Common Reads

Mohammed AL Samawi was born in Sana’a, Yemen and grew up as a practicing Muslim. His memoir, The Fox Hunt: A Refugee's Memoir of Coming to America (William Morrow),...

Andrew Blum is a journalist and the author of two books that demystify the everyday infrastructure of our lives: The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast (Ecco)...

Ken Budd is the author of the memoir The Voluntourist: A Six-Country Tale of Love, Loss, Fatherhood, Fate, and Singing Bon Jovi in Bethlehem (Morrow Avon), the story...

Wiley Cash's debut New York Times best-seller, A Land More Kind Than Home (William Morrow), is a literary thriller about the bond between two brothers and the evil they...

Amanda Coplin is the New York Times best-selling author of The Orchardist, a stunningly original and haunting debut novel in which Coplin spins an engrossing tale of...

A world-class thinker and entrepreneur, Rolf Dobelli is an expert on human psychology and reasoning. He is the author of the international best-seller The Art of Thinking...

Beth Ann Fennelly, a celebrated poet, author, and professor, has partnered with her New York Times best-selling husband, Tom Franklin, to write The Tilted World (William...

Tom Franklin, a southern writer frequently compared with the likes of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O'Connor, draws readers in with his expertly woven stories of crime,...

Lois J. Gaston, PhD is a veteran community college educator and administrator, and the grandniece of acclaimed author Zora Neale Hurston. From 1992 to 2006, she served...

Jessica Grogan, Ph.D., author of Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture, and the Shaping of the Modern Self (Harper Perennial), is a leading authority...

Jennifer Haigh is the acclaimed author of the short story collection News From Heaven and of novels Faith, The Condition, Baker Towers, and Mrs. Kimble. Haigh’s most...

Eleanor Henderson's debut novel, Ten Thousand Saints (Ecco), immediately landed on best-seller and required reading lists. Her other fiction has appeared in Agni, North...

Richard Horan, award-winning novelist and avid nature lover, examines the culture of America's organic family farms, from Maine potato farms to Cape Cod cranberry bogs,...

Lucy Anne Hurston, the niece of literary luminary and Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston, is the author of Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale...

Bassey Ikpi embodies the brilliance of multifaceted creative minds. Ikpi is a writer, performer, mental health advocate and author of the instant New York Times bestselling...

Morgan Jerkins is the Senior Editor at ZORA and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. Her debut essay collection, This Will Be...

When William Kamkwamba was 14, Malawi suffered a severe famine. His family could no longer pay his school fees, and he was forced to drop out of high school. While staying...

"Searing. . . [Karr] has written a book that lassos you, hogties your emotions and won't let you go . . . Explores the subjectivity of memory even as it chronicles with...