We’ve taken the liberty of selecting our most present-worthy books from the list. There’s something for the curious, lonely, nostalgic, arty, overwhelmed, reserved, droll, weird, and unsentimental person in your life.
Clarice Lispector’s best-selling masterpiece—“her finest book” (The Nation)—now in a special hardcover edition to celebrate the centenary of her birth, with an illuminating new afterword by her son
A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City
WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE
At last, the capstone to Krasznahorkai’s four-part
masterwork
A windfall for every reader: a trove of marvelous impossible-to-find Kafka stories in a masterful new translation by Michael Hofmann
Anne Carson’s haunting and beautiful Nox is her first book of poetry in five years – a unique, illustrated, accordion-fold-out book in a box.
A gorgeously illustrated copublication with
Christine Burgin by “one of the world’s great
essayists” (The New York Times)
A dazzling book about memory and extinction from the author of Atlas of Remote Islands A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
Another gorgeous copublication with the Christine Burgin Gallery, Envelope Poems is a compact, clothbound gift book, a full-color selection from The Gorgeous Nothings
The first full-color publication of Emily Dickinson’s complete envelope writings in facsimile from her visually stunning manuscripts, here in a deluxe, large-scale edition
Brilliantly translated by Lydia Davis, here are Proust’s tormented, touching, and often very funny letters to his noisy neighbor
Reissue of a fiery and enigmatic masterpiece, one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era
Winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Translated Literature
Library Journal Best Books of 2018
The powerful debut of a rising young French star,
Our Riches is a marvelous, surprising, hybrid novel about a beloved Algerian bookshop A Library Journal Best Book of the Year
The classic Christmas tale, with beautiful new illustrations
A macabre tale and hilarious tale of a Christmas Eve with the devil and a romantic twist.
A collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s best drinking stories makes this our most intoxicating Pearl yet!
A gorgeous gift edition, dedicated to the mystery, grace, and charm of the cat
An extraordinary masterpiece of German literature,
now in a gripping new English translation
An essential selection of Moyra Davey’s sly, surprising, and brilliant essays
A collection of highly personal and poetic essays about life and literature by the renowned German writer Jenny Erpenbeck
A special side of Robert Walser: his essays on art
Now in a gorgeous new paperback edition with full-color illustrations by Maira Kalman, Microscripts is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece.
Over 50 original full-color artworks address newly translated writings of Robert Walser
A delirious collection of short stories from the Latin American master of microfiction.
A sizzling and deeply touching love story between
two men, set in the gay biker community of 1970s
London
The masterworks of W. G. Sebald, now with gorgeous new covers by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund
In the best translation ever, the complete Book of Disquiet is an incomparable masterpiece
A bilingual companion to The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa