In this category you will find nonfiction titles on current events, politics, sociology, and culture. Everything that you need to understand the world we live in and the ideas that shape it.

Our all time favorite reads. If you ask us for a recommendation, we'll start with these.

Our Picks

Get your books hot off the press! New releases coming out every week.

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The Portuguese language has travelled far and wide across the globe. Its rich literary community includes authors from Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Discover Lusophone authors old and new in translation.

Lusophone Authors

The Booker Prize is one of the most important literary prizes in the English language. Here you will find all of the nominated, and winning, titles for this year's Booker and International Booker Prizes.

The International Booker Prize 2024

Small ou independent presses are publishing houses that do not make part of the big five companies that publish most of the books in the world. These independent publishers are some os the great taste makers of our time, taking chances on books beyond their commercial appeal.

Small Presses

The Vintage Minis, are the perfect collection to sample some of the world's most renowned authors, each in a subject they are experts in.

Vintage Minis

Our booklists are curated from the diverse personal tastes and interests of our team. We organize these lists around themes to highlight exciting reads that you might not otherwise encounter.&nbsp;

Booklists

Our Literary fiction category encompasses everything from the historical narratives, to modern day ones. Here you will find a broad selection of novels, from the genre bending to the realistic.

Literary Fiction

Immerse yourself in the beauty of verse and the power of words.

Poetry

Collections from established and new story tellers.

Short Stories

Romance

Ghost stories, slashers, and all the gore in between.

Horror

Thrillers, detective novels, true crime, and everything in between.

Mystery & True Crime

From riding spaceships to dragons, everything here is out of this world!

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Graphic novels ranging in genre and artistic styles, from writers and artists across the world.

Graphic Novels

From the great classics to the experimental, our fiction collection encompasses the best of every genre to transport you to other worlds and other lives through many different narratives.&nbsp;

Fiction

Know the world with real stories, through eyes and words of those who lived them.

Memoir

Dive into personal and critical reflections on a wide range of topics.

Essays

Writings on writing, reading, and everything literary.

Lit Crit

Books on cooking and traveling. Find here your next destination or recipe.

Food & Travel

Nonfiction about global history and the people that defined it.

History & Biography

Explore the world of creativity, from timeless art to contemporary design.

Art, Architecture & Fashion

Engage with ideas that challenge and inspire, from ancient to modern times.

Philosophy & Religion

Politics, Society & Current Events

Titles on the natural world, psychology, technology, and much more.

Science

In this list you'll find new culture, criticism, biography, and scientific writing alongside classics of each genre.&nbsp;

Nonfiction

Books from all genres for middle-grade readers ages 8-12 , and Young adults ages 13-17, and all who are still young at heart.

YA & Middle-Grade

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Books to guide young readers through the first years of their reading lives.&nbsp;

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Freedom Is A Constant Struggle

Make It Make Sense

Now Go

Fascism and Democracy

Glitch Feminism

Machine Readable Me

Space Crone

On Being Unreasonable

50 Big Ideas You Really Need to Know

50 Political Ideas You Really Need to Know

Money

On Women

Notes on Nationalism

Cult Following

Want

The Art of Cruelty

The Age of Magical Overthinking

Hair/Power

Electric Dreams

Sick of It

Human Rights, Robot Wrongs

On Giving Up

The Fire Next Time

Orientalism

The Demon of Unrest

Ancestral Future

The Art Thief

Austerity

The Conspiracy Tourist

Moral AI

How to Winter

Where We Stand

Doppelganger

The Great Reversal

Surveillance: A Very Short Introduction

On the Couch

Cobalt Red

Last Night a DJ Saved My Life

No Dice

Korea

Smoke And Ashes

Burn It Down!

The Cure For Burnout

On Freedom

A History of the World in 500 Maps

"No Offence, But..."

50 Democracy Ideas You Really Need to Know

Read Write Own

Rebel Island

Four Thousand Weeks

Holding the Note

40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World

You Must Stand Up

By the Fire We Carry

Bring No Clothes

Jobs for the Girls

The Abandoners

The Chinese Phantom

Mother State

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