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7 Books that Dare Kids to Dream Big

Picture books that inspire youngsters to dream big and recognize their potential to be a force for good in the world!

From First Novel Prize finalist Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous to Writers Council member Richard Powers’s...

Our 2019 First Novel Prize winner, De’Shawn Charles Winslow, shares six books he thinks would make great gifts. You can find each of these...

From Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House to Andrea Long Chu’s Females, check out our bookstore’s top...

This Junior Edition features tales inspired by mythology & folklore. From Anansi to Antigone, these books have deep storytelling roots.

From Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School to Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Thick and Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror...

Check out six great picks from novelist Richard Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and member of our Writers Council.

From Margaret Atwood’s chilling sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale to Writers Council member Richard Powers’s Pulitzer...

We are pleased to announce that debut novels by Chia-Chia Lin, Julia Phillips, Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Ocean Vuong, Joe Wilkins, Lauren Wilkinson...

National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections, Freedom, The End of the End of the Earth) on...