Category Archives: Popular Reading Collection

Jeanette Winterson’s twist on The Winter’s Tale is “an elegant retelling of Shakespeare” – The Guardian. The Hogarth Shakespeare program from Vintage Books is commissioning some of the world’s most talented and recognized authors to recreate Shakespeare’s classic works. The … Continue reading →

Noelle Stevenson makes her graphic novel debut with Nimona, based on her award-winning web comic. The beloved epic tells the story of Nimona, a young shape shifter with an aptitude for villainy. She teams up with super villain Lord Blackheart … Continue reading →

“Nirvana,” winner of the prestigious Sunday Times short story award, tells the story of a programmer who finds refuge in the digital image of the President of the United States as his wife suffers from a rare disease. Countless other … Continue reading →

The mega-bestselling author has written a book for adults that will charm (and probably disturb) you as much as The Series of Unfortunate Events did. Most of us probably know him as gothic humorist Lemony Snicket, but now, Daniel Handler … Continue reading →

Ta-Nehisi Coates, deemed “one of the most elegant and sharp observers of race in America” by Judge Hendrick Hertzberg will be in Seattle this month! Available in the Popular Collection. . . Between the World and Me has received significant … Continue reading →

One of the Nobel Prize Winner’s earliest novels, Skylight was left sitting in a publisher’s office in Lisbon for decades. After all these years, “the book lost and found in time” is finally being published in English. It’s the late … Continue reading →

The Martini Shot consists of a novella and stories, a first from the award-winning author/producer of The Wire George Pelecanos. Some plots include: the hunt for an allegedly dead man from Miami to Brazil, an aging underachiever’s final attempt at … Continue reading →

From the author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas comes another emotional and evocative novel. A History of Loneliness tells the story of Father Odran Yates, a man who turned to the Catholic Church after a life-changing family tragedy. … Continue reading →

Today we’re highlighting Holy Cow by X-Files star David Duchovny. In it, three unlikely heroes embark on an odyssey for a better life. The trio includes a witty and optimistic cow by the name of Elsie Bovary, a pig who’s … Continue reading →

Evie O’Neill, “America’s Sweetheart Seer,” can read objects to learn about the past. When communities fall victim to a mysterious sleeping sickness in New York City, Evie is called upon to deal with menacing magic of nightmares from which one … Continue reading →