Riverhead Books imprint: 592 books
The B Side
The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
From an acclaimed cultural critic, a narrative and social history of the Great American Songwriting era.
Everybody knows and loves the American Songbook. But it’s a bit less widely understood that in about 1950, this stream of great songs more or less dried up. All of a sudden, what came...
To Air is Human
One Man's Quest to Become the World's Greatest Air Guitarist
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
“Make Air, Not War” is the personal motto of Dan Crane, the musician who decided to put his “there” guitar aside and reinvent himself as Björn Türoque: the take-no-prisoners future of competitive air guitar. Jeopardizing love and livelihood to join the ruthless international circuit of the...
Dream More
Celebrate the Dreamer in You
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The legendary Dolly Parton shares her heartfelt hopes and dreams for everyone.
Expanding on the popular commencement speech Dolly Parton gave at the University of Tennessee, Dream More is a deeper and richer exploration of the personal philosophy she has forged over the course of her astonishing...
Disaster Preparedness
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
"Smart, hilarious, unique-- just terrific." --Anne Lamott
A thoughtful, witty memoir from the author of How to Be a Person in the World and the popular advice column, Ask Polly.
When Heather Havrilesky was a kid during the '70s, harrowing disaster films dominated every movie...
Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings
Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2007
View our feature on Tyler Perry's Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings.
In 2005, Tyler Perry took Hollywood by storm. The movie he wrote, produced, and starred in, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, opened number one at the box office and went on to gross more than $50 million. In its first...
by Nick Hornby
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996
**Soon to be a Disney+ streaming TV series starring Zoë Kravitz
From the bestselling author of Funny Girl, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll.**
Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store....
Creation (Movie Tie-In)
Darwin, His Daughter & Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
**How Charles Darwin saw the world changed it forever. Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin is now a major motion picture.
In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes discovered the writing case of Charles and Emma Darwin’s beloved daughter Annie Darwin,...
Paper Love
Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
One woman’s journey to find the lost love her grandfather left behind when he fled pre-World War II Europe, and an exploration into family identity, myth, and memory.
Years after her grandfather’s death, journalist Sarah Wildman stumbled upon a cache of his letters in a file labeled “Correspondence:...
by Sarah Waters
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
**“Gothic tale, psychological study, puzzle narrative…This is gripping, astute fiction that feeds the mind and senses.”—**The Seattle Times
An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s...
Brilliance of the Moon
Tales of the Otori, Book Three
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
Brilliance of the Moon is the third book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn. Don't miss the related series, The Tale of Shikanoko.
A beautiful, haunting evocation of the medieval Japan of Lian Hearn's imagination, this thrilling follow-up to Grass for His Pillow and Across the...
Friendkeeping
A Field Guide to the People You Love, Hate, and Can't Live Without
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
**Look out for Julie's new book, The Stars in Our Eyes.
From the beloved and bestselling memoirist comes a funny and affecting look at making the most of our friendships in an age of isolation.**
With her inimitable wit and disarming warmth, Julie Klam shares with us her experiences,...
by Julie Klam
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
**Look out for Julie's new book, The Stars in Our Eyes.
From the author of Friendkeeping and Love at First Bark, one woman's hilarious, bittersweet account of growing up in a family of career-shunning, dependence-seeking women and her journey to a state of twenty-first-century self-reliance.**
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by Sloane Crosley
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
From the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned Sloane Crosley widespread acclaim, award nominations, and an ever-growing cadre of loyal fans. In Cake readers were introduced to the foibles...
Awayland
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
**“Excellent and peculiar… Ausubel’s imagination…wants to offer consolation for how ghastly things can get, a type of healing that only reading can provide. All 11 of these stories are deeply involving.” –New York Times Book Review
“Funny, endearing short stories…Each tale looks...