Early Bird Books Reading Recommendations

A children's book that celebrates Black creativity.

How we define guilt determines who’s paying for it. 

Read an excerpt from Talking to Strangers.

Read an excerpt from Iris Apfel’s memoir that is just as authentic and vivacious as she was.

Stoic philosophy is not just for ancient philosophers. 

The controversial Christian author defied categorization.

You’ll understand why one of Napoleon’s last words ever uttered was “Josephine.”

Experience Indigenous poetry.

Read an excerpt from The Temple of My Familiar.

See censorship through a student's eyes.

Go behind the scenes of the publishing industry.

Three eccentric friends and one fox terrier on a boat trip—what can go wrong?  

Take a peek at the fourth book in the Fossil Feuds series.

Jane Smiley’s musings on self-growth, literary criticism and the art of writing.

Jerry Oppenheimer, that is.

“McCarthy would rather talk about rattlesnakes, molecular computers, country music, Wittgenstein—anything—than himself or his books.”

A roofer, a car salesman, and an MMA fighter walk into a cash depot...

A retired psychologist shares her knowledge.

Lord represented Kerouac, Breslin and more.

"For me and the countless women who put their lives at risk to control their own destinies, the world changed in 1973 when Roe v. Wade became the law of the land."