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Backman follows four teenagers whose bond reshapes their lives and those of strangers over decades.
Michael Easter makes the case that embracing discomfort can increase resilience, health, and meaning in modern life.
A sweeping, accessible history tracing how law, medicine, and colonial/racial power produced and weaponized transmisogyny—and how its pressures shape everyone’s lives.
Socrates debates the famed orator Gorgias about rhetoric, power, justice and what it truly means to live well.
In 17th-century Istanbul, an Italian slave and his Turkish master—who look uncannily alike—enter an intense intellectual and psychological relationship that blurs the boundaries between master and servant, East and West, and even their own identities.
In a strange, ritual-bound village, a boy comes of age amid cruel customs that gradually reveal a haunting allegory of life under dictatorship and the struggle for individual freedom.
A gender-fluid nobleman lives for centuries, transforming from man to woman as they travel through English history and question identity, love, and authorship.
A woman is hired to care for her former friend’s twin stepchildren—who literally burst into flames when upset—and together they navigate secrecy, scandal, and the messy making of an unlikely family.
A sardonic cat and his devoted owner take a road trip across Japan to visit old friends, uncovering quiet acts of love and farewell.
Brief, plainspoken talks show how presence, simplicity, and a “beginner’s mind” of not-knowing form the core of Zen practice.
In Córdoba, Argentina, a tight-knit group of trans sex workers forms a makeshift family after rescuing an abandoned baby, confronting violence with ferocious love.
A lone astronaut with amnesia must save Earth by solving a cosmic extinction threat, teaming up with an unlikely alien partner through science and grit.
On the icy planet Gethen, an envoy navigates court intrigue and a perilous trek while confronting a society whose people are ambisexual.
A mother’s choice of her newborn’s name splits into three timelines, tracing how one decision reverberates across 35 years.
As humanity flees a dying Earth, a terraformed world fosters uplifted spiders who evolve a civilization destined to confront their human makers.
Illouz argues that modern institutions and markets shape how we love and why it so often leads to pain.
A grieving woman is lured into a cultish world of luxury skincare and beauty rituals that warp reality, leading her down a gothic rabbit hole of obsession and self-erasure.
An aristocrat is sentenced to house arrest in a grand hotel, where decades of Russian history pass just beyond its doors.
An alternate-history steampunk epic where reformers and revolutionaries build a free nation in the Congo amid Leopold’s brutal regime.
A girl raised in captivity escapes into a desolate world and searches for meaning and memory among the ruins of humanity.
A trans girl comes of age in working-class Madrid in the 1980s–90s, finding language and community to name herself against hostility and silence.
A witty tour of the Nordic countries that probes the realities behind their reputation for happiness and success.
A practical guide showing how small, consistent behavior changes—built with cues, cravings, responses, and rewards—compound into remarkable results over time.
A discontented American housewife’s life is transformed by a novel about Rumi and Shams, intertwining her present-day awakening with Sufi teachings on love.
A future where books are banned and firemen burn knowledge to enforce conformity.
Four sharp-witted pensioners in a retirement village team up to solve a real murder that lands in their laps.
A violent satire exploring free will, morality, and state control.
During WWII, a blind French girl and a German boy’s lives intersect in occupied Saint-Malo as they’re drawn toward a fateful crossroads.
A runaway teen and an elderly man who talks to cats embark on parallel, dreamlike quests that blur reality, fate, and myth.
A dystopian tale of female oppression and resistance in a theocratic regime.
A socially unconventional woman finds purpose in the strict routines of a Tokyo convenience store, challenging society’s expectations of “normal.”
