Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Caligula and Three Other Plays

by Albert Camus

Look at Me

by Anita Brookner

The Prince

by Niccolo Machiavelli & Michael Ennis

Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power.  Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince...

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

by Mark Leyner

Kepler

by John Banville

Who Will Run the Frog Hospital

by Lorrie Moore

Sleeping on the Wing

by Kenneth Koch & Kate Farrell

Fame & Folly

by Cynthia Ozick

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

by John Berger

Tooth of Crime

by Sam Shepard

One of the plays that first announced Sam Shepard as an original voice in American theater, Tooth of Crime is his thrillingly innovative rock drama, published here in a revised edition that is as fresh and provocative...

Wickett's Remedy

by Myla Goldberg

Lydia Kilkenny is eager to move beyond her South Boston childhood, and when she marries Henry Wickett, a shy Boston Brahmin who plans to become a doctor, her future seems assured. That path changes when Henry...

Pacific War, 1931-1945

by Saburo Ienaga

A portrayal of how and why Japan waged war from 1931-1945 and what life was like for the Japanese people in a society engaged in total war.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Foreign Land

by Jonathan Raban

From Jonathan Raban, the award--winning author of Bad Land and Passage to Juneau, comes this quirky and insightful story of what can happen when one can and does go home again.

For the past thirty years, George...

Flynn

Flynn #1

by Gregory Mcdonald

Ever since F.X. Flynn made his first appearance in Confess, Fletch, matching wits with the inimitable Irwin Fletcher, he has befuddled, infuriated, and amazed his colleagues on the Boston Police force while...

Nothin' But Good Times Ahead

by Molly Ivins

She's back.  Molly Ivins, our most perceptive, outrageously funny political commentator, has given us an uproarious new book.

In Nothin' But Good Times Ahead, Ivins proved that no one has a steadier gaze or...

More Than a Champion

by Jan Philipp Reemtsma

"A dazzling portrait. . . . Written with energy, daring, and artful intelligence."  --San Francisco Chronicle

From the Trade Paperback edition.

A Recipe for Bees

by Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Gail Anderson-Dargatz's evocative novel of one woman's simple but passionately lived life reminds of us of the pleasure to be found in human contact and simple, natural things.

Raised by her silent but companionable...

Carioca Fletch

Fletch #7

by Gregory Mcdonald

Carioca Fletch

Fletch's trip to Brazil wasn’t exactly planned. But it’s Carnival time in Rio and he has plenty of money, thanks to a little arrangement made stateside. And it took him no time to hook up with...

Vintage Cather

by Willa Cather

A classic American writer in every sense, Willa Cather enjoyed both critical and commercial success in her long career, receiving the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours. Her beloved and enduring novels...

Living a Year of Kaddish

by Ari Goldman

Ari Goldman's exploration of the emotional and spiritual aspects of spending a year in mourning for his father will resonate with anyone who has lost a loved one, as he describes how this year affected him as...