Reads that sleighed us

William Goldman

A cheeky, swashbuckling romp full of swordplay, true love and sly winks at the reader. Fairy-tale fun with a mischievous grin.

Lucy Ellmann

A breathless, stream-of-consciousness portrait of an Ohio woman’s inner world. Funny, anxious, sprawling and strangely intimate.

Julia Child

Julia Child discovers cooking, passion and her true raison d’être in this joyful plunge into France, food and finding your calling.

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton skewers high society with razor wit as an unstoppable social climber bends glittering New York to her will.

Ted Chiang

Inventive, thoughtful sci-fi stories that twist logic, language and emotion into unforgettable what-ifs.

Suzanne Simard

Forests come alive through Simard’s groundbreaking research, revealing how trees communicate, nurture and share resources in a powerful underground network.

Andy Weir

A stranded astronaut, a desperate mission and clever science drive this high-energy, surprisingly tender space thriller.

Haruki Murakami

A hypnotic slip between worlds, where reality warps, mysteries deepen and two lives move toward each other through strange, unseen currents.

Mel Robbins

Robbins’ clean, no-nonsense approach to reducing stress by dropping the urge to fix, follow or force anything.

Anthony Doerr

Vivid, lyrical storytelling follows two young lives shaped by war, fate and the small connections that illuminate the dark.