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Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

'There has been no such analysis of the corrupting power of the police state in Soviet literature'--Stuart Hood in the …

Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk

The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway

Meticulously observed, agonizing and funny, this unconventional account of clinical depression marks the novelistic debut of the author of the …

Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #2)

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.

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Lincoln's Melancholy: How Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness by Joshua Wolf Shenk

Ward Ethics by Thomasine Kimbrough Kushner, David C. Thomasma

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach, Mary Roach

A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including …

The Death of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee

The schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee

From the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel to The Childhood of Jesus, continuing the journey of …

The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee

The Childhood of Jesus is a 2013 novel by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. The book was published …

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an …

The Life and Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee

In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural …

Pastoralia by George Saunders

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian: Or The Evening Redness in the West is a 1985 epic novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, classified …