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Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride, Taiye Selasi and editors...

WINNER OF THE 2026 ABIA BIOGRAPHY BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 STELLA PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 ABA BOOKDATA ADULT NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey toward...

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of March and People of the Book comes a vivid and unique new novel for lovers of sweeping historical fiction and books about iconic racehorses like Seabiscuit and Secretariat. WINNER OF THE FICTION INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2023 WINNER OF THE ABIA LITERARY FICTION...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, YEAR OF WONDERS and MARCH comes a unique and vivid novel that retells the story of King David's extraordinary rise to power and fall from grace. 1000 BC. The Second Iron Age. The time of King David. Anointed as the chosen one when...

A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the most extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly visited a small Derbyshire village and the villagers, inspired by a charismatic preacher, elected to quarantine themselves to limit the contagion.

The new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Geraldine Brooks, author of the Richard and Judy bestseller ‘March’, ‘Year of Wonders’ and ‘People of the Book’. Caleb Cheeshateaumauk was the first native American to graduate from Harvard College back in 1665. ‘Caleb’s Crossing’ gives...

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey to peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of  Horse. Many cultural and religious traditions expect those who are grieving to step away from the world. In contemporary life, we are more often met with red tape...

 Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamour of any racetrack. 

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book of 2025 · A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2025 · A Time Best Memoir of 2025 · Named a Best Book of 2025 by NPR, People, Air Mail, Bookreporter, and Publishers Weekly “Brooks...

Ein mitreißendes Hörbuch über Mut, Hingabe und Liebe vor dem Hintergrund des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs, basierend auf einer wahren Geschichte. Washington, D.C., 2019. Jess, eine junge australische Wissenschaftlerin, und Theo, ein nigerianisch-amerikanischer Kunsthistoriker, finden sich durch ihr gemeinsames Interesse an einem Pferd unerwartet verbunden. Jess untersucht die Knochen des Hengstes nach Hinweisen auf seine Kraft und Ausdauer – Theo will die verlorene Geschichte des unbekannten schwarzen Reiters aufdecken, der für seinen Rennerfolg entscheidend war.

Ein mitreißendes Hörbuch über Mut, Hingabe und Liebe vor dem Hintergrund des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs, basierend auf einer wahren Geschichte. Washington, D.C., 2019. Jess, eine junge australische Wissenschaftlerin, und Theo, ein nigerianisch-amerikanischer Kunsthistoriker, finden sich durch ihr gemeinsames Interesse an einem Pferd unerwartet verbunden. Jess untersucht die Knochen des Hengstes nach Hinweisen auf seine Kraft und Ausdauer – Theo will die verlorene Geschichte des unbekannten schwarzen Reiters aufdecken, der für seinen Rennerfolg entscheidend war.

“Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review “Horse isn’t just an animal story—it’s a moving narrative about race and art.” —TIME “A thrilling story about humanity in all its ugliness and beauty . . . the evocative...

“A page turner. . .Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. . .in her skillful hands the issues of the past echo our own deepest concerns: love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality.” – Alice Hoffman, The Washington Post A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of...

A bestselling tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure from the author of The Secret Chord and of March, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Bethia Mayfield is a restless and curious young woman growing up in Martha's Vineyard in the 1660s amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. At...

“Plague stories remind us that we cannot manage without community . . . Year of Wonders is a testament to that very notion.” – The Washington Post An unforgettable tale, set in 17th century England, of a village that quarantines itself to arrest the spread of the plague, from the author...

View our feature on Geraldine Books’s People of the Book.From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war In 1996, Hanna Heath, an Australian rare-book expert, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize--a powerful love story set against the backdrop of the Civil War, from the author of The Secret Chord. From Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic Little Women, Geraldine Brooks has animated the character of the absent father, March, and crafted a story "filled with the...

As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks...