Books & Reading
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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 Add to cartCurated 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
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The World in Books: A Year of Reading–Wisely
$21.00 Add to cartA bestselling historian takes readers on an intellectual and cultural adventure, offering a carefully curated guide to great, short nonfiction works by some of the world’s most influential writers–fr… [more below]
- Series: Great Short Books
- Author: Davis, Kenneth C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1668015609
- Language: English
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This Craft of Verse
$22.95 Add to cart“A wondrously limpid testament to the pleasures of reading.” –Steven Poole, The Guardian
Six incandescent lectures on literature from the patron saint of mirrors, metafiction, and infinite libraries.- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Borges, Jorge Luis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0674302451
- Language: English
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The Idea Machine: How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future
$34.95 Add to cartBooks are our first and most lasting form of information technology. Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones– they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine, Joel J. Miller s… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Joel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1493088939
- Language: English
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So Many Books, 2nd Edition: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance
$15.95 Add to cartA charming new edition of a much-loved book about books
“A playful celebrant of literary proliferation.”–New Yorker
In So Many Books, Gabriel Zaid offers his observations on the literary condition: a
- Author: Zaid, Gabriel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1589882075
- Language: English
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Reading Picture Books with Children: How to Shake Up Storytime and Get Kids Talking about What They See
$18.99 Add to cartA new, interactive approach to storytime, The Whole Book Approach was developed in conjunction with the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art and expert author Megan Dowd Lambert’s graduate work in ch
- Author: Lambert, Megan Dowd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1623545773
- Language: English
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California Rewritten: A Journey Through the Golden State’s New Literature
$30.00 Add to cartDive into the revelatory worlds of California’s most exciting writers, and discover how their books uncover our history and can help us imagine our shared future.
“In Freeman’s hands, California is a l
- Author: Freeman, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1597146927
- Language: English
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The Threshold and the Ledger
$14.95 Add to cartA timely exploration of Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann by Booker-shortlisted author Tom McCarthy.
Since her untimely death in 1973, Ingeborg Bachmann has come to be regarded as one of the twentieth- Author: McCarthy, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1912559676
- Language: English
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
$24.99 Add to cartThe literary critic defends the importance of Western literature from Chaucer and Shakespeare to Kafka and Beckett in this acclaimed national bestseller.
“An impressive work…deeply, rightly passionat
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0063452049
- Language: English
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The House of Being
$14.00 Add to cartAn exquisite meditation on the geographies we inherit and the metaphors we inhabit, from Pulitzer Prize winner and nineteenth U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey
“Trethewey doesn’t just explore the- Series: Why I Write
- Author: Trethewey, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 030028179X
- Language: English
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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
$23.00 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres comes an essential guide for writers and readers alike: an exhilarating tour through one hundred novels that “inspires wicked delight.” —Los… [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 12 2006
- ISBN10: 1400033187
- Language: English
