The Book Club for Troublesome Women
Four 1960s housewives read The Feminine Mystique and spark a revolution in their buttoned-up suburb. What begins as a book club becomes a journey of friendship, ambition, and finding their voices in a world that tried to silence them.
The Last Samurai
A single mother and her child prodigy obsessed with Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. An 11-year-old who reads Greek, speaks Japanese, and sets out to find his father among geniuses.
The Library Book
A 1986 fire destroyed 400,000 books at the Los Angeles Central Library. Who set it and why? Susan Orlean investigates the unsolved mystery while celebrating libraries and the people who run them.
84, Charing Cross Road
A New York writer and a London bookseller exchange letters for 20 years, never meeting but forging an unforgettable friendship through their shared love of rare books.
A Gentleman in Moscow
A Russian aristocrat sentenced to house arrest in Moscow's grand Metropol Hotel for over 30 years finds unexpected friendship, romance, and purpose within its walls.
Siddhartha
A young Brahmin abandons comfort to seek enlightenment through asceticism, wealth, and love, only to find wisdom by the river. Can truth be taught, or must it be lived?
The Alchemist: The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel
A shepherd boy follows a dream to Egyptian pyramids, seeking treasure but finding something far greater: the wisdom of listening to his heart and following his destiny.
The Prophet
Timeless poetic wisdom on love, marriage, children, work, joy, sorrow, and death. 26 prose poems offering spiritual guidance that has captivated millions for a century.
Ernest Hemingway: A Biography
The first woman to write a major Hemingway biography reveals the Nobel Prize winner's genius and demons through never before used material and new research.
A Moveable Feast
Hemingway's intimate memoir of 1920s Paris, where he lived poor but happy among literary giants like Fitzgerald, Stein, and Joyce while learning his craft.