The high flights and disastrous crashes of the cycle-jumping daredevil.

The Aerosmith singer's memoir offers self-reflection and self-promotion in equal measure, and at full volume.

A posthumous collection of essays celebrates the crusading spirit of a Russian reporter and writer.

From the author of Praying for Sheetrock, the story of her life with a unusually large, lively household.

A noted historian of the Third Reich offers "a moral history of the Second World War."

A history of the polymer and a guide to the possibilities and pitfalls of a world dependent on its use.

The man who brought Jackie Robinson into Major League Baseball—and changed the sport forever—gets the biography he deserves.

A new gathering of verse from the prizewinning poet celebrates a life on the land.

One of America's adjunct army gives voice to the concerns from the academic front lines.

A new generation of literati weighs in on the destiny of fiction in the digital age.

The world of the line cooks behind Ferran Adria's culinary wizardy.

A famed director's tribute to his family's immigrant odyssey.

The adventures of two secret agents, partners in love and espionage.

A Dostoevskian tale of murderer, newly translated by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace.

A dedicated author and gardener shines new light on her three-acre masterpiece.

Adolescent anxieties and popstar pinups are at the heart of this tale of a girl's coming of age and first love.

An eleven-year-old sleuth cycles through 1950s England, in pursuit of a gypsy's murderer.

A chilling tale of crime and consequences set amid the pleasure-seekers of 1990s London.

A moving tale from one of China's literary giants is rooted in a scandalous true story of "blood-selling."

A playful romance constructed in the form of a list of definitions sidesteps the meaning of love itself.

A historian reflects on the ongoing impact of Betty Friedan's groundbreaking book The Feminine Mystique.

Guillermo Del Toro's debut work is a wickedly inventive revision of one of horror's classic scenarios.

A new gathering of Anglo-Saxon poetry in translation arrives in time for hearthside reading.

A polemic against the speed at which a networked world is remaking our culture, with rules for an immediate response.

A two-disc compilation collects and honors the music of the pianist who married odd time signatures with hit-making melodicism.

A memoir of growing up in gritty 1970s Manhattan, shadowed by the tragic tale of a musician's rise and premature fall.

The story of an abandoned child and an unlikely rescue is told in the shadow of China's massive Three Gorges Dam project.

The notes of a legendary thinker experiencing, and reflecting on grief in both personal and universal terms.

A memoir of the celebrated author's explosive, enduring partnership with the Nobel Laureate.

A comprehensive new guide to the voices that carried the twentieth century's tune.