Biography & Memoir

The Impostor
Silvina Ocampo
Fantastical, unnerving short stories from a Surrealist master of the form

Passing
Nella Larsen
A classic of the Harlem Renaissance reissued to coincide with the major Netflix adaptation of Passing (2021)

Don't Cry
Mary Gaitskill
DON'T CRY is Mary Gaitskill's first collection of stories in over ten years, following her previous acclaimed collections, BAD BEHAVIOUR and…

This is Pleasure
Mary Gaitskill
A masterful fictional contribution to the #MeToo debate, set to be the most fiercely debated book of the season

Act of Grace
Anna Krien
Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2020An exhilarating debut novel from the award-winning author of Night Games

I Give It To You
Valerie Martin
A timeless story of family, war, art, and betrayal from bestselling novelist Valerie Martin

To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
Hervé Guibert
The cult classic that describes with devastating, darkly comic clarity the experience of living with and dying from AIDS

Lose Your Mother
Saidiya Hartman
A profound and harrowing meditation by a descendant of slaves who journeyed to Africa to understand her past

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
You can't choose your family, but they make choices for you.

Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls
Nina Renata Aron
A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, code…

The Death of Comrade President
Alain Mabanckou
A poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from one of the continent's greatest living novelists

The House on Fripp Island
Rebecca Kauffman
A taut, page-turning novel of secrets and strife. When two families-one rich, one not-vacation together off the coast of South Carolina, little do the…

Man Enough to Be a Woman
Jayne County
The true story of trans punk performance art sensation Jayne County's wild and daring life

Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
Laszlo Krasznahorkai
The defining master-work of the Man Booker International winner's spectacular career