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A Room of One's Own
Woolf's elegant argument that a woman needs money and a room of her own to write fiction, and why history made that so hard.
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Woolf's elegant argument that a woman needs money and a room of her own to write fiction, and why history made that so hard.
A genial and funny tour of how we came to know what we know about the universe, the Earth and ourselves.
A young Nigerian woman builds a life in America while her first love stays behind, and years later their paths cross again in Lagos, each changed by what it costs to belong somewhere.
A comedian recalls growing up in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa as the son of a Black mother and a white father, at a time when their relationship was against the law.
A botanist and member of the Potawatomi Nation weaves scientific knowledge and Indigenous wisdom into essays on our reciprocal relationship with the living world.
Raised in a survivalist household in rural Idaho, the author teaches herself enough to reach university, and pays a heavy price for the education.
An elderly Iowa minister writes a long letter to his young son, a meditation on grace, fathers and the ordinary beauty of the world.
An Artificial Friend watches the world from a shop window and then from a family's home, learning what it means to love.
The private notebooks of a Roman emperor, a practical guide to composure, duty and meeting life as it comes.
A physician argues that the goal of medicine should be a longer healthspan, not just a longer life, with practical guidance on exercise, nutrition, sleep and emotional health.
Four generations of a Korean family make their lives in Japan across the twentieth century, held together by stubborn love and quiet endurance.
A man lives contentedly in an endless house of marble halls, statues and tides, until signs of another presence begin to unsettle his world.
A personal-finance primer built around two father figures with opposite attitudes to money, work and investing, and what the author says he learned from each.
A young Andalusian shepherd sets out for the Egyptian pyramids in search of treasure, and learns along the way what it means to follow a personal calling.
An envoy to a frozen planet whose people have no fixed gender must win the trust of a reluctant ally. A landmark of speculative fiction.
A practical guide to releasing control over what other people say and do, and spending that energy on your own choices instead.
In 1327, a Franciscan friar and his young novice investigate a string of deaths in a secretive Italian abbey with a labyrinthine library.
An impeccable English butler takes a motoring holiday and looks back on a lifetime of service, and on what he never allowed himself to say.
Didion's precise, unsentimental account of the year following her husband's sudden death.
The rise of Thomas Cromwell, a blacksmith's son, through the dangerous court of Henry VIII, told in intimate, present-tense prose.