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His most recent books include &lt;i&gt;Dr. No&lt;\/i&gt; (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN\/ Jean Stein Book Award),&lt;i&gt; The Trees&lt;\/i&gt; (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction), &lt;i&gt;Telephone&lt;\/i&gt; (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), &lt;i&gt;So Much Blue, Erasure,&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;I Am Not Sidney Poitier.&lt;\/i&gt; He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. &lt;i&gt;American Fiction&lt;\/i&gt;, the feature film based on his novel &lt;i&gt;Erasure&lt;\/i&gt;, was released in 2023&amp;#160;and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2012542\/percival-everett","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"P","lastInitial":"E","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Michael Avedon","photoDate":"2023","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2012542","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/738749\/james-by-percival-everett\/9780385550369","division":{"code":"13","description":"Doubleday Publishing"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000066,"catDesc":"Historical Fiction","catUri":"\/historical-fiction","menuText":"Historical Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;AN INSTANT &lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES &lt;\/i&gt;BESTSELLER &amp;bull; NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER &amp;bull; SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull; KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER &amp;bull; A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of &lt;i&gt;Adventures of Huckleberry Finn&lt;\/i&gt;, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim&#039;s point of view&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp; A Best Book of the Year of the Year so Far for 2024: &lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review, TIME, Esquire, W Magazine, Bustle, LitHub&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Genius&quot;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Atlantic&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull; &lt;\/i&gt;&quot;A&amp;nbsp;masterpiece that will help redefine one of the classics of American literature, while also being a major achievement on its own.&quot;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;Chicago Tribune&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull;&lt;\/i&gt; &quot;A provocative, enlightening literary work of art.&quot;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Boston Globe&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull; &lt;\/i&gt;&quot;Everett&amp;rsquo;s most thrilling novel, but also his most soulful.&quot;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;While many narrative set pieces of &lt;i&gt;Adventures of Huckleberry Finn&lt;\/i&gt; remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river&amp;rsquo;s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin&amp;hellip;), Jim&amp;rsquo;s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a &amp;ldquo;literary icon&amp;rdquo; (&lt;i&gt;Oprah Daily&lt;\/i&gt;), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, &lt;i&gt;James &lt;\/i&gt;is destined to be a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":209053},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0385550367"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/738749/james-by-percival-everett/">James</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2012542">Percival Everett</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction and named the Book of the Year by Barnes & Noble, a Best and Must-Read Book for 2024 by <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>Time</i>, and Amazon Editors, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of <i>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</i>, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view.</div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/738749/james-by-percival-everett/"> <span class=""> <img decoding="async" src="https://images2.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780385550369" alt="James Book Cover Picture" class="img-responsive" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add James to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="738749" data-work="{"workId":738749,"isbn":9780385550369,"title":"James","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"Percival Everett","imprint":{"code":"4F","name":"Doubleday","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-03-19","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":28,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2012542,"display":"Percival Everett","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":true,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;PERCIVAL EVERETT&lt;\/b&gt; is a Distinguished Professor of English at USC. His most recent books include &lt;i&gt;Dr. No&lt;\/i&gt; (finalist for the NBCC Award for Fiction and winner of the PEN\/ Jean Stein Book Award),&lt;i&gt; The Trees&lt;\/i&gt; (finalist for the Booker Prize and the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction), &lt;i&gt;Telephone&lt;\/i&gt; (finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), &lt;i&gt;So Much Blue, Erasure,&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;I Am Not Sidney Poitier.&lt;\/i&gt; He has received the NBCC Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award and The Windham Campbell Prize from Yale University. &lt;i&gt;American Fiction&lt;\/i&gt;, the feature film based on his novel &lt;i&gt;Erasure&lt;\/i&gt;, was released in 2023&amp;#160;and was awarded the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the writer Danzy Senna, and their children.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2012542\/percival-everett","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"P","lastInitial":"E","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Michael Avedon","photoDate":"2023","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2012542","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/738749\/james-by-percival-everett\/9780385550369","division":{"code":"13","description":"Doubleday Publishing"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000066,"catDesc":"Historical Fiction","catUri":"\/historical-fiction","menuText":"Historical Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;AN INSTANT &lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES &lt;\/i&gt;BESTSELLER &amp;bull; NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER &amp;bull; SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull; KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER &amp;bull; A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of &lt;i&gt;Adventures of Huckleberry Finn&lt;\/i&gt;, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim&#039;s point of view&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In development as a feature film to be produced by Steven Spielberg &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp; A Best Book of the Year of the Year so Far for 2024: &lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review, TIME, Esquire, W Magazine, Bustle, LitHub&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Genius&quot;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Atlantic&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull; &lt;\/i&gt;&quot;A&amp;nbsp;masterpiece that will help redefine one of the classics of American literature, while also being a major achievement on its own.&quot;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;Chicago Tribune&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull;&lt;\/i&gt; &quot;A provocative, enlightening literary work of art.&quot;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The Boston Globe&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull; &lt;\/i&gt;&quot;Everett&amp;rsquo;s most thrilling novel, but also his most soulful.&quot;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, recently returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;While many narrative set pieces of &lt;i&gt;Adventures of Huckleberry Finn&lt;\/i&gt; remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river&amp;rsquo;s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin&amp;hellip;), Jim&amp;rsquo;s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a &amp;ldquo;literary icon&amp;rdquo; (&lt;i&gt;Oprah Daily&lt;\/i&gt;), and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, &lt;i&gt;James &lt;\/i&gt;is destined to be a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":209053},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0385550367"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$28.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add James to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780385550369"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738749/james-by-percival-everett/9780385550369"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780385550369 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book2" format-data="Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Riverhead Books" cat-data="Literary Fiction" isbn="9780593190265" ttl="All Fours" data-isbn="9780593190265" data-ebook="9780593190289" workid="639464" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="2060718" author="Miranda July" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>2</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/639464/all-fours-by-miranda-july/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=""> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images1.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593190265" alt="All Fours Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add All Fours to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="639464" data-work="{"workId":639464,"isbn":9780593190265,"title":"All Fours","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"Miranda July","imprint":{"code":"IV","name":"Riverhead Books","family":"Riverhead"},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-05-14","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":29,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2060718,"display":"Miranda July","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Miranda July &lt;\/b&gt;is a writer, filmmaker, and artist. Her debut novel, &lt;i&gt;The First Bad Man&lt;\/i&gt;, was an instant &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestseller, and her collection of stories, &lt;i&gt;No One Belongs Here More Than You&lt;\/i&gt;, won the Frank O&amp;rsquo;Connor International Short Story Award. Her writing has appeared in &lt;i&gt;The Paris Review, Harper&amp;rsquo;s,&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The New Yorker&lt;\/i&gt;. July lives in Los Angeles.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2060718\/miranda-july","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"M","lastInitial":"J","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"(c) Elizabeth Weinberg","photoDate":"2023","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2060718","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/639464\/all-fours-by-miranda-july\/9780593190265","division":{"code":"62","description":"Penguin Adult HC\/TR"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;FINALIST FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;AN INSTANT &lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES &lt;\/i&gt;BESTSELLER&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The New York Times &lt;\/i&gt;bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and surprising novel about a woman upending her life&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;A&lt;\/b&gt; frank novel about a midlife awakening, which is funnier and more boldly human than you ever quite expect . . . nothing short of riveting&lt;b&gt;.&amp;rdquo; &lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;Vogue&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;&lt;i&gt;All Fours&lt;\/i&gt; has spurred a whisper network of women fantasizing about desire and freedom. . . . It&amp;rsquo;s the talk of every group text.&quot;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;ldquo;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;All Fours &lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;possessed me. I picked it up and neglected my life until the last page, and then I started begging every woman I know to read it as soon as possible.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Cut&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;A novel that presses into that tender bruise about the anxiety of aging, of what it means to have a female body that is aging, and wanting the freedom to live a fuller life . . . Deeply funny and achingly true.&amp;rdquo; &lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;LA Times&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;ldquo;July&amp;rsquo;s novel is hot and weird and captivating and one of the most entertaining, deranged, and moving depictions of lust and romantic mania I&amp;rsquo;ve ever read.&amp;rdquo; &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;New York Magazine&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Miranda July&amp;rsquo;s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July&amp;rsquo;s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, &lt;i&gt;All Fours &lt;\/i&gt;tells the story of one woman&amp;rsquo;s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, &lt;i&gt;All Fours&lt;\/i&gt; transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":9314},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593190262"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/639464/all-fours-by-miranda-july/">All Fours</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2060718">Miranda July</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Named one of Barnes & Noble’s Best Books of the Year and a <i>Time</i> Must-Read Book of 2024. A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey. The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious, and surprising novel about a woman upending her life.</div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/639464/all-fours-by-miranda-july/"> <span class=""> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images1.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593190265" alt="All Fours Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add All Fours to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="639464" data-work="{"workId":639464,"isbn":9780593190265,"title":"All Fours","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"Miranda July","imprint":{"code":"IV","name":"Riverhead Books","family":"Riverhead"},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-05-14","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":29,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2060718,"display":"Miranda July","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Miranda July &lt;\/b&gt;is a writer, filmmaker, and artist. Her debut novel, &lt;i&gt;The First Bad Man&lt;\/i&gt;, was an instant &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestseller, and her collection of stories, &lt;i&gt;No One Belongs Here More Than You&lt;\/i&gt;, won the Frank O&amp;rsquo;Connor International Short Story Award. Her writing has appeared in &lt;i&gt;The Paris Review, Harper&amp;rsquo;s,&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The New Yorker&lt;\/i&gt;. 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Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past&amp;mdash;toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Kaveh Akbar&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;Martyr!&lt;\/i&gt; is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning&amp;mdash;in faith, art, ourselves, others.","flags":["READER_REWARDS"],"otherFields":{"netInv":-29841},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593685776"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/734476/martyr-by-kaveh-akbar/">Martyr!</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2287573">Kaveh Akbar</a> </h2> <div class="desc">A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voice of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. 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(&amp;ldquo;A bottomless champagne flute of a novel &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Washington Post&lt;\/i&gt;)&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There&amp;rsquo;s only one problem&amp;mdash;she&amp;rsquo;s not married. She&amp;rsquo;s never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they&amp;rsquo;ve been together for years.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As Lauren tries to puzzle out how she could be married to someone she can&amp;rsquo;t remember meeting, Michael goes to the attic to change a lightbulb and abruptly disappears. In his place, a new man emerges, and a new, slightly altered life re-forms around her. Realizing that her attic is creating an infinite supply of husbands, Lauren confronts the question: If swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you&amp;rsquo;ve taken the right path? 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(&amp;ldquo;A bottomless champagne flute of a novel &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Washington Post&lt;\/i&gt;)&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There&amp;rsquo;s only one problem&amp;mdash;she&amp;rsquo;s not married. She&amp;rsquo;s never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they&amp;rsquo;ve been together for years.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As Lauren tries to puzzle out how she could be married to someone she can&amp;rsquo;t remember meeting, Michael goes to the attic to change a lightbulb and abruptly disappears. In his place, a new man emerges, and a new, slightly altered life re-forms around her. Realizing that her attic is creating an infinite supply of husbands, Lauren confronts the question: If swapping lives is as easy as changing a lightbulb, how do you know you&amp;rsquo;ve taken the right path? 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His most recent book, &lt;i&gt;A Little Devil in America,&lt;\/i&gt; was the winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burns Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award. His first collection of essays, &lt;i&gt;They Can&amp;rsquo;t Kill Us Until They Kill Us,&lt;\/i&gt; was named one of the books of the year by NPR, &lt;i&gt;Esquire, BuzzFeed, O: The Oprah Magazine, Pitchfork,&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Chicago Tribune,&lt;\/i&gt; among others. &lt;i&gt;Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest&lt;\/i&gt; was a &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award and Kirkus Prize finalist and was longlisted for the National Book Award. 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His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tension between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling. &amp;ldquo;Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father&amp;rsquo;s jump shot,&amp;rdquo; Abdurraqib writes. &amp;ldquo;The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;There&amp;rsquo;s Always This Year &lt;\/i&gt;is a triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject of his keen focus&amp;mdash;whether it&amp;rsquo;s basketball, or music, or performance&amp;mdash;Hanif Abdurraqib&amp;rsquo;s exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, our country, and ourselves.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":2978},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593448790"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$32.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add There's Always This Year to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780593448793"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/695817/theres-always-this-year-by-hanif-abdurraqib/9780593448793"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780593448793 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book7" format-data="Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Doubleday" cat-data="Literary Fiction" isbn="9780385549974" ttl="Victim" data-isbn="9780385549974" data-ebook="9780385549981" workid="725334" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="2282330" author="Andrew Boryga" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>7</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/725334/victim-by-andrew-boryga/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=""> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images2.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780385549974" alt="Victim Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Victim to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="725334" data-work="{"workId":725334,"isbn":9780385549974,"title":"Victim","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"Andrew Boryga","imprint":{"code":"4F","name":"Doubleday","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-03-12","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":27,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2282330,"display":"Andrew Boryga","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;ANDREW BORYGA&lt;\/b&gt; grew up in the Bronx and now lives in Miami with his family. 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His writing has appeared in &lt;i&gt;The New York Times, The New Yorker, &lt;\/i&gt;and&lt;i&gt; The Atlantic, &lt;\/i&gt;and been awarded prizes by Cornell University, The University of Miami, The Susquehanna Review, and The Michener Foundation. 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One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He&amp;rsquo;s found it, more or less: he&amp;rsquo;s built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he&amp;rsquo;s gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey&amp;rsquo;s long-absent father reappears, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat. Cal and Lena are both ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey, but Trey doesn&amp;rsquo;t want protecting. What she wants is revenge.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;From the writer who is &amp;ldquo;in a class by herself,&amp;rdquo; (&lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt;), a nuanced, atmospheric tale that explores what we&amp;rsquo;ll do for our loved ones, what we&amp;rsquo;ll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":17419},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593493451"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/713552/the-hunter-by-tana-french/">The Hunter</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/75673">Tana French</a> </h2> <div class="desc">It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die. 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Her novels have sold over eight million copies worldwide and won numerous awards, including the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Barry awards, the &lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;\/i&gt; Book Prize for Best Mystery\/Thriller, and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction. She lives in Dublin with her family.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/75673\/tana-french","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"T","lastInitial":"F","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Jessica Ryan","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/75673","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/713552\/the-hunter-by-tana-french\/9780593493458","division":{"code":"62","description":"Penguin Adult HC\/TR"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000147,"catDesc":"Suspense &amp; Thriller","catUri":"\/suspense-thriller-mystery","menuText":"Suspense &amp; Thriller","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000041,"catDesc":"Crime Fiction","catUri":"\/crime-fiction","menuText":"Crime Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":3},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000106,"catDesc":"Mystery &amp; Thriller","catUri":"\/mystery-thriller","menuText":"Mystery &amp; Thriller","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;A &lt;i&gt;New York Times &lt;\/i&gt;Bestseller &amp;bull; A &lt;i&gt;New York Times &lt;\/i&gt;Best Thriller of the Year (So Far) &amp;bull; An NPR Favorite Fiction Read of 2024 &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;A &lt;i&gt;Parade &lt;\/i&gt;Best Book of 2024 So Far &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;A &lt;i&gt;New York Times &lt;\/i&gt;Best Crime Novel of the Year (So Far) &amp;bull; Named a Best Beach Read of 2024 by &lt;i&gt;Entertainment Tonight&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Harper&amp;rsquo;s Bazaar&lt;\/i&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Hailed as the queen of Irish crime fiction, French spins a taut tale of retribution, sacrifice, and family.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;TIME&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;From the &lt;i&gt;New York Times &lt;\/i&gt;bestselling author of &lt;i&gt;The Searcher &lt;\/i&gt;and &amp;ldquo;one of the greatest crime novelists writing today&amp;rdquo; (Vox), a&amp;nbsp;spellbinding new novel set in the Irish countryside.&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is coming home. Both of them are coming to get rich. One of them is coming to die.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Cal Hooper took early retirement from Chicago PD and moved to rural Ireland looking for peace. He&amp;rsquo;s found it, more or less: he&amp;rsquo;s built a relationship with a local woman, Lena, and he&amp;rsquo;s gradually turning Trey Reddy from a half-feral teenager into a good kid going good places. But then Trey&amp;rsquo;s long-absent father reappears, bringing along an English millionaire and a scheme to find gold in the townland, and suddenly everything the three of them have been building is under threat. Cal and Lena are both ready to do whatever it takes to protect Trey, but Trey doesn&amp;rsquo;t want protecting. What she wants is revenge.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;From the writer who is &amp;ldquo;in a class by herself,&amp;rdquo; (&lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt;), a nuanced, atmospheric tale that explores what we&amp;rsquo;ll do for our loved ones, what we&amp;rsquo;ll do for revenge, and what we sacrifice when the two collide.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":17419},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593493451"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Paperback<div class="buy-price">$19.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Preorder from:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780593493458 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book11" format-data="Paperback,Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Doubleday" cat-data="Science & Technology | Self-Improvement & Inspiration" isbn="9780385548632" ttl="Why We Remember" data-isbn="9780385548632" data-ebook="9780385548649" workid="705542" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="2329120" author="Charan Ranganath, PhD" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>11</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/705542/why-we-remember-by-charan-ranganath-phd/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images1.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780385548632" alt="Why We Remember Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Why We Remember to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="705542" data-work="{"workId":705542,"isbn":9780385548632,"title":"Why We Remember","subtitle":"Unlocking Memory&#039;s Power to Hold on to What Matters","author":"Charan Ranganath, PhD","imprint":{"code":"4F","name":"Doubleday","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-02-20","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":30,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2329120,"display":"Charan Ranganath, PhD","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"CHARAN RANGANATH is a Professor at the Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology and director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California at Davis. For over 25 years, Dr. Ranganath has studied the mechanisms in the brain that allow us to remember past events, using brain imaging techniques, computational modeling and studies of patients with memory disorders. He has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship. He lives in Davis, California. Outside of neuroscience, Dr. Ranganath is also a songwriter and guitarist with a number of recording credits, including a song on a feature film soundtrack.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2329120\/charan-ranganath-phd","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"C","lastInitial":"R","hasAuthorPhoto":false,"photoCredit":null,"photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2329120","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/705542\/why-we-remember-by-charan-ranganath-phd\/9780385548632","division":{"code":"13","description":"Doubleday Publishing"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000133,"catDesc":"Science &amp; Technology","catUri":"\/science-technology","menuText":"Science &amp; Technology","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000137,"catDesc":"Self-Improvement &amp; Inspiration","catUri":"\/self-improvement-inspiration","menuText":"Self-Improvement &amp; Inspiration","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000063,"catDesc":"Wellness","catUri":"\/wellness","menuText":"Wellness","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000111,"catDesc":"Nonfiction","catUri":"\/nonfiction","menuText":"Nonfiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES &lt;\/i&gt;BESTSELLER&lt;i&gt; &amp;bull; LOS ANGELES TIMES &lt;\/i&gt;BESTSELLER &lt;i&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;\/i&gt;Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, one of the world&amp;rsquo;s top memory researchers reveals the powerful role memory plays in nearly every aspect of our lives, from recalling faces and names, to learning, decision-making, trauma and healing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;&lt;i&gt;Why We Remember&lt;\/i&gt; offers a radically new and engaging explanation of how and why we remember.&quot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;mdash;Dr. Matthew Walker, author of &lt;i&gt;Why We Sleep&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Prominent neuroscientist and Guggenheim Fellow Charan Ranganath guides us through the science of our memories with&amp;nbsp;incredible insight and clear science. He combines fascinating tales of the peculiarities of memory with practical, actionable steps.&amp;nbsp;Not only will every reader remember better afterward, they&amp;rsquo;ll also never forget this life-changing book.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of &lt;i&gt;The Emperor of Maladies &lt;\/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;Gene&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In &lt;i&gt;Why We Remember&lt;\/i&gt;, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath radically reframes the way we think about the everyday act of remembering. Combining accessible language with cutting-edge research, he reveals the surprising ways our brains record the past and how we use that information to understand who we are in the present, and to imagine and plan for the future.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Memory, Dr. Ranganath shows, is a highly transformative force that shapes how we experience the world in often invisible and sometimes destructive ways. Knowing this can help us with daily remembering tasks, like finding our keys, and with the challenge of memory loss as we age. What&amp;rsquo;s more, when we work with the brain&amp;rsquo;s ability to learn and reinterpret past events, we can heal trauma, shed our biases, learn faster, and grow in self-awareness.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Including fascinating studies and examples from pop culture, and drawing on Ranganath&amp;rsquo;s life as a scientist, father, and child of immigrants, &lt;i&gt;Why We Remember&lt;\/i&gt; is a captivating read that unveils the hidden role memory plays throughout our lives. When we understand its power-- and its quirks--we can cut through the clutter and remember the things we want to remember. We can make freer choices and plan a happier future.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":3853},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"038554863X"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/705542/why-we-remember-by-charan-ranganath-phd/">Why We Remember</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2329120">Charan Ranganath, PhD</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Memory is far more than a record of the past. 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He combines fascinating tales of the peculiarities of memory with practical, actionable steps.&amp;nbsp;Not only will every reader remember better afterward, they&amp;rsquo;ll also never forget this life-changing book.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of &lt;i&gt;The Emperor of Maladies &lt;\/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;Gene&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A new understanding of memory is emerging from the latest scientific research. In &lt;i&gt;Why We Remember&lt;\/i&gt;, pioneering neuroscientist and psychologist Charan Ranganath radically reframes the way we think about the everyday act of remembering. 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The only solution, put forth by Rufus&amp;rsquo;s scheming mother, is for Rufus to attend his sister&amp;rsquo;s wedding at a luxury eco-resort, a veritable who&amp;rsquo;s-who of sultans, barons, and oligarchs, and seduce a woman with money.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Should he marry Sol&amp;egrave;ne de Courcy, a French hotel heiress with honey blond tresses and a royal bloodline? Should he pursue Martha Dung, the tattooed venture capital genius who passes out billions like lollipops? Or should he follow his heart, betray his family, squander his legacy, and finally confess his love to the literal girl next door, the humble daughter of a doctor, Eden Tong? When a volcanic eruption burns through the nuptials and a hot mic exposes a secret tryst, the Gresham family plans&amp;mdash;and their reputation&amp;mdash;go up in flames.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Can the once-great dukedom rise from the ashes? Or will a secret tragedy, hidden for two decades, reveal a shocking twist?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a globetrotting tale that takes us from the black sand beaches of Hawaii to the skies of Marrakech, from the glitzy bachelor pads of Los Angeles to the inner sanctums of England&amp;rsquo;s oldest family estates, Kevin Kwan unfurls a juicy, hilarious, sophisticated and thrillingly plotted story of love, money, murder, sex, and the lies we tell about them all.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":6966},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0385546297"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/634952/lies-and-weddings-by-kevin-kwan/">Lies and Weddings</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/165407">Kevin Kwan</a> </h2> <div class="desc">One of the Amazon Editors’ Best Books of the Year and a Must-Read by <i>Time</i>. 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He lives in Oakland, California.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2156371\/tommy-orange","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"T","lastInitial":"O","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Michael Lionstar","photoDate":"2023","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2156371","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/656310\/wandering-stars-by-tommy-orange\/9780593318256","division":{"code":"73","description":"Knopf"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES&lt;\/i&gt; BESTSELLER &amp;bull; LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;&amp;bull; The Pulitzer&amp;nbsp;Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller &lt;i&gt;There There &lt;\/i&gt;(&quot;Pure soaring beauty.&quot;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review) &lt;\/i&gt;delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY &lt;i&gt;THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW &lt;\/i&gt;AND A &lt;i&gt;TIME&lt;\/i&gt; MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;For the sake of knowing, of understanding, &lt;i&gt;Wandering Stars&lt;\/i&gt; blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&amp;mdash;Morgan Talty, bestselling author of &lt;i&gt;Night of the Living Rez&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star&amp;rsquo;s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father&amp;rsquo;s jailer. Under Pratt&amp;rsquo;s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in &lt;i&gt;There There&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;mdash;warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts&amp;mdash;asking what it means to bethe children and grandchildren of massacre. &lt;i&gt;Wandering Stars&lt;\/i&gt; is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange&amp;rsquo;s monumental gifts.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":5576},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593318250"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/656310/wandering-stars-by-tommy-orange/">Wandering Stars</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2156371">Tommy Orange</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Longlisted for the Booker Prize as well as named a Best and Must-Read Book of the Year for 2024 by <i>The New York Times</i>, Barnes & Noble, and <i>Time</i>. The Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of the breakout bestseller <i>There There</i> delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.</div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/656310/wandering-stars-by-tommy-orange/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images1.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593318256" alt="Wandering Stars Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Wandering Stars to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="656310" data-work="{"workId":656310,"isbn":9780593318256,"title":"Wandering Stars","subtitle":"A novel","author":"Tommy Orange","imprint":{"code":"A1","name":"Knopf","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-02-27","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":29,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2156371,"display":"Tommy Orange","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":true,"spotlight":"TOMMY ORANGE&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;is a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts. An enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma, he was born and raised in Oakland, California.&amp;#160;His first book, &lt;i&gt;There There&lt;\/i&gt;, was a finalist for the&amp;#160;2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the 2019&amp;#160;American Book Award. He lives in Oakland, California.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2156371\/tommy-orange","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"T","lastInitial":"O","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Michael Lionstar","photoDate":"2023","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2156371","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/656310\/wandering-stars-by-tommy-orange\/9780593318256","division":{"code":"73","description":"Knopf"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES&lt;\/i&gt; BESTSELLER &amp;bull; LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;&amp;bull; The Pulitzer&amp;nbsp;Prize-finalist and author of the breakout bestseller &lt;i&gt;There There &lt;\/i&gt;(&quot;Pure soaring beauty.&quot;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review) &lt;\/i&gt;delivers a masterful follow-up to his already classic first novel. Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY &lt;i&gt;THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW &lt;\/i&gt;AND A &lt;i&gt;TIME&lt;\/i&gt; MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;For the sake of knowing, of understanding, &lt;i&gt;Wandering Stars&lt;\/i&gt; blew my heart into a thousand pieces and put it all back together again. This is a masterwork that will not be forgotten, a masterwork that will forever be part of you.&amp;rdquo;&amp;nbsp;&amp;mdash;Morgan Talty, bestselling author of &lt;i&gt;Night of the Living Rez&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star&amp;rsquo;s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father&amp;rsquo;s jailer. Under Pratt&amp;rsquo;s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a novel that is by turns shattering and wondrous, Tommy Orange has conjured the ancestors of the family readers first fell in love with in &lt;i&gt;There There&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;mdash;warriors, drunks, outlaws, addicts&amp;mdash;asking what it means to bethe children and grandchildren of massacre. &lt;i&gt;Wandering Stars&lt;\/i&gt; is a novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange&amp;rsquo;s monumental gifts.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":5576},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593318250"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$29.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add Wandering Stars to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780593318256"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/656310/wandering-stars-by-tommy-orange/9780593318256"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780593318256 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book14" format-data="Paperback,Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Crown" cat-data="Civil War History | Political Figure Biographies & Memoirs | 19th Century U.S. History" isbn="9780385348744" ttl="The Demon of Unrest" data-isbn="9780385348744" data-ebook="9780385348751" workid="225407" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="16767" author="Erik Larson" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>14</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/225407/the-demon-of-unrest-by-erik-larson/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images1.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780385348744" alt="The Demon of Unrest Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add The Demon of Unrest to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="225407" data-work="{"workId":225407,"isbn":9780385348744,"title":"The Demon of Unrest","subtitle":"A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War","author":"Erik Larson","imprint":{"code":"C1","name":"Crown","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-04-30","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":35,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":16767,"display":"Erik Larson","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Erik Larson&lt;\/b&gt; is the author of six &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestsellers, including &lt;i&gt;The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, &lt;\/i&gt;and&lt;i&gt; Defiance During the Blitz,&lt;\/i&gt; which examines how Winston Churchill and his &amp;ldquo;Secret Circle&amp;rdquo; went about surviving the German air campaign of 1940-41. Larson&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;The Devil in the White City&lt;\/i&gt; is set to be a Hulu limited series; his &lt;i&gt;In the Garden of Beasts&lt;\/i&gt; is under option by Tom Hanks for a feature film. He recently published an audio-original ghost story, &lt;i&gt;No One Goes Alone&lt;\/i&gt;, which has been optioned by Chernin Entertainment, in association with Netflix. His &lt;i&gt;Thunderstruck&lt;\/i&gt; has been optioned by Sony Pictures Television for a limited TV series.&amp;#160;Larson lives in Manhattan with his wife, who is a writer and retired neonatologist; they have three grown daughters.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/16767\/erik-larson","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"E","lastInitial":"L","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Nina Subin","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/16767","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/225407\/the-demon-of-unrest-by-erik-larson\/9780385348744","division":{"code":"57","description":"Crown"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000030,"catDesc":"Civil War History","catUri":"\/civil-war-history","menuText":"Civil War History","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000124,"catDesc":"Political Figure Biographies &amp; Memoirs","catUri":"\/political-biography-memoir","menuText":"Political","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000002,"catDesc":"19th Century U.S. History","catUri":"\/19th-century-us-history","menuText":"19th Century","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":3},{"catId":2000000021,"catDesc":"Biography &amp; Memoir","catUri":"\/biography-memoir","menuText":"Biography &amp; Memoir","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000070,"catDesc":"History","catUri":"\/history","menuText":"History","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000111,"catDesc":"Nonfiction","catUri":"\/nonfiction","menuText":"Nonfiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000157,"catDesc":"U.S. History","catUri":"\/us-history","menuText":"U.S. History","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;#1 &lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES &lt;\/i&gt;BESTSELLER &amp;bull; The author of &lt;i&gt;The Splendid and the Vile&lt;\/i&gt; brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this &amp;ldquo;riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult&amp;rdquo; (&lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;\/i&gt;).&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best, enlivening even a thrice-told tale into an irresistible thriller.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Wall Street Journal&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln&amp;rsquo;s election and the Confederacy&amp;rsquo;s shelling of Sumter&amp;mdash;a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were &amp;ldquo;so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter&amp;rsquo;s commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable&amp;mdash;one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink&amp;mdash;a dark reminder that we often don&amp;rsquo;t see a cataclysm coming until it&amp;rsquo;s too late.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":10464},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0385348746"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/225407/the-demon-of-unrest-by-erik-larson/">The Demon of Unrest</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/16767">Erik Larson</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Named an Amazon Editors’ Best Book of the Year. The author of <i>The Splendid and the Vile</i> brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this “riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult” (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>).</div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/225407/the-demon-of-unrest-by-erik-larson/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images1.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780385348744" alt="The Demon of Unrest Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add The Demon of Unrest to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="225407" data-work="{"workId":225407,"isbn":9780385348744,"title":"The Demon of Unrest","subtitle":"A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War","author":"Erik Larson","imprint":{"code":"C1","name":"Crown","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-04-30","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":35,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":16767,"display":"Erik Larson","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Erik Larson&lt;\/b&gt; is the author of six &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestsellers, including &lt;i&gt;The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, &lt;\/i&gt;and&lt;i&gt; Defiance During the Blitz,&lt;\/i&gt; which examines how Winston Churchill and his &amp;ldquo;Secret Circle&amp;rdquo; went about surviving the German air campaign of 1940-41. Larson&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;The Devil in the White City&lt;\/i&gt; is set to be a Hulu limited series; his &lt;i&gt;In the Garden of Beasts&lt;\/i&gt; is under option by Tom Hanks for a feature film. He recently published an audio-original ghost story, &lt;i&gt;No One Goes Alone&lt;\/i&gt;, which has been optioned by Chernin Entertainment, in association with Netflix. His &lt;i&gt;Thunderstruck&lt;\/i&gt; has been optioned by Sony Pictures Television for a limited TV series.&amp;#160;Larson lives in Manhattan with his wife, who is a writer and retired neonatologist; they have three grown daughters.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/16767\/erik-larson","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"E","lastInitial":"L","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Nina Subin","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/16767","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/225407\/the-demon-of-unrest-by-erik-larson\/9780385348744","division":{"code":"57","description":"Crown"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000030,"catDesc":"Civil War History","catUri":"\/civil-war-history","menuText":"Civil War History","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000124,"catDesc":"Political Figure Biographies &amp; Memoirs","catUri":"\/political-biography-memoir","menuText":"Political","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000002,"catDesc":"19th Century U.S. History","catUri":"\/19th-century-us-history","menuText":"19th Century","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":3},{"catId":2000000021,"catDesc":"Biography &amp; Memoir","catUri":"\/biography-memoir","menuText":"Biography &amp; Memoir","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000070,"catDesc":"History","catUri":"\/history","menuText":"History","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000111,"catDesc":"Nonfiction","catUri":"\/nonfiction","menuText":"Nonfiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000157,"catDesc":"U.S. History","catUri":"\/us-history","menuText":"U.S. History","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;#1 &lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES &lt;\/i&gt;BESTSELLER &amp;bull; The author of &lt;i&gt;The Splendid and the Vile&lt;\/i&gt; brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this &amp;ldquo;riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult&amp;rdquo; (&lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;\/i&gt;).&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best, enlivening even a thrice-told tale into an irresistible thriller.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Wall Street Journal&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln&amp;rsquo;s election and the Confederacy&amp;rsquo;s shelling of Sumter&amp;mdash;a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were &amp;ldquo;so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter&amp;rsquo;s commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. 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She is a Harvard-trained journalist whose work has taken her to more than thirty-five countries on six continents. A native of Phoenix, Burford now lives in New York City.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2149760\/michelle-burford","attr":1002,"firstInitial":"M","lastInitial":"B","hasAuthorPhoto":false,"photoCredit":null,"photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2149760","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/739901\/coming-home-by-brittney-griner-with-michelle-burford\/9780593801345","division":{"code":"73","description":"Knopf"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000021,"catDesc":"Biography &amp; Memoir","catUri":"\/biography-memoir","menuText":"Biography &amp; Memoir","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000111,"catDesc":"Nonfiction","catUri":"\/nonfiction","menuText":"Nonfiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES &lt;\/i&gt;BESTSELLER&amp;#160;&amp;bull; &lt;b&gt;A &lt;i&gt;TIME&lt;\/i&gt; MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR &lt;b&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;From the nine-time women&amp;rsquo;s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist&amp;mdash;a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home.&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Compelling . . . An intimate, honest recollection of Griner&amp;rsquo;s time held captive in Russia. &lt;i&gt;Coming Home &lt;\/i&gt;reads as a deeply personal, publicly powerful documentation of what happened&amp;mdash;what is still happening&amp;mdash;to her body and mind.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Slate&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;\/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women&amp;rsquo;s basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittney&amp;rsquo;s world was violently upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail about publicly&amp;mdash;until now.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In &lt;i&gt;Coming Home&lt;\/i&gt;, Brittney finally shares the harrowing details of her sudden arrest days before Russia invaded Ukraine; her bewilderment and isolation while navigating a foreign legal system amid her trial and sentencing; her emotional and physical anguish as the first American woman ever to endure a Russian penal colony while the #WeAreBG movement rallied for her release; the chilling prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout; and her remarkable rise from hostage to global spokesperson on behalf of America&amp;rsquo;s forgotten. In haunting and vivid detail, Brittney takes readers inside the horrors of a geopolitical nightmare spanning ten months. &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And yet &lt;i&gt;Coming Home&lt;\/i&gt; is more than Brittney&amp;rsquo;s journey from captivity to freedom. In an account as gripping as it is poignant, she shares how her deep love for Cherelle, her college sweetheart and wife of six years, anchored her during their greatest storm; how her family&amp;rsquo;s support pulled her back from the brink; and how hundreds of letters from friends and neighbors lent her resolve to keep fighting. &lt;i&gt;Coming Home&lt;\/i&gt; is both a story of survival and a testament to love&amp;mdash;the bonds that brought Brittney home to her family, and at last, to herself.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":23120},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593801342"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/739901/coming-home-by-brittney-griner-with-michelle-burford/">Coming Home</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2308019">Brittney Griner</a> and <a href="/authors/2149760">Michelle Burford</a> </h2> <div class="desc">From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist — a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home. Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by <i>Time</i>. </div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/739901/coming-home-by-brittney-griner-with-michelle-burford/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images2.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593801345" alt="Coming Home Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Coming Home to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="739901" data-work="{"workId":739901,"isbn":9780593801345,"title":"Coming Home","subtitle":null,"author":"Brittney Griner with Michelle Burford","imprint":{"code":"A1","name":"Knopf","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-05-07","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":30,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2308019,"display":"Brittney Griner","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":null,"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2308019\/brittney-griner","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"B","lastInitial":"G","hasAuthorPhoto":false,"photoCredit":null,"photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2308019","primaryFlag":true},"010-1002":{"id":2149760,"display":"Michelle Burford","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Michelle Burford&lt;\/b&gt; is a #1 &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestselling author and a founding editor of &lt;i&gt;O: The Oprah Magazine&lt;\/i&gt;. She is a Harvard-trained journalist whose work has taken her to more than thirty-five countries on six continents. A native of Phoenix, Burford now lives in New York City.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2149760\/michelle-burford","attr":1002,"firstInitial":"M","lastInitial":"B","hasAuthorPhoto":false,"photoCredit":null,"photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2149760","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/739901\/coming-home-by-brittney-griner-with-michelle-burford\/9780593801345","division":{"code":"73","description":"Knopf"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000021,"catDesc":"Biography &amp; Memoir","catUri":"\/biography-memoir","menuText":"Biography &amp; Memoir","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000111,"catDesc":"Nonfiction","catUri":"\/nonfiction","menuText":"Nonfiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES &lt;\/i&gt;BESTSELLER&amp;#160;&amp;bull; &lt;b&gt;A &lt;i&gt;TIME&lt;\/i&gt; MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR &lt;b&gt;&amp;bull; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;From the nine-time women&amp;rsquo;s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist&amp;mdash;a raw, revelatory account of her unfathomable detainment in Russia and her journey home.&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Compelling . . . An intimate, honest recollection of Griner&amp;rsquo;s time held captive in Russia. &lt;i&gt;Coming Home &lt;\/i&gt;reads as a deeply personal, publicly powerful documentation of what happened&amp;mdash;what is still happening&amp;mdash;to her body and mind.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Slate&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;\/b&gt; &lt;br&gt;On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women&amp;rsquo;s basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittney&amp;rsquo;s world was violently upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail about publicly&amp;mdash;until now.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In &lt;i&gt;Coming Home&lt;\/i&gt;, Brittney finally shares the harrowing details of her sudden arrest days before Russia invaded Ukraine; her bewilderment and isolation while navigating a foreign legal system amid her trial and sentencing; her emotional and physical anguish as the first American woman ever to endure a Russian penal colony while the #WeAreBG movement rallied for her release; the chilling prisoner swap with Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout; and her remarkable rise from hostage to global spokesperson on behalf of America&amp;rsquo;s forgotten. In haunting and vivid detail, Brittney takes readers inside the horrors of a geopolitical nightmare spanning ten months. &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And yet &lt;i&gt;Coming Home&lt;\/i&gt; is more than Brittney&amp;rsquo;s journey from captivity to freedom. In an account as gripping as it is poignant, she shares how her deep love for Cherelle, her college sweetheart and wife of six years, anchored her during their greatest storm; how her family&amp;rsquo;s support pulled her back from the brink; and how hundreds of letters from friends and neighbors lent her resolve to keep fighting. &lt;i&gt;Coming Home&lt;\/i&gt; is both a story of survival and a testament to love&amp;mdash;the bonds that brought Brittney home to her family, and at last, to herself.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":23120},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593801342"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$30.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add Coming Home to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780593801345"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739901/coming-home-by-brittney-griner-with-michelle-burford/9780593801345"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780593801345 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book16" format-data="Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Viking" cat-data="Biography & Memoir | Politics" isbn="9780593298589" ttl="Soldiers and Kings" data-isbn="9780593298589" data-ebook="9780593298596" workid="672038" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="2294002" author="Jason De León" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>16</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/672038/soldiers-and-kings-by-jason-de-leon/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images2.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593298589" alt="Soldiers and Kings Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Soldiers and Kings to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="672038" data-work="{"workId":672038,"isbn":9780593298589,"title":"Soldiers and Kings","subtitle":"Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling","author":"Jason De Le&oacute;n","imprint":{"code":"J0","name":"Viking","family":"Viking"},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-03-19","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":32,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2294002,"display":"Jason De Le&oacute;n","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":true,"spotlight":"Jason De Le&amp;oacute;n is professor of Anthropology and Chicana\/o Studies and director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology&amp;nbsp;at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also executive director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a 501(c)(3) research, arts, and education collective that seeks to raise awareness about migration issues globally while also assisting families of missing migrants reunite with their loved ones. He is a 2017 MacArthur Foundation Fellow and author of the award-winning book &lt;i&gt;The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail&lt;\/i&gt;.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2294002\/jason-de-leon","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"J","lastInitial":"D","hasAuthorPhoto":false,"photoCredit":null,"photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2294002","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/672038\/soldiers-and-kings-by-jason-de-leon\/9780593298589","division":{"code":"62","description":"Penguin Adult HC\/TR"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000021,"catDesc":"Biography &amp; Memoir","catUri":"\/biography-memoir","menuText":"Biography &amp; Memoir","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000125,"catDesc":"Politics","catUri":"\/politics","menuText":"Politics","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000111,"catDesc":"Nonfiction","catUri":"\/nonfiction","menuText":"Nonfiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;A work of extraordinary reportage and compassion...[it] will shock you, move you, and leave you changed.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;&amp;mdash;Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning and &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestselling author of &lt;i&gt;Evicted&amp;#160;and Poverty, by America&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;An enlightening, frightening, unforgettable read.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;&amp;mdash;Sandra Cisneros,&amp;#160;bestselling author of &lt;i&gt;The House on Mango Street&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;An intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur &quot;genius&quot; grant winner and anthropologist with unprecedented access&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Political instability, poverty, climate change,&amp;#160;and&amp;#160;the&amp;#160;insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand&amp;#160;for smugglers who&amp;#160;aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet the real lives and work of smugglers&amp;mdash;or &lt;i&gt;coyotes&lt;\/i&gt;, or guides, as they are often known by the migrants who hire their services&amp;mdash;are only ever reported on from a distance, using tired tropes and stereotypes, often depicted as boogie men and violent warlords. In an effort to better understand this essential yet extralegal billion dollar global industry, internationally recognized anthropologist and expert Jason De&amp;#160;Le&amp;oacute;n embedded with a group of smugglers moving migrants across Mexico over the course of seven years.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The result of this unique and extraordinary access is SOLDIERS AND KINGS: the first ever in-depth, character-driven look at human smuggling. 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-&amp;#160; is under our control and simpler than we think. The key is our metabolic function - the most important and least understood factor in our overall health. As Dr. Casey Means explains in this groundbreaking book, nearly every health problem we face can be explained by how well the cells in our body create and use energy. To live free from frustrating symptoms and life-threatening disease, we need our cells to be optimally powered so that they can create&amp;#160;&amp;ldquo;good energy,&amp;rdquo; the essential fuel that impacts every aspect of our physical and mental wellbeing.&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160; &amp;#160;If you are battling minor signals of &amp;ldquo;bad energy&amp;rdquo; inside your body, it is often a warning sign that more life-threatening illness may emerge later in life. 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The key is our metabolic function - the most important and least understood factor in our overall health. As Dr. Casey Means explains in this groundbreaking book, nearly every health problem we face can be explained by how well the cells in our body create and use energy. To live free from frustrating symptoms and life-threatening disease, we need our cells to be optimally powered so that they can create&amp;#160;&amp;ldquo;good energy,&amp;rdquo; the essential fuel that impacts every aspect of our physical and mental wellbeing.&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160; &amp;#160;If you are battling minor signals of &amp;ldquo;bad energy&amp;rdquo; inside your body, it is often a warning sign that more life-threatening illness may emerge later in life. But here&amp;rsquo;s the good news: for the first time ever, we can monitor our metabolic health in great detail and learn how to improve it ourselves.&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Weaving together cutting-edge research and personal stories, as well as groundbreaking data from the health technology company Dr. Means founded, &lt;i&gt;Good Energy&lt;\/i&gt; offers an essential four-week plan and explains:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The five biomarkers that determine your risk for a deadly disease.&lt;\/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How to use inexpensive tools and technology to &amp;ldquo;see inside your body&amp;rdquo; and take action.&lt;\/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Why dietary philosophies are designed to confuse us, and six lifelong food principles you can implement whether you&amp;rsquo;re carnivore or vegan.&lt;\/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The crucial links between sleep, circadian rhythm, and metabolism&lt;\/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A new framework for exercise focused on building simple movement into everyday activities&lt;\/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How cold and heat exposure helps build our body&amp;rsquo;s resilience&lt;\/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Steps to navigate the medical system to get what you need for optimal health&lt;\/li&gt;&lt;\/ul&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt; &amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;Good Energy&lt;\/i&gt; offers a new, cutting-edge understanding of the true cause of illness that until now has remained hidden.&amp;#160; It will help you optimize your ability to live well and&amp;#160;stay well&amp;#160;at every age.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":87131},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593712641"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$32.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add Good Energy to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780593712641"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727184/good-energy-by-casey-means-md-and-calley-means/9780593712641"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780593712641 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book21" format-data="Paperback,Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Random House" cat-data="Contemporary Fantasy" isbn="9780812996586" ttl="The Book of Love" data-isbn="9780812996586" data-ebook="9780812996593" workid="239722" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="76127" author="Kelly Link" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>21</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/239722/the-book-of-love-by-kelly-link/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780812996586" alt="The Book of Love Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add The Book of Love to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="239722" data-work="{"workId":239722,"isbn":9780812996586,"title":"The Book of Love","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"Kelly Link","imprint":{"code":"R1","name":"Random House","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-02-13","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":31,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":76127,"display":"Kelly Link","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"MacArthur &amp;ldquo;Genius Grant&amp;rdquo; fellow &lt;b&gt;Kelly Link&lt;\/b&gt; is the author of the collections &lt;i&gt;Get in Trouble, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners,&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Pretty Monsters&lt;\/i&gt;. She and Gavin J. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies, including multiple volumes of &lt;i&gt;The Year&amp;rsquo;s Best Fantasy and Horror&lt;\/i&gt; and, for young adults, &lt;i&gt;Monstrous Affections&lt;\/i&gt;. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press. Her short stories have been published in &lt;i&gt;The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories,&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards&lt;\/i&gt;.&amp;#160;She has also&amp;#160;received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.&amp;#160;Link was born in Miami, Florida. She currently lives with her husband and daughter in Northampton, Massachusetts.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Kelly Link&amp;#160;is available for select readings and lectures. To inquire about a possible appearance, please contact Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau at speakers@penguinrandomhouse.com or visit www.prhspeakers.com.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/76127\/kelly-link","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"K","lastInitial":"L","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Sharona Jacobs Photography","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/76127","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/239722\/the-book-of-love-by-kelly-link\/9780812996586","division":{"code":"70","description":"Random House Group"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000034,"catDesc":"Contemporary Fantasy","catUri":"\/contemporary-fantasy","menuText":"Contemporary Fantasy","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000198,"catDesc":"Fantasy","catUri":"\/fantasy","menuText":"Fantasy","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;NATIONAL BESTSELLER &amp;bull; In the acclaimed first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;A dreamlike, profoundly beautiful novel [that] pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel can be.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Amal El-Mohtar, &lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review &lt;\/i&gt;(Editors&amp;rsquo; Choice)&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;Imagine a ring of David Mitchell and Stephen King books dancing around a fire until something new, brave, and wonderful rose up from the flames.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Isaac Fitzgerald, &lt;i&gt;Today&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ONE OF &lt;i&gt;PUBLISHER WEEKLY&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;rsquo;S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR&lt;\/b&gt; &amp;bull; A &lt;i&gt;TIME &lt;\/i&gt;BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR &amp;bull;&amp;#160;LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Book of Love&lt;\/i&gt; showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attuned to all varieties of love&amp;mdash;from friendship to romance to abiding family ties&amp;mdash;with her trademark compassion, wit, and literary derring-do. Readers will find joy (and a little terror) and an affirmation that love goes on, even when we cannot.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves beneath the fluorescent lights of a high school classroom, almost a year after disappearing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, having long been presumed dead. Which, in fact, they are.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With them in the room is their previously unremarkable high school music teacher, who seems to know something about their disappearance&amp;mdash;and what has brought them back again. Desperate to reclaim their lives, the three agree to the terms of the bargain their music teacher proposes. They will be given a series of magical tasks; while they undertake them, they may return to their families and friends, but they can tell no one where they&amp;rsquo;ve been. In the end, there will be winners and there will be losers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But their resurrection has attracted the notice of other supernatural figures, all with their own agendas. As Laura, Daniel, and Mo grapple with the pieces of the lives they left behind, and Laura&amp;rsquo;s sister, Susannah, attempts to reconcile what she remembers with what she fears, these mysterious others begin to arrive, engulfing their community in danger and chaos, and it becomes imperative that the teens solve the mystery of their deaths to avert a looming disaster.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Welcome to Kelly Link&amp;rsquo;s incomparable Lovesend, where you&amp;rsquo;ll encounter love and loss, laughter and dread, magic and karaoke, and some really good pizza.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1323},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0812996585"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/239722/the-book-of-love-by-kelly-link/">The Book of Love</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/76127">Kelly Link</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by <i>Time</i>. In the long-awaited first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.</div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/239722/the-book-of-love-by-kelly-link/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780812996586" alt="The Book of Love Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add The Book of Love to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="239722" data-work="{"workId":239722,"isbn":9780812996586,"title":"The Book of Love","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"Kelly Link","imprint":{"code":"R1","name":"Random House","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-02-13","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":31,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":76127,"display":"Kelly Link","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"MacArthur &amp;ldquo;Genius Grant&amp;rdquo; fellow &lt;b&gt;Kelly Link&lt;\/b&gt; is the author of the collections &lt;i&gt;Get in Trouble, Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners,&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Pretty Monsters&lt;\/i&gt;. She and Gavin J. Grant have co-edited a number of anthologies, including multiple volumes of &lt;i&gt;The Year&amp;rsquo;s Best Fantasy and Horror&lt;\/i&gt; and, for young adults, &lt;i&gt;Monstrous Affections&lt;\/i&gt;. She is the co-founder of Small Beer Press. Her short stories have been published in &lt;i&gt;The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories,&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards&lt;\/i&gt;.&amp;#160;She has also&amp;#160;received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.&amp;#160;Link was born in Miami, Florida. She currently lives with her husband and daughter in Northampton, Massachusetts.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Kelly Link&amp;#160;is available for select readings and lectures. To inquire about a possible appearance, please contact Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau at speakers@penguinrandomhouse.com or visit www.prhspeakers.com.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/76127\/kelly-link","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"K","lastInitial":"L","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Sharona Jacobs Photography","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/76127","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/239722\/the-book-of-love-by-kelly-link\/9780812996586","division":{"code":"70","description":"Random House Group"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000034,"catDesc":"Contemporary Fantasy","catUri":"\/contemporary-fantasy","menuText":"Contemporary Fantasy","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000198,"catDesc":"Fantasy","catUri":"\/fantasy","menuText":"Fantasy","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;NATIONAL BESTSELLER &amp;bull; In the acclaimed first novel from short story virtuoso and Pulitzer Prize finalist Kelly Link, three teenagers become pawns in a supernatural power struggle.&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;A dreamlike, profoundly beautiful novel [that] pushes our understanding of what a fantasy novel can be.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Amal El-Mohtar, &lt;i&gt;The New York Times Book Review &lt;\/i&gt;(Editors&amp;rsquo; Choice)&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;Imagine a ring of David Mitchell and Stephen King books dancing around a fire until something new, brave, and wonderful rose up from the flames.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Isaac Fitzgerald, &lt;i&gt;Today&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;ONE OF &lt;i&gt;PUBLISHER WEEKLY&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;rsquo;S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR&lt;\/b&gt; &amp;bull; A &lt;i&gt;TIME &lt;\/i&gt;BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR &amp;bull;&amp;#160;LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Book of Love&lt;\/i&gt; showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attuned to all varieties of love&amp;mdash;from friendship to romance to abiding family ties&amp;mdash;with her trademark compassion, wit, and literary derring-do. Readers will find joy (and a little terror) and an affirmation that love goes on, even when we cannot.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves beneath the fluorescent lights of a high school classroom, almost a year after disappearing from their hometown, the small seaside community of Lovesend, Massachusetts, having long been presumed dead. Which, in fact, they are.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With them in the room is their previously unremarkable high school music teacher, who seems to know something about their disappearance&amp;mdash;and what has brought them back again. Desperate to reclaim their lives, the three agree to the terms of the bargain their music teacher proposes. They will be given a series of magical tasks; while they undertake them, they may return to their families and friends, but they can tell no one where they&amp;rsquo;ve been. In the end, there will be winners and there will be losers.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But their resurrection has attracted the notice of other supernatural figures, all with their own agendas. 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His many awards include the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, which he won twice; the PEN\/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award; the National Arts Award; the French Prix du Meilleur Livre &amp;Eacute;tranger; the European Union&amp;rsquo;s Aristeion Prize for Literature; the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature; and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He is a former president of PEN America&amp;#160;and the recipient of the PEN Centenary Courage Award.&amp;#160;His books have been translated into over forty languages.&amp;#160;In 2023, he was named one of &lt;i&gt;Time&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;rsquo;s 100 Most Influential People of the Year.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/26491\/salman-rushdie","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"S","lastInitial":"R","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Rachel Eliza Griffiths","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/26491","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/738826\/knife-by-salman-rushdie\/9780593730249","division":{"code":"70","description":"Random House Group"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000021,"catDesc":"Biography &amp; Memoir","catUri":"\/biography-memoir","menuText":"Biography &amp; Memoir","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000111,"catDesc":"Nonfiction","catUri":"\/nonfiction","menuText":"Nonfiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST &amp;bull;&amp;#160;#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER &amp;bull; From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring&amp;mdash;and surviving&amp;mdash;an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;A &lt;i&gt;TIME &lt;\/i&gt;BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black&amp;mdash;black clothes, black mask&amp;mdash;rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife. His first thought: &lt;i&gt;So it&amp;rsquo;s you. Here you are.&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey toward physical recovery and the healing that was made possible by the love and support of his wife, Eliza, his family, his army of doctors and physical therapists, and his community of readers worldwide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt; Knife&lt;\/i&gt; is Rushdie at the peak of his powers, writing with urgency, with gravity, with unflinching honesty. It is also a deeply moving reminder of literature&amp;rsquo;s capacity to make sense of the unthinkable, an intimate and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art&amp;mdash;and finding the strength to stand up again.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":12642},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593730240"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/738826/knife-by-salman-rushdie/">Knife</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/26491">Salman Rushdie</a> </h2> <div class="desc">From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring — and surviving — an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him. Named a Must-Read and Best Book of 2024 by <i>The New York Times</i>, Barnes & Noble, and <i>Time</i>. </div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/738826/knife-by-salman-rushdie/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images2.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593730249" alt="Knife Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Knife to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="738826" data-work="{"workId":738826,"isbn":9780593730249,"title":"Knife","subtitle":"Meditations After an Attempted Murder","author":"Salman Rushdie","imprint":{"code":"R1","name":"Random House","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-04-16","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":28,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":26491,"display":"Salman Rushdie","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Salman Rushdie&lt;\/b&gt; is the author of fifteen previous novels, including &lt;i&gt;Midnight&amp;rsquo;s Children&lt;\/i&gt; (for which he won the Booker Prize and the Best of the Booker), &lt;i&gt;Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor&amp;rsquo;s Last Sigh,&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Quichotte,&lt;\/i&gt; all of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; a collection of stories, &lt;i&gt;East, West;&lt;\/i&gt; a memoir, &lt;i&gt;Joseph Anton;&lt;\/i&gt; a work of reportage, &lt;i&gt;The Jaguar Smile;&lt;\/i&gt; and three collections of essays, most recently &lt;i&gt;Languages of Truth&lt;\/i&gt;. His many awards include the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel, which he won twice; the PEN\/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award; the National Arts Award; the French Prix du Meilleur Livre &amp;Eacute;tranger; the European Union&amp;rsquo;s Aristeion Prize for Literature; the Budapest Grand Prize for Literature; and the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He is a former president of PEN America&amp;#160;and the recipient of the PEN Centenary Courage Award.&amp;#160;His books have been translated into over forty languages.&amp;#160;In 2023, he was named one of &lt;i&gt;Time&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;rsquo;s 100 Most Influential People of the Year.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/26491\/salman-rushdie","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"S","lastInitial":"R","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Rachel Eliza Griffiths","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/26491","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/738826\/knife-by-salman-rushdie\/9780593730249","division":{"code":"70","description":"Random House Group"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000021,"catDesc":"Biography &amp; Memoir","catUri":"\/biography-memoir","menuText":"Biography &amp; Memoir","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000111,"catDesc":"Nonfiction","catUri":"\/nonfiction","menuText":"Nonfiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST &amp;bull;&amp;#160;#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER &amp;bull; From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring&amp;mdash;and surviving&amp;mdash;an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;A &lt;i&gt;TIME &lt;\/i&gt;BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black&amp;mdash;black clothes, black mask&amp;mdash;rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife. His first thought: &lt;i&gt;So it&amp;rsquo;s you. Here you are.&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey toward physical recovery and the healing that was made possible by the love and support of his wife, Eliza, his family, his army of doctors and physical therapists, and his community of readers worldwide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt; Knife&lt;\/i&gt; is Rushdie at the peak of his powers, writing with urgency, with gravity, with unflinching honesty. 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Hopefully, those with the power to change things will listen.&lt;b&gt;&amp;rdquo; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;b&gt;Manuel Roig-Franzia, &lt;i&gt;Washington Post&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the southern border told through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate, by &lt;i&gt;New Yorker &lt;\/i&gt;staff writer Jonathan Blitzer&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Everyone who makes the journey faces an impossible choice. Hundreds of thousands of people who arrive every year at the US-Mexico border travel far from their homes. An overwhelming share of them come from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, although many migrants come from farther away. Some are fleeing persecution, others crime or hunger. Very often it will not be their first attempt to cross. 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Ko&amp;rsquo;s short fiction has appeared in &lt;i&gt;The Best American Short Stories&lt;\/i&gt; and her essays and nonfiction have been published in &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The Believer&lt;\/i&gt;.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2270922\/lisa-ko","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"L","lastInitial":"K","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Juliana Sohn","photoDate":"2023","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2270922","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/712665\/memory-piece-by-lisa-ko\/9780593542101","division":{"code":"62","description":"Penguin Adult HC\/TR"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000170,"catDesc":"Women&#039;s Fiction","catUri":"\/womens-fiction","menuText":"Women&#039;s Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;ONE OF TIME&#039;S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;NAMED A &lt;i&gt;VOGUE&lt;\/i&gt; BEST BOOK OF 2024&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;ONE OF BARACK OBAMA&#039;S FAVORITE READS OF SUMMER 2024&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;Adventurous. . .gritty and refreshingly girl-centric. . . lingers in the imagination.&quot;&amp;#160;&amp;ndash;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Ko&amp;hellip;draws characters with such deftness that they feel wholly alive.&quot; &lt;b&gt;&amp;ndash;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Washington Post&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;It belongs to an American literary tradition that includes Dana Spiotta, George Saunders, and their patron saint, Don DeLillo.&quot; &lt;b&gt;&amp;ndash;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Atlantic&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The award-winning author of &lt;i&gt;The Leavers&lt;\/i&gt; offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. &amp;ldquo;Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves,&amp;rdquo; they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;By the time they are adults, their dreams are murkier. As a performance artist, Giselle must navigate an elite social world she never conceived of. As a coder thrilled by the internet&amp;rsquo;s early egalitarian promise, Jackie must contend with its more sinister shift toward monetization and surveillance. And as a community activist, Ellen confronts the increasing gentrification and policing overwhelming her New York City neighborhood. Over time their friendship matures and changes, their definitions of success become complicated, and their sense of what matters evolves.&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Moving from the predigital 1980s to the art and tech subcultures of the 1990s to a strikingly imagined portrait of the 2040s, &lt;i&gt;Memory Piece&lt;\/i&gt; is an innovative and audacious story of three lifelong friends as they strive to build satisfying lives in a world that turns out to be radically different from the one they were promised.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":2449},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"059354210X"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/712665/memory-piece-by-lisa-ko/">Memory Piece</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2270922">Lisa Ko</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by <i>Time</i>. The award-winning author of <i>The Leavers</i> offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life? 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Ko&amp;rsquo;s short fiction has appeared in &lt;i&gt;The Best American Short Stories&lt;\/i&gt; and her essays and nonfiction have been published in &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The Believer&lt;\/i&gt;.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2270922\/lisa-ko","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"L","lastInitial":"K","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Juliana Sohn","photoDate":"2023","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2270922","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/712665\/memory-piece-by-lisa-ko\/9780593542101","division":{"code":"62","description":"Penguin Adult HC\/TR"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000170,"catDesc":"Women&#039;s Fiction","catUri":"\/womens-fiction","menuText":"Women&#039;s Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;ONE OF TIME&#039;S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;NAMED A &lt;i&gt;VOGUE&lt;\/i&gt; BEST BOOK OF 2024&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;ONE OF BARACK OBAMA&#039;S FAVORITE READS OF SUMMER 2024&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;Adventurous. . .gritty and refreshingly girl-centric. . . lingers in the imagination.&quot;&amp;#160;&amp;ndash;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Ko&amp;hellip;draws characters with such deftness that they feel wholly alive.&quot; &lt;b&gt;&amp;ndash;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Washington Post&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;It belongs to an American literary tradition that includes Dana Spiotta, George Saunders, and their patron saint, Don DeLillo.&quot; &lt;b&gt;&amp;ndash;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Atlantic&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The award-winning author of &lt;i&gt;The Leavers&lt;\/i&gt; offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. &amp;ldquo;Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves,&amp;rdquo; they envision each other as artistic collaborators and embark on a future defined by freedom and creativity.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;By the time they are adults, their dreams are murkier. As a performance artist, Giselle must navigate an elite social world she never conceived of. As a coder thrilled by the internet&amp;rsquo;s early egalitarian promise, Jackie must contend with its more sinister shift toward monetization and surveillance. And as a community activist, Ellen confronts the increasing gentrification and policing overwhelming her New York City neighborhood. 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Towles lives in Manhattan with&amp;#160;his wife and two children.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/144127\/amor-towles","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"A","lastInitial":"T","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Dmitri Kasterine","photoDate":"2021","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/144127","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/653353\/table-for-two-by-amor-towles\/9780593296370","division":{"code":"62","description":"Penguin Adult HC\/TR"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000184,"catDesc":"Short Stories","catUri":"\/short-stories","menuText":"Short Stories","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000066,"catDesc":"Historical Fiction","catUri":"\/historical-fiction","menuText":"Historical Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":3},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;An Instant &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; Bestseller&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;A knockout collection. ... Sharp-edged satire deceptively wrapped like a box of Neuhaus chocolates, &lt;i&gt;Table for Two&lt;\/i&gt; is a winner.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times &lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Superb ... This may be Towles&amp;rsquo; best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef&amp;rsquo;s main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; In Towles&amp;rsquo;s novel &lt;i&gt;Rules of Civility&lt;\/i&gt;, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September 1938 with the intention of returning home to Indiana. But as her train pulls into Chicago, where her parents are waiting, she instead extends her ticket to Los Angeles. Told from seven points of view, &amp;ldquo;Eve in Hollywood&amp;rdquo; describes how Eve crafts a new future for herself&amp;mdash;and others&amp;mdash;in a noirish tale that takes us through the movie sets, bungalows, and dive bars of Los Angeles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Written with his signature wit, humor, and sophistication, &lt;i&gt;Table for Two &lt;\/i&gt;is another glittering addition to Towles&amp;rsquo;s canon of stylish and transporting fiction.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":10473},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593296370"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/653353/table-for-two-by-amor-towles/">Table for Two</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/144127">Amor Towles</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Named an Amazon Editors’ Best Book of the Year. From the bestselling author of <i>Rules of Civility</i>, <i>A Gentleman in Moscow</i>, and <i>The Lincoln Highway</i>, a richly detailed and sharply drawn collection of stories, including a novella featuring one of his most beloved characters.</div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/653353/table-for-two-by-amor-towles/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593296370" alt="Table for Two Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Table for Two to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="653353" data-work="{"workId":653353,"isbn":9780593296370,"title":"Table for Two","subtitle":"Fictions","author":"Amor Towles","imprint":{"code":"J0","name":"Viking","family":"Viking"},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-04-02","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":32,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":144127,"display":"Amor Towles","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":true,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Amor Towles&lt;\/b&gt; is the author of the &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestsellers &lt;i&gt;Rules of Civility&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;A Gentleman in Moscow&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Lincoln Highway&lt;\/i&gt;,&amp;#160;and &lt;i&gt;Table for Two&lt;\/i&gt;.&amp;#160;His books have collectively sold millions of copies and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Towles lives in Manhattan with&amp;#160;his wife and two children.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/144127\/amor-towles","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"A","lastInitial":"T","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Dmitri Kasterine","photoDate":"2021","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/144127","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/653353\/table-for-two-by-amor-towles\/9780593296370","division":{"code":"62","description":"Penguin Adult HC\/TR"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000184,"catDesc":"Short Stories","catUri":"\/short-stories","menuText":"Short Stories","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000066,"catDesc":"Historical Fiction","catUri":"\/historical-fiction","menuText":"Historical Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":3},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;An Instant &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; Bestseller&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;A knockout collection. ... Sharp-edged satire deceptively wrapped like a box of Neuhaus chocolates, &lt;i&gt;Table for Two&lt;\/i&gt; is a winner.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The New York Times &lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Superb ... This may be Towles&amp;rsquo; best book yet. Each tale is as satisfying as a master chef&amp;rsquo;s main course, filled with drama, wit, erudition and, most of all, heart.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; In Towles&amp;rsquo;s novel &lt;i&gt;Rules of Civility&lt;\/i&gt;, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September 1938 with the intention of returning home to Indiana. But as her train pulls into Chicago, where her parents are waiting, she instead extends her ticket to Los Angeles. 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He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hampton Sides&amp;#160;is available for select readings and lectures. 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Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hampton Sides&amp;rsquo; bravura account of Cook&amp;rsquo;s last journey both wrestles with Cook&amp;rsquo;s legacy and provides a thrilling narrative of the titanic efforts and continual danger that characterized exploration in the 1700s. Cook was renowned for his peerless seamanship, his humane leadership, and his dedication to science-&amp;ndash;the famed naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied him on his first voyage, and Cook has been called one of the most important figures of the Age of Enlightenment. He was also deeply interested in the native people&amp;nbsp;he encountered. In fact, his stated mission was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London, to his home islands. On previous expeditions, Cook mapped huge swaths of the Pacific, including the east coast of&amp;nbsp;Australia, and initiated first European contact with numerous peoples. He treated his crew well, and endeavored to learn about the societies he encountered with curiosity and without judgment.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Yet something was different on this last voyage. Cook became mercurial, resorting to the lash to enforce discipline, and led his two vessels into danger time and again. Uncharacteristically, he ordered violent retaliation for perceived theft on the part of native peoples. This may have had something to do with his secret orders, which were to chart and claim lands before Britain&amp;rsquo;s imperial rivals could, and to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Whatever Cook&amp;rsquo;s intentions, his scientific efforts were the sharp edge of the colonial sword, and the ultimate effects of first contact were catastrophic for Indigenous people around the world. The tensions between Cook&amp;rsquo;s overt and covert missions came to a head on the shores of Hawaii. His first landing there was harmonious, but when Cook returned after mapping the coast of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, his exploitative treatment of the Hawaiians led to the fatal encounter.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At once a ferociously-paced story of adventure on the high seas and a searching examination of the complexities and consequences of the Age of Exploration, THE WIDE WIDE SEA is a major work from one of our finest narrative nonfiction writers.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":10350},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0385544766"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/602227/the-wide-wide-sea-by-hampton-sides/">The Wide Wide Sea</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/28294">Hampton Sides</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Named a Best and Must-Read Book of the Year for 2024 by <i>The New York Times</i>, Amazon Editors, and <i>Time</i>. A “thrilling and superbly crafted” (<i>The Wall Street Journal</i>) account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook’s death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day.</div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/602227/the-wide-wide-sea-by-hampton-sides/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780385544764" alt="The Wide Wide Sea Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add The Wide Wide Sea to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="602227" data-work="{"workId":602227,"isbn":9780385544764,"title":"The Wide Wide Sea","subtitle":"Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook","author":"Hampton Sides","imprint":{"code":"4F","name":"Doubleday","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-04-09","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":35,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":28294,"display":"Hampton Sides","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;HAMPTON SIDES&lt;\/b&gt; is the author of &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestselling histories &lt;i&gt;On Desperate Ground, In the Kingdom of Ice, Hellhound on his Trail, Blood and Thunder&lt;\/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;Ghost Soldiers&lt;\/i&gt;, which won the PEN USA Award for Nonfiction. 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Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a conflict with native Hawaiians. How did Cook, who was unique among captains for his respect for Indigenous peoples and cultures, come to that fatal moment?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hampton Sides&amp;rsquo; bravura account of Cook&amp;rsquo;s last journey both wrestles with Cook&amp;rsquo;s legacy and provides a thrilling narrative of the titanic efforts and continual danger that characterized exploration in the 1700s. Cook was renowned for his peerless seamanship, his humane leadership, and his dedication to science-&amp;ndash;the famed naturalist Joseph Banks accompanied him on his first voyage, and Cook has been called one of the most important figures of the Age of Enlightenment. He was also deeply interested in the native people&amp;nbsp;he encountered. In fact, his stated mission was to return a Tahitian man, Mai, who had become the toast of London, to his home islands. On previous expeditions, Cook mapped huge swaths of the Pacific, including the east coast of&amp;nbsp;Australia, and initiated first European contact with numerous peoples. He treated his crew well, and endeavored to learn about the societies he encountered with curiosity and without judgment.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Yet something was different on this last voyage. Cook became mercurial, resorting to the lash to enforce discipline, and led his two vessels into danger time and again. Uncharacteristically, he ordered violent retaliation for perceived theft on the part of native peoples. This may have had something to do with his secret orders, which were to chart and claim lands before Britain&amp;rsquo;s imperial rivals could, and to discover the fabled Northwest Passage. Whatever Cook&amp;rsquo;s intentions, his scientific efforts were the sharp edge of the colonial sword, and the ultimate effects of first contact were catastrophic for Indigenous people around the world. The tensions between Cook&amp;rsquo;s overt and covert missions came to a head on the shores of Hawaii. His first landing there was harmonious, but when Cook returned after mapping the coast of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, his exploitative treatment of the Hawaiians led to the fatal encounter.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At once a ferociously-paced story of adventure on the high seas and a searching examination of the complexities and consequences of the Age of Exploration, THE WIDE WIDE SEA is a major work from one of our finest narrative nonfiction writers.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":10350},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0385544766"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$35.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add The Wide Wide Sea to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780385544764"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/602227/the-wide-wide-sea-by-hampton-sides/9780385544764"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780385544764 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book29" format-data="Paperback,Hardcover,Ebook" imprint-data="Random House Trade Paperbacks" cat-data="Literary Fiction" isbn="9780812985092" ttl="My Friends" data-isbn="9780812985092" data-ebook="9780812994858" workid="226849" data-format="Paperback" data-format-name="Paperback" authid="72121" author="Hisham Matar" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>29</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/226849/my-friends-by-hisham-matar/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780812985092" alt="My Friends Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add My Friends to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="226849" data-work="{"workId":226849,"isbn":9780812985092,"title":"My Friends","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"Hisham Matar","imprint":{"code":"RP","name":"Random House Trade Paperbacks","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2025-01-07","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":18,"format":{"code":"TR","name":"Paperback","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Paperback","description":"Trade Paperback"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":72121,"display":"Hisham Matar","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"Born in New York City to Libyan parents, &lt;b&gt;Hisham Matar&lt;\/b&gt; spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. His debut novel, &lt;i&gt;In the Country of Men,&lt;\/i&gt; was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and won numerous international prizes, including the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, a Commonwealth First Book Award, the Premio Flaiano and the Premio Gregor von Rezzori. His second novel, &lt;i&gt;Anatomy of a Disappearance,&lt;\/i&gt; published in 2011, was named one of the best books of the year by &lt;i&gt;The Guardian&lt;\/i&gt; and the &lt;i&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;\/i&gt;. His work has been translated into twenty-nine languages. He lives in London and New York.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/72121\/hisham-matar","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"H","lastInitial":"M","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Diana Matar","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/72121","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/226849\/my-friends-by-hisham-matar\/9780812985092","division":{"code":"70","description":"Random House Group"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST &amp;bull; LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE &amp;bull; A &amp;ldquo;masterly&amp;rdquo; (&lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt;, Editors&amp;rsquo; Choice), &amp;ldquo;riveting&amp;rdquo; (&lt;i&gt;The Atlantic&lt;\/i&gt;) novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile, from the Pulitzer Prize&amp;ndash;winning author of &lt;i&gt;The Return&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;A profound celebration of the sustaining power of friendship, of the ways we mold ourselves against the indentations of those few people whom fate presses against us.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Washington Post&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;ONE OF &lt;i&gt;PUBLISHER WEEKLY&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;rsquo;S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR &amp;bull; A &lt;i&gt;TIME &lt;\/i&gt;BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION &amp;bull;&amp;#160;LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words&amp;mdash;and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa&amp;mdash;Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;There, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode into tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, unable to leave Britain, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would expose them to danger.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face-to-face with Hosam Zowa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time tests&amp;mdash;and frays&amp;mdash;those bonds,&lt;i&gt; My Friends&lt;\/i&gt; is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author working at the peak of his powers.","flags":["READER_REWARDS"],"otherFields":{"netInv":-2248},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0812985095"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/226849/my-friends-by-hisham-matar/">My Friends</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/72121">Hisham Matar</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, longlisted for the Booker Prize, and named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by <i>Time</i>. <em>My Friends</em> is a “masterly” (<i>The New York Times</i>, Editors’ Choice), “riveting” (<i>The Atlantic</i>) novel of friendship, family, and the unthinkable realities of exile. A devastating meditation on friendship and family, and the ways in which time tests — and frays — those bonds,<i> My Friends</i> is an achingly beautiful work of literature by an author working at the peak of his powers.</div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/226849/my-friends-by-hisham-matar/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780812985092" alt="My Friends Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add My Friends to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="226849" data-work="{"workId":226849,"isbn":9780812985092,"title":"My Friends","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"Hisham Matar","imprint":{"code":"RP","name":"Random House Trade Paperbacks","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2025-01-07","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":18,"format":{"code":"TR","name":"Paperback","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Paperback","description":"Trade Paperback"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":72121,"display":"Hisham Matar","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"Born in New York City to Libyan parents, &lt;b&gt;Hisham Matar&lt;\/b&gt; spent his childhood in Tripoli and Cairo and has lived most of his adult life in London. 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These ten true stories shed light on Americans who were innocent but found guilty and forced to sacrifice friends, families, and decades of their lives to prison while the guilty parties remained free. In each of the stories, John Grisham and Jim McCloskey recount the dramatic hard-fought battles for exoneration. They take a close look at what leads to wrongful convictions in the first place and the racism, misconduct, flawed testimony, and corruption in the court system that can make them so hard to reverse.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Impeccably researched and told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, &lt;i&gt;Framed&lt;\/i&gt; is the story of winning freedom when the battle already seems lost and the deck is stacked against you.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":69320},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0385550448"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/742610/framed-by-john-grisham-and-jim-mccloskey/">Framed</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/11178">John Grisham</a> and <a href="/authors/2195582">Jim McCloskey</a> </h2> <div class="desc">John Grisham is known worldwide for his bestselling novels, but it’s his real-life passion for justice that led to his work with Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries, the first organization dedicated to exonerating innocent people who have been wrongly convicted. Together they offer an inside look at the many injustices in our criminal justice system. Impeccably researched and told with page-turning suspense as only John Grisham can deliver, <i>Framed</i> is the story of winning freedom when the battle already seems lost and the deck is stacked against you.</div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/742610/framed-by-john-grisham-and-jim-mccloskey/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780385550444" alt="Framed Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Framed to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="742610" data-work="{"workId":742610,"isbn":9780385550444,"title":"Framed","subtitle":"Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions","author":"John Grisham and Jim McCloskey","imprint":{"code":"4F","name":"Doubleday","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-10-15","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":30,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":11178,"display":"John Grisham","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;John Grisham&lt;\/b&gt; is the author of fifty consecutive #1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. 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Much of his fiction explores deep-seated problems in our criminal justice system.&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;John lives on a farm in central Virginia.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/11178\/john-grisham","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"J","lastInitial":"G","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Donald Johnson","photoDate":"2022","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/11178","primaryFlag":true},"010-1002":{"id":2195582,"display":"Jim McCloskey","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Jim McCloskey&lt;\/b&gt; founded Centurion Ministries, the first organization in the world devoted to freeing the wrongly convicted. Since its establishment forty years ago, Centurion has freed seventy individuals, all of whom spent decades in prison serving life or death sentences for the crimes of others. McCloskey has a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary. 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He obtained his PhD in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and taught at the University of Virginia for sixteen years. His research focuses on moral and political psychology, as described in his book &lt;i&gt;The Righteous Mind&lt;\/i&gt;. His latest book, &lt;i&gt;The Anxious Generation&lt;\/i&gt;, is a direct continuation of the themes explored in &lt;i&gt;The Coddling of the American Mind &lt;\/i&gt;(written with Greg Lukianoff). He writes the &lt;i&gt;After Babel &lt;\/i&gt;Substack.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/92087\/jonathan-haidt","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"J","lastInitial":"H","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Jayne Riew","photoDate":"2023","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/92087","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/729231\/the-anxious-generation-by-jonathan-haidt\/9780593655030","division":{"code":"62","description":"Penguin Adult HC\/TR"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000180,"catDesc":"Psychology","catUri":"\/psychology","menuText":"Psychology","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000115,"catDesc":"Parenting","catUri":"\/parenting","menuText":"Parenting","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000137,"catDesc":"Self-Improvement &amp; Inspiration","catUri":"\/self-improvement-inspiration","menuText":"Self-Improvement &amp; Inspiration","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":3},{"catId":2000000063,"catDesc":"Wellness","catUri":"\/wellness","menuText":"Wellness","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000111,"catDesc":"Nonfiction","catUri":"\/nonfiction","menuText":"Nonfiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;THE INSTANT #1 &lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES&lt;\/i&gt; BESTSELLER &amp;bull; A &lt;i&gt;Washington Post &lt;\/i&gt;Notable Book &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech&amp;mdash;and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;With tenacity and candor, Haidt lays out the consequences that have come with allowing kids to drift further into the virtual world . . . While also offering suggestions and solutions that could help protect a new generation of kids.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Shannon Carlin, &lt;i&gt;TIME&lt;\/i&gt;, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In &lt;i&gt;The Anxious Generation&lt;\/i&gt;, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the &amp;ldquo;play-based childhood&amp;rdquo; began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the &amp;ldquo;phone-based childhood&amp;rdquo; in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this &amp;ldquo;great rewiring of childhood&amp;rdquo; has interfered with children&amp;rsquo;s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the &amp;ldquo;collective action problems&amp;rdquo; that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies, and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes&amp;mdash;communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children&amp;mdash;and ourselves&amp;mdash;from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":95026},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593655036"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/729231/the-anxious-generation-by-jonathan-haidt/">The Anxious Generation</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/92087">Jonathan Haidt</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Named a Must-Read Book for 2024 by <i>Time</i> and Amazon. <i>The Anxious Generation</i> is a must-read for all parents: The generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media, and big tech — and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. </div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/729231/the-anxious-generation-by-jonathan-haidt/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593655030" alt="The Anxious Generation Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add The Anxious Generation to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="729231" data-work="{"workId":729231,"isbn":9780593655030,"title":"The Anxious Generation","subtitle":"How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness","author":"Jonathan Haidt","imprint":{"code":"IJ","name":"Penguin Press","family":"PenguinPress"},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-03-26","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":30,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":92087,"display":"Jonathan Haidt","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Jonathan Haidt &lt;\/b&gt;is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University&amp;rsquo;s Stern School of Business. He obtained his PhD in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992 and taught at the University of Virginia for sixteen years. His research focuses on moral and political psychology, as described in his book &lt;i&gt;The Righteous Mind&lt;\/i&gt;. His latest book, &lt;i&gt;The Anxious Generation&lt;\/i&gt;, is a direct continuation of the themes explored in &lt;i&gt;The Coddling of the American Mind &lt;\/i&gt;(written with Greg Lukianoff). 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While also offering suggestions and solutions that could help protect a new generation of kids.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Shannon Carlin, &lt;i&gt;TIME&lt;\/i&gt;, 100 Must-Read Books of 2024&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In &lt;i&gt;The Anxious Generation&lt;\/i&gt;, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults. Haidt shows how the &amp;ldquo;play-based childhood&amp;rdquo; began to decline in the 1980s, and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the &amp;ldquo;phone-based childhood&amp;rdquo; in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this &amp;ldquo;great rewiring of childhood&amp;rdquo; has interfered with children&amp;rsquo;s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison, and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families, and their societies.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the &amp;ldquo;collective action problems&amp;rdquo; that trap us, and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. 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To this day, fundamental truths about the crime are widely unknown, including where it took place and how many people were involved. This is no accident: the cover-up began at once, and it is ongoing.&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; In August 1955, two men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were charged with the torture and murder of the 14-year-old Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi.&amp;#160;After their inevitable acquittal in a mockery of justice, they gave a false confession to a journalist, which was misleading about where the long night of hell took place and who was involved.&amp;#160;In fact, Wright Thompson reveals, at least eight people can be placed at the scene, which was inside the barn of one of the killers, on a plot of land within the six-square-mile grid whose official name is Township 22 North, Range 4 West, Section 2, West Half, fabled in the Delta of myth as the birthplace of the blues on nearby Dockery Plantation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Even in the context of the racist caste regime of the time, the four-hour torture and murder of a Black boy barely in his teens for whistling at a young white woman was acutely depraved; Till&amp;rsquo;s mother Mamie Till-Mobley&amp;rsquo;s decision to keep the casket open seared the crime indelibly into American consciousness. Wright Thompson has a deep understanding of this story&amp;mdash;the world of the families of both Emmett Till and his killers, and all the forces that aligned to place them together on that spot on the map.&amp;#160;As he shows, the full horror of the crime was its inevitability, and how much about it we still need to understand. Ultimately this is a story about property, and money, and power, and white supremacy.&amp;#160;It implicates all of us.&amp;#160;In &lt;i&gt;The Barn&lt;\/i&gt;, Thompson&amp;#160;brings to life the small group of dedicated people who have been engaged in the hard, fearful business of bringing the truth to light. Putting the killing floor of the barn on the map of Township 22 North, Range 4 West, Section 2, West Half, and the Delta, and America, is a way of mapping the road this country must travel if we are to heal our oldest, deepest wound.&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":10074},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593299825"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/679066/the-barn-by-wright-thompson/">The Barn</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2140712">Wright Thompson</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Named a Must-Read Book for 2024 by <i>Time</i>, <i>The Barn</i> is a shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long. </div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/679066/the-barn-by-wright-thompson/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593299821" alt="The Barn Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add The Barn to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="679066" data-work="{"workId":679066,"isbn":9780593299821,"title":"The Barn","subtitle":"The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi","author":"Wright Thompson","imprint":{"code":"IJ","name":"Penguin Press","family":"PenguinPress"},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-09-24","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":35,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2140712,"display":"Wright Thompson","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Wright Thompson &lt;\/b&gt;is&amp;#160;a senior writer for ESPN, contributing writer to the Atlantic, and the &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestselling author of &lt;i&gt;The Barn&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Pappyland&lt;\/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;The Cost of These Dreams&lt;\/i&gt;. 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To this day, fundamental truths about the crime are widely unknown, including where it took place and how many people were involved. This is no accident: the cover-up began at once, and it is ongoing.&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; In August 1955, two men, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, were charged with the torture and murder of the 14-year-old Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi.&amp;#160;After their inevitable acquittal in a mockery of justice, they gave a false confession to a journalist, which was misleading about where the long night of hell took place and who was involved.&amp;#160;In fact, Wright Thompson reveals, at least eight people can be placed at the scene, which was inside the barn of one of the killers, on a plot of land within the six-square-mile grid whose official name is Township 22 North, Range 4 West, Section 2, West Half, fabled in the Delta of myth as the birthplace of the blues on nearby Dockery Plantation.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Even in the context of the racist caste regime of the time, the four-hour torture and murder of a Black boy barely in his teens for whistling at a young white woman was acutely depraved; Till&amp;rsquo;s mother Mamie Till-Mobley&amp;rsquo;s decision to keep the casket open seared the crime indelibly into American consciousness. Wright Thompson has a deep understanding of this story&amp;mdash;the world of the families of both Emmett Till and his killers, and all the forces that aligned to place them together on that spot on the map.&amp;#160;As he shows, the full horror of the crime was its inevitability, and how much about it we still need to understand. Ultimately this is a story about property, and money, and power, and white supremacy.&amp;#160;It implicates all of us.&amp;#160;In &lt;i&gt;The Barn&lt;\/i&gt;, Thompson&amp;#160;brings to life the small group of dedicated people who have been engaged in the hard, fearful business of bringing the truth to light. Putting the killing floor of the barn on the map of Township 22 North, Range 4 West, Section 2, West Half, and the Delta, and America, is a way of mapping the road this country must travel if we are to heal our oldest, deepest wound.&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":10074},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593299825"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$35.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add The Barn to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780593299821"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/679066/the-barn-by-wright-thompson/9780593299821"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780593299821 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book36" format-data="Paperback,Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Crown" cat-data="Food Memoir & Travel | Biography & Memoir" isbn="9780593799895" ttl="Be Ready When the Luck Happens" data-isbn="9780593799895" data-ebook="9780593799802" workid="770511" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="9751" author="Ina Garten" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>36</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/770511/be-ready-when-the-luck-happens-by-ina-garten/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593799895" alt="Be Ready When the Luck Happens Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Be Ready When the Luck Happens to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="770511" data-work="{"workId":770511,"isbn":9780593799895,"title":"Be Ready When the Luck Happens","subtitle":"A Memoir","author":"Ina Garten","imprint":{"code":"C1","name":"Crown","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-10-01","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":34,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":9751,"display":"Ina Garten","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":true,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Ina Garten&lt;\/b&gt; is a &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestselling author, the host of &lt;i&gt;Be My Guest&lt;\/i&gt; on Discovery+, and host of &lt;i&gt;Barefoot Contessa&lt;\/i&gt; on Food Network, for which she has won five Emmy Awards and a James Beard Award. 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Ina&amp;rsquo;s gift is to make everything look easy, yet all her accomplishments have been the result of hard work, audacious choices, and exquisite attention to detail. In her unmistakable voice (no one tells a story like Ina), she brings her past and her process to life in a high-spirited and no-holds-barred memoir that chronicles decades of personal challenges, adventures (and misadventures) and unexpected career twists, all delivered with her signature combination of playfulness and purpose.&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;From a difficult childhood to meeting the love of her life, Jeffrey, and marrying him while still in college, from a boring bureaucratic job in Washington, D.C., to answering an ad for a specialty food store in the Hamptons, from the owner of one Barefoot Contessa shop to author of bestselling cookbooks and celebrated television host, Ina has blazed her own trail and, in the meantime, taught millions of people how to cook and entertain. Now, she invites them to come closer to experience her story in vivid detail and to share the important life lessons she learned along the way: do what you love because if you love it you&amp;rsquo;ll be really good at it, swing for the fences, and always &lt;i&gt;Be Ready When the Luck Happens&lt;\/i&gt;.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":35564},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593799895"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/770511/be-ready-when-the-luck-happens-by-ina-garten/">Be Ready When the Luck Happens</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/9751">Ina Garten</a> </h2> <div class="desc">In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten — aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon — shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table. 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Ina&amp;rsquo;s gift is to make everything look easy, yet all her accomplishments have been the result of hard work, audacious choices, and exquisite attention to detail. In her unmistakable voice (no one tells a story like Ina), she brings her past and her process to life in a high-spirited and no-holds-barred memoir that chronicles decades of personal challenges, adventures (and misadventures) and unexpected career twists, all delivered with her signature combination of playfulness and purpose.&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;From a difficult childhood to meeting the love of her life, Jeffrey, and marrying him while still in college, from a boring bureaucratic job in Washington, D.C., to answering an ad for a specialty food store in the Hamptons, from the owner of one Barefoot Contessa shop to author of bestselling cookbooks and celebrated television host, Ina has blazed her own trail and, in the meantime, taught millions of people how to cook and entertain. 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They nurture local communities while creating new ones of their own. Bookshops are powerful spaces, but they are also endangered ones. In &lt;i&gt;The Bookshop&lt;\/i&gt;,&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;we&amp;nbsp;see the stakes: what has been, and what might be lost.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Evan Friss&amp;rsquo;s history of the bookshop draws on oral histories, archival collections, municipal records, diaries, letters, and interviews with leading booksellers to offer a fascinating look at this institution beloved by so many. The story begins with Benjamin Franklin&amp;rsquo;s first bookstore in Philadelphia and takes us to a range of booksellers including the Strand, Chicago&amp;rsquo;s Marshall Field &amp;amp; Company, the Gotham Book Mart, specialty stores like Oscar Wilde and Drum and Spear, sidewalk sellers of used books, Barnes &amp;amp; Noble, Amazon Books, and Parnassus. &lt;i&gt;The Bookshop&lt;\/i&gt; is also a history of the leading figures in American bookselling, often impassioned eccentrics, and a history of how books have been marketed and sold over the course of more than two centuries&amp;mdash;including, for example, a 3,000-pound elephant who signed books at Marshall Field&amp;rsquo;s in 1944.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Bookshop&lt;\/i&gt; is a love letter to bookstores, a charming chronicle for anyone who cherishes these sanctuaries of literature, and essential reading to understand how these vital institutions have shaped American life&amp;mdash;and why we still need them.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1819},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593299922"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/679154/the-bookshop-by-evan-friss/">The Bookshop</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2252243">Evan Friss</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Named one of <i>Time</i>’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024, <i>The Bookshop</i> is an affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cultural life, from department stores to indies, from highbrow dealers trading in first editions to sidewalk vendors, and from chains to special-interest community destinations. </div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/679154/the-bookshop-by-evan-friss/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593299920" alt="The Bookshop Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add The Bookshop to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="679154" data-work="{"workId":679154,"isbn":9780593299920,"title":"The Bookshop","subtitle":"A History of the American Bookstore","author":"Evan Friss","imprint":{"code":"J0","name":"Viking","family":"Viking"},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-08-06","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":30,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2252243,"display":"Evan Friss","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Evan Friss&lt;\/b&gt; is a professor of history at James Madison University and the author of two other books: &lt;i&gt;The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City&lt;\/i&gt;. 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They nurture local communities while creating new ones of their own. Bookshops are powerful spaces, but they are also endangered ones. In &lt;i&gt;The Bookshop&lt;\/i&gt;,&lt;i&gt; &lt;\/i&gt;we&amp;nbsp;see the stakes: what has been, and what might be lost.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Evan Friss&amp;rsquo;s history of the bookshop draws on oral histories, archival collections, municipal records, diaries, letters, and interviews with leading booksellers to offer a fascinating look at this institution beloved by so many. The story begins with Benjamin Franklin&amp;rsquo;s first bookstore in Philadelphia and takes us to a range of booksellers including the Strand, Chicago&amp;rsquo;s Marshall Field &amp;amp; Company, the Gotham Book Mart, specialty stores like Oscar Wilde and Drum and Spear, sidewalk sellers of used books, Barnes &amp;amp; Noble, Amazon Books, and Parnassus. &lt;i&gt;The Bookshop&lt;\/i&gt; is also a history of the leading figures in American bookselling, often impassioned eccentrics, and a history of how books have been marketed and sold over the course of more than two centuries&amp;mdash;including, for example, a 3,000-pound elephant who signed books at Marshall Field&amp;rsquo;s in 1944.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Bookshop&lt;\/i&gt; is a love letter to bookstores, a charming chronicle for anyone who cherishes these sanctuaries of literature, and essential reading to understand how these vital institutions have shaped American life&amp;mdash;and why we still need them.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1819},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593299922"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$30.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add The Bookshop to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780593299920"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/679154/the-bookshop-by-evan-friss/9780593299920"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780593299920 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book38" format-data="Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Viking" cat-data="Epic Fantasy | Literary Fiction" isbn="9780735224049" ttl="The Bright Sword" data-isbn="9780735224049" data-ebook="9780735224056" workid="554241" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="94386" author="Lev Grossman" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>38</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/554241/the-bright-sword-by-lev-grossman/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780735224049" alt="The Bright Sword Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add The Bright Sword to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="554241" data-work="{"workId":554241,"isbn":9780735224049,"title":"The Bright Sword","subtitle":"A Novel of King Arthur","author":"Lev Grossman","imprint":{"code":"J0","name":"Viking","family":"Viking"},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-07-16","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":35,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":94386,"display":"Lev Grossman","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Lev Grossman&lt;\/b&gt; is the author of the #1 &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestselling Magicians trilogy&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Magicians, The Magician King, &lt;\/i&gt;and&lt;i&gt; The Magician&amp;rsquo;s Land&amp;mdash;&lt;\/i&gt;which has been published in thirty countries and adapted as a TV show that ran for five seasons on SYFY. 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TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;A laugh-out-loud cultural comedy&amp;hellip; This is the New Great American Novel, and Danzy Senna has set the standard.&amp;rdquo; &amp;#160;&amp;ndash;&lt;i&gt;LA Times&lt;\/i&gt; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;Funny, foxy and fleet&amp;hellip;The jokes are good, the punches land, the dialogue is tart.&amp;rdquo; &amp;ndash;Dwight Garner, &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; A brilliant take on love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of &lt;i&gt;Caucasia&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Jane has high hopes that her life is about to turn around. After a long, precarious stretch bouncing among sketchy rentals and sublets, she and her family are living in luxury for a year, house-sitting in the hills above Los Angeles. The gig magically coincides with Jane&amp;rsquo;s sabbatical, giving her the time and space she needs to finish her second novel&amp;mdash;a centuries-spanning epic her artist husband, Lenny, dubs her &amp;ldquo;mulatto &lt;i&gt;War and Peace.&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;rdquo; Finally, some semblance of stability and success seems to be within her grasp.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; But things don&amp;rsquo;t work out quite as hoped. Desperate for a plan B, like countless writers before her Jane turns her gaze to Hollywood. When she finagles a meeting with Hampton Ford, a hot producer with a major development deal at a streaming network, he seems excited to work with a &amp;ldquo;real writer,&amp;rdquo; and together they begin to develop &amp;ldquo;the Jackie Robinson of biracial comedies.&amp;rdquo; Things finally seem to be going right for Jane&amp;mdash;until they go terribly wrong.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Funny, piercing, and page turning, &lt;i&gt;Colored Television&lt;\/i&gt; is Senna&amp;rsquo;s most on-the-pulse, ambitious, and rewarding novel yet.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":3585},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593544374"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/721501/colored-television-a-gma-book-club-pick-by-danzy-senna/">Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick)</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/231136">Danzy Senna</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Named one of <i>Time</i>’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024. 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She asks herself if she told the whole truth back then, and what truth looked like to her in the even longer-ago era of love-bead curtains when she fell in love, when no one asked who was served by the permissibility around a May-December romance. In the light of #metoo, with new understanding about the balance of power between an older man and an underage girl, Ciment re-explores the erotic wild ride and intellectual flowering that shaped an improbable but blissful marriage that lasted for forty-five years, until her husband&amp;rsquo;s death at ninety-three.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This riveting book about art, memory, and morality asks many questions along the way: Does a story&amp;rsquo;s ending excuse its beginning? Does a kiss in one moment mean something else entirely five decades later? Can a love that starts with such an asymmetrical balance of power ever right itself? Suffused with the wisdom that comes with time, &lt;i&gt;Consent&lt;\/i&gt; is an author&amp;rsquo;s brave recasting of her life&amp;rsquo;s settled narrative, and an urgent read for women of all ages.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":2168},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593701062"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/738057/consent-by-jill-ciment/">Consent</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/4968">Jill Ciment</a> </h2> <div class="desc">From the acclaimed novelist (“A virtuoso” —Donna Seaman, <i>Booklist</i>), a deft, shocking memoir that asks whether we can judge past behavior by today’s moral codes, as the author reevaluates her decades-long marriage to the forty-seven-year-old man she met when she was seventeen, revisiting a singular passion in the 21st-century aftermath of #MeToo. 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She asks herself if she told the whole truth back then, and what truth looked like to her in the even longer-ago era of love-bead curtains when she fell in love, when no one asked who was served by the permissibility around a May-December romance. In the light of #metoo, with new understanding about the balance of power between an older man and an underage girl, Ciment re-explores the erotic wild ride and intellectual flowering that shaped an improbable but blissful marriage that lasted for forty-five years, until her husband&amp;rsquo;s death at ninety-three.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This riveting book about art, memory, and morality asks many questions along the way: Does a story&amp;rsquo;s ending excuse its beginning? Does a kiss in one moment mean something else entirely five decades later? Can a love that starts with such an asymmetrical balance of power ever right itself? Suffused with the wisdom that comes with time, &lt;i&gt;Consent&lt;\/i&gt; is an author&amp;rsquo;s brave recasting of her life&amp;rsquo;s settled narrative, and an urgent read for women of all ages.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":2168},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593701062"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$27.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add Consent to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780593701065"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738057/consent-by-jill-ciment/9780593701065"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780593701065 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book42" format-data="Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Penguin Press" cat-data="Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs | Literary Figure Biographies & Memoirs" isbn="9780593652824" ttl="The Friday Afternoon Club" data-isbn="9780593652824" data-ebook="9780593652831" workid="717278" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="2215623" author="Griffin Dunne" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>42</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/717278/the-friday-afternoon-club-by-griffin-dunne/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593652824" alt="The Friday Afternoon Club Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add The Friday Afternoon Club to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="717278" data-work="{"workId":717278,"isbn":9780593652824,"title":"The Friday Afternoon Club","subtitle":"A Family Memoir","author":"Griffin Dunne","imprint":{"code":"IJ","name":"Penguin Press","family":"PenguinPress"},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-06-11","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":30,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2215623,"display":"Griffin Dunne","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Griffin Dunne&lt;\/b&gt; has been an actor, producer, and director since the late 1970s. 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I was blown away by Griffin Dunne&amp;rsquo;s life and his ability to capture so much of it in these beautifully written pages.&amp;rdquo; &lt;b&gt;&amp;mdash;Anderson Cooper&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;Griffin Dunne&amp;rsquo;s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;At eight, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin, he attended his aunt Joan Didion and uncle John Gregory Dunne&amp;rsquo;s legendary LA launch party for Tom Wolfe&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. &lt;\/i&gt;At sixteen, he got kicked out of boarding school, ending his institutional education for good. 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The outcome was a travesty of justice that marked the beginning of their father Dominick Dunne&amp;rsquo;s career as a crime reporter for &lt;i&gt;Vanity Fair &lt;\/i&gt;and a victims&#039; rights activist.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;And yet, for all its boldface cast of characters and jaw-dropping scenes, &lt;i&gt;The Friday Afternoon Club&lt;\/i&gt; is no mere celebrity memoir. It is, down to its bones, a family story that embraces the poignant absurdities and best and worst efforts of its loveable, infuriating, funny, and moving characters&amp;mdash;its author most of all.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":823},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593652827"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/717278/the-friday-afternoon-club-by-griffin-dunne/">The Friday Afternoon Club</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2215623">Griffin Dunne</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Griffin Dunne’s memoir of growing up among larger-than-life characters in Hollywood and Manhattan finds wicked humor and glimmers of light in even the most painful of circumstances. 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Among his work, he produced and acted in &lt;i&gt;After Hours&lt;\/i&gt;; he&amp;#160;directed &lt;i&gt;Practical Magic&lt;\/i&gt; and the documentary &lt;i&gt;The Center Will Not Hold&lt;\/i&gt; about his aunt, Joan Didion. 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In his early twenties, he shared an apartment in Manhattan&amp;rsquo;s Hotel Des Artistes with his best friend and soulmate Carrie Fisher while she was filming some sci-fi movie called &lt;i&gt;Star Wars&lt;\/i&gt; and he was a struggling actor working as a popcorn concessionaire at Radio City Music Hall. A few years later, he produced and starred in the now-iconic film &lt;i&gt;After Hours&lt;\/i&gt;, directed by Martin Scorsese. In the midst of it all, Griffin&amp;rsquo;s twenty-two-year-old sister, Dominique, a rising star in Hollywood, was brutally strangled to death by her ex-boyfriend, leading to one of the most infamous public trials of the 1980s. 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From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation&amp;rsquo;s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father&amp;rsquo;s fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears his precocious daughter&amp;rsquo;s voice.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;A sharp book, beautifully written.&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash;Rumaan Alam, author of &lt;i&gt;Leave the World Behind &lt;\/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;Entitlement&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Excellent...I enjoyed the novel hugely...Like Edward St Aubyn and Anne Enright, Hamya is so good on generational conflict, the friction of family, and the damage done by charming but complacent men. 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When the house lights dim however, he understands that his daughter has laid him bare, has used the events of their summer to create an incisive, witty, skewering critique of the attitudes and sexual mores of the men of his generation.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Set through one staging of the play, &lt;i&gt;The Hypocrite&lt;\/i&gt; seamlessly and scorchingly shifts time and perspective, illuminating an argument between a father and his daughter that, with impeccable nuance, examines the fraught inheritances each generation is left to contend with and the struggle to nurture empathy in a world changing at lightning-speed.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":596},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593701038"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/737088/the-hypocrite-by-jo-hamya/">The Hypocrite</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2289866">Jo Hamya</a> </h2> <div class="desc">From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father’s fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears his precocious daughter’s voice. 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Enjoying yourself&amp;mdash;as you are&amp;mdash;is not something the world tells you is possible, but it is.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s the proof.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":805},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593655753"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/736781/im-mostly-here-to-enjoy-myself-by-glynnis-macnicol/">I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2289607">Glynnis MacNicol</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Named one of <i>Time</i>’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024. When you’re a woman of a <i>certain age</i>, you are only promised that everything will get worse. But what if everything you’ve been told is a lie? In the spirit of Nora Ephron and Deborah Levy (think Colette … if she’d had access to dating apps), <i>I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself</i> is an intimate, insightful, powerful, and endlessly pleasurable memoir of an intensely lived experience whose meaning and insight expand far beyond the personal narrative. MacNicol is determined to document the beauty, excess, and triumph of a life that does not require permission. </div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/736781/im-mostly-here-to-enjoy-myself-by-glynnis-macnicol/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593655757" alt="I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="736781" data-work="{"workId":736781,"isbn":9780593655757,"title":"I&#039;m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself","subtitle":"One Woman&#039;s Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris","author":"Glynnis MacNicol","imprint":{"code":"XE","name":"Penguin Life","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-06-11","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":30,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2289607,"display":"Glynnis MacNicol","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Glynnis MacNicol &lt;\/b&gt;is the author of the memoir&lt;i&gt; No One Tells You This&lt;\/i&gt;. She created and hosted the podcast &lt;i&gt;Wilder&lt;\/i&gt;. 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The isolation was punishing. A year without touch. Women are warned of invisibility as they age, but this was an extreme loneliness no one can prepare you for. When the opportunity to sublet a friend&amp;rsquo;s apartment in Paris arose, MacNicol jumped on it. Leaving felt less like a risk than a necessity.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;What follows is a decadent, joyful, unexpected journey into one woman&amp;rsquo;s pursuit of radical enjoyment.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The weeks in Paris are filled with friendship and food and sex. There is dancing on the Seine; a plethora of gooey cheese; midnight bike rides through empty Paris; handsome men; afternoons wandering through the empty Louvre; nighttime swimming in the ocean off a French island. And yes, plenty of nudity.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the spirit of Nora Ephron and Deborah Levy (think Colette . . . if she&amp;rsquo;d had access to dating apps), &lt;i&gt;I&amp;rsquo;m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself&lt;\/i&gt; is an intimate, insightful, powerful, and endlessly pleasurable memoir of an intensely lived experience whose meaning and insight expand far beyond the personal narrative. MacNicol is determined to document the beauty, excess, and triumph of a life that does not require permission.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The pursuit of enjoyment is a political act, both a right and a responsibility. Enjoying yourself&amp;mdash;as you are&amp;mdash;is not something the world tells you is possible, but it is.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s the proof.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":805},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593655753"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$30.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780593655757"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/736781/im-mostly-here-to-enjoy-myself-by-glynnis-macnicol/9780593655757"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780593655757 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book47" format-data="Paperback,Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Random House" cat-data="Literary Fiction" isbn="9780593133491" ttl="Long Island Compromise" data-isbn="9780593133491" data-ebook="9780593133507" workid="621963" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="2168914" author="Taffy Brodesser-Akner" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>47</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/621963/long-island-compromise-by-taffy-brodesser-akner/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593133491" alt="Long Island Compromise Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Long Island Compromise to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="621963" data-work="{"workId":621963,"isbn":9780593133491,"title":"Long Island Compromise","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"Taffy Brodesser-Akner","imprint":{"code":"R1","name":"Random House","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-07-09","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":30,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2168914,"display":"Taffy Brodesser-Akner","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Taffy Brodesser-Akner &lt;\/b&gt;is a staff writer for &lt;i&gt;The New York Times Magazine&lt;\/i&gt; and the &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestselling author of &lt;i&gt;Fleishman Is in Trouble,&lt;\/i&gt; which has been translated into more than a dozen languages. 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No. But did we know how to start a fire?&amp;rdquo;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But now, nearly forty years later, it&amp;rsquo;s clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has spent the ensuing years secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband&amp;rsquo;s emotional health. Their three grown children aren&amp;rsquo;t doing much better: Nathan&amp;rsquo;s chronic fear won&amp;rsquo;t allow him to advance at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything&amp;mdash;substance, foodstuff, women&amp;mdash;in order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny has spent her life so bent on proving that she&amp;rsquo;s not a product of her family&amp;rsquo;s pathology that she has come to define it. As they hover at the delicate precipice of a different kind of survival, they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, and they must face desperate questions about how much their wealth has played a part in both their lives&amp;rsquo; successes and failures.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Long Island Compromise &lt;\/i&gt;spans the entirety of one family&amp;rsquo;s history, winding through decades and generations, all the way to the outrageous present, and confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives&amp;rsquo; tales, evil eyes, ambition, achievement, boredom, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta-blockers, psychics, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":6869},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593133498"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/621963/long-island-compromise-by-taffy-brodesser-akner/">Long Island Compromise</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2168914">Taffy Brodesser-Akner</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Named a Must-Read and Best Book of the Year for 2024 by <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> Editors’ Choice, <i>Time</i>, and <i>Kirkus Reviews</i>. 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No. But did we know how to start a fire?&amp;rdquo;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1980, a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway, brutalized, and held for ransom. He is returned to his wife and kids less than a week later, only slightly the worse, and the family moves on with their lives, resuming their prized places in the saga of the American dream, comforted in the realization that though their money may have been what endangered them, it is also what assured them their safety.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But now, nearly forty years later, it&amp;rsquo;s clear that perhaps nobody ever got over anything, after all. Carl has spent the ensuing years secretly seeking closure to the matter of his kidnapping, while his wife, Ruth, has spent her potential protecting her husband&amp;rsquo;s emotional health. Their three grown children aren&amp;rsquo;t doing much better: Nathan&amp;rsquo;s chronic fear won&amp;rsquo;t allow him to advance at his law firm; Beamer, a Hollywood screenwriter, will consume anything&amp;mdash;substance, foodstuff, women&amp;mdash;in order to numb his own perpetual terror; and Jenny has spent her life so bent on proving that she&amp;rsquo;s not a product of her family&amp;rsquo;s pathology that she has come to define it. As they hover at the delicate precipice of a different kind of survival, they learn that the family fortune has dwindled to just about nothing, and they must face desperate questions about how much their wealth has played a part in both their lives&amp;rsquo; successes and failures.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Long Island Compromise &lt;\/i&gt;spans the entirety of one family&amp;rsquo;s history, winding through decades and generations, all the way to the outrageous present, and confronting the mainstays of American Jewish life: tradition, the pursuit of success, the terror of history, fear of the future, old wives&amp;rsquo; tales, evil eyes, ambition, achievement, boredom, dybbuks, inheritance, pyramid schemes, right-wing capitalists, beta-blockers, psychics, and the mostly unspoken love and shared experience that unite a family forever.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":6869},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593133498"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$30.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add Long Island Compromise to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780593133491"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/621963/long-island-compromise-by-taffy-brodesser-akner/9780593133491"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780593133491 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book48" format-data="Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Crown" cat-data="Biography & Memoir | Asian World History | Religion" isbn="9780593727430" ttl="The Lucky Ones" data-isbn="9780593727430" data-ebook="9780593727447" workid="733872" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="2287135" author="Zara Chowdhary" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>48</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/733872/the-lucky-ones-by-zara-chowdhary/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images2.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593727430" alt="The Lucky Ones Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add The Lucky Ones to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="733872" data-work="{"workId":733872,"isbn":9780593727430,"title":"The Lucky Ones","subtitle":"A Memoir","author":"Zara Chowdhary","imprint":{"code":"C1","name":"Crown","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-07-16","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":30,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2287135,"display":"Zara Chowdhary","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Zara Chowdhary&lt;\/b&gt; is a writer and&amp;nbsp;lecturer&amp;nbsp;at the University of Wisconsin. She has an MFA in creative writing and environment from Iowa State University&amp;nbsp;and a master&#039;s in writing for performance from the University of Leeds. She has previously written for documentary television, advertising, and film. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her partner, child, and two cats.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2287135\/zara-chowdhary","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"Z","lastInitial":"C","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Caitlin M Carlson","photoDate":"2023","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2287135","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/733872\/the-lucky-ones-by-zara-chowdhary\/9780593727430","division":{"code":"57","description":"Crown"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000021,"catDesc":"Biography &amp; Memoir","catUri":"\/biography-memoir","menuText":"Biography &amp; Memoir","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000015,"catDesc":"Asian World History","catUri":"\/asia-world-history","menuText":"Asia World History","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000129,"catDesc":"Religion","catUri":"\/religion","menuText":"Religion","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":3},{"catId":2000000070,"catDesc":"History","catUri":"\/history","menuText":"History","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000111,"catDesc":"Nonfiction","catUri":"\/nonfiction","menuText":"Nonfiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000130,"catDesc":"Religion &amp; Philosophy","catUri":"\/religion-philosophy","menuText":"Religion &amp; Philosophy","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000161,"catDesc":"World History","catUri":"\/world-history","menuText":"World ","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;A moving memoir by a&amp;#160;survivor&amp;#160;of anti-Muslim violence in contemporary India that delicately weaves political and family histories in a tribute to&amp;#160;her country&amp;rsquo;s unique Islamic heritage&amp;mdash;&amp;ldquo;a must-read in our warring world today&amp;rdquo; (NPR)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;A harrowing&amp;#160;survivor&amp;rsquo;s&amp;#160;tale, an important history lesson, and a desperate warning from someone who has seen the tragic effects of ethnic violence.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Time&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 2002, Zara Chowdhary is sixteen years old and living with her family in Ahmedabad, one of India&amp;rsquo;s fastest-growing cities, when a gruesome train fire claims the lives of sixty Hindu right-wing volunteers and upends the life of five million Muslims. Instead of taking her school exams that week, Zara is put under a three-month siege, with her family and thousands of others fearing for their lives as Hindu neighbors, friends, and members of civil society transform overnight into bloodthirsty mobs, hunting and massacring their fellow citizens. The chief minister of the state at the time, Narendra Modi, will later be accused of fomenting the massacre, and yet a decade later, will rise to become India&amp;rsquo;s prime minister, sending the &amp;ldquo;world&amp;rsquo;s largest democracy&amp;rdquo; hurtling toward cacophonous Hindu nationalism.&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Lucky Ones&lt;\/i&gt; traces the past of a multigenerational Muslim family to India&amp;rsquo;s brave but bloody origins, a segregated city&amp;rsquo;s ancient past, and the lingering hurt causing bloodshed on the streets. Symphonic interludes offer glimpses into the precious, ordinary lives of Muslims, all locked together in a crumbling apartment building in the city&amp;rsquo;s old quarters, with their ability to forgive and find laughter, to offer grace even as the world outside, and their place in it, falls apart.&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Lucky Ones&lt;\/i&gt; entwines lost histories across a subcontinent, examines forgotten myths, prods a family&amp;rsquo;s secrets, and gazes unflinchingly back at a country rushing to move past the biggest pogrom in its modern history. It is a warning thrown to the world by a young survivor, to democracies that fail to protect their vulnerable, and to homes that won&amp;rsquo;t listen to their daughters. It is an ode to the rebellion of a young woman who insists she will belong to her land, family, and faith on her own terms.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":2958},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593727436"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/733872/the-lucky-ones-by-zara-chowdhary/">The Lucky Ones</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2287135">Zara Chowdhary</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Named a Must-Read Book of the Year for 2024 by <i>Time</i>. A moving memoir by a survivor of anti-Muslim violence in contemporary India that delicately weaves political and family histories in a tribute to her country’s unique Islamic heritage — “a must-read in our warring world today” (NPR). </div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/733872/the-lucky-ones-by-zara-chowdhary/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images2.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593727430" alt="The Lucky Ones Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add The Lucky Ones to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="733872" data-work="{"workId":733872,"isbn":9780593727430,"title":"The Lucky Ones","subtitle":"A Memoir","author":"Zara Chowdhary","imprint":{"code":"C1","name":"Crown","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-07-16","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":30,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2287135,"display":"Zara Chowdhary","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Zara Chowdhary&lt;\/b&gt; is a writer and&amp;nbsp;lecturer&amp;nbsp;at the University of Wisconsin. 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The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Carrie excelled in school, graduated early from MIT, and climbed the corporate ladder, all in pursuit of the American dream. But at twenty-nine, she&amp;rsquo;s left her analyst job, dropped out of an MBA program, and is trapped in an unhappy engagement. So when she gets the rare opportunity to work at one of the most prestigious hedge funds in the world, she knows she can&amp;rsquo;t say no. Fourteen interviews later, she&amp;rsquo;s in.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Carrie is the sole assistant to the firm&amp;rsquo;s billionaire founder. She manages his work life, becoming the right hand to an investor who can move mountains and markets with a single phone call. Eager to impress, she dives headfirst into the firm&amp;rsquo;s culture, which values return on time above all else. A luxury-laden world opens up for her, and Carrie learns that money can solve nearly everything.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Playing the game at the highest levels, amid the ultimate winners in our winner-take-all economy, Carrie soon finds her identity swallowed whole by work. With her physical and mental health deteriorating, she begins to rethink what it actually means to waste one&amp;rsquo;s life. A searing examination of our relationship to work, Carrie&amp;rsquo;s story illuminates the struggle for balance in a world of extremes: efficiency and excess, status and aspiration, power and fortune. &lt;i&gt;Private Equity &lt;\/i&gt;is a universal tale of self-invention from a dazzling new voice, daring to ask what we&amp;rsquo;re willing to sacrifice to get to the top&amp;mdash;and what it might take to break free and leave it all behind.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":569},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593654994"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/727375/private-equity-by-carrie-sun/">Private Equity</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2283923">Carrie Sun</a> </h2> <div class="desc">A gripping memoir of one woman’s self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indictment of privilege, extreme wealth, and work culture. <i>Private Equity</i> is a universal tale of self-invention from a dazzling new voice, daring to ask what we’re willing to sacrifice to get to the top — and what it might take to break free and leave it all behind. Named one of <i>Time</i>’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024. </div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/727375/private-equity-by-carrie-sun/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593654996" alt="Private Equity Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Private Equity to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="727375" data-work="{"workId":727375,"isbn":9780593654996,"title":"Private Equity","subtitle":"A Memoir","author":"Carrie Sun","imprint":{"code":"IJ","name":"Penguin Press","family":"PenguinPress"},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-02-13","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":29,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2283923,"display":"Carrie Sun","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"Carrie Sun&amp;#160;was born in China and raised in Michigan. 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The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Carrie excelled in school, graduated early from MIT, and climbed the corporate ladder, all in pursuit of the American dream. But at twenty-nine, she&amp;rsquo;s left her analyst job, dropped out of an MBA program, and is trapped in an unhappy engagement. So when she gets the rare opportunity to work at one of the most prestigious hedge funds in the world, she knows she can&amp;rsquo;t say no. Fourteen interviews later, she&amp;rsquo;s in.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Carrie is the sole assistant to the firm&amp;rsquo;s billionaire founder. She manages his work life, becoming the right hand to an investor who can move mountains and markets with a single phone call. Eager to impress, she dives headfirst into the firm&amp;rsquo;s culture, which values return on time above all else. A luxury-laden world opens up for her, and Carrie learns that money can solve nearly everything.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Playing the game at the highest levels, amid the ultimate winners in our winner-take-all economy, Carrie soon finds her identity swallowed whole by work. With her physical and mental health deteriorating, she begins to rethink what it actually means to waste one&amp;rsquo;s life. A searing examination of our relationship to work, Carrie&amp;rsquo;s story illuminates the struggle for balance in a world of extremes: efficiency and excess, status and aspiration, power and fortune. &lt;i&gt;Private Equity &lt;\/i&gt;is a universal tale of self-invention from a dazzling new voice, daring to ask what we&amp;rsquo;re willing to sacrifice to get to the top&amp;mdash;and what it might take to break free and leave it all behind.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":569},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593654994"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$29.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add Private Equity to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780593654996"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/727375/private-equity-by-carrie-sun/9780593654996"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780593654996 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book51" format-data="Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Hogarth" cat-data="Literary Fiction | Suspense & Thriller" isbn="9780593241868" ttl="The Rich People Have Gone Away" data-isbn="9780593241868" data-ebook="9780593241875" workid="670541" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="2175581" author="Regina Porter" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>51</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/670541/the-rich-people-have-gone-away-by-regina-porter/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images2.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593241868" alt="The Rich People Have Gone Away Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add The Rich People Have Gone Away to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="670541" data-work="{"workId":670541,"isbn":9780593241868,"title":"The Rich People Have Gone Away","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"Regina Porter","imprint":{"code":"HG","name":"Hogarth","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-08-06","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":29,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2175581,"display":"Regina Porter","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Regina Porter &lt;\/b&gt;is an award-winning playwright and author of &lt;i&gt;The Travelers, &lt;\/i&gt;a finalist for the PEN\/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for political fiction. A graduate of the MFA fiction program at the Iowa Writers&amp;rsquo; Workshop, her writing has been published in the &lt;i&gt;Harvard Review, Tin House,&lt;\/i&gt; and the &lt;i&gt;Oxford American&lt;\/i&gt;.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2175581\/regina-porter","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"R","lastInitial":"P","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Jesse Dittmar","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2175581","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/670541\/the-rich-people-have-gone-away-by-regina-porter\/9780593241868","division":{"code":"70","description":"Random House Group"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000147,"catDesc":"Suspense &amp; Thriller","catUri":"\/suspense-thriller-mystery","menuText":"Suspense &amp; Thriller","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000106,"catDesc":"Mystery &amp; Thriller","catUri":"\/mystery-thriller","menuText":"Mystery &amp; Thriller","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK &amp;bull; &lt;\/b&gt;A diverse group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing woman&amp;mdash;in this electric novel of secrets, connection, and community.&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Cinematic, preternaturally humane, and absolutely unputdownable&amp;mdash;I just loved it.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Claire Lombardo, &lt;i&gt;People&lt;\/i&gt; &amp;ldquo;What Your Favorite Authors are Reading This Summer&amp;rdquo;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Riveting.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Charmaine Wilkerson, &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestselling author of &lt;i&gt;Black Cake&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: &lt;i&gt;The Washington Post, Time, Kirkus Reviews&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife, Darla, head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their upscale Park Slope building has this privilege: not Xavier, the teenager in the Cardi B T-shirt, nor Darla&amp;rsquo;s best friend, Ruby, and her partner, Katsumi, who stay behind to save their Michelin-starred restaurant.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;During an upstate hike on the aptly named Devil&amp;rsquo;s Path, Theo divulges a long-held secret&amp;mdash;and when Darla disappears after the ensuing argument, he finds himself the prime suspect. As Darla&amp;rsquo;s and Theo&amp;rsquo;s families and friends come together to search for her, with Ruby and Katsumi stepping in to broker peace, past and present collide with startling consequences.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Set against the pulse of an ever-changing city, &lt;i&gt;The Rich People Have Gone Away&lt;\/i&gt; connects the lives of ordinary New Yorkers to tell a powerful story of hope, love, and inequity in our times&amp;mdash;while reminding us that no one leaves the past behind completely.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1424},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"059324186X"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/670541/the-rich-people-have-gone-away-by-regina-porter/">The Rich People Have Gone Away</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2175581">Regina Porter</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Named a Must-Read and Best Book of the Year for 2024 by <i>Time</i> and <i>Kirkus Reviews</i>. A diverse group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing woman — in this electric novel of secrets, connection, and community. Set against the pulse of an ever-changing city, <i>The Rich People Have Gone Away</i> connects the lives of ordinary New Yorkers to tell a powerful story of hope, love, and inequity in our times — while reminding us that no one leaves the past behind completely. </div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/670541/the-rich-people-have-gone-away-by-regina-porter/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images2.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593241868" alt="The Rich People Have Gone Away Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add The Rich People Have Gone Away to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="670541" data-work="{"workId":670541,"isbn":9780593241868,"title":"The Rich People Have Gone Away","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"Regina Porter","imprint":{"code":"HG","name":"Hogarth","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-08-06","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":29,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2175581,"display":"Regina Porter","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Regina Porter &lt;\/b&gt;is an award-winning playwright and author of &lt;i&gt;The Travelers, &lt;\/i&gt;a finalist for the PEN\/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel and longlisted for the Orwell Prize for political fiction. A graduate of the MFA fiction program at the Iowa Writers&amp;rsquo; Workshop, her writing has been published in the &lt;i&gt;Harvard Review, Tin House,&lt;\/i&gt; and the &lt;i&gt;Oxford American&lt;\/i&gt;.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2175581\/regina-porter","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"R","lastInitial":"P","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Jesse Dittmar","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2175581","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/670541\/the-rich-people-have-gone-away-by-regina-porter\/9780593241868","division":{"code":"70","description":"Random House Group"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000147,"catDesc":"Suspense &amp; Thriller","catUri":"\/suspense-thriller-mystery","menuText":"Suspense &amp; Thriller","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0},{"catId":2000000106,"catDesc":"Mystery &amp; Thriller","catUri":"\/mystery-thriller","menuText":"Mystery &amp; Thriller","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK &amp;bull; &lt;\/b&gt;A diverse group of New Yorkers are brought together by the search for a missing woman&amp;mdash;in this electric novel of secrets, connection, and community.&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Cinematic, preternaturally humane, and absolutely unputdownable&amp;mdash;I just loved it.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Claire Lombardo, &lt;i&gt;People&lt;\/i&gt; &amp;ldquo;What Your Favorite Authors are Reading This Summer&amp;rdquo;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Riveting.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Charmaine Wilkerson, &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestselling author of &lt;i&gt;Black Cake&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: &lt;i&gt;The Washington Post, Time, Kirkus Reviews&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife, Darla, head upstate to their summer cottage to wait out the lockdown. Not everyone in their upscale Park Slope building has this privilege: not Xavier, the teenager in the Cardi B T-shirt, nor Darla&amp;rsquo;s best friend, Ruby, and her partner, Katsumi, who stay behind to save their Michelin-starred restaurant.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;During an upstate hike on the aptly named Devil&amp;rsquo;s Path, Theo divulges a long-held secret&amp;mdash;and when Darla disappears after the ensuing argument, he finds himself the prime suspect. As Darla&amp;rsquo;s and Theo&amp;rsquo;s families and friends come together to search for her, with Ruby and Katsumi stepping in to broker peace, past and present collide with startling consequences.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Set against the pulse of an ever-changing city, &lt;i&gt;The Rich People Have Gone Away&lt;\/i&gt; connects the lives of ordinary New Yorkers to tell a powerful story of hope, love, and inequity in our times&amp;mdash;while reminding us that no one leaves the past behind completely.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1424},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"059324186X"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$29.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add The Rich People Have Gone Away to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780593241868"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670541/the-rich-people-have-gone-away-by-regina-porter/9780593241868"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780593241868 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book52" format-data="Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Knopf" cat-data="Literary Fiction" isbn="9780385350006" ttl="Someone Like Us" data-isbn="9780385350006" data-ebook="9780385350020" workid="225743" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="170308" author="Dinaw Mengestu" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>52</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/225743/someone-like-us-by-dinaw-mengestu/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780385350006" alt="Someone Like Us Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Someone Like Us to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="225743" data-work="{"workId":225743,"isbn":9780385350006,"title":"Someone Like Us","subtitle":"A novel","author":"Dinaw Mengestu","imprint":{"code":"A1","name":"Knopf","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-07-30","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":28,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":170308,"display":"Dinaw Mengestu","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":true,"spotlight":"DINAW MENGESTU is the author of three novels, all of which were named &lt;i&gt;New York Times &lt;\/i&gt;Notable Books: &lt;i&gt;All Our Names&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;How to Read the Air&lt;\/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears&lt;\/i&gt;. A native of Ethiopia who came with his family to the United States at the age of two, Mengestu is also a freelance journalist who has reported about life in Darfur, northern Uganda, and eastern Congo. His articles and fiction have appeared in &lt;i&gt;The New York Times, The New Yorker, Harper&amp;rsquo;s, Granta, Jane&lt;\/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;\/i&gt;. He is a 2012 MacArthur Fellow and recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Prize, Guardian First Book Award, and the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, among other honors. He was also included in &lt;i&gt;The New Yorker&lt;\/i&gt;&amp;rsquo;s 20 under 40 list in 2010.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/170308\/dinaw-mengestu","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"D","lastInitial":"M","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Anne-Emmanuelle Robicquet","photoDate":"2024","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/170308","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/225743\/someone-like-us-by-dinaw-mengestu\/9780385350006","division":{"code":"73","description":"Knopf"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW &lt;\/i&gt;EDITORS&#039; CHOICE &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by unexpected loss, addiction, and the enduring emotional pull toward home.&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah&amp;mdash;a photographer whose way of seeing the world shows him the possibility of finding not only love but family. 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Breathtaking, commanding, unforgettable work from one of America&amp;rsquo;s most prodigiously gifted novelists.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1798},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0385350007"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/225743/someone-like-us-by-dinaw-mengestu/">Someone Like Us</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/170308">Dinaw Mengestu</a> </h2> <div class="desc">The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by unexpected loss, addiction, and the enduring emotional pull toward home. 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Breathtaking, commanding, unforgettable work from one of America&amp;rsquo;s most prodigiously gifted novelists.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1798},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0385350007"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$28.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add Someone Like Us to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780385350006"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/225743/someone-like-us-by-dinaw-mengestu/9780385350006"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780385350006 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book53" format-data="Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Hogarth" cat-data="Literary Fiction | Gothic & Horror" isbn="9780593733257" ttl="A Sunny Place for Shady People" data-isbn="9780593733257" data-ebook="9780593733264" workid="757704" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="2136029" author="Mariana Enriquez" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>53</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/757704/a-sunny-place-for-shady-people-by-mariana-enriquez-translated-by-megan-mcdowell/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images2.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593733257" alt="A Sunny Place for Shady People Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add A Sunny Place for Shady People to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="757704" data-work="{"workId":757704,"isbn":9780593733257,"title":"A Sunny Place for Shady People","subtitle":"Stories","author":"Mariana Enriquez; Translated by Megan McDowell","imprint":{"code":"HG","name":"Hogarth","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-09-17","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":28,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2136029,"display":"Mariana Enriquez","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Mariana Enriquez&lt;\/b&gt; is a writer based in Buenos Aires. 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A queen of horror delivers more delightfully twisted stories.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;As vivid and essential as Kafka&amp;rsquo;s tales.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Minneapolis Star-Tribune&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION &amp;bull; A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: &lt;i&gt;TIME, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY,&lt;\/i&gt; AND &lt;i&gt;THE TELEGRAPH&lt;\/i&gt; &amp;bull; A &lt;b&gt;BEST HORROR BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR): &lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW&lt;\/i&gt; AND &lt;i&gt;VULTURE&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed&amp;mdash;all those birds were once women.&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural. A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the water tank on the roof, a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women&amp;mdash;these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life, where the line between good and evil no longer exists.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lyrical and hypnotic, heart-stopping and deeply moving, Enriquez&amp;rsquo;s stories never fail to enthrall, entertain, and leave us shaken. Translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, &lt;i&gt;A Sunny Place for Shady People&lt;\/i&gt; showcases Enriquez&amp;rsquo;s unique blend of the literary and the horrific, and underscores why Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, calls her &amp;ldquo;the most exciting discovery I&amp;rsquo;ve made in fiction for some time.&amp;rdquo;","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":7},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593733258"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/757704/a-sunny-place-for-shady-people-by-mariana-enriquez-translated-by-megan-mcdowell/">A Sunny Place for Shady People</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2136029">Mariana Enriquez</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, named a Best Book of the Year by <i>Time</i> and <i>Publishers Weekly</i>, and named one of Best Horror Books of the Year by <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> and <i>Vulture</i>. A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “Buenos Aires’s sorceress of horror” (Samanta Schweblin, <i>The New York Times</i>). </div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/757704/a-sunny-place-for-shady-people-by-mariana-enriquez-translated-by-megan-mcdowell/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images2.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593733257" alt="A Sunny Place for Shady People Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add A Sunny Place for Shady People to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="757704" data-work="{"workId":757704,"isbn":9780593733257,"title":"A Sunny Place for Shady People","subtitle":"Stories","author":"Mariana Enriquez; Translated by Megan McDowell","imprint":{"code":"HG","name":"Hogarth","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-09-17","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":28,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2136029,"display":"Mariana Enriquez","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Mariana Enriquez&lt;\/b&gt; is a writer based in Buenos Aires. In English, she has published the novel &lt;i&gt;Our Share of Night&lt;\/i&gt; and two story collections, &lt;i&gt;Things We Lost in the Fire&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;The Dangers of Smoking in Bed,&lt;\/i&gt; which was a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy &amp;amp; Speculative Fiction, and the &lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times&lt;\/i&gt; Book Prize in Fiction.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2136029\/mariana-enriquez","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"M","lastInitial":"E","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Florencia Cosin","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2136029","primaryFlag":true},"110-1002":{"id":2136490,"display":"Megan McDowell","roleCode":"T","roleName":"Translated by","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Megan McDowell&lt;\/b&gt; has translated many of the most important Latin American writers working today. Her translations have won numerous prizes, including the National Book Award, and have been nominated for the International Booker Prize four times. She is from Richmond, Kentucky, and lives in Santiago, Chile.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2136490\/megan-mcdowell","attr":1002,"firstInitial":"M","lastInitial":"M","hasAuthorPhoto":false,"photoCredit":null,"photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2136490","primaryFlag":false}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/757704\/a-sunny-place-for-shady-people-by-mariana-enriquez-translated-by-megan-mcdowell\/9780593733257","division":{"code":"70","description":"Random House Group"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000190,"catDesc":"Gothic &amp; Horror","catUri":"\/gothic-horror","menuText":"Gothic &amp; Horror","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by&amp;#160;&amp;ldquo;Buenos Aires&amp;rsquo;s sorceress of horror&amp;rdquo; (Samanta Schweblin, &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt;)&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;Entertaining, political and exquisitely gruesome, these stories summon terror against the backdrop of everyday horrors. . . . 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In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural. A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the water tank on the roof, a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women&amp;mdash;these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life, where the line between good and evil no longer exists.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lyrical and hypnotic, heart-stopping and deeply moving, Enriquez&amp;rsquo;s stories never fail to enthrall, entertain, and leave us shaken. 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She has also been a finalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize in London. She lives in Maine.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/30161\/elizabeth-strout","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"E","lastInitial":"S","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":null,"photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/30161","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/706912\/tell-me-everything-oprahs-book-club-by-elizabeth-strout\/9780593446096","division":{"code":"70","description":"Random House Group"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;NEW YORK TIMES&lt;\/i&gt; BESTSELLER &amp;bull; OPRAH&amp;rsquo;S BOOK CLUB PICK&amp;#160;&amp;bull;&amp;#160;From Pulitzer Prize&amp;ndash;winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a &lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;stunner&amp;rdquo; (&lt;i&gt;People&lt;\/i&gt;) of a novel &lt;\/b&gt;about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world.&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;&lt;i&gt;Tell Me Everything &lt;\/i&gt;hits like a bucolic fable. . . . A novel of moods, how they govern our personal lives and public spaces, reflected in Strout&amp;rsquo;s shimmering technique.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Washington Post&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;A &lt;i&gt;TIME &lt;\/i&gt;BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters&amp;mdash;Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more&amp;mdash;as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, &amp;ldquo;What does anyone&amp;rsquo;s life &lt;i&gt;mean&lt;\/i&gt;?&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive&amp;rsquo;s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known&amp;mdash;&amp;ldquo;unrecorded lives,&amp;rdquo; Olive calls them&amp;mdash;reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Brimming with empathy and pathos, &lt;i&gt;Tell Me Everything&lt;\/i&gt; is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, &amp;ldquo;Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.&amp;rdquo;","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":-20839},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593446097"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/706912/tell-me-everything-oprahs-book-club-by-elizabeth-strout/">Tell Me Everything: Oprah’s Book Club</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/30161">Elizabeth Strout</a> </h2> <div class="desc">From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (<i>People</i>) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world. A <i>Time</i> Must-Read Book of 2024. </div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/706912/tell-me-everything-oprahs-book-club-by-elizabeth-strout/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images2.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593446096" alt="Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="706912" data-work="{"workId":706912,"isbn":9780593446096,"title":"Tell Me Everything: Oprah&#039;s Book Club","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"Elizabeth Strout","imprint":{"code":"R1","name":"Random House","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-09-10","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":30,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":30161,"display":"Elizabeth Strout","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Elizabeth Strout&lt;\/b&gt; is the #1 &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; bestselling author of &lt;i&gt;Lucy by the Sea; Oh William!&lt;\/i&gt;,&amp;#160;which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize; &lt;i&gt;Olive, Again; Anything Is Possible,&lt;\/i&gt; winner of the Story Prize; &lt;i&gt;My Name Is Lucy Barton; The Burgess Boys; Olive Kitteridge, &lt;\/i&gt;winner of the Pulitzer Prize; &lt;i&gt;Abide with Me;&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Amy and Isabelle,&lt;\/i&gt; winner of the &lt;i&gt;Los Angeles Times &lt;\/i&gt;Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and the &lt;i&gt;Chicago Tribune&lt;\/i&gt; Heartland Prize. 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A novel of moods, how they govern our personal lives and public spaces, reflected in Strout&amp;rsquo;s shimmering technique.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Washington Post&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;A &lt;i&gt;TIME &lt;\/i&gt;BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;With her remarkable insight into the human condition and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters&amp;mdash;Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more&amp;mdash;as they deal with a shocking crime in their midst, fall in love and yet choose to be apart, and grapple with the question, as Lucy Barton puts it, &amp;ldquo;What does anyone&amp;rsquo;s life &lt;i&gt;mean&lt;\/i&gt;?&amp;rdquo;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s autumn in Maine, and the town lawyer Bob Burgess has become enmeshed in an unfolding murder investigation, defending a lonely, isolated man accused of killing his mother. He has also fallen into a deep and abiding friendship with the acclaimed writer Lucy Barton, who lives down the road in a house by the sea with her ex-husband, William. Together, Lucy and Bob go on walks and talk about their lives, their fears and regrets, and what might have been. Lucy, meanwhile, is finally introduced to the iconic Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. They spend afternoons together in Olive&amp;rsquo;s apartment, telling each other stories. Stories about people they have known&amp;mdash;&amp;ldquo;unrecorded lives,&amp;rdquo; Olive calls them&amp;mdash;reanimating them, and, in the process, imbuing their lives with meaning.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Brimming with empathy and pathos, &lt;i&gt;Tell Me Everything&lt;\/i&gt; is Elizabeth Strout operating at the height of her powers, illuminating the ways in which our relationships keep us afloat. As Lucy says, &amp;ldquo;Love comes in so many different forms, but it is always love.&amp;rdquo;","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":-20839},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593446097"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$30.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add Tell Me Everything: Oprah's Book Club to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780593446096"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706912/tell-me-everything-oprahs-book-club-by-elizabeth-strout/9780593446096"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780593446096 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book55" format-data="Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Doubleday" cat-data="Politics" isbn="9780385550086" ttl="Undue Burden" data-isbn="9780385550086" data-ebook="9780385550093" workid="727117" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="2283694" author="Shefali Luthra" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>55</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/727117/undue-burden-by-shefali-luthra/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780385550086" alt="Undue Burden Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Undue Burden to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="727117" data-work="{"workId":727117,"isbn":9780385550086,"title":"Undue Burden","subtitle":"Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America","author":"Shefali Luthra","imprint":{"code":"4F","name":"Doubleday","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-05-21","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":29,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2283694,"display":"Shefali Luthra","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;SHEFALI LUTHRA &lt;\/b&gt;has covered national health policy for the past decade, most recently at &lt;i&gt;The 19th&lt;\/i&gt;. Her coverage of abortion rights has been cited in Congressional testimony and Supreme Court briefings and in 2023 received an Online Journalism Award. Luthra&amp;rsquo;s writing has appeared in &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Washington Post, NPR, &lt;\/i&gt;and more.&amp;#160;She lives in Washington, D.C.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2283694\/shefali-luthra","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"S","lastInitial":"L","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Meka Hemmons of SpiderMeka Portraits","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2283694","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/727117\/undue-burden-by-shefali-luthra\/9780385550086","division":{"code":"13","description":"Doubleday Publishing"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000125,"catDesc":"Politics","catUri":"\/politics","menuText":"Politics","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000111,"catDesc":"Nonfiction","catUri":"\/nonfiction","menuText":"Nonfiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;A&lt;i&gt; TIME &lt;\/i&gt;BEST BOOK OF 2024 &amp;bull; An urgent investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of &lt;i&gt;Roe v. 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A 21-year-old mother barely making ends meet has to travel hundreds of miles in secret for medical treatment in another state. A 42-year-old woman with a life-threatening condition wants nothing more than to safely carry her pregnancy to term, but her home state&amp;rsquo;s abortion ban fails to provide her with the options she needs to make an informed decision. And a 19-year-old trans man struggles to access care in Florida as abortion bans radiate across the American South.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Before &lt;i&gt;Dobbs&lt;\/i&gt;, it was a common misconception that abortion restrictions affected only people in certain states but left one&#039;s own life untouched. Since the fall of &lt;i&gt;Roe&lt;\/i&gt;, a domino effect has cascaded across the entire country. As the landscape of abortion rights continues to shift, the experiences of these patients&amp;mdash;who crossed state lines to seek life-saving care, who risked everything in pursuit of their own bodily autonomy, and who were unable to plan their reproductive future in the way they deserved&amp;mdash;illustrate how fragile the system is, and how devastating the consequences can be.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;A revelatory portrait of inequality in America, &lt;i&gt;Undue Burden&lt;\/i&gt; examines abortion not as a footnote or a political pawn, but as a basic human right, something worthy of our collective attention and with immense power to transform our lives, families, and futures.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":3895},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0385550081"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/727117/undue-burden-by-shefali-luthra/">Undue Burden</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2283694">Shefali Luthra</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Named one of <i>Time</i>’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024. An urgent investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of <i>Roe v. Wade</i>, and the life-threatening consequences of being denied reproductive freedom. “Indispensable … Whatever your gender, race, religious background, or political preferences, Luthra’s <i>Undue Burden</i> should be on your required reading list” (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>). </div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/727117/undue-burden-by-shefali-luthra/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780385550086" alt="Undue Burden Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Undue Burden to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="727117" data-work="{"workId":727117,"isbn":9780385550086,"title":"Undue Burden","subtitle":"Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America","author":"Shefali Luthra","imprint":{"code":"4F","name":"Doubleday","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-05-21","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":29,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2283694,"display":"Shefali Luthra","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;SHEFALI LUTHRA &lt;\/b&gt;has covered national health policy for the past decade, most recently at &lt;i&gt;The 19th&lt;\/i&gt;. Her coverage of abortion rights has been cited in Congressional testimony and Supreme Court briefings and in 2023 received an Online Journalism Award. Luthra&amp;rsquo;s writing has appeared in &lt;i&gt;The New York Times&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;The Washington Post, NPR, &lt;\/i&gt;and more.&amp;#160;She lives in Washington, D.C.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2283694\/shefali-luthra","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"S","lastInitial":"L","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Meka Hemmons of SpiderMeka Portraits","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2283694","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/727117\/undue-burden-by-shefali-luthra\/9780385550086","division":{"code":"13","description":"Doubleday Publishing"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000125,"catDesc":"Politics","catUri":"\/politics","menuText":"Politics","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000111,"catDesc":"Nonfiction","catUri":"\/nonfiction","menuText":"Nonfiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST &amp;bull;&amp;nbsp;A&lt;i&gt; TIME &lt;\/i&gt;BEST BOOK OF 2024 &amp;bull; An urgent investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of &lt;i&gt;Roe v. Wade&lt;\/i&gt;, and the life-threatening consequences of being denied reproductive freedom &amp;bull; &amp;ldquo;Indispensable&amp;hellip; Whatever your gender, race, religious background or political preferences, Luthra&amp;rsquo;s &lt;i&gt;Undue Burden&lt;\/i&gt; should be on your required reading list.&amp;rdquo;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&amp;mdash;San Francisco Chronicle&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On June 24, 2022,&lt;i&gt; Roe v. Wade &lt;\/i&gt;was overturned, and the impact was immediate: by 2024, abortion was virtually unavailable or significantly restricted in 21 states. In &lt;i&gt;Undue Burden&lt;\/i&gt;, reporter Shefali Luthra traces the unforgettable stories of patients faced with one of the most personal decisions of their lives.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Outside of Houston, there&amp;rsquo;s a 16-year-old girl who becomes pregnant well before she intends to. A 21-year-old mother barely making ends meet has to travel hundreds of miles in secret for medical treatment in another state. A 42-year-old woman with a life-threatening condition wants nothing more than to safely carry her pregnancy to term, but her home state&amp;rsquo;s abortion ban fails to provide her with the options she needs to make an informed decision. And a 19-year-old trans man struggles to access care in Florida as abortion bans radiate across the American South.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Before &lt;i&gt;Dobbs&lt;\/i&gt;, it was a common misconception that abortion restrictions affected only people in certain states but left one&#039;s own life untouched. Since the fall of &lt;i&gt;Roe&lt;\/i&gt;, a domino effect has cascaded across the entire country. 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In 2020, she received the National Magazine Award for fiction. Born in Lubbock, Texas, she lives in Portland, Oregon, with her partner and children. &lt;i&gt;We Were the Universe&lt;\/i&gt; is her first novel.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2172481\/kimberly-king-parsons","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"K","lastInitial":"P","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Evelynne Gomes Greenberg","photoDate":"2024","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2172481","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/576804\/we-were-the-universe-by-kimberly-king-parsons\/9780525521853","division":{"code":"73","description":"Knopf"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000170,"catDesc":"Women&#039;s Fiction","catUri":"\/womens-fiction","menuText":"Women&#039;s Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;A &lt;i&gt;TIME&lt;\/i&gt; MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull; A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desire, guilt, and grief in this darkly comic, highly anticipated debut novel from Kimberly King Parsons, author of the story collection, &lt;i&gt;Black Light&lt;\/i&gt; (long-listed for the National Book&amp;nbsp;Award).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Kimberly King Parsons sings the lushest, cruelest, kindest, weirdest, darkest and most hilarious songs on paper; I want to hang these sentences in my house and admire them like the interdimensional multisensory illuminated artworks they truly are.&quot; &lt;br&gt;&amp;mdash;Karen Russell, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of&amp;nbsp;Swamplandia!&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The trip was supposed to be &lt;i&gt;fun&lt;\/i&gt;. When Kit&amp;rsquo;s best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for an idyllic weekend in the Montana mountains. They&amp;rsquo;ll soak in hot springs, then sneak a vape into a dive bar and&amp;nbsp;drink too much, like old times.&amp;nbsp;Instead, their getaway only reminds Kit of everything she&amp;rsquo;s lost lately: her wildness, her independence, and&amp;mdash;most heartbreaking of all&amp;mdash;her sister, Julie, who died a few years ago.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When she returns home to the Dallas suburbs, Kit tries to settle in to her routine&amp;mdash;long afternoons spent&amp;nbsp;caring for her irrepressible&amp;nbsp;daughter, going on therapist-advised dates with her concerned husband, and reluctantly taking her mother&amp;rsquo;s phone calls. But in the secret recesses of Kit&amp;rsquo;s mind, she&amp;rsquo;s reminiscing about the band she used to be in&amp;mdash;and how they&amp;rsquo;d go out to the desert after shows and drop acid. She&amp;rsquo;s imagining an impossible threesome with her kid&amp;rsquo;s pretty gymnastics teacher and the cool playground mom. Keyed into everything that might distract from her surfacing pain, Kit spirals. As her already thin boundaries between reality and fantasy blur, she begins to wonder: Is Julie&amp;nbsp;really&amp;nbsp;gone?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Neon bright in its insight, both devastating and laugh-out-loud funny, &lt;i&gt;We Were the Universe&lt;\/i&gt; is an ambitious, inventive novel from a revelatory new voice in American fiction&amp;mdash;a fearless exploration of sisterhood, motherhood, friendship, marriage, psychedelics, and the many strange, transcendent shapes love can take.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1926},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0525521852"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/576804/we-were-the-universe-by-kimberly-king-parsons/">We Were the Universe</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2172481">Kimberly King Parsons</a> </h2> <div class="desc">A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desire, guilt, and grief in this darkly comic, highly anticipated debut novel from Kimberly King Parsons, author of the story collection, <i>Black Light</i>. A <i>Time</i> Must-Read Book of the Year. </div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/576804/we-were-the-universe-by-kimberly-king-parsons/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images3.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780525521853" alt="We Were the Universe Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add We Were the Universe to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="576804" data-work="{"workId":576804,"isbn":9780525521853,"title":"We Were the Universe","subtitle":"A novel","author":"Kimberly King Parsons","imprint":{"code":"A1","name":"Knopf","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-05-14","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":28,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2172481,"display":"Kimberly King Parsons","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"Kimberly King Parsons is the author of &lt;i&gt;Black Ligh&lt;\/i&gt;t, a collection of stories that was long-listed for the National Book Award and the Story Prize. In 2020, she received the National Magazine Award for fiction. Born in Lubbock, Texas, she lives in Portland, Oregon, with her partner and children. &lt;i&gt;We Were the Universe&lt;\/i&gt; is her first novel.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2172481\/kimberly-king-parsons","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"K","lastInitial":"P","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Evelynne Gomes Greenberg","photoDate":"2024","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2172481","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/576804\/we-were-the-universe-by-kimberly-king-parsons\/9780525521853","division":{"code":"73","description":"Knopf"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000170,"catDesc":"Women&#039;s Fiction","catUri":"\/womens-fiction","menuText":"Women&#039;s Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;A &lt;i&gt;TIME&lt;\/i&gt; MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR&amp;nbsp;&amp;bull; A young mother, in denial after the death of her sister, navigates the dizzying landscapes of desire, guilt, and grief in this darkly comic, highly anticipated debut novel from Kimberly King Parsons, author of the story collection, &lt;i&gt;Black Light&lt;\/i&gt; (long-listed for the National Book&amp;nbsp;Award).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Kimberly King Parsons sings the lushest, cruelest, kindest, weirdest, darkest and most hilarious songs on paper; I want to hang these sentences in my house and admire them like the interdimensional multisensory illuminated artworks they truly are.&quot; &lt;br&gt;&amp;mdash;Karen Russell, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of&amp;nbsp;Swamplandia!&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The trip was supposed to be &lt;i&gt;fun&lt;\/i&gt;. When Kit&amp;rsquo;s best friend gets dumped by his boyfriend, he begs her to ditch her family responsibilities for an idyllic weekend in the Montana mountains. They&amp;rsquo;ll soak in hot springs, then sneak a vape into a dive bar and&amp;nbsp;drink too much, like old times.&amp;nbsp;Instead, their getaway only reminds Kit of everything she&amp;rsquo;s lost lately: her wildness, her independence, and&amp;mdash;most heartbreaking of all&amp;mdash;her sister, Julie, who died a few years ago.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When she returns home to the Dallas suburbs, Kit tries to settle in to her routine&amp;mdash;long afternoons spent&amp;nbsp;caring for her irrepressible&amp;nbsp;daughter, going on therapist-advised dates with her concerned husband, and reluctantly taking her mother&amp;rsquo;s phone calls. But in the secret recesses of Kit&amp;rsquo;s mind, she&amp;rsquo;s reminiscing about the band she used to be in&amp;mdash;and how they&amp;rsquo;d go out to the desert after shows and drop acid. She&amp;rsquo;s imagining an impossible threesome with her kid&amp;rsquo;s pretty gymnastics teacher and the cool playground mom. Keyed into everything that might distract from her surfacing pain, Kit spirals. As her already thin boundaries between reality and fantasy blur, she begins to wonder: Is Julie&amp;nbsp;really&amp;nbsp;gone?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Neon bright in its insight, both devastating and laugh-out-loud funny, &lt;i&gt;We Were the Universe&lt;\/i&gt; is an ambitious, inventive novel from a revelatory new voice in American fiction&amp;mdash;a fearless exploration of sisterhood, motherhood, friendship, marriage, psychedelics, and the many strange, transcendent shapes love can take.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1926},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0525521852"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$28.00</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add We Were the Universe to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780525521853"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/576804/we-were-the-universe-by-kimberly-king-parsons/9780525521853"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780525521853 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book57" format-data="Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="The Dial Press" cat-data="Literary Fiction | Women's Fiction" isbn="9780593230442" ttl="Whoever You Are, Honey" data-isbn="9780593230442" data-ebook="9780593230459" workid="653524" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="2189896" author="Olivia Gatwood" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>57</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/653524/whoever-you-are-honey-by-olivia-gatwood/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images1.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593230442" alt="Whoever You Are, Honey Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add Whoever You Are, Honey to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="653524" data-work="{"workId":653524,"isbn":9780593230442,"title":"Whoever You Are, Honey","subtitle":"A Novel","author":"Olivia Gatwood","imprint":{"code":"7B","name":"The Dial Press","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-07-09","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":28,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":2189896,"display":"Olivia Gatwood","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"&lt;b&gt;Olivia Gatwood&lt;\/b&gt; is the author of two poetry collections, &lt;i&gt;New American Best Friend&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Life of the Party&lt;\/i&gt;, and the co-writer of Adele&amp;rsquo;s music video for &quot;I Drink Wine.&quot; She&amp;nbsp;has received international recognition for her poetry, writing workshops, and work as a Title IX Compliant educator in sexual assault prevention and recovery. Her performances have been featured on HBO,&amp;nbsp;MTV, VH1, the BBC, and more. Her poems have appeared in &lt;i&gt;The Poetry Foundation&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Lambda Literary&lt;\/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;The Missouri Review&lt;\/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp;Originally from Albuquerque, she lives in Los Angeles.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2189896\/olivia-gatwood","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"O","lastInitial":"G","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Michael Drummond","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2189896","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/653524\/whoever-you-are-honey-by-olivia-gatwood\/9780593230442","division":{"code":"70","description":"Random House Group"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000170,"catDesc":"Women&#039;s Fiction","catUri":"\/womens-fiction","menuText":"Women&#039;s Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;What happens when what was once considered dystopia is now reality?&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women shape themselves beneath the gaze of love, friendship, and the algorithm&amp;mdash;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;a fever dream for the AI age&amp;rdquo; (&lt;i&gt;People&lt;\/i&gt;)&lt;\/b&gt;.&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;This book reads like a thriller, but it&#039;s also a tender and searching exploration of what it means to inhabit a female&amp;#160;body.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Kelly Link, author of &lt;i&gt;The Book of Love&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;A &lt;i&gt;TIME &lt;\/i&gt;BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mitty can&amp;rsquo;t quite make out the expression on Lena&amp;rsquo;s face, but she doesn&amp;rsquo;t look distressed. She looks like nothing at all. She looks like the beginning, before thoughts, a white hallway with no doors, a room so long your voice disappears before it can echo.&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On the Santa Cruz, California, waterfront, every house is a flawless glass monolith. Except for one. In a dilapidated bungalow, Mitty and her elderly roommate, Bethel, are the oddball pair who represent the last vestiges of a free-spirited town taken over by the tech elite. But their lives are about to be forever changed when a new couple, Sebastian and Lena, move in next door.&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;Sebastian is a renowned tech founder and Lena is his spellbindingly perfect girlfriend. But Lena has secrets; she feels uneasy about her oddly spotty memory and is growing increasingly wary of the way Sebastian controls their relationship. Mitty is also hiding something, and the way Lena appears to float through her luxurious life draws Mitty inexorably into her orbit. As the two women begin to form a close friendship, they are finally forced to face their pasts&amp;mdash;and the urgent truths that could change everything.&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;br&gt;Showcasing Olivia Gatwood&amp;rsquo;s talent as an essential author for our hyper-digital age, &lt;i&gt;Whoever You Are, Honey&lt;\/i&gt; is a gripping, seductive, and prescient novel that dissects relationships between women and examines how striving for perfection and desirability plays out in spaces where technology and power intersect.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":2571},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593230442"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/653524/whoever-you-are-honey-by-olivia-gatwood/">Whoever You Are, Honey</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2189896">Olivia Gatwood</a> </h2> <div class="desc">What happens when what was once considered dystopia is now reality? This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women shape themselves beneath the gaze of love, friendship, and the algorithm — “a fever dream for the AI age” (<i>People</i>). 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Her poems have appeared in &lt;i&gt;The Poetry Foundation&lt;\/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Lambda Literary&lt;\/i&gt;, and &lt;i&gt;The Missouri Review&lt;\/i&gt;.&amp;nbsp;Originally from Albuquerque, she lives in Los Angeles.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/2189896\/olivia-gatwood","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"O","lastInitial":"G","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Michael Drummond","photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/2189896","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/653524\/whoever-you-are-honey-by-olivia-gatwood\/9780593230442","division":{"code":"70","description":"Random House Group"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000170,"catDesc":"Women&#039;s Fiction","catUri":"\/womens-fiction","menuText":"Women&#039;s Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;What happens when what was once considered dystopia is now reality?&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women shape themselves beneath the gaze of love, friendship, and the algorithm&amp;mdash;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;a fever dream for the AI age&amp;rdquo; (&lt;i&gt;People&lt;\/i&gt;)&lt;\/b&gt;.&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;This book reads like a thriller, but it&#039;s also a tender and searching exploration of what it means to inhabit a female&amp;#160;body.&amp;rdquo;&amp;mdash;Kelly Link, author of &lt;i&gt;The Book of Love&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;A &lt;i&gt;TIME &lt;\/i&gt;BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Mitty can&amp;rsquo;t quite make out the expression on Lena&amp;rsquo;s face, but she doesn&amp;rsquo;t look distressed. 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It tells the story of a fiercely committed player who literally played through a broken leg in order not to miss a crucial game, as well as myriad other heart-wrenching and uplifting narratives of players who&amp;nbsp;found common purpose.&amp;nbsp;Through their eyes, Fuller reveals a portrait of high school athletics, inspiring camaraderie, and deafness in America.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":3532},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0385549873"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/724060/the-boys-of-riverside-by-thomas-fuller/">The Boys of Riverside</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2281487">Thomas Fuller</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Amazon’s #1 Best Book of the Year. 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Some rich with money, and some wealthy with things that matter more.&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;This is a book about&amp;nbsp;what really made America &amp;ndash; and Americans &amp;ndash; great.&amp;nbsp;McMahon&amp;rsquo;s cast of improbable champions&amp;nbsp;will become familiar friends, lighting the path we journey in our quest to make the world more just, peaceful, good, and free.","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1829},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593541677"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/709748/the-small-and-the-mighty-by-sharon-mcmahon/">The Small and the Mighty</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/2268315">Sharon McMahon</a> </h2> <div class="desc">From America’s favorite government teacher, a “fascinating and fun” (Adam Grant) portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country. 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Miles Fall, seventeen, brainiac, athlete, and dog-whisperer, is a raving beauty, but also lost, and desperate to meet the kind of guy he dreams of. And Wynton Fall, nineteen, who raises the temperature of a room just by entering it, is a virtuoso violinist set on a crash course for fame . . . or self-destruction.&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; Then an enigmatic rainbow-haired girl shows up, tipping the Falls&amp;rsquo; world over. She might be an angel. Or a saint. Or an ordinary girl. Somehow, she is vital to each of them. But before anyone can figure out who she is, catastrophe strikes, leaving the Falls more broken than ever. And more desperate to be whole.&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; With road trips, rivalries, family curses, love stories within love stories within love stories, and sorrows and joys passed from generation to generation, this is the intricate, luminous tale of a family&amp;rsquo;s complicated past and present. 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[Destined to] firmly lodge itself within many, many hearts.&amp;rdquo;&lt;\/b&gt; &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Irish Times&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;Magical and moving.&quot; &lt;\/b&gt;&amp;mdash;Common Sense Media&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;Beautiful.&amp;rdquo;&lt;\/b&gt; &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Booklist&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;Unforgettable.&quot; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Observer&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Profound.&quot;&lt;\/b&gt; &amp;mdash;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;PW&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/i&gt; (starred review)&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":19751},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0525429093"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/318207/when-the-world-tips-over-by-jandy-nelson/">When the World Tips Over</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/235834">Jandy Nelson</a> </h2> <div class="desc">The explosive new novel that brims with love, secrets, and enchantment by Jandy Nelson, Printz Award-winning and <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>I’ll Give You the Sun</i>. One of Amazon’s Best Books of the Year. </div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/318207/when-the-world-tips-over-by-jandy-nelson/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images1.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780525429098" alt="When the World Tips Over Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add When the World Tips Over to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="318207" data-work="{"workId":318207,"isbn":9780525429098,"title":"When the World Tips Over","subtitle":null,"author":"Jandy Nelson","imprint":{"code":"J7","name":"Dial Books","family":"Dial Books for Young Readers"},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-09-24","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":21.99,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":235834,"display":"Jandy Nelson","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"Jandy Nelson&amp;#160;is the &lt;i&gt;New York Times &lt;\/i&gt;bestselling author of &lt;i&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ll Give You the Sun&lt;\/i&gt;, which received the Printz Award, was a Stonewall Honor Book, and&amp;#160;was named one of TIME&amp;rsquo;s 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. Her critically acclaimed debut,&lt;i&gt; The Sky Is Everywhere&lt;\/i&gt;, is now an AppleTV+ and A24 original film starring Jason Segel and Cherry Jones, for which Jandy wrote the screenplay. Together, &lt;i&gt;Sun&lt;\/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Sky &lt;\/i&gt;have sold well over a million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-eight languages. Both have been YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults picks and on multiple best of the year lists, have earned many starred reviews, and continue to enjoy great international success. Jandy&#039;s highly anticipated third novel, &lt;i&gt;When the World Tips Over&lt;\/i&gt;, releases in September 2024. Currently a full-time writer, Jandy lives and writes in San Francisco, California, not far from the settings of her novels.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/235834\/jandy-nelson","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"J","lastInitial":"N","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":null,"photoDate":null,"authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/235834","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/318207\/when-the-world-tips-over-by-jandy-nelson\/9780525429098","division":{"code":"64","description":"Penguin Young Readers"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000058,"catDesc":"Teen &amp; Young Adult Fiction ","catUri":"\/fiction-teen-young-adult","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000187,"catDesc":"Teen &amp; Young Adult Social Issues","catUri":"\/social-issues-teen-young-adult","menuText":"Social Issues","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":3},{"catId":2000000166,"catDesc":"Teen &amp; Young Adult","catUri":"\/teen-young-adult","menuText":"Teen &amp; Young Adult","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;* An Instant &lt;i&gt;New York Times&lt;\/i&gt; Bestseller *&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Jandy Nelson is a true virtuoso . . . I am fervently in love with this brave, funny, tender, exuberant beating heart of a book.&quot;&amp;#160;&amp;mdash;Becky Albertalli,&amp;#160;author of &lt;i&gt;Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda &lt;\/i&gt;and &lt;i&gt;Imogen, Obviously&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The explosive new novel that brims with love, secrets, and enchantment by Jandy Nelson, Printz Award&amp;ndash;winning and &lt;i&gt;New York Times &lt;\/i&gt;bestselling author of &lt;i&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ll Give You the Sun&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; The Fall siblings live in hot Northern California wine country, where the sun pours out of the sky, and the devil winds blow so hard they whip the sense right out of your head.&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; Years ago, the Fall kids&amp;rsquo; father mysteriously disappeared, cracking the family into pieces. Now Dizzy Fall, age twelve, bakes cakes, sees spirits, and wishes she were a heroine of a romance novel. Miles Fall, seventeen, brainiac, athlete, and dog-whisperer, is a raving beauty, but also lost, and desperate to meet the kind of guy he dreams of. And Wynton Fall, nineteen, who raises the temperature of a room just by entering it, is a virtuoso violinist set on a crash course for fame . . . or self-destruction.&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; Then an enigmatic rainbow-haired girl shows up, tipping the Falls&amp;rsquo; world over. She might be an angel. Or a saint. Or an ordinary girl. Somehow, she is vital to each of them. But before anyone can figure out who she is, catastrophe strikes, leaving the Falls more broken than ever. And more desperate to be whole.&lt;br&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;br&gt; With road trips, rivalries, family curses, love stories within love stories within love stories, and sorrows and joys passed from generation to generation, this is the intricate, luminous tale of a family&amp;rsquo;s complicated past and present. And only in telling their stories can they hope to rewrite their futures.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;Splendid and complex . . . Satisfying and soul-thrilling.&quot; &lt;\/b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;SLJ&lt;\/i&gt; (starred review)&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;Transcendently beautiful.&amp;rdquo; &lt;\/b&gt;&amp;mdash;Nina LaCour, author of &lt;i&gt;We Are Okay&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;Jandy Nelson is a rare, explosive talent.&amp;rdquo; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&amp;mdash;Tahereh Mafi, author of the Shatter Me&amp;#160;series&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Sumptuous . . . Captivating . . . Luscious, start to finish.&amp;rdquo; &lt;\/b&gt;&amp;mdash;Shelf Awareness (starred review)&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;A technicolor fever dream offering readers a sensory feast.&amp;rdquo;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt; &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Kirkus&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&quot;A gloriously intricate and expansive YA\/adult crossover . . . Stunningly generous.&quot;&lt;\/b&gt; &amp;mdash;Just Imagine&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;&lt;\/b&gt;Sublime, intricate, and dazzling.&amp;rdquo; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&amp;mdash;Helena Fox, author of&lt;i&gt; How It Feels to Float&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&quot;A complex, seductive YA heartbreaker.&amp;rdquo; &lt;\/b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Guardian&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;ldquo;Intoxicating. [Destined to] firmly lodge itself within many, many hearts.&amp;rdquo;&lt;\/b&gt; &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Irish Times&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;Magical and moving.&quot; &lt;\/b&gt;&amp;mdash;Common Sense Media&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;Beautiful.&amp;rdquo;&lt;\/b&gt; &amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;Booklist&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&quot;Unforgettable.&quot; &lt;\/b&gt;&lt;\/b&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;i&gt;The Observer&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Profound.&quot;&lt;\/b&gt; &amp;mdash;&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;PW&lt;\/i&gt;&lt;\/i&gt; (starred review)&lt;i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;\/i&gt;","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":19751},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0525429093"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="buy"> <div class="buy_clmn buy_small"> <h3>Hardcover<div class="buy-price">$21.99</div></h3> <div class="cart-bttns"> <form action="https://cart.penguinrandomhouse.com/prhcart/prhcart.php" method="post" content-type="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8" class="cart-bttn"> <button type="submit" aria-label="Add When the World Tips Over to cart">Add to cart</button> <input type="hidden" name="itemISBN" value="9780525429098"> <input type="hidden" name="itemQuantity" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="siteName" value="prh"> <input type="hidden" name="siteReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/the-read-down/the-best-books-of-2024/"> <input type="hidden" name="itemReturnURL" value="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318207/when-the-world-tips-over-by-jandy-nelson/9780525429098"> <input type="hidden" name="referringSite" value="prh"> </form> </div> </div> <div class="buy_clmn"> <div class="ajax-wait hidden"></div> <h3>Buy from Other Retailers:</h3> <div class="btn buy hidden"></div> <div class="hidden parking-lot 9780525429098 by_work amazonlast"></div> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li class="inner-facade no-bg-el" id="book62" format-data="Paperback,Hardcover,Ebook,Audio" imprint-data="Knopf" cat-data="Historical Fiction | Literary Fiction" isbn="9780593801710" ttl="There Are Rivers in the Sky" data-isbn="9780593801710" data-ebook="9780593801727" workid="743978" data-format="Hardcover" data-format-name="Hardcover" authid="232506" author="Elif Shafak" > <div class="container relative"> <div class="list-number"><span>62</span></div> <div class="list-meta-wrap"> <div class="list-meta"> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-desktop" href="/books/743978/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-by-elif-shafak/"> <div class="cover"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593801710" alt="There Are Rivers in the Sky Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> </div> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add There Are Rivers in the Sky to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="743978" data-work="{"workId":743978,"isbn":9780593801710,"title":"There Are Rivers in the Sky","subtitle":"A novel","author":"Elif Shafak","imprint":{"code":"A1","name":"Knopf","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-08-20","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":30,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":232506,"display":"Elif Shafak","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"ELIF SHAFAK is an award-winning British-Turkish author of a dozen novels,&amp;#160;including &lt;i&gt;The Island of Missing Trees&lt;\/i&gt;, which was short-listed for the Costa Novel Award, and &lt;i&gt;10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World&lt;\/i&gt;, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize.&amp;#160;Her work has been translated into fifty-six languages. She holds a PhD in political science and has taught at universities&amp;#160;in Turkey, the United States and the United Kingdom. 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From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1840 London, Arthur is born beside the stinking, sewage-filled River Thames. With an abusive, alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother, Arthur&amp;rsquo;s only chance of escaping destitution is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a leading publisher, Arthur&amp;rsquo;s world opens up far beyond the slums, and one book in particular catches his interest: &lt;i&gt;Nineveh and Its Remains. &lt;\/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a ten-year-old Yazidi girl, is diagnosed with a rare disorder that will soon cause her to go deaf. Before that happens, her grandmother is determined to baptize her in a sacred Iraqi temple. But with the rising presence of ISIS and the destruction of the family&amp;rsquo;s ancestral lands along the Tigris, Narin is running out of time.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 2018 London, the newly divorced Zaleekah, a hydrologist, moves into a houseboat on the Thames to escape her husband. Orphaned and raised by her wealthy uncle, Zaleekah had made the decision to take her own life in one month, until a curious book about her homeland changes everything.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;A dazzling feat of storytelling, &lt;i&gt;There Are Rivers in the Sky&lt;\/i&gt; entwines these outsiders with a single drop of water, a drop which remanifests across the centuries. Both a source of life and harbinger of death, rivers&amp;mdash;the Tigris and the Thames&amp;mdash;transcend history, transcend fate: &amp;ldquo;Water remembers. It is humans who forget.&amp;rdquo;","flags":["READER_REWARDS","INSIGHT"],"otherFields":{"netInv":1708},"vendorIds":{"Amazon":"0593801717"},"cbRtnDate":null,"asset_types":[]}"> <span class="bookShelfControl">Add to Bookshelf</span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2><a href="/books/743978/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-by-elif-shafak/">There Are Rivers in the Sky</a></h2> <h2 class="author">by <a href="/authors/232506">Elif Shafak</a> </h2> <div class="desc">Named a Best Book of the Year by Amazon. From the Booker Prize finalist, author of <i>The Island of Missing Trees</i>, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two great rivers, all connected by a single drop of water. </div> <div class="readdown-cover-wrap-mobile " href="/books/743978/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-by-elif-shafak/"> <span class=" deferred-view-scroll"> <img decoding="async" src="" data-src="https://images4.penguinrandomhouse.com/cover/9780593801710" alt="There Are Rivers in the Sky Book Cover Picture" loading="lazy" class="img-responsive lazyload" /></span> <div class="book-shelf-wrapper"> <div class="book-shelf-add" tabindex="0"> <img decoding="async" src="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/wp-content/themes/penguinrandomhouse/images/save-20x22.svg" width="20px" height="22px" role="button" alt="Add There Are Rivers in the Sky to bookshelf"> <div class="grid-item" data-workid="743978" data-work="{"workId":743978,"isbn":9780593801710,"title":"There Are Rivers in the Sky","subtitle":"A novel","author":"Elif Shafak","imprint":{"code":"A1","name":"Knopf","family":null},"onSaleDate":{"date":"2024-08-20","timezone_type":3,"timezone":"UTC"},"usPrice":30,"format":{"code":"HC","name":"Hardcover","subcode":null,"subname":null,"family":"Hardcover","description":"Hardcover"},"contributors":{"010-1001":{"id":232506,"display":"Elif Shafak","roleCode":"A","roleName":"Author","ontour":false,"spotlight":"ELIF SHAFAK is an award-winning British-Turkish author of a dozen novels,&amp;#160;including &lt;i&gt;The Island of Missing Trees&lt;\/i&gt;, which was short-listed for the Costa Novel Award, and &lt;i&gt;10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World&lt;\/i&gt;, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize.&amp;#160;Her work has been translated into fifty-six languages. She holds a PhD in political science and has taught at universities&amp;#160;in Turkey, the United States and the United Kingdom. She lives in London and is an honorary fellow at Oxford University.","seoFriendlyUrl":"\/authors\/232506\/elif-shafak","attr":1001,"firstInitial":"E","lastInitial":"S","hasAuthorPhoto":true,"photoCredit":"Ferhat Elik","photoDate":"2024","authorPhotoUrl":"https:\/\/images.penguinrandomhouse.com\/author\/232506","primaryFlag":true}},"seoFriendlyUrl":"\/books\/743978\/there-are-rivers-in-the-sky-by-elif-shafak\/9780593801710","division":{"code":"73","description":"Knopf"},"categories":[{"catId":2000000066,"catDesc":"Historical Fiction","catUri":"\/historical-fiction","menuText":"Historical Fiction","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":1},{"catId":2000000083,"catDesc":"Literary Fiction","catUri":"\/literary-fiction","menuText":"Literary","leafNode":true,"deepestNode":true,"seq":2},{"catId":2000000057,"catDesc":"Fiction","catUri":"\/fiction","menuText":"Fiction","leafNode":false,"deepestNode":false,"seq":0}],"aboutTheBook":"&lt;b&gt;From the Booker Prize finalist, author of&lt;i&gt; The Island of Missing Trees&lt;\/i&gt;, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two great rivers, all connected by a single drop of water.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf.&amp;nbsp;Make place for her in your heart too.&amp;nbsp;You won&#039;t regret it.&quot;&amp;mdash;Arundhati Roy, winner of the Booker Prize&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. 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