Stories that linger, curated like cinema.

Crossroads of Twilight

Robert Jordan · 2003

Challenging · 405 pp.

Empire of the Vampire

Jay Kristoff · 2021

Accessible · 685 pp.

Priory of the Orange Tree

Samantha Shannon · 2019

Moderate · 608 pp.

Steelheart

Brandon Sanderson · 2013

Challenging · 594 pp.

The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2015

Moderate · 482 pp.

The Dragon Reborn

Robert Jordan · 1991

Challenging · 531 pp.

Future tense

Science Fiction

Speculative fiction at full scale.

Dawn

Octavia E. Butler · 1987

Accessible · 664 pp.

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov · 1950

Challenging · 552 pp.

Rendezvous with Rama

Arthur C. Clarke · 1973

Challenging · 573 pp.

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut · 1969

Challenging · 699 pp.

The Forever War

Joe Haldeman · 1974

Moderate · 335 pp.

The Invisible Man

H.G. Wells · 1897

Challenging · 594 pp.

Suspense

Mystery & Thriller

Secrets, stakes, and propulsive plot.

Foucault's Pendulum

Umberto Eco · 1988

Accessible · 517 pp.

Pines

Blake Crouch · 2012

Challenging · 384 pp.

Mystery

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

Stuart Turton · 2018

Moderate · 629 pp.

The Death of Mrs. Westaway

Ruth Ware · 2018

Accessible · 475 pp.

Mystery

The Devil and the Dark Water

Stuart Turton · 2020

Challenging · 384 pp.

The It Girl

Ruth Ware · 2022

Accessible · 391 pp.

Inner weather

Psychological Fiction

Novels that map the mind under pressure.

Psychological Fiction

The Secret History

Donna Tartt · 1992

Accessible · 697 pp.

Psychological Fiction

3.7

The Furies

Katie Lowe · 2019

Moderate · 644 pp.

11/22/63

Stephen King · 2011

Accessible · 367 pp.

12 Rules for Life

Jordan B. Peterson · 2018

Moderate · 320 pp.

1984

George Orwell · 1949

Moderate · 320 pp.

1Q84

Haruki Murakami · 2009

Challenging · 591 pp.

Close reading

Literary Fiction

Prose that rewards unhurried attention.

On the Road

Jack Kerouac · 1957

Accessible · 517 pp.

Portrait in Sepia

Isabel Allende · 2000

Challenging · 405 pp.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera · 1979

Moderate · 629 pp.

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak · 2005

Challenging · 300 pp.

The Castle

Franz Kafka · 1926

Accessible · 685 pp.

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery · 2006

Challenging · 573 pp.

Warm light

Cozy Reading

Intimate, atmospheric books for slow evenings.

Me Before You

Jojo Moyes · 2012

Accessible · 538 pp.

The Midnight Library

Matt Haig · 2020

Challenging · 636 pp.

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Arundhati Roy · 2017

Challenging · 594 pp.

The Notebook

Nicholas Sparks · 1996

Challenging · 678 pp.

The Road

Cormac McCarthy · 2006

Accessible · 391 pp.

The Sellout

Paul Beatty · 2015

Moderate · 671 pp.

Scholarly Gothic

Dark Academia

Libraries, longing, and moral weather.

Dark Academia

3.9

If We Were Villains

M.L. Rio · 2017

Challenging · 387 pp.

Dark Academia

3.9

The Secret History

Donna Tartt · 1992

Moderate · 485 pp.

3.8

2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C. Clarke · 1968

Accessible · 358 pp.

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking · 1988

Accessible · 592 pp.

3.8

A Closed and Common Orbit

Becky Chambers · 2016

Accessible · 358 pp.

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Sarah J. Maas · 2015

Accessible · 283 pp.

Heart lines

Romance Favorites

Love stories with lasting pull.

The Time Traveler's Wife

Audrey Niffenegger · 2003

Accessible · 559 pp.

Conversations with Friends

Sally Rooney · 2017

Moderate · 656 pp.

Twilight

Stephenie Meyer · 2005

Moderate · 446 pp.

Normal People

Sally Rooney · 2018

Accessible · 445 pp.

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen · 1811

Moderate · 599 pp.

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel García Márquez · 1985

Moderate · 479 pp.

After dark

Horror Essentials

Dread that lingers past the last page.

The Broken Girls

Simone St. James · 2018

Challenging · 510 pp.

Zone One

Colson Whitehead · 2011

Accessible · 433 pp.

Dracula

Bram Stoker · 1897

Moderate · 614 pp.

It

Stephen King · 1986

Accessible · 544 pp.

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886

Accessible · 418 pp.

The Last House on Needless Street

Catriona Ward · 2021

Challenging · 558 pp.

The canon

Timeless Classics

Novels that still read alive today.

Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse · 1927

Moderate · 482 pp.

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins · 2006

Challenging · 300 pp.

The Power of Myth

Joseph Campbell · 1988

Accessible · 475 pp.

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens · 1861

Challenging · 516 pp.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain · 1876

Moderate · 341 pp.

The Call of the Wild

Jack London · 1903

Challenging · 621 pp.

Prize shelf

Award-Winning Books

Celebrated fiction worth the reputation.

The Golden Enclaves

Naomi Novik · 2022

Moderate · 503 pp.

The Mimicking of Known Successes

Malka Older · 2023

Accessible · 370 pp.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky · 1999

Challenging · 678 pp.

The Priory of the Orange Tree

Samantha Shannon · 2019

Accessible · 643 pp.

The Strength of the Few

Samantha Shannon · 2023

Moderate · 629 pp.

The Trial

Franz Kafka · 1925

Moderate · 503 pp.

Mood & texture

Atmospheric Reads

Cinematic fiction for immersive nights.

Mystery

The Silkworm

Robert Galbraith · 2014

Moderate · 335 pp.

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami · 1994

Accessible · 307 pp.

Wild

Cheryl Strayed · 2012

Challenging · 510 pp.

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway · 1929

Challenging · 579 pp.

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara · 2015

Moderate · 572 pp.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini · 2007

Accessible · 649 pp.

From the desk

Editor Picks

Six titles our editors would hand you today.

The Retreat

Sarah Pearse · 2022

Moderate · 692 pp.

The Wise Man's Fear

Patrick Rothfuss · 2011

Accessible · 475 pp.

The Woman in Cabin 10

Ruth Ware · 2016

Challenging · 636 pp.

Ubik

Philip K. Dick · 1969

Moderate · 587 pp.

Uprooted

Naomi Novik · 2015

Accessible · 391 pp.