Houghton imprint: 895 books
Manhattan Monologues
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2002
**From a New York Times–bestselling author, short stories of the privileged class, spanning a century of New York history:**“Urbane, humorous . . . a treat to read.” —Library Journal
Sublime master of manners, exquisite critic of the upper crust, and beloved American author Louis Auchincloss...
East Side Story
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2004
A “novel of power and hypocrisy in upper-class New York” that follows the rise of one prominent family, generation after generation (The New Yorker).
How did the families who live on Manhattan’s Upper East Side get to where they are today? This engaging saga by a New York Times–bestselling...
The Young Apollo
And Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Short stories from a New York Times–bestselling author, in settings ranging from Edwardian garden parties to 1970s Manhattan.
While bringing to life stories of the past filled with privilege and glamour, these tales also explore their characters’ less than savory ambitions and desires. In the...
The Wild Marsh
Four Seasons at Home in Montana
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
An account of one year in the Yaak Valley wilderness range, by the acclaimed naturalist and memoirist.
Beginning with his family settling in for the long northwestern Montana winter, and capturing all the subtle harbingers of change that mark each passing month—the initial cruel teasing of...
Unearthed
Love, Acceptance, and Other Lessons from an Abandoned Garden
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
“A generous, poignant memoir” of loss, family secrets, and a quest to shape something beautiful out of the chaos of nature (Kirkus Reviews).
Just as Alex and her husband buy a house in Toronto, set atop an acre of wilderness that extends into a natural gorge in the middle of the city, she learns...
Orphan Trains
The Story of Charles Loring Brace and the Children He Saved and Failed
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
The true story behind Christina Baker Kline’s bestselling novel is revealed in this “engaging and thoughtful history” of the Children’s Aid Society (Los Angeles Times).
A powerful blend of history, biography, and adventure, Orphan Trains fills a grievous gap in the American story. Tracing...
The African Svelte
Ingenious Misspellings That Make Surprising Sense
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
“For language lovers, this book, with all its verbal tangles and wit, is sure to, in its own words, ‘pass mustard’” (Poets & Writers).
Inspired by Daniel Menaker’s tenure at the New Yorker, this collection of comical, revelatory errors foraged from the wilds of everyday English comes...
Daughter of the Queen of Sheba
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
This account of growing up with a mentally ill mother “belongs on a shelf of classic memoirs, alongside The Liars’ Club and Angela’s Ashes” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
As an NPR correspondent, Jacki Lyden visited some dangerous war zones—but her childhood was a war zone...
Speaking with Strangers
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 1998
From the author of American Girl, a “profoundly moving” memoir of single motherhood, loneliness, and finding one’s way home (The New York Times).
After growing up in a small New England town and achieving professional success working for Manhattan fashion magazines, Mary Cantwell finds...
The Boy Who Played with Fusion
Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This story of a child prodigy and his unique upbringing is “an engrossing journey to the outer realms of science and parenting” (Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish).
A PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist
Like many young children, Taylor Wilson dreamed of becoming...
by Scott O'Dell
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2004
Rich in the atmosphere of thirteenth-century Italy, The Road to Damietta offers through Ricca di Montanaro’s eyes a new perspective on the man who became the famous Saint Francis of Assisi, the guileless, joyous man who praised the oneness of nature and sought to bring the world into harmony. Lord,...
Kings of the Road
How Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, and Alberto Salazar Made Running Go Boom
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
A “lively, informative history” of distance running’s 1970s heyday—including the famous Falmouth Road Race—written “with a true fan’s contagious enthusiasm” (Newsweek).
It was 1978. Jimmy Carter was president; gas prices were soaring; and Americans were hunkering down to weather...
by Andrew Beyer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1980
A Harvard dropout’s memoir of playing the horses—a great read for handicappers or those who enjoyed Ben Mezrich’s Bringing Down the House.
In 1977, before he was known as the creator of “The Beyer Speed Figure,” Andrew Beyer set out on a gambling odyssey, determined to prove himself...
Word Freak
Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2001
This “marvelously absorbing” book is “a walk on the wild side of words and ventures into the zone where language and mathematics intersect” (San Jose Mercury News).
A former Wall Street Journal reporter and NPR regular, Stefan Fatsis recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of...