The Library of America Don DeLillo
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Three works by the great American novelist Don DeLillo enter the Library of America.
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The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
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This extraordinary collection of stories considers the impact of injustice based on race and gender oppression, the shifting meanings of history, and the complex emotions of grief.
Read MoreThe Unfinished Tales of JRR Tolkien
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For its fortieth anniversary, Christopher Tolkien’s assemblage of his father’s miscellaneous unfinished tales gets a magnificently illustrated new edition.
Read MoreHumiliation: Stories by Paulina Flores
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A debut short story collection by a prize-winning young Chilean author.
Read MoreFraternity by Ben Nugent
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A debut collection of short stories centering around a frat house, where boys and girls navigate the limbo between adolescence and adulthood.
Read MoreBroken by Don Winslow
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The latest from the great novelist Don Winslow is a collection of short stories in a wonderfully different register.
Read MoreCollected Stories of Constance Fenimore Woolson
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The Library of America presents a generous volume of short stories by a now mostly forgotten literary light of the 19th century
Read MoreChinese Fairy Tales and Legends
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This beautifully-produced hard cover reprint demonstrates why this book sold the way it did a century ago.
Read MoreThe Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies by Robert Kirk
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There’s a deep, humanist value to be found in Kirk’s investigations.
Read MoreThe Big Book of Classic Fantasy
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There is indeed a banquet in these pages, with selections ranging broadly across time and languages.
Read MoreThe Rivals of Sherlock Holmes Edited by Graeme Davis
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The biting little irony is that finishing this book will create a near-irresistible urge to read a Holmes story.
Read MoreFinding a New Midwestern History
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The cultures and histories of the Midwest assayed from dozens of different vantage points, displaying a huge region of the United States that's often written off.
Read MoreClassic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s
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A grand arrangement of five classic and addictively readable pulp novels,
Read MoreThe Big Book of Female Detectives
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An anthology of stories by the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years.
Read MorePenguins on Parade: The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories!
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Readers ready for an adventurous alternative to the many Japanese short story collections that have preceded it will find it here.
Read MoreBrief Cases by Jim Butcher
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With Brief Cases, Butcher brings together his second collection of short stories, following 2010’s Side Jobs.
Read MoreCome West and See by Maxim Loskutoff
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A collection of short stories offering insights into the American West.
Read MoreDreadful Young Ladies and Other Stories By Kelly Barnhill
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Each story reveals the author's ability to mesmerize the reader with fascinating characters and compelling language.
Read MoreFrankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein turns a ripe old 200 in 2018, and one of the first of a probable flood of books to commemorate that bicentennial is this volume Frankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon, edited by Sidney Perkowitz and Eddy Von Mueller. The anthology is divided into three unequal parts: Part One is about Shelley's book itself (including Laura Otis' very strong “Frankenstein: Representing the Emotions of Unwanted Creatures”); Part Two concentrates on Frankenstein in the media; Part Three consists of two essays about Frankenstein and science, with the standout piece being “Frankenstein and Synthetic Life: Fiction, Science, and Ethics” by Perkowitz.
Read MoreIn the Shadow of Agatha Christie
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As the great editor (he of last year's excellent The New Annotated Frankenstein) Leslie Klinger notes in his Introduction to In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers, 1850-1917, Christie will always be considered “the Queen of Crime.” This kind of sobriquet naturally invites readers to search for predecessors – and naturally invites editors to assemble books like this one. Even half a century ago the exercise was in full swing with Hugh Greene's now-venerable The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.
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