Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 979 books
Elizabeth
Renaissance Prince
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
This surprising portrait of the Tudor queen offers an “ambitious re-examination of the intersection of gender and monarchy” (The New York Times Book Review).
Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when it suited her “‘weak and feeble’ woman’s...
I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
“Some books celebrate the human condition; others commiserate with us. This memoir does both.” —Helen Oyeyemi, NPR
This spellbinding memoir by the National Book Award–nominated author of The Bird Artist begins with a portrait, both harrowing and hilarious, of a midwestern boy’s summer...
J.R.R. Tolkien
Author of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
The definitive Tolkien companion—an indispensable guide to The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and more, from the author of The Road to Middle-earth.
This “highly erudite celebration and exploration of Tolkien’s works [is] enormous fun,” declared the Houston Chronicle, and Tom Shippey,...
by Jonah Lehrer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
The New York Times–bestselling author provides an “entertaining” look at how artists enlighten us about the workings of the brain (New York magazine).
In this book, the author of How We Decide and Imagine: How Creativity Works “writes skillfully and coherently about both art and science”—and...
The Peabody Sisters
Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2006
Pulitzer Prize Finalist: “A stunning work of biography” about three little-known New England women who made intellectual history (The New York Times).
Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways the American Brontës. The story of these remarkable sisters—and their central role...
by Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2003
In her journals and writing exercises, this novelist “comes to us with all the brilliance, perceptiveness, and restraint we could wish” (Kirkus Reviews).
From 1918 to 1941, even as she penned masterpiece upon masterpiece, Virginia Woolf kept a diary. She poured into it her thoughts, feelings,...
A Literate Passion
Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller: 1932–1953
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1989
A “lyrical, impassioned” document of the intimate relationship between the two authors that was first disclosed in Henry and June (Booklist).
This exchange of letters between the two controversial writers—Anaïs Nin, renowned for her candid and personal diaries, and Henry Miller, author of...
Girl Sleuth
Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
The true story behind the iconic fictional detective is “a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing” (The Seattle Times).
An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
The plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930—and...
What There Is to Say We Have Said
The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2011
Letters revealing a lost literary world—and a unique friendship between a brilliant author and a New Yorker editor.
For over fifty years, Eudora Welty and William Maxwell, two of our most admired writers, penned letters to each other. They shared their worries about work and family, literary...
by Paul Theroux
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1986
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 1986
This collection of wide-ranging essays from the New York Times–bestselling travel writer is “a steamer trunk full of delights” (Chicago Sun-Times).
This collection of decidedly opinionated articles, essays, and ruminations, by the author of My Other Life and Kowloon Tong, transports the...
February House
The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
An “irresistible” account of a little-known literary salon and creative commune in 1940s Brooklyn (The Washington Post Book World).
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
February House is the true story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young...
The Pattern in the Carpet
A Personal History with Jigsaws
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2009
This unique blend of memoir and history takes “a multi-layered look at jigsaw puzzles . . . charming [and] fascinating” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Award-winning author Margaret Drabble weaves her own story into a history of games, in particular jigsaws, which have offered her...
Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home
Life on the Page
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
“In her keen-eyed and hilariously funny new book . . . novelist and memoirist Lynn Freed tells how writers deal with life’s large and little tribulations” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
These eleven essays combine a memoir of an exotic life, reflections on the art and craft of writing, and a...
by John Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2000
A New York Times Notable Book: A man sorts through the secret life of his troubled, reclusive brother in this “powerful, moving personal history” (Entertainment Weekly).
Every family has its odd character, the one who never seems right with the world. When a grieving John Vernon was charged...