Prince Hamlet of Denmark, confronted by his murdered father's ghost, hesitates on the path of revenge — generating centuries of analysis about the nature of action, consciousness, and death.
The epic masterwork of fantasy literature. Frodo Baggins inherits the One Ring — the instrument of Sauron's power — and must carry it to the fires of Mount Doom to destroy it before the Dark Lord reclaims it and enslaves all of Middle-earth.
Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic memoir tells the story of his father Vladek's survival of Auschwitz, drawn with Jews as mice and Nazis as cats — a harrowing Holocaust narrative braided with the fraught present-day relationship between an aging survivor and his son.
The final volume of The Lord of the Rings brings the War of the Ring to its climax — the siege of Gondor, the ride of the Rohirrim, Frodo and Sam's last desperate climb to Mount Doom — and then refuses the easy ending, following the cost of victory all the way home to the Shire.
Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong explores the concept of Umwelt — the unique sensory world each animal species inhabits — and reveals how different creatures perceive colours we cannot see, sounds we cannot hear, electric fields we cannot feel, and magnetic compasses we cannot sense.
The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 8 million copies sold. Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results. No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving every day.
The deeply personal memoir of the former First Lady of the United States — from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to the White House and beyond.
The memoir of The Daily Show host Trevor Noah, born in apartheid South Africa to a Black mother and white father — an act that was literally a crime under apartheid law.
The definitive account of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty behind OxyContin, and their role in creating and perpetuating the opioid crisis.
by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, and Simone Beck
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The book that taught America to cook French — Julia Child's comprehensive, demystifying guide to classical French technique for the home cook, with 524 recipes.
Elie Wiesel's memoir of his experiences as a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy deported from Sighet, Transylvania to Auschwitz and then Buchenwald. One of the foundational documents of Holocaust testimony — a first-person account of the camps, the death marches, and the systematic destruction of faith, family, and identity.
Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a spacecraft millions of miles from Earth, with no memory of how he got there. As he pieces together the mission, he realises he may be humanity's last hope against a microscopic threat that is slowly extinguishing the Sun — and that he is not entirely alone.
James Beard Award-winning chef Samin Nosrat teaches the four fundamental elements that make food delicious — salt, fat, acid, and heat — and how to use them to cook confidently without recipes.
Nike founder Phil Knight's memoir of building one of the world's most iconic brands — from $50 borrowed from his father and a handshake deal for Japanese running shoes to a multi-billion dollar empire. Brutally honest and compulsively readable.
The diary kept by a Jewish teenager hiding in a secret annex in Amsterdam during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands — the most widely read personal account of the Holocaust.
The first volume of The Lord of the Rings follows Frodo Baggins as he leaves the Shire carrying the One Ring, gathers the Fellowship at Rivendell, and sets out toward Mordor through a world that grows darker and stranger with every mile.
J. Kenji López-Alt's landmark culinary science book explains the science behind everyday cooking and provides hundreds of recipes built on tested, proven techniques.
Odysseus's ten-year voyage home from Troy to Ithaca — through the Cyclops's cave, Circe's island, the underworld, and the sirens — is Western literature's founding journey narrative.
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork about racial injustice and moral growth in Depression-era Alabama, seen through the eyes of young Scout Finch.
A neurosurgeon diagnosed with terminal lung cancer at 36 confronts the questions he spent his career preparing to face — and writes a book about mortality, meaning, and what makes a life worth living.
In the totalitarian super-state of Oceania, Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history to serve The Party. His secret rebellion — and its consequences — is one of the most important political novels ever written.
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives at the Teixcalaan Empire carrying a political crisis — her predecessor was murdered — and a neurological implant containing that predecessor's memories. A Hugo Award-winning debut that combines a whodunit with a sophisticated examination of imperialism, identity, and the seduction of the metropole.
Thomas Sowell delivers a comprehensive, jargon-free introduction to economic thinking that trains readers to see beyond immediate effects to the full consequences of policies and actions.
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