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The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings

by Marquis de Sade

An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration of the psychology of sex. Lost after the storming of the Bastille in 1789, it was later retrieved but…

Light

by Margaret Elphinstone

“Richly detailed . . . Elphinstone takes genuine pleasure in her imagined reality. . . . She bestows on all her characters strengths and flaws, creating a remarkably convincing reality….

Babel

by Gaston Dorren

From the celebrated author of Lingo, a whistle-stop tour of the world’s twenty most-spoken languages, exploring history, geography, linguistics, and culture—showing how the language we speak reflects our view of…

Zodiac

by Neal Stephenson

“[Stephenson] captures the nuance and the rhythm of the new world so perfectly that one almost thinks that it is already here.” —The Washington Post…

Well

by Matthew McIntosh

“An astonishingly sharp and satisfying debut. . . . [McIntosh] is the real thing—a tremendously gifted and supple prose hand, recounting all manner of human distress and extremity in an…

We Gotta Get Out of This Place

by Gerri Hirshey

“[I]n her vivid, impassioned history of women in rock, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, music journalist Gerri Hirshey takes a long, hard, and lively look at girl groups…

A Short History of Myth

by Karen Armstrong

“What Armstrong does in her skid over the millennia is make comparisons, connections, and contrasts in a way that cannot fail to enlighten the general reader. What myth once did,…

Second Nature

by Michael Pollan

“He’s written a book about gardening that even nongardeners might want to read. . . Pollan can still remember that there are readers of intelligence and curiosity whose gardening habits…

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

“Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead [is] verbally dazzling . . . the most exciting, witty intellectual treat imaginable.” —Edith Oliver, The New Yorker…

Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold

by Mark Cocker

“Cocker has written a book on a broad subject, the kind that professional historians too rarely produce. . . . Rivers of Blood, Rivers of Gold is a heroic attempt…