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Fiction & Literature

1. Ghost Lights: A Novel

   Lydia Millet

   “Surreal, darkly hilarious and profound.”—San Francisco ChronicleMore

2. Talking Into the Ear of a Donkey: Poems

   Robert Bly

   “The kind of volume anyone should read for the exquisite pleasure of encountering poetry completely under its creator’s tremendous control.”—The RumpusMore

3. Later Poems Selected and New: 1971-2012

   Adrienne Rich

   The final volume of poems assembled by America’s most powerful and distinctive poetic voice.More

4. Magnificence: A Novel

   Lydia Millet

   A woman embarks on a dazzling new phase in her life after inheriting a sprawling mansion and its vast collection of taxidermy.More

5. The Sufferings of Young Werther

   Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Stanley Corngold

   “Corngold’s new translation is of the very highest quality, punctiliously faithful to Goethe’s German and sensitive to gradations of style in this extraordinary, trail-blazing first novel.”
   —J. M. Coetzee, New York Review of BooksMore

6. Illuminations

   Arthur Rimbaud, John Ashbery

   “This may be the most beautiful book in the world, lighted from within and somehow embodying all forms of literature.”—Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles TimesMore

7. Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition

   Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Ilan Stavans, David Frye

   This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 1527–36 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America.More

8. A Clockwork Orange

   Anthony Burgess, Andrew Biswell

   Restored Text

   A newly revised text for A Clockwork Orange’s 50th anniversary brings the work closest to its author’s intentions.More

9. Utterly Uncle Fred

   P. G. Wodehouse

   Whenever Uncle Fred arrives in London, problems get solved, true lovers are reunited, and his nephew Pongo goes into spasms.More

10. The Annotated Brothers Grimm

    Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Maria Tatar, Et Al.

    The Bicentennial Edition

    Celebrate the 200th birthday of the Brothers Grimm stories with this lavish volume now richly expanded for a new generation.More

11. Try the Morgue: A Novel

    Eva Maria Staal

    From a real-life female gunrunner comes this international bestseller and unforgettable literary debut.More

12. Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts

    David Shields, Matthew Vollmer

    Contemporary short stories enacting giddy, witty revenge on the documents that define and dominate our lives.More

13. White Truffles in Winter: A Novel

    N. M. Kelby

    “Rich in sensory delights . . . the kind of masterpiece readers will want to savor.”—Minneapolis Star-TribuneMore

14. Ghost in a Red Hat: Poems

    Rosanna Warren

    “Achieves a delicate balance between structural solidity and movement. . . . Warren’s latest poems tend to veil their complexity in understatement.”—Harvard ReviewMore

15. Mayakovsky's Revolver: Poems

    Matthew Dickman

    From a dazzling, award-winning young poet, a collection that paints life as a celebration in the dark.More