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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (review)

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER •WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (review)

New York Times Bestseller, A Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg. From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” 

Demon Copperhead (review)

A NEW YORK TIMES “TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2022” , An Oprah’s Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller • A #1 Washington Post Bestseller  , “Demon is a voice for the ages—akin to Huck Finn or Holden Caulfield—only even more resilient.” —Beth Macy, author of Dopesick , “May be the best novel of 2022. . . . Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, this is the story of an irrepressible boy nobody wants, but readers will love.” (Ron Charles, Washington Post)

Lessons in Chemistry (review)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Meet Elizabeth Zott: a “formidable, unapologetic and inspiring” (PARADE) scientist in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show in this novel that is “irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel” (The New York Times Book Review) and “witty, sometimes hilarious…the Catch-22 of early feminism.” (Stephen King, via Twitter) . A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, Washington Post, NPR, Oprah Daily, Entertainment Weekly.

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (review)

New York Times Bestseller, Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020, Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR,
“A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” — Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love . No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly.

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (review)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER , Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller and international phenomenon Sapiens, returns with an equally original, compelling, and provocative book, turning his focus toward humanity’s future, and our quest to upgrade humans into gods.