Books & Reading
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Marginalia: An Autobiography
$14.00 Add to cart“What does it mean to dissolve into one’s text?” Naomi Washer asks in Marginalia: An Autobiography. Comprised of a decade’s worth of notes made in the margins of other writers’ books, collected and ar… [more below]
- Author: Washer, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1957392398
- Language: English
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Classics for Pleasure
$18.99 Add to cartThis is not your father’s list of classics. In these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world’s most entertaining books. Writing with affection as w… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Dirda, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 10 2008
- ISBN10: 0156033852
- Language: English
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100 Books to Live by: Literary Remedies for Any Occasion
$17.99 Add to cartA collection of life-affirming books to guide you through. Settle down with 100 Books to Live By and learn which book prescriptions can be dispensed to lift your spirits, whatever you may need.
Someti… [more below]
- Series: 100 Things to Live by #1
- Author: Piercy, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1789298857
- Language: English
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Middlemen: Literary Agents and the Making of American Fiction
$29.95 Read moreA revealing account of how agents have shaped book publishing and the literary canon from the 1950s to today
Middlemen rewrites literary history from the perspective of one of its most important but l- Author: McGrath, Laura B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 0691256160
- Language: English
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Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy
$31.99 Add to cartFrom two of the most acclaimed writers in the field today, a groundbreaking look at how SF and fantasy writing–and reading!–work.
Jo Walton and Ada Palmer are two of the most innovative and insightf- Author: Walton, Jo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1250372607
- Language: English
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Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out
$22.99 Add to cart*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*
*A WGN Radio Best Book of 2024*
*A Good Housekeeping Reads pick*A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a “beloved and wonderful writer” (George Saunders),… [more below]
- Author: Reed, Shannon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1335453512
- Language: English
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The Child That Books Built: A Life in Reading
$20.00 Add to cartIn The Child That Books Built, this extended love letter to children’s books and the wonders they perform, Francis Spufford makes a confession: books were his mother, his father, his school.
Reading- Author: Spufford, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 213
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0312421842
- Language: English
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Poetry for Dummies
$26.99 Read more- Author: Timpane, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1394375557
- Language: English
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Reading Together
$13.95 Add to cartA lively and thoughtful exploration of how book clubs change the way we read.
In this engaging and vivacious memoir, college professor Katarzyna Bartoszyńska thinks back on various book clubs sh- Author: Bartoszynska, Katarzyna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: November 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1958846147
- Language: English
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The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life
$18.99 Add to cartAn editor and writer’s vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty great books (and two not-so-great ones)–a true story about reading that reminds us w
- Author: Miller, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0061446181
- Language: English
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Incompleteness: New and Selected Essays, 1999 – 2023
$22.95 Add to cartEssays on everything from the music of Joni Mitchell to the declining quality of Bengali food from one of India’s preeminent writers.
“I’m an Indian, so of course I write about India. But then, again,- Author: Chaudhuri, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1681379651
- Language: English
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What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost
$18.00 Add to cart“Enlightening and enthusiastic.” –Ed Simon, The New York Times Book Review
Now in paperback, a highly original hybrid of literary criticism and political history, telling of the enduring, surprising- Author: Reade, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1662603401
- Language: English
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A Compass on the Navigable Sea: 100 Years of World Literature
$26.00 Read moreCurated from the archives of World Literature Today, this landmark anthology celebrates a century of exploration through pen and ink, and reimagines what international readership can be.
From Nobel lau
- Author: Simon, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1632064138
- Language: English
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The Writer’s Room: The Hidden Worlds That Shape the Books We Love
$26.95 Add to cartA journey into the unique spaces where some of literature’s greatest writers created their most memorable works
Virginia Woolf famously wrote in A Room of One’s Own that “it is necessary to have five- Author: Lewin, Katie Da Cunha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0691283834
- Language: English
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Light and Thread
$20.00 Add to cartFrom Nobel Prize winner Han Kang comes her first work of nonfiction published in English–a singular collection of writings including her inspiring Nobel Lecture.
In this light-filled and multi-facete- Author: Kang, Han
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217155033
- Language: English
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Unread: A Memoir of Learning (and Loving) to Read on Tiktok
$28.00 Add to cartAs a result of childhood learning disabilities and educational neglect, Oliver James graduated from high school and became one of approximately 45 million functionally illiterate Americans. However, a… [more below]
- Author: James, Oliver
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1454959401
- Language: English
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Reader Bot: What Happens When AI Reads and Why It Matters
$28.00 Add to cartWhat happens to human reading when AI bots can do it for us?
Explosive developments in artificial intelligence have awed everyday users with the technology’s ability to draw, do computer coding, and e
- Author: Baron, Naomi S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 1503643948
- Language: English
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Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives
$29.95 Add to cartA celebration of books and a love story to the written word that reveals how books help us connect with other readers through shared stories.
As a child, Lucy Mangan was reading all the time, using bo- Author: Mangan, Lucy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100446
- Language: English
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
$22.95 Add to cart“Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous.”
One of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction. Umberto Eco was fond of p
—The Atlantic- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 067430246X
- Language: English
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One More Page: A Sticker Book for Book Lovers!
$16.00 Add to cartShow off your love for books with this amazing collection of book-themed stickers, perfect for decorating your reading accessories like e-readers, journals, water bottles, phones, and more–with over … [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Katie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1507224222
- Language: English
