Publisher profile
Subjects: Literary Fiction (3), Christian History, Illness & Recovery Memoir, Inequality & Social Stratification, Personal & Family Memoir, Science & Medicine
Authors: William Styron, Reza Aslan, George Saunders, Paul Kalanithi, Michael Chabon, Isabel Wilkerson, Tara Westover, Merlin Sheldrake
Literary Fiction
by William Styron
William Styron's Sophie's Choice, a National Book Award winner and a landmark of American literary fiction, is set in Brooklyn in 1947.
Christian History
by Reza Aslan
Reza Aslan’s Zealot reconstructs Jesus of Nazareth as a first-century Jewish preacher whose message cannot be separated from Roman occupation, economic inequality, messianic expectation, and conflict over the Jerusalem Temple.
Literary Fiction
by George Saunders
In February 1862, as the American Civil War enters a worsening phase, eleven-year-old Willie Lincoln dies of illness and is placed in a Georgetown cemetery.
Illness & Recovery Memoir
by Paul Kalanithi
Paul Kalanithi's posthumously published memoir follows his passage from literature student to neurosurgeon and, after a diagnosis of metastatic lung cancer at thirty-six, from physician to patient.
Literary Fiction
by Michael Chabon
Beginning in 1939, Michael Chabon’s historical novel brings together Josef “Joe” Kavalier, a Jewish artist who has escaped Nazi-occupied Prague, and his Brooklyn cousin, Sammy Klayman, who adopts the professional…
Inequality & Social Stratification
by Isabel Wilkerson
In Caste, Isabel Wilkerson argues that American racism is sustained by a deeper architecture of inherited social ranking.
Personal & Family Memoir
by Tara Westover
Educated is Tara Westover’s memoir of growing up in an isolated survivalist family in rural Idaho and gradually building a life beyond the boundaries of her childhood.
Science & Medicine
by Merlin Sheldrake
In Entangled Life, biologist Merlin Sheldrake examines fungi as organisms that transform environments, sustain ecological partnerships, and unsettle familiar definitions of intelligence and individuality.
