Picador: 364 books
Close to the Machine
Technophilia and Its Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
With a New Introduction by Jaron Lanier
A Salon Best Book of the Year
In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool---a sleek and unforgiving machine that was beyond the grasp of most users. With intimate and unflinching detail, software engineer Ellen Ullman examines the strange...
God's Perfect Child
Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
From a former Christian Scientist, the first unvarnished account of one of America's most controversial and little-understood religious movements.
Millions of americans-from Lady Astor to Ginger Rogers to Watergate conspirator H. R. Haldeman-have been touched by the Church of Christ, Scientist....
The Woman Before Wallis
Prince Edward, the Parisian Courtesan, and the Perfect Murder
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
From the glittering dance halls of Paris during World War I to the maisons de rendezvous, luxurious châteaus in the French countryside, The Woman Before Wallis recounts the untold story of Prince Edward's tempestuous affair with a Parisian courtesan and the scandalous aftermath that has remained...
The Domino Diaries
My Decade Boxing with Olympic Champions and Chasing Hemingway's Ghost in the Last Days of Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
A powerful and lively work of immersive journalism, Brin-Jonathan Butler's story of his time chasing the American dream through Cuba
Whether he's hustling his way into Mike Tyson's mansion for an interview, betting his life savings on a boxing match (against the favorite), becoming romantically...
A Cuban Boxer's Journey
Guillermo Rigondeaux, from Castro’s Traitor to American Champion
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
THE STORY OF CUBAN BOXER AND POLITICAL PARIAH GUILLERMO RIGONDEAUX'S HARROWING DECISION TO DEFECT IN HOPES OF REAPING THE REWARDS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
"What is one million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?"
This was the question posed by legendary boxer...
The Value of Nothing
How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
"A deeply though-provoking book about the dramatic changes we must make to save the planet from financial madness."--Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine
Opening with Oscar Wilde's observation that "nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing,"...
Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year
A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
A Businessweek Best Business Book of the Year
A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
In this brilliant, essential book, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas L. Friedman speaks to America's urgent...
What Would the Great Economists Do?
How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
A Newsweek "Best 50 Books of the Year (So Far)" Pick
"What Would the Great Economists Do? comes at the right time: a highly accessible and acute guide to thinking and learning from the men and woman whose work can inform and ultimately aid us in understanding the great national...
by Roman Krznaric
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE IS DEDICATED TO EXPLORING LIFE'S BIG QUESTIONS IN HIGHLY-PORTABLE PAPERBACKS, FEATURING FRENCH FLAPS AND DECKLE EDGES, THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS "DAMNABLY CUTE." WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, BUT WE WILL DIRECT YOU TOWARDS A VARIETY OF USEFUL IDEAS THAT ARE GUARANTEED...
by Stephen Collins
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The job of the skin is to keep it all in...
On the island of Here, livin's easy. Conduct is orderly. Lawns are neat. Citizens are clean shaven-and Dave is the most fastidious of them all. Dave is bald, but for a single hair. He loves drawing, his desk...
by Andy Warner
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Hilarious, entertaining, and illustrated histories behind some of life's most common and underappreciated objects - from the paperclip and the toothbrush to the sports bra and roller skates
Brief Histories of Everyday Objects is a graphic tour through...
Half-Blood Blues
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize
Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011
An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year
Shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction
Berlin, 1939. The Hot Time Swingers, a popular jazz band, has been forbidden to play by the Nazis. Their...
The White Boy Shuffle
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Paul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle, is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluctant messiah of a "divided, downtrodden people."
Object Lessons
The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year
A Huffington Post Best Book of the Year
Twenty contemporary authors introduce twenty sterling examples of the short story from the pages of The Paris Review.
What does it take to write a great short story? In Object Lessons, twenty contemporary masters...