Our shelves are thoughtfully curated rather than endlessly stocked, bringing together books we believe are worth reading, sharing, revisiting, and recommending
New Arrivals
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![Book cover of 'The Tiger's Wife' by Téa Obreht, featuring a tiger cub and a medal indicating it was a finalist for the National Book Award.]()
The Tiger's Wife
Téa Obreht
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![Book cover titled "When We Were Orphans" by Kazuo Ishiguro, featuring a black and white urban city scene with Japanese signs and a group of people dancing or socializing in the foreground.]()
When We Were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro
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![Book cover for 'Little Fires Everywhere' by Celeste Ng, depicting an illustration of a suburban neighborhood with houses, trees, and streets, in shades of green and blue.]()
Little Fires Everywhere
Celest Ng
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Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
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![Book cover titled 'Climate Justice' by Mary Robinson with a geometric background of blue and pink shapes.]()
Climate Justice
Mary Robinson
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![Book cover titled "Daughters of Hu" by Xu Xi featuring stylized black and white line drawings of women on a pink background.]()
Daughters of Hui
Xu Xi
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![Book cover titled "Sovietistan" by Erika Fatland, featuring a city skyline with various tall buildings and a red banner with the title, set against a stylized background with a large sun or moon, and an illustration of a nation.]()
Sovietistan: A Journey Through ...
Erika Fatland
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![Cover of the book 'The Salt Path' by Raynor Winn, featuring an illustration of a coastal landscape with cliffs, water, and a small figure walking along a path, in shades of blue and green.]()
The Salt Path
Raynor Winn
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![Book cover of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, depicting a drawing of Frankenstein's monster with a dark, industrial background.]()
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Permanent Shelves
QUIET READS
Nothing explodes. Everything changes.
DIFFICULT, BUT WORTH IT
Some stories ask more of us, and give more back. Heavy, intense, unsettling, consuming.
BANNED BOOKS
Stories that someone, somewhere, didn't want people to read
LITERARY PASSPORT
See the world through the eyes of those who call it home.
FAR FROM HOME
Stories of migration, belonging and finding home.
READING REVOLUTION
Some books don't just pass the time. They change how we see it.
Everyone’s Talking About
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![Cover of the book 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller, featuring a yellow Trojan helmet with a black opening, against a turquoise background, with text highlighting awards and reviews.]()
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
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![Book cover of 'Salt: A World History' by Mark Kurlansky, featuring a black background, the book title in large white letters, a small penguin logo at the top right corner, and a white silhouette of a salt shaker in the center.]()
Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky
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![Cover of the book 'Small Boat' by Vincent Delacroix, with a blue background and a small yellow boat illustration. Includes badges for the DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2025 and MONTHLY READ SERVICE BOOK CLUB.]()
Small Boat
Vincent Delecroix
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![Cover of a book titled "Strange Houses" with a floor plan of a Japanese house and text describing it as a chilling Japanese mystery sensation, translated by Jim Rion, published by Uketsu.]()
Strange Houses
Uketsu
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![Book cover for 'The Hundred Years' War on Palestine' by Rashid Khalidi, featuring an outline of Israel with a map of Palestine inside.]()
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Rashid Khalidi
This Month’s Highlight
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![Cover of the book "Women Without Men" by Shahrnush Parsipur, featuring an abstract portrait of a woman with blue hair and green face, resting her chin on a bowl.]()
Women Without Men
Shahrnush Parsipur
Drawing on elements of Islamic mysticism and recent Iranian history, this unforgettable novel depicts women escaping the narrow confines of family and society, and imagines their future living in a world without men.
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![Book cover for 'Babel: An Arcane History' by R.F. Kuang featuring a detailed black-and-white illustration of a tall, ornate tower surrounded by city buildings and flying birds.]()
Babel
R. F. Kuang
A best-selling dark academia set in an alternate 1830s Oxford, following the story of a Chinese orphan who trains at the Royal Institute of Translation who discovered how the British Empire uses translation magic to fuel its global colonization.
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![The cover of the book 'Demon Copperhead' by Barbara Kingsolver features a young boy with red hair, resting his arm on a school bus window, looking thoughtfully into the distance. The cover includes quotes praising the book and highlights awards, with blue and yellow color themes.]()
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
A Pulitzer prize winner. This is an all consuming story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival.
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![Book cover titled "What My Bones Know" by Stephanie Foo. The cover features a dark purple background with an arrangement of flowers, leaves, a chicken bone, and a human skull. The subtitle reads "A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma."]()
What My Bones Know
Stephanie Foo
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life.
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![Close-up of a young girl's face with a somber expression, with the title "Asking for it" and author's name Louise O'Neill.]()
Asking for It
Louise O'Neill
A timely and deeply relevant YA novel about consent, victim-blaming and the complicated ways social media shapes how we see ourselves and each other. Though written for young adults, it is an important, thought-provoking read for anyone.
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![Book cover of "Last Child in the Woods" by Richard Louv, featuring a person running in a forest with trees and a water reflection.]()
Last Child in the Woods
Richard Louv
As children's connections to nature diminish and the social, psychological, and spiritual implications become apparent, new research shows that nature can offer powerful therapy for such maladies as depression, obesity, and attention deficit disorder.
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![Book cover titled 'Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass' by Darren McGarvey. The cover features black and white high-rise buildings and quotes from Nick Cohen and J.K. Rowling.]()
Poverty Safari
Darren McGarvey
A raw and unflinching journey through poverty in modern Britain, blending memoir and social critique to explore inequality, addiction, survival, and the systems that shape and trap people’s lives.
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![Cover of the book titled 'Moral Ambition' by Rutger Bregman, with a light green mountain illustration in the background and a yellow quote bubble that says 'What an inspiring book!' by Stephen Fry.]()
Moral Ambition
Rutger Bregman
From the author of Humankind, Moral Ambition is a radical and practical call to all of us to shift the focus from personal gain to societal benefit.
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![Book cover titled 'Mudbound' by Hillary Jordan with a black and white photo of a rural house and cotton fields in the background.]()
Mudbound
Hillary Jordan
A powerful piece of Southern literature, Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946
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![Book cover titled 'As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow' by Zoulfa Katouh, featuring a lemon tree with two silhouettes of people under it, surrounded by a decorative blue border with a gold circle indicating 'Exclusive Short Story Inside'.]()
As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow
Zoulfa Katouh
A love letter to Syria and its people, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow is a speculative novel set amid the Syrian Revolution, burning with the fires of hope, love, and possibility
Hidden gems
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![Book cover for 'Vesper Flights' by Helen Macdonald featuring a soaring bird and a drum.]()
Vesper Flights
Helen Macdonald
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![Book cover of 'Foster' by Claire Keegan, featuring a white brick house with a chimney on a grassy landscape; quotes praising the author and the book are included.]()
Foster
Claire Keegan
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![Close-up of a person's face with a prominent nose and lips, featuring a large nose piercing and a scar or mark on the nose. The cover includes the title 'The Witch' and the author's name, Marie Ndiaye.]()
The Witch
Marie NDiaye
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![Book cover with the title 'FIVE RIVERS MET ON A WOODED PLAIN' in large, bold letters, with quotes and author name Barney Norris at the bottom.]()
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain
Barney Norris
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![Book cover titled 'The Good Immigrant, 5th Anniversary Edition,' edited by Nikesh Shukla, featuring a list of contributing writers at the top.]()
The Good Immigrant
Nikesh Shukla
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![Book cover titled "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" by David Graeber and David Wengrow, with a yellow background and red text.]()
The Dawn of Everything
David Graeber
Snuggle & Read
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![Book cover titled 'Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story' by March Hamer, decorated with colorful flowers and a green badge indicating the Wainwright Prize.]()
Seed to Dust
Marc Hamer
A meditative memoir explores the wisdom of plants, the joys of manual labor, and the natural cycle of growth and decay that runs through both the garden's life and our own
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![Book cover for 'The End of Summer' by Rosamunde Pilcher. Features a pair of red rain boots on a wet path with a green grassy background and a wheelbarrow.]()
The End of Summer
Rosamunde Pilcher
After years in the United States, Jane returns to the tranquil Scottish estate where she spent a magical childhood. There she finds the family she thought she knew so well, is not always what you see on the surface
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![Book cover titled "American Dirt" by Jeanine Cummins, with quotes praising the novel from various publications and a yellow butterfly illustration against a blue background.]()
American Dirt
Jeanine Cummins
An action-packed tale of adventure and survival following Lydia, a bookstore owner, and her son Luca across Mexico as they flee violence and a dangerous cartel, desperately searching for safety and a new life in America.
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![Book cover titled 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society' by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, featuring a handwritten letter with postage stamps and a scene of a woman by the water.]()
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer
A book club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.
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![Book cover of "The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year" by Sue Townsend, featuring a bed with pink bedding and quotes from Daily Mail and Sunday Times.]()
The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
Sue Townsend
The day her children leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. She's had enough…
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![Book cover titled "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig, featuring illustrations of socks, a person jogging, a hand, a kitty, a person walking a dog, a car, and a chess piece, with a quote from The New York Times.]()
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. What is the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice…
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![Book cover for 'Welcome to the Hyun-Dong Bookshop' by Hwang Bo-Reum, featuring a colorful illustration of a small bookstore with house-like windows, surrounded by blooming trees, with people and a bicycle outside.]()
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
Hwang Bo-reum
A heart-warming story about finding comfort and acceptance in your life and the healing power of books.
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![Book cover of 'The Birdcage' by Eve Chase with a gold birdcage featuring a small house inside, surrounded by yellow flowers and green leaves on a dark background.]()
The Birdcage
Eva Chase
An emotional mystery set in the rugged remote landscape of north Cornwall full of dark secrets and twists, about three unusual sisters forced to confront the past.
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![Book cover of 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' by Khaled Hosseini, featuring a woman walking with a headscarf, desert landscape, and red and yellow tones.]()
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
Two women born a generation apart witness the destruction of their home and family in war-torn Kabul, losses incurred over the course of thirty years that test the limits of their strength and courage.
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![Book cover for "Your Blue-Eyed Boy" by Helen Dunmore, featuring a cloudy sky and a silhouette of a person standing by water.]()
Your Blue-Eyed Boy
Helen Dunmore
Simone is a district judge whose husband Donald is on the verge of bankruptcy and breakdown. Then someone from the past shows up, threaten to unravel the already fragile life she is leading.
