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In this honest, hilarious, fiercely intelligent memoir, journalist Susan Shapiro dares to do what every woman dreams of: track down the five men who broke her heart and find out what really went wr

The sly and subversive sixth book from Nicola Barker, one of our most funny and anarchic writers. It's the summer of 1981.

"As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors.

Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made The Reader an international bestseller.

Outside Tokyo, a tuberculosis sanatorium in the village of K has a six-bed ward that the narrator, an aspiring poet, shares with a student of linguistics and budding writer named Shiomi.

Penguin Classics is proud to welcome William Trevor—"Ireland’s answer to Chekhov" (The Boston Globe) and "one of the best writers of our era" (The Washington Post)—to our distin

The best-selling author of Why the West Rules—for Now examines the evolution and future of human values.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Harmony McLain and Whispering Mountain series—Sanford Colston left his hometown of Saints Roost to hire its school a new teacher, but instead found

Au printemps 1976, s'arrachant à sa retraite jamaïquaine, Cimballi a une idée : il ne s'agit plus de gagner quelques millions de dollars, mais d'accéder à la Fortune, la vraie.

Nora Okja Keller, the acclaimed author of Comfort Woman, tells the shocking story of a group of young people abandoned after the Korean War.

College life can be complicated—challenging, rewarding, downright frustrating—and a lot of fun. Warren University freshman Cassandra "Cassie" Davis is more than up for all of it.

Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery.

"Free Live Free," said the newspaper ad, and the out-of-work detective Jim Stubb, the occultist Madame Serpentina, the salesman Ozzie Barnes, and the overweight prostitute Candy Garth are

Joanna Palani made headlines across the world when her role fighting ISIS in the Syrian conflict was revealed.

Written with complete conviction from a woman's point of view, Nuruddin Farah's spare, shocking first novel savagely attacks the traditional values of his people yet is also a haunting ce