Harper Perennial: 508 books
An Innocent Fashion
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
“Writing in a fervently literary style that flirts openly with the traditions of Salinger, Plath, and Fitzgerald, Hernández is a diamond-sharp satirist and a bracingly fresh chronicler of the heartbreak of trying to grow up. Honest and absurd, funny and tragic, wild and lovely, this novel describes...
Nikki's Threesome
The Bride Stripped Bare, With My Body, and I Take You
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
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Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist
The Story of a Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Now available in paperback for the first time, with a new introduction, the poignant and insightful memoir from Yossi Klein Halevi, the award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed Like Dreamers—a coming-of-age story about a traumatic family history, radical politics, and spiritual transformation...
Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight
What to Do If You Are Sensory Defensive in an Overstimulating World
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
In the publishing tradition of Driven to Distraction or The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Washing, this prescriptive book by a developmental psychologist and sufferer of Sensory Defensive Disorder (SD) sheds light on a little known but common affliction in which sufferers react to harmless stimuli as irritating,...
Talk to Me
How to Ask Better Questions, Get Better Answers, and Interview Anyone Like a Pro
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2019
From respected journalist, professor, and founder of the Writer's Symposium by the Sea, a book that demystifies the art and science of interviewing, in the vein of On Writing Well or How to Read Literature Like a Professor.
“Dean Nelson is one of the best interviewers around.”—Anne Lamott
Interviewing...
Cash Out
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
“Cash Out is one of those novels that begs for more adjectives: relentless, madcap, polished, lean, vivid, warped, original, horrifying and hilarious in equal measure.”
—Marcus Sakey, author of The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes and The Amateur
Imagine a story by Ben Mezrich (The Accidental...
As Nature Made Him
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine—and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally...
by Pat Frank
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
From Pat Frank—author of the classic apocalyptic sci-fi novel Alas, Babylon—comes a political thriller set, and written, at the dawn of the Cold War, now back in print.
In Pat Frank’s riveting, insightful, and thought-provoking novel, young, outspoken Jeff Baker comes out of World War...
In Case We're Separated
Connected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Spanning the length and breadth of the twentieth century, Alice Mattison's masterful In Case We're Separated looks at a family of Jewish immigrants in the 1920s and 1930s and follows the urban, emotionally turbulent lives of their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren against a backdrop...
by Diane McKinney-Whetstone
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Noon and Herbie are deeply in love and living in a tightly knit African American neighborhood in South Philadelphia during the 1940s. But their marriage remains unconsummated because of a horrible incident in Noon's past, so each seeks comfort elsewhere: Noon in the warm acceptance of the neighborhood...
The Ruins of Us
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
Saudi-born author Keija Parssinen’s stunning debut offers the intricate, emotionally resonant story of an American expatriate who discovers that her husband, a Saudi billionaire, has taken a second bride—an emotionally turbulent revelation that blinds them both to their teenaged son’s ominous...
Hotelles
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Paris, a hotel room, the middle of the afternoon . . .
So begins the story of Annabelle, a young escort in Paris who has accepted her final proposition before marrying the powerful and generous man of her dreams, media mogul David Barlet. But the mysterious handwritten notes she has been receiving—notes...
Thank You for the Music
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
In 14 original stories, Jane McCafferty illuminates modern life weaving her love of music throughout the lives and stories of her characters. From two middle-aged strangers who meet in an empty baseball stadium during a rainstorm, to a 23-year-old man who brings his 62-year-old wife home to meet his...
The Unspeakable
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The Unspeakable tells the story of two men, both priests, whose strange and divergent paths collide. Peter Whitmore, an administrator for the Diocese of St. Paul, is asked to investigate and ultimately discredit a priest who, it is rumored, possesses a remarkable power—the power to heal.
The...