Check out some of Jay's favorite books below!
LONGLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE
"The Glass Hotel may be the perfect novel for your survival bunker."
--Ron Charles, The Washington Post
New York Times Bestseller
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida.
A magnificent generational saga that charts a family’s rise and fall, its secrets and inherited crimes, from one of Canada’s most acclaimed novelists
A savage satire of the United States in the throes of insanity, this blisteringly funny novel tells the story of a noble ship, the Glory, and the loud, clownish, and foul Captain who steers it to the brink of disaster.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
"A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune
"Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx
From the internationally best-selling author of You Should Have Left, Measuring the World, and F, a transfixing retelling of the German myth of Tyll Ulenspiegel: a story about the devastation of war and a beguiling artist’s decision never to die
Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize
Winner of the Goldsmiths Prize
Winner of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year
An Irish Times Book Club Choice
Now a television mini-series airing on National Geographic May 2020!
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year & a New York Times Notable Book
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world’s forests: “
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction
Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List
A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of t
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"A tantalizing mystery and a tender coming-of-age story...Unputdownable."—Oprah.com
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art.
From Edgar® -nominated novelist Megan Abbott, who makes “devotees of Cain and Chandler fall down and beg for mercy” (The Hollywood Reporter), The Song Is You imagines a thrilling conclusion to the still unsolved since 1949 Black Dahlia murder case.
On October 7, 1949, dark-haired starlet Jean Spangler kissed her five-year-old daughter good-bye and left for a n
“As gleefully, vividly, hilariously obscene as you'd expect. . . . Irreverent and hugely entertaining." —NPR
From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark and brilliant satire about adolescence, Hell, and the Devil.
In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts -- Moby Dick -- in the form of a workable screenplay so the great director can begin filming.
Three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti, a world in the grip of the corrupt “Papa Doc” and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police. Brown the hotelier, Smith the innocent American, and Jones the confidence man—these are the “comedians” of Greene’s title. Hiding behind their actors’ masks, they hesitate on the edge of life.
Willa Cather's My Ántonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story.
From the New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Horns comes this award-winning collection of short fiction.
Imogene is young, beautiful . . . and dead, waiting in the Rosebud Theater one afternoon in 1945. . . .
A sharp and funny addition to Daniel Woodrell's collection of "country noir" novels, featuring anti-hero Sammy Barlach and Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red with rage and ambition.
Email or call for price.ISBN: 9780143116516Availability: BackorderedPublished: Penguin Books - January 26th, 2010"This debut novel weaves the kind of mannered fantasy that might result if Wes Anderson were to adapt Kafka." --The New Yorker
$15.95ISBN: 9780679745648Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage - February 1st, 1994Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South.
Email or call for price.ISBN: 9780345379658Availability: Special OrderPublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - September 1st, 1992With unprecedented scope and consummate skill, Norman Mailer unfolds a rich and riveting epic of an American spy. Harry Hubbard is the son and godson of CIA legends. His journey to learn the secrets of his society—and his own past—takes him through the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the “momentous catastrophe” of the Kennedy assassination.
$18.00ISBN: 9781451626650Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Simon & Schuster - April 5th, 2011This fiftieth-anniversary edition commemorates Joseph Heller’s masterpiece with a new introduction; critical essays and reviews by Norman Mailer, Alfred Kazin, Anthony Burgess, and others; rare papers and photos; and much more.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Now a Hulu limited series starri$16.99ISBN: 9780156004800Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Mariner Books - September 1st, 1996Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power.$16.00ISBN: 9780374530631Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - March 6th, 2007Flannery O'Connor's haunting first novel of faith, false prophets, and redemptive wisdom
Email or call for price.ISBN: 9780307472229Availability: Special OrderPublished: Anchor - January 12th, 2010MYSTERY. Tom Pasmore, ten years old, survives a near fatal accident. During his long recovery, he becomes obsessed with an unsolved murder and finds he has clues to solving it that he shouldn’t. Lamont von Heilitz has spent his life solving mysteries, until he wanted to know nothing more of the terror of life and the horror of death. When a new murder disrupts their w
Email or call for price.ISBN: 9781564781499Availability: Special OrderPublished: Dalkey Archive Press - April 1st, 1997London life just after World War I, devoid of values and moving headlong into chaos at breakneck speed - Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay, like Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, portrays a world of lost souls madly pursuing both pleasure and meaning.
$17.00ISBN: 9780812988079Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - June 28th, 2016The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews
Keep your eyes peeled for a small black iron door.$17.00ISBN: 9780804172950Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage - July 26th, 2016A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, NPR, Vogue, San Francisco Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal$15.95ISBN: 9781947793170Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Tin House Books - September 11th, 2018A New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year at Esquire, Seattle Times, Minnesota Star Tribune, Huffington Post, and Publishers Weekly.
From “quite possibly America’s best living writer of short stories” (NPR), Ninety-Nine Stories of God finds Joy Williams reeling between the sublime and the surreal, knocking$16.00ISBN: 9780399562655Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Books - August 1st, 2017A funny, fantastically entertaining debut novel, in the spirit of Wodehouse and Monty Python, about a famous poet who inadvertently sells his wife to the devil--then recruits a band of adventurers to rescue her.
$16.00ISBN: 9780399576119Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Riverhead Books - February 6th, 2018A PBS NewsHour/New York Times Book Club Pick
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Named a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Huffington Post, The A.V. Club, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, Refinery29, Town & Country, Harper's Bazaar, NYLON, BookRiot.$17.00ISBN: 9780812988024Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - May 9th, 2017THE INSTANT BESTSELLER • An indelible portrait of girls, the women they become, and that moment in life when everything can go horribly wrong
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY$17.00ISBN: 9781250159991Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Picador - February 6th, 2018Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut. So begins Universal Harvester, the haunting and masterfully unsettling new novel from John Darnielle, author of the New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Nominee Wolf in White Van.
$16.99ISBN: 9780062225566Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - September 19th, 2017NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
$17.00ISBN: 9780399178504Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Del Rey - July 10th, 2018A wildly imaginative novel about a man who is reincarnated over ten thousand lifetimes to be with his one true love: Death herself.
“Tales of gods and men akin to Neil Gaiman’s Sandman as penned by a kindred spirit of Douglas Adams.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)$16.00ISBN: 9780553447651Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Hogarth - February 13th, 2018Tracy Chevalier brings Shakespeare’s Othello—a harrowing drama of jealousy and revenge—to a 1970s era elementary school playground.
$16.00ISBN: 9780399184604Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Riverhead Books - March 6th, 2018"Genius." —Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker
"Samanta Schweblin’s electric story reads like a Fever Dream." —Vanity Fair
Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize!
Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream...Email or call for price.ISBN: 9781613773994Availability: BackorderedPublished: IDW Publishing - December 25th, 2012The groundbreaking Parker books are adapted for the first time as a series of graphic novels by legendary artist Darwyn Cooke introducing readers to the dangerous anti-hero's cold and calculated world of criminals, thugs, and grifters.
Email or call for price.ISBN: 9781401268374Availability: BackorderedPublished: DC Comics - March 28th, 2017Hanna-Barbera has created some of the most recognizable animated characters of all time. As part of DC Comics' re-imagination of cartoons like SCOOBY-DOO, THE FLINTSONES, JOHNNY QUEST, SPACE GHOST, and WACKY RACERS, these new series will be infused with modern and contemporary concepts while keeping the heart and soul of the classic animation.
Email or call for price.ISBN: 9781619889088Availability: Hard to FindPublished: Archie Comics - June 10th, 2014When Jughead's beloved pet Hot Dog is killed in a hit and run, Jughead turns to the only person he knows who can help bring back his furry best friend—Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Using dark, forbidden magic, Sabrina is successful and Hot Dog returns to the land of the living. But he's not the same...
$17.00ISBN: 9780804141314Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Hogarth - May 16th, 2017NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of The Handmaid’s Tale reimagines Shakespeare’s final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge.
$16.95ISBN: 9780804172448Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage - June 2nd, 2015An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
A National Book Award Finalist$16.95ISBN: 9781101972120Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Vintage - June 14th, 2016An award-winning book from the author of Exhalation, this short story collection “blend[s] absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space. . . . raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human.” —The New York Times
$16.00ISBN: 9780525431947Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Anchor - May 30th, 2017A New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Oprah.com$17.00ISBN: 9781609453497Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Europa Editions - February 7th, 2017A powerful, suspenseful tale about a father and son in search of one another, this prize-winning novel based on real-life events is a classic western story of vengeance and redemption set against the sweeping, merciless grandeur of the Australian frontier.
$17.00ISBN: 9780812986136Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Random House Trade Paperbacks - February 17th, 2015In this wild battering ram of a novel, which was originally published to vast controversy in 1965, Norman Mailer creates a character who might be a fictional precursor of the philosopher-killer he would later profile in The Executioner’s Song.
$16.00ISBN: 9781101903346Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Hogarth - June 6th, 2017The tour-de-force, hair-raising new novel from Herman Koch, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dinner and Summer House with Swimming Pool
$16.00ISBN: 9780143128755Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Books - August 16th, 2016Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize and chosen by David Sedaris as his recommended book for his Fall 2016 tour.
$17.00ISBN: 9780385333870Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Dial Press Trade Paperback - January 12th, 1999“A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”—The New York Times Book Review
$14.99ISBN: 9780060913076Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Harper Perennial - October 17th, 2006Thomas Pynchon's classic post-modern satire, which tells the wonderfully unusual story of Oedipa Maas, first published in 1965.
$18.00ISBN: 9780143034902Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Books - January 25th, 2005"Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show."—The New York Times Book Review
A New York Times Bestseller
