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Severance by Ling Ma

Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. So she barely notices when …

The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins

In this bold and comprehensive new history, Vincent Bevins builds on his incisive reporting for the Washington Post, using recently …

Cujo by Stephen King

Cujo is a 1981 horror novel by American writer Stephen King about a rabid Saint Bernard. The novel won the …

Alibaba by Duncan Clark

Traces the founding of Alibaba, the world's second largest Internet company, by an English teacher from humble origins, drawing on …

Reamde by Neal Stephenson

Reamde is a speculative fiction novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 2011. The story, set in the present day, centers …

The Outsider by Stephen King, Will Patton, Bernhard Kleinschmidt

"An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered …

The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda, Alison Watts

Chinese Cyber Nationalism by Xu, Wu.

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

Seveneves by Neal Stephenson

down Days by Ilze Hugo

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 by Frank Dikotter

Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country …

The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel

Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star lodging on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. On the …

People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry

An incisive and compelling account of the case of 21-year-old Lucie Blackman, who stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo …

People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry

An incisive and compelling account of the case of 21-year-old Lucie Blackman, who stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo …