Books & Reading
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The Wave in the Mind: Imagination and the Art of Writing and Reading
$24.95 Read moreJoin Ursula K. Le Guin as she turns her writer’s eye to subjects ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to creativity, feminism, and the joy of imagination.
In this collection of essays, talks, and- Author: Le Guin, Ursula K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 1645475247
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Translation
$20.00 Add to cartA deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners
“Searls’s philosophy is ultimately one of freedom–to move beyond mere equivalence, to translate how a text comm- Author: Searls, Damion
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0300292333
- Language: English
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Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine That Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad
$25.00 Read moreHot Type is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg’s movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media. The Linotype mechanized the
- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 20 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765123959
- Language: English
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Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise
$17.99 Read more
Katherine R
A celebration, in a pocket-sized format, of the joys and vital importance of children’s literature for adult readers, from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Impossible Creatures.- Author: Rundell, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217230747
- Language: English
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Cookbooking: A Fan’s Guide
$30.00 Read moreAn eclectic, visually stunning pop-history, Cookbooking explores the most influential and beloved cookbooks through photographs, listicals, graphics, and snappy writing.
Subjects include: a visual h
- Author: Berne, Debbie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 18 2026
- ISBN10: 1958417874
- Language: English
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Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
$44.95 Add to cartIn an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Fu… [more below]
- Author: Jameson, Fredric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 431
- Publish Date: April 17 2007
- ISBN10: 1844675386
- Language: English
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But Have You Read the Book? Romance Edition: 40 Love Stories That Inspired Our Favorite Films
$20.00 Read moreFor film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 40 cinema classics and the enduring love stories that served as their heart-tugging inspiration.
What- Author: Lopez, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 28 2026
- ISBN10: 9798894142296
- Language: English
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Lady C: The Long, Sensational Life of Lady Chatterley’s Lover
$30.00 Add to cartA vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, tracing its life over the last century
D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is one of the best-known and most resonant works of th
- Author: Cuthbertson, Guy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 0300266375
- Language: English
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Dust and Light: On the Art of Fact in Fiction
$17.99 Add to cartHailed as a “genius-enchantress” (Karen Russell) and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship, the celebrated novelist Andrea Barrett has for decades reached backward to find inspiration from the past and w
- Author: Barrett, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1324123494
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartA 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 Add to cart- 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
