Algonquin Books imprint: 445 books
by Silas House
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
“Southernmost engages my most deeply hidden fears and hopes . . . I love this book, and for it, I love Silas House.” —Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina
Asher Sharp is willing to give up everything for what he believes in. Except his son.
In the aftermath of a flood...
Strangers in Budapest
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
“Jessica Keener has written a gorgeous, lyrical, and sweeping novel about the tangled web of past and present. Suspenseful, perceptive, fast-paced, and ultimately restorative.” —Susan Henderson, author of Up from the Blue
Budapest: gorgeous city of secrets, with ties to a shadowy, bloody...
Dinner at Miss Lady's
Memories and Recipes from a Southern Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Back when people spent their whole lives in one place, life was all about family and family rituals. It was about the whole clan gathering at dinnertime over meals to be remembered forever. Luann Landon's cookbook/memoir transports us to that world of formal midday dinners, closely guarded recipes,...
A Death in the Rainforest
How a Language and a Way of Life Came to an End in Papua New Guinea
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
**“Perhaps the finest and most profound account of ethnographic fieldwork and discovery that has ever entered the anthropological literature.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“If you want to experience a profoundly different culture without the exhausting travel (to say nothing of the cost),...
Running the Rift
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Running the Rift follows the progress of Jean Patrick Nkuba from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life. A naturally gifted athlete, he sprints over the thousand hills of Rwanda and dreams of becoming his country’s first Olympic medal winner in...
Outwitting History
The Amazing Adventures of a Man Who Rescued a Million Yiddish Books
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2005
This true story of a quest to save Jewish literature is “a detective story, a profound history lesson, and a poignant evocation of a bygone world” (The Boston Globe).
In 1980 an entire body of Jewish literature—the physical remnant of Yiddish culture—was on the verge of extinction....
Godforsaken Sea
Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
“The best book ever written about the terrifying business of single-handed sailing . . . As tight and gripping as The Perfect Storm or Into Thin Air.” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Godforsaken Sea is the hair-raising account of the world’s most demanding, dangerous, and deadly sailing race—following...
The Resurrectionist
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
A “demented and deeply enjoyable” tale of a father journeying into a strange world to save his son (Los Angeles Times).
In this fantastic tale that “blends the out-there mysticism of H. P. Lovecraft, the dark corridors and femme fatales of Dashiell Hammett, and the pulpy, lurid qualities...
The Queen of October
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 1992
This New York Times Notable Book is a heartwarming and humorous story of a girl growing up as her family falls apart in the 1960s South.
Sally Maulden’s parents are getting a divorce, and she has been banished to her grandparents’ home in Coldwater, Arkansas. No one seems to really care...
The Americano
Fighting with Castro for Cuba's Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
The untold story of William Morgan, the man who left Ohio to become a high-ranking leader in Fidel Castro’s rebel army: “Reads like a great epic novel” (Carlos Eire, author of Waiting for Snow in Havana).
When William Morgan was twenty-two years old, he was working as a high school janitor...
The Soul of a Doctor
Harvard Medical Students Face Life and Death
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
True stories of transitioning from medical school classrooms to the realities of the hospital: “Moving, eloquent, and often unforgettable” (Atul Gawande, MD).
After years of practice, doctors can sometimes seem aloof, uncaring, and hurried. What goes on in their minds? Were they always...
A Boy I Once Knew
What a Teacher Learned from Her Student
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2002
A “touching and heartfelt” true story about loss, memory, and a remarkable bond between an English teacher and one of her former students (Booklist).
One morning, a box was delivered to Elizabeth Stone’s door. It held ten years of personal diaries and a letter that began: Dear Elizabeth,...
Dream Golf
The Making of Bandon Dunes
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The account of how one of America’s most beautiful golf resorts came to be is “a narrative gem” (James Dodson).
On a wild, windblown bluff high above the Pacific sits one of America’s premier golfing destinations, Bandon Dunes. Golf enthusiast Mike Keiser had the dream of building this...
Little Miss Strange
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
A girl grows up among Colorado hippies in this “powerful story about coming of age in the 1970s . . . An amazing book” (Richmond Times-Dispatch).
Sarajean Henry lives with a Vietnam veteran she accepts as her father. When she comes home, Jimmy might be preparing dinner—or he might be shooting...