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An Immense World by Ed Yong

The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal …

I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

Literary mystery

Ripley under ground by Patricia Highsmith

It's been six years since Ripley murdered Dickie Greenleaf and inherited his money. Now, in Ripley Under Ground (1970), he …

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet …

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

The first of the acclaimed Ripley novels, this clever psychological thriller introduces the reader to Tom Ripley and his extraordinary …

The Art Thief by Michael Finkel

One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, …

Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal

Some People Need Killing by Patricia Evangelista

The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley

The story follows Tom in his land-life as a climbing boy for a chimney-sweep and in his after-life as a …

Wolves of Eternity by Karl Ove Knausgaard

Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz

Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the internet—revealing how online influence and the creators …

Tripping on Utopia by Benjamin Breen

Sullivanians by Alexander Stille

A history of the Sullivan Institute, a “communist psychotherapy sex cult” (p. 375) operating in Manhattan from 1957 to 1991.

Circe by Madeline Miller

The daring, dazzling, and highly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestseller The Song Of Achilles that briliantly reimagines …

Splinters by Leslie Jamison