6, 2010
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-52872-6 (0-385-52872-8)

An unforgettable, deeply affecting debut novel, The Blue Notebook tells the story of Batuk, a precocious fifteen-year-old girl from rural India who is sold into sexual slavery by her father. As she navigates the grim realities of Mumbai’s Common Street, Batuk manages to put pen to paper, recording her private thoughts... Read more >

Babbitt

Written by Sinclair Lewis

Format: Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Bantam Classics
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $5.95
ISBN: 978-0-553-21486-4 (0-553-21486-1)

Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1930, the first American writer to win such an honor. In Babbitt, he directed his satirical barbs at the American businessman and a town obsessed by capitalism and the "values" of the marketplace. Babbitt captures the flavor of America during the economic boom... Read more >

Richard Yates

Written by Tao Lin

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Melville House
On Sale: September 7, 2010
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-935554-15-8 (1-935554-15-8)

In a startling change of direction, Tao Lin presents a dark and brooding tale of illicit love that is his most sophisticated and mesmerizing writing yet.

Richard Yates is named after real-life writer Richard Yates, but it has nothing to do with him. Instead, it tracks the rise and fall of... Read more >

Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
Written by David Lipsky

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: April 13, 2010
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 978-0-307-59243-9 (0-307-59243-X)

"If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or... Read more >

Arctic Dreams

Written by Barry Lopez

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 2, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72748-1 (0-375-72748-5)

Barry Lopez’s National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece.

Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world–its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. But what turns this marvelous work of natural history... Read more >

Before We Get Started
A Practical Memoir of the Writer's Life
Written by Bret Lott

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: January 25, 2005
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-47817-7 (0-345-47817-7)

This marvelous guide begins where other books on writing and the writing life leave off. Delving deep into the creative process, Bret Lott reveals truths we scarcely realized we needed to know but without which we as writers will soon lose our way. In ten intimate essays based on his own... Read more >

The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft

Written by H.P. Lovecraft

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Dell
On Sale: July 7, 1997
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-440-50660-7 (0-440-50660-3)

Explore the marvelous complexity of Lovecraft's writing—including his use of literary allusions, biographical details, and obscure references in this rich, in-depth exploration of great horror fiction from the acknowledged master of the weird, including the stories "Herbert West—Reanimator", "Pickman's Model", "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Thing on the Doorstep", "The Horror... Read more >

The Voyage That Never Ends
Fictions, Poems, Fragments, Letters
Written by Malcolm Lowry
Edited by Michael Hofmann

Format: Hardcover, 536 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-235-3 (1-59017-235-3)

A self-portrait of one of the twentieth-century’s most original and tragic writers, The Voyage that Never Ends is the first collection to draw on the whole range of Malcolm Lowry’s work above and beyond his masterpiece Under the Volcano. When Lowry died at the age of 48—in the coroner’s words, “of... Read more >

Beatrice and Virgil
A Novel
Written by Yann Martel

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
On Sale: February 22, 2011
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8154-4 (0-8129-8154-5)

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Life of Pi comes another ingenious, provocative, and mesmerizing novel that explores big questions about humanity—about who we are and what we are capable of doing in order to survive.

Fate can take many forms. For Henry, it arrives in an envelope from a stranger containing... Read more >

Shadow Country

Written by Peter Matthiessen

Format: Trade Paperback, 912 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8062-2 (0-8129-8062-X)

2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER

Peter Matthiessen’s great American epic–Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man’s River, and Bone by Bone–was conceived as one vast mysterious novel, but because of its length it was originally broken up into three books. In this bold new rendering, Matthiessen has cut nearly a third of the overall... Read more >

The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico
A Novel
Written by Sarah McCoy

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: August 3, 2010
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-46017-2 (0-307-46017-7)

It is 1961 and Puerto Rico is trapped in a tug-of-war between those who want to stay connected to the United States and those who are fighting for independence. For eleven-year-old Verdita Ortiz-Santiago, the struggle for independence is a battle fought much closer to home.

Verdita has always been safe and secure... Read more >

Some Horses
Essays
Written by Thomas McGuane

Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 14, 2000
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72452-7 (0-375-72452-4)

In Some Horses, Tom McGuane animates the wide prairie, the ranches where cattle roam and cutting horses are trained, and the packed coliseums in which these horses compete for prestige and prize money. Best of all, McGuane brings to life the horses he has known, celebrating the unique glories that make... Read more >

Elders
A Novel
Written by Ryan McIlvain

Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Hogarth
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-95569-2 (0-307-95569-9)

In his debut novel, Ryan McIlvain offers an unsparing portrait of two Mormon missionaries who approach their religion and their calling from vastly different points of origin. Elder McLeod is a brusque and forthright American nearing the end of his two-year-long mission in Brazil when he meets his new partner, Elder... Read more >

Echoing Silence
Thomas Merton on the Vocation of Writing
Written by Thomas Merton
Edited by Robert Inchausti

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: New Seeds
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $18.95
ISBN: 978-1-59030-348-1 (1-59030-348-2)

When Thomas Merton entered a Trappist monastery in December 1941, he turned his back on secular life—including a very promising literary career. He sent his journals, a novel-in-progess, and copies of all his poems to his mentor, Columbia professor Mark Van Doren, for safe keeping, fully expecting to write little, if... Read more >