Chapter & Verse

This book broke me open and then put me back together differently. I hand it to anyone who thinks they've read everything about resilience.

— Sarah Mitchell

Two sisters in a Mennonite colony must decide whether to stay silent or fight back after years of abuse. Toews writes with devastating precision and extraordinary compassion.

Peters doesn't write for the comfortable. She writes for the curious. And this book will make you very curious indeed.

— Sarah Mitchell

A sharp, funny, and devastating novel about three women — trans and cis — navigating the possibilities of parenthood and reinvention.

I didn't know I needed to think about what's beneath my feet until Macfarlane made me. Now I can't stop.

— Marcus Chen

A deep time journey beneath the Earth's surface — from burial chambers to mycorrhizal networks. Macfarlane writes about the dark with luminous clarity.

The kind of nonfiction that reads like a thriller and stays like a scar. I couldn't put it down and I couldn't forget it.

— Marcus Chen

A gripping account of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, centered on the disappearance of a mother of ten. Masterful narrative nonfiction.

Ozeki writes the kind of book that makes you look up from the page and see the world differently. I've given this to more people than any other title.

— Elena Vasquez

A novelist finds a diary washed up on a beach in Canada, written by a teenage girl in Tokyo. Two lives entwine across the Pacific.

Le Guin makes you question everything you assume about identity, loyalty, and what it means to be human. Fifty years later, it's still ahead of us.

— Daniel Okafor

An envoy from an interstellar civilization arrives on a planet where gender is fluid. Le Guin's masterpiece about prejudice, politics, and connection.