🧠Because truth is often stranger—and funnier—than fiction.
Memoirs, essays, and deep dives into everything from psychology to platypuses. Smart reads for curious minds.
From apian (like a bee) to zodiac (little-animals circle), a word book that spots the animal origins of words and names.There are mice in your muscles, and blackbirds in your merlot. Behind adulation is a dog's wagging tail. Peculiar houses a herd of cattle. Grubby is...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel.” — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book ReviewPilgrim at Tinker...
"Blood in the Water is a twisty true crime narrative of greed, suspicion, and revenge, taking us from the high seas to the mansion of an enormously wealthy family. Compelling and cinematic, it keeps you guessing about the complicated family at the heart of this saga...
Enter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller—A Perfect Storm on land—that chronicles America’s biggest tornado outbreak since the beginning of recorded weather: a horrific three-day superstorm with 358 separate tornadoes touching down in twenty-one...
Master storyteller Brad Meltzer counts down and decodes the world’s top 10 most intriguing conspiracies stories.  Wanted: the truth. In a riveting collection, Brad Meltzer guides us through the 10 greatest conspiracies of all time, from Leonardo da Vinci’s stolen...
Pulitzer Prize Finalist: “Hansen’s principal injunction to Americans to understand how others view them and their country’s policies is timely and urgent.” —The Washington Post Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America’s Cornelius Ryan Award A New York Times...
An “intimate” account of a double murder by a man once suspected as being the Golden State Killer (O, the Oprah Magazine,“20 Best True Crime Books”).  In 1978, two tortured corpses—hooded, bound, and weighted down with engine parts—were found in the sea off...
“Easily digested nuggets of the most up-to-date scientific information provided by scientists well-versed in their fields. . . . engaging and readable.” —Publishers WeeklyWhy is the night sky dark? How do dolphins sleep without drowning? Why do hangovers occur? Will...
New York Times Bestseller: This entertaining-yet-enlightening crash course on philosophy is “an extraordinary read” (Orlando Sentinel). Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent journey through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers....
The New York Times–bestselling author’s pioneering true crime classic: It’s “Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood turned inside out” (Newsweek).  During an armed robbery in 1974, five hostages were held in the basement of a small home-audio store in Ogden, Utah, by a group...