Notable Books, Bestsellers, and Award Winners

The first black governor of the state of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick takes readers through his extraordinary and uniquely American odyssey, and offers a road map for attaining happiness, empowerment, and success.

A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller, and People’s Best Book of 2016. Comedian, producer, and television writer Jessi Klein skewers the rites of modern femininity in hilarious, candid, and incisive collection of real-life stories.

A New York Times Bestseller. Time magazine journalist Amanda Ripley follows three brilliant young Americans pursuing their educations abroad, and her work reveals groundbreaking research into other cultures’ patterns of learning and transformation.

A New York Times Bestseller. From sheetmetal apprentice to one of the founding members of the Beach Boys, Mike Love tells the story of his legendary, turbulent, and triumphant five-decade career

A New York Times Bestseller. Raised in a South Boston housing project, James “Whitey” Bulger became the most wanted fugitive of his generation. In this riveting story, Boston Globe reporters Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy follow his extraordinary criminal career.

A New York Times and Washington Post Bestseller and New York Times Notable Book. Steven Brill investigates how the Affordable Care Act is changing—and failing to change—the rampant abuses in the healthcare industry.

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Fiction, and the Carla Furstenberg Cohen Fiction Award. Two doctors risk everything to save the life of a hunted child in this majestic debut.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History. A New York Times Bestseller and 10 Best Book of the Year, and a Financial Times Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. In exploring the true causes of the Great Depression, Liaquat Ahamed crafts a potent reminder of the enormous impact of bankers’ decisions, their fallibility, and the terrible human consequences that can result when they are wrong.

A Christopher Award Winner and NAACP Award Nominee. Acclaimed actor and producer Wendell Pierce paints an insightful and poignant portrait of family, post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, and the transforming power of art.

A New York Times Bestseller, adapted into the film starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin. Master storyteller Joyce Maynard draws readers into the unforgettable tale of a mother and son changed forever when a mysterious man enters their lives.

A New York Times Bestseller, and an Amazon and iBooks Best Book of 2014. In this innovative memoir, beloved actor Neil Patrick Harris shares delightfully amusing stories from his life on and off the screen—all in a narrative chosen by the reader.

A New York Times Bestseller and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography. Two sisters confront schizophrenia in this poignant memoir. Through stunning prose and original art, Mira Bartok captures the complexity of truth and family’s capacity for forgiveness.

An Amazon and iBooks Best Book of 2014. Set amid the 1950s New York theater scene and the starstudded parties of 1970s Malibu, Academy Award-winning actress and director Lee Grant vividly recounts her early career, its destruction, and how she rebuilt her life on her own terms.

A New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book, Lambda Literary Award Winner, PEN Open Book Award Nominee, and Publishers Weekly Best Book in 2014. In this beautiful memoir of a harrowing childhood, the New York Times columnist shares his redemptive journey.

Winner of the National Book Award and PEN/Faulkner award, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The demands of human longing contend with the weight of centuries of custom in acclaimed author Ha Jin's Waiting.

A critical darling, Crumb is the first biography of Robert Crumb—one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century—whose frank and meticulously rendered cartoons and comics inspired generations of readers and cartoonists, from Art Spiegelman to Alison Bechdel.