Category: good to read

Maria Pinto
Naturalist, forager, and educator Maria Pinto ‘s book uncovers strange and beautiful fungal connections between the natural and human worlds. She mingles reportage, research, memoir, and nature writing, touching on topics that range from Black farmers’ domestication of the unforgettable aroma of truffles to the history of mycological poisons wielded by enslaved people against their enslavers. Pinto brings a new perspective and a distinctive literary voice to this mix of environmental and lived history.
Great Circle Books

Lindsay Kent
Someone’s definitely dead, and one of the twins is the culprit. Too bad their DNA is identical. When the two women are abducted and thrust into a world of psychedelic drugs, buried trauma, and whispered CIA experiments, Evelyn begins to doubt everything―her research, her memories, even her sanity. The twins are estranged and couldn’t be more different, but they have to collaborate to save themselves from what they do not know. A true psychedelic thriller!
The Hallucinarrator

Abbie Rosner
In compelling personal stories, more than 30 older psychonauts share how their psychedelic experiences helped them heal old wounds, align with their authentic selves, experience profound love and forgiveness, and make peace with their mortality. Many describe how psychedelic journeying has made their older years the happiest, most meaningful time of their lives. Baby boomers are once again exploring the psychedelic drugs of their youth.
Park Street Press

Vanessa Bibliowicz
The book provides essential skills, tools, and insights for preparing clients for psychedelic sessions, supporting them during the experience, and aiding post-session integration for long-term benefits. Chapters describe the personal work, tools, and mindsets professionals need before they begin work in this area, and the book also covers vital topics such as proper client screening for safety, psychedelic psycho-education, and the relationship between mindfulness skills, psychedelics, and other states of consciousness.
Routledge

Roberto Pinelli, MD
The pineal gland, a part of the endocrine system, is less than a centimeter long. Yet this tiny organ in the brain plays an outsized role in many spiritual traditions as it is widely connected with the esoteric concept of the third eye. Ophthalmologist Roberto Pinelli explains his unique methods for using a combination of light, sound, and nutraceuticals to non-invasively activate the pineal gland. He explores Egyptian, Sumerian, and Aztec understandings of the sun and its life-giving rays, looking at how ancient knowledge has been corroborated by contemporary scientific findings and offers us a pracctical way to get in touch with our higher self.
Healing Arts Press

Erica Rex
In 2009, following a breast cancer diagnosis, Rex found herself spiraling into a depression that led her to a groundbreaking clinical trial at Johns Hopkins University in 2012, where she was given two doses of psilocybin. As she reflects on her tumultuous childhood marked by violent abuse from psychiatrist parents, Rex uncovers the psychological influences that shaped her life and therapeutic search. Despite years of failed conventional treatments, Rex sought alternative paths, discovering transformative healing through ayahuasca, MDMA, and 5-MeO-DMT.
She Writes Press

Fabrizio Beverini  et al.
Drinking the Serpent is a collection of articles by the facilitators of Paojilhuasca Amazonian Medicine Center, written from inside. Fabrizio Beverina, MSc in Biomedical Engineering and founder of the center, Dr. Caterina Conti, and Dominic Maccini draw on years of daily practice with ayahuasca and the ancestral medicines of the Amazon to produce a book that is rigorous, honest, and deliberately uncomfortable. This is not a book for people looking for confirmation. It is a book for people willing to stay in the storm.
Kindle Edition

Carlos Warter (with Arthur Lawida)
Despite an unsettled legal landscape, the promise and potential of psychedelics continue to be at the forefront of thinking and research in the United States and around the world. What medicinal and therapeutic properties do the substances of MDMA, psilocybin, LSD, ibogaine, ayahuasca, and ketamine possess, and how can they help us to grow as individuals and as a culture? This book explains how psychedelics can be used in a transpersonal context for sustainable growth and self-discovery. It suggests tools and practices that can round out a program of self-development.
Park Street Press

Paul Tremblay
Philip K. Dick meets the Coen Brothers in this genre-bending near-future tech nightmare that is as bitingly funny as it is horrifically believable. Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state—one with proprietary AI implanted in his head—from California to the East Coast.
William Morrow

Robert McFarlane and Jackie Morris
This field guide shows readers not just how to identify close to fifty birds, but also how to identify with them. Macfarlane describes each bird’s habits and habitats, their patterns of flight and of song, how they hunt or fish or scavenge or gather, how they nest and raise their chicks, the myths that attend them, the threats that shadow them―and how their lives intersect with our own. On every page we encounter Morris’s exhilarating artwork, painted from life in water color and gold leaf, animated with extraordinary detail.
W. W. Norton and Company

Will van Derveer / Keith Kurlander
A focus on symptom management brings little relief and leaves many patients still desperate for healing. Psychedelic therapy targets the root causes of suffering, particularly trauma, which is a critical yet often misunderstood driver of mental health struggles. Whether you’re considering psychedelic therapy for yourself, supporting a loved one, or seeking professional insights as a mental health provider, this book equips you with the knowledge to find qualified practitioners, understand the process, and navigate challenging experiences with care and confidence.
Shambala

Homeros Aridjis
María Sabina, the renowned Mazatec healer, spends her days in the small town of Huautla de Jiménez selling produce at the market and foraging under the new moon for the sacred mushrooms that grow near her home – her Holy Children, Carne de Dios, or Flesh of God. But her life changes forever when an amateur mycologist from New York, with a cameraman in tow, visits her to experience for himself the mushroom ceremony, or velada. Aridjis’ novel tells the story of the motley crew of bohemians, researchers, and holy fools, both real and imagined, who descend on the town of Huautla de Jiménez searching for inspiration, distraction, and salvation in the sacred mushrooms.
The University of Arizona Press

Shannon Nering
What if your greatest teachers weren’t shamans in the jungle but the people you eat breakfast with every morning? In the crucible of motherhood, Shannon’s two sons and husband become unlikely teachers, reflecting her forgotten pieces with unrelenting love and occasional ferocity. Their struggles crack her open in ways no self-help book ever could. When deep-seated heartache has her seeking transformation, an invitation to drink ayahuasca becomes a lifeline. Guided by ancient wisdom and insatiable curiosity, Shannon begins the journey of remembering who she truly was—and still is.
She Writes Press

Dr. Richard Louis Miller
Drawing on the latest research, interviews with practitioners, and case studies, the podcast host and clinical psychologist, one of our most measured and encouraging elders, considers physiological effects like nausea, altered heart rate, and blood pressure changes, along with mental effects such as anxiety, reality distortion, and mood disorders often associated with a bad trip. He also includes an extensive, in-depth Psychedelic Clinical Profiles guide to the 13 most commonly used psychedelic substances, detailing their chemical composition, safety considerations, and legal status.
Park Street Press

Sheldon Hartman / Madison Margolin
Searching for meaning, searching for healing, searching for creativity. Today the community of people who use—or want to use—psychedelics is greater than ever before. To help newbies and experienced psychonauts alike navigate this world, the founders of DoubleBlind, leading authorities on psychedelics, created this comprehensive, inspiring, and playful guide. The wisdom gathered and shared in this book includes the larger ecosystem within which psychedelics are situated, from the widespread use of plant medicines by Indigenous communities to the ethics of the psychedelic industry.
Artsan

Hannah Ritchie
With so many conflicting headlines out there, it’s tough to sort fact from fiction when it comes to climate change and the solutions we need for a cleaner future. The first piece of good news is that data scientist Hannah Ritchie is here with the answers and the steps we need to take now. Using simple, clear data, she tackles questions such as, ‘Is it too late?’, ‘Won’t we run out of minerals?’ and ‘Are we too polarised?’. The second piece of good news: the truth is way more hopeful than you might think. We’re at a critical moment for our planet, and getting the facts straight is step one. But even more crucial is feeling hopeful about what we can do next.
Vermilion

Gary Lachman
Not many members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are also recognized authorities on the Western inner tradition. Gary Lachman is. In 1978, Blondie released the top-ten hit “(I am Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear.” Gary Lachman (then Gary Valentine) had written the song for his girlfriend after the series of shared dreams and telepathic experiences they had. In this memoir, Lachman recounts how he went from being a successful rock and roller to a writer on consciousness and the Western inner tradition. Moreover, he met them all – from the Ramones, via Patty Smith & the Rolling Stones to Timothy Leary, William Burroughs or Colin Wilson, Lachman digs deep.
Inner Traditions

Tom Junod
Big Lou Junod dominated every room he entered. He worshipped the sun and the sea, his own bronzed body, Frank Sinatra, and beautiful women. He was a successful traveling handbag salesman who carried himself like a celebrity. Lou could be cruel to Fran, his wife of fifty-nine years, but he loved his youngest son. Tom was a skin-and-bones, nervous boy, devoted to his mother, but Lou sought to turn him into a version of himself. Tom wrestled with Lou’s imposing presence all his life and set off to learn the facts of his father’s life, and why he was the way he was. The stunning secrets he uncovered staggered him and allowed him to finally become his own person.
Random House

Ibram X Kendi
“White genocide.” The term was coined in 2011 by a French novelist who argued that Black and Brown immigrants were “invading” Europe, brought by shadowy elites to “replace” the White population. From there, politicians and theorists in the United States and elsewhere repackaged it as a story of “globalists” welcoming “migrant criminals” and promoting diversity to take away the jobs, cultures, electoral power, and very lives of White people. Over time, great replacement theory has expanded those under threat to include citizens, men, Jews, Christians, heterosexuals, and ethnic majorities in countries as distinct as Russia, El Salvador, Brazil, Italy, and India, all targeted with the message that they are facing an existential attack that only a strongman can prevent.
Random House

Suzanne Simard
Raised in a family of loggers committed to sensible forest stewardship, trailblazing ecologist Simard has watched as timber companies leave forests at higher risk for wildfires, water crises, and plant and animal extinction. But her research has the potential to chart a new course. The forest, she reveals, is a symphony of finely honed cycles of regeneration—from mushrooms breaking down logs to dying elder trees passing their genetic knowledge to younger ones—that hold the key to protecting our forests. Working closely with local Indigenous communities, whose models of responsible forestry have been largely dismissed, Simard examines how we can protect these sacred places for many years to come.
Random House

Jeremy Narby
Do you know how many millions of years Cannabis has been around? When it began to be cultivated for its medicinal properties? Why the Assassins were not likely to have smoked hashish? Why the members of the Club des Haschischins in Paris got higher than we ever did, and how come Baudelaire hated Cannabis? We know about the prohibition, but do we know when the demonisation of a weed called hemp (and later many other names) started? How the growth boom of the eighties evolved, and with which players? No matter the field, Jeremy Narby approaches marijuana and hashish from a pragmatic angle. Meticulously researched. (SGS)
St. Martin’s Press

Michael Pollan
The early 1990s marked the birth of a new science of consciousness, based on the assumption that the phenomenon could be explained in terms of brain activity, but that effort is faltering, and wilder ideas, such as panpsychism, are now getting a hearing. Indeed, there is now reason to doubt that ‘objective science’ as we have known it since Galileo has the right tools to plumb first-person experience. A story that begins in a brain lab in Seattle ends, of all places, in a cave in the mountains of New Mexico.
Penguin Books

Hélène Grimaud
Internationally acclaimed piano virtuoso and founder of the Wolf Conservation Center, Hélène Grimaud shares her musical life’s journey and inspiring insights on the connections between music, nature, and spirituality. Invoking the Wild Soul of Music reveals paths to rebirth, spiritual growth, and the re-enchantment of life. This memoir shows how to honour the call of the wild even in the heart of civilised modernity.
Inner Traditions

Joel & Michelle Levy
Designed for elite soldiers, the practices in this training are valuable for everyone aiming to heighten focus, deploy ethical discernment, and cultivate responsive awareness and “kindfulness.” Learn how to befriend your inner enemies, avoid self-sabotage and ambush by distractions, and respond skillfully to challenges with deeper courage and compassion. With these teachings, readers can awaken the strength to transform the battlefield of daily life into a zone of peace and navigate these uncertain times with grace, wisdom, and courage.
Destiny Books

Álvaro Enrigue
Orchestrated with a stunningly imagined cast of characters, both historical and purely fictional, Now I Surrender radically recasts the story of how the West was “won.”  Part epic, part alt-Western, it is Álvaro Enrigue’s most expansive and impassioned novel yet. In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband’s ranch. A lieutenant colonel in service to the fledgling Republic, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, discovers he’s on the trail of a more dramatic abduction…
Riverhead Books

Hanna Pickard
Why do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively? Why don’t they quit out of self-concern? Why does the rat in the experiment, alone in a cage, press the lever again and again for cocaine to the point of death? In this pathbreaking book, Hanna Pickard proposes a new paradigm for understanding the puzzle of addiction. For too long, our thinking has been hostage to a false dichotomy: either addiction is a brain disease, or it is a moral failing. Pickard argues that it is neither, and that both models stifle addiction research and fail people who need help.
University Presses

Robert Dale Rogers
Explores more than 500 species of ferns, alongside full-color photos; examines the Indigenous and folk uses of ferns for food and medicine throughout history; explains in detail the scientific research behind the potency of fern chemicals to heal many human conditions. Used for millennia by Indigenous people for food and medicine, ferns are now being recognized scientifically for their unique medicinal potential against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and liver, kidney, and respiratory conditions.
Bear & Company

Wouter Bijdendijk
Michelin star chef Joris Bijdendijk provides two delicious vegetarian recipes for each major plant, offering culinary delights to help you easily incorporate the medicinal powers of these plants in your life. A journey through the deep and ancient roots of plant knowledge, from folk uses to mystical properties to the vital role of plants in human evolution, this book shows you how to harness the natural power of plants to revitalize your body, integrate your spirit, and empower your life.
Healing Arts Press

Vlatko Vedral
For the last century, physics has been following the paths set out by the same two theories-quantum mechanics and general relativity. Despite these great theories being fundamentally in conflict, most scientists are simply chasing decimal points in laboratories. To give the deeper explanation of reality we seek, we need new ways to explore and critique our best ideas of the universe on the smallest and largest scales. As Vlatko Vedral argues in Portals to a New Reality, this suggests we are on the brink of a new revolution.
Penguin Books

Maria Popova
By turns epic and intimate-as concerned with the physical laws binding atoms into molecules as with the psychic forces binding us to each other-Traversal explores the universe between cells and souls to reveal the world, and our lives, in a dazzling new light. In Traversal, Maria Popova traverses the border between life and death, chance and choice, chemistry and consciousness: What makes a body a person? What makes a planet a world? How do we safeguard our love of truth from our lust for power? What slakes our longings and what redeems our losses?
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux

Andy Roberts
Historical articles on the banning of LSD in Britain and Welsh Psilocybin festivals are coupled with intimate interviews with such figures as LSD chemist Casey Hardison, Jeff Dexter, Andy Munro, and Liz Elliot. As well as being an extraordinary record of British psychedelic culture over the last sixty years, the book is a very frank account of the author’s personal experiences of LSD and the world of the counterculture.
Psychedelic Press

Jill Pflugheber and Steven F White
To pay homage to sacred plants revered by Indigenous groups throughout the Americas is a way of honoring the entire world in a time of environmental emergency. The visual contents of this book magnify life in ways that may alter how humans perceive other living entities from our shared and threatened biosphere. Some of these plants contain the most potent psychoactive agents on the planet and serve as intermediaries that have enabled Native communities to communicate with their ancestors, wage war on the enemies of their land and their traditions, conceptualize entire cosmogonies, and maintain a nearly impossible ecological equilibrium.
Papadakis

Nathaniel Altman
This wonderful book teaches us about the plant foods upon which we depend. Learn how the avocado, yam, lentil, and other foods detailed in this book migrated from their places of origin to where they can be found today, along with their mythological powers, spiritual significance, and the ancient and modern festivals held in their honour. The author discusses each plant’s nutritional and healing properties, based on the latest scientific findings on nutraceuticals and phytochemicals, to present each food as a medicine.
Healing Arts Press

Polina Rud
Offering introspective insights for the beginning of the year or at any time, the origins of Snakes and Arrows trace back to gyan caupar, or the “game of knowledge,” a spiritual board game from ancient India. Like other forms of divination, such as the I Ching and the Tarot, the game offers a playful yet profound approach to explore the self, the present, and the future as well as understand one’s destiny. The game’s ascending path mirrors spiritual evolution and guides players toward enlightenment,. Rud shows how gyan caupar symbolises the psyche’s journey.
Destiny Books

Richard Stursberg
A sweeping account of how English Canada once forged a confident literary culture―and how that culture has steadily collapsed. For decades, books provided the country’s most searching reflections on its history, politics, and identity; they shaped the national conversation and anchored a shared sense of who Canadians were. Author and media executive Richard Stursberg traces how this ecosystem emerged, flourished, and then eroded, foreign ownership, shifting cultural priorities, fragile institutions, and policy failures hollowed out the sector. Canadian voices need to be heard now, more than ever!
Sutherland House

Justin Smith-Ruiuh
On Drugs blends autobiography, intellectual history, and philosophical inquiry to explore the transformative impact of psychedelics on human consciousness and thought. Drawing on his personal experiences as ‘an articulate guinea pig,’ Smith-Ruiu argues that psychedelics upend our assumptions about the nature of reality—and thus force a reckoning with the very foundations of Western philosophy. In the late, post-lockdown days of the pandemic, grappling with personal loss and existential uncertainty, Justin Smith-Ruiu found himself standing in a California cannabis dispensary, pondering a question his tribe of fellow philosophers have often dismissed as too simple: How did I get here? Justin Smith-Ruiu is a professor of history and philosophy of science at the Université Paris Cité. The Washington Post reviewed his book in detail.
ePub

Erica RTex
The oral history of a band that came to define a generation tells the As she reflects on her tumultuous childhood marked by violent abuse from psychiatrist parents, Rex uncovers the psychological influences that shaped her life and therapeutic search. Despite years of failed conventional treatments, Rex sought alternative paths, discovering transformative healing through ayahuasca, MDMA, and 5-MeO-DMT. Seeing What Is There navigates the complexities of the psychedelic therapy movement, questioning its ethical pitfalls and motivations. Ultimately, Rex demonstrates that true healing requires more than just pharmaceuticals—it demands economic security, community, and social support, offering a powerful meditation on trauma, survival, and the potential for transformation.
She Writes Press

Robert Dickins
From obscure origins, Psilocybe mushrooms quickly and quietly established themselves in local and countercultural Britain. They became a staple rite of passage, folkloric emblem, and mischievous companion in the festival calendar. For over fifty years, these tricksters danced around the law, difficult to capture. Now, twenty years after possession of fresh magic mushrooms was made illegal, Psilocybe Pickers tells the story of how these psychedelic fungi entered British consciousness in the twentieth century, the bemushroomed Britons who took them on as part of their culture, and how the authorities tried to police them.
Psychedelic Press

usannah Fisher
How the world needs to adapt to a changing climate, and the key problems and hard choices that lie ahead for the global community
Sink or Swim explores the hard choices that lie ahead concerning how people earn a living, the way governments manage relationships between countries, and how communities accommodate the movement of people. Should people be encouraged to move away from the coast? How can global food supplies be managed when parts of the world are hit by simultaneous droughts? How can conflict be handled when there isn’t enough water?
Harper Collins

Olga Tokarczuk
A woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There’s the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There’s the man whose death – with one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czech—was an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own. From the founding of the town to the lives of its saints, these shards piece together not only a history, but a cosmology.
Fitzcarraldo Editions

Patti Smith
The most intimate of Smith’s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through Smith’s teenage years. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative role models as she begins to write poetry, then lyrics, ultimately merging both into iconic recordings such as Horses, Wave, and Easter. She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, living on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start a family. A series of profound losses mark Patti’s life. Grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again.
Random House

Paul McCartney, Ted Widmer
The oral history of a band that came to define a generation tells the madcap tale of Paul McCartney and his newly formed band, from their beginnings in the early 1970s to their dissolution a decade later. Drawn from over 500,000 words of interviews with McCartney, family and band members, and other key participants, Wings recounts―now with a half-century’s wisdom―the musical odyssey taken by a man searching for his identity in the aftermath of The Beatles’ breakup. Soon joined by his wife–American photographer Linda McCartney–on keyboard and vocals; drummer Denny Seiwell; and guitarist Denny Laine, McCartney sowed the seeds for a new band.
Liveright

Anthony Hopkins
Born and raised in Port Talbot—a small Welsh steelworks town—amid war and depression, Sir Anthony Hopkins grew up around men who were tough and eschewed all forms of emotional vulnerability in favour of alcoholism and brutality. A struggling student in school, he was deemed a failure with no future ahead of him. But, on a fateful Saturday night, he watched the 1948 adaptation of Hamlet, sparking a passion for acting that would lead him on a path that no one could have predicted. Sir Anthony also takes a deeply honest look at the low points in his personal life. His addiction cost him his first marriage, his relationship with his only child, and nearly his life—the latter ultimately propelling him toward sobriety.
S&S / Summit Books

Stephanie Mines
Entering the Māori worldview is like stepping into a verdant landscape where humans and plants, animals, the land, rain, and mountains are united. This is the model of living that matriarch Maata Wharehoka has been sustaining her entire life in Aotearoa (New Zealand). The Māori word manaaki means to protect, to show respect, and to take care. This is the essence of Maata Wharehoka’s wisdom. Transmitting Maata’s wisdom to the world is the task Stephanie Mines set for herself as she shares in this book Maata’s pioneering efforts in healthcare, parenting, and social justice as well as her interpretations of traditional Māori teachings.
Harper Collins

Linda Rosewood
In the early 1980s, a household of lesbian feminists establish a women-only commune in an ancient Californian redwood forest. It seems a perfect place to practice the ritual magic that helps them function harmoniously as a group – even if they aren’t all true believers. If you ever wanted to know what that entails, here’s you chance to witness first hand, how women live and love as a group, whilte practicing magic. Of course there is conflict, but there’s also warmth and a sincere desire to overcome the patriarchy. An authentic book that leads us back to a more innocent and idealistic era, A Circle Outside describes a vision of a utopian dream, where the only real magic is self-transformation.
Lightning Books

Alexandra Sheren
The novel The Echo of Ucayali is both an anthropological journey into the world of Amazonian shamans and a mystical adventure non-fiction, based on real events and told in the first person. It explores the spirits of the Amazon, the gifts and hidden perils of its sacred plants, the profound meaning of confianza and shamanic contracts, and the delicate line between light and darkness in a realm where energy is the ultimate currency. It is intended for those who embark on distant quests in search of transformation, who seek spiritual growth, and who take an interest in shamanism, depth psychology, and the cultures of indigenous peoples.Aegitas Publishing

Ellen Dee Davidson
Weaving together environmental science, wilderness adventure, goddess mythology, and the sentience of old growth redwoods, the author shows how to cultivate a sensitivity to the forest and open a channel to its wisdom. She presents simple techniques of receptivity, some from her Buddhist mindfulness practice, along with forest-bathing protocols, showing how forest bathing can calm, soothe, and heal our bodies, minds, and spirits. She also recounts her own remarkable healing after twenty years suffering from fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue.
Bear & Co

Julian Vayne
From preparing the space and setting the tone, to navigating the journey and supporting successful integration, Trip Sitting takes a holistic approach to care. With a strong foundation in ethics and practical experience this guide will help you hold space with clarity, confidence, and compassion, maximising the benefits and minimising the risks when exploring these magical medicines. With a focus primarily on one-to-one sessions, its principles and practices can be adapted to a variety of contexts, from small group settings to personal journeys.
Psychedelic Press

Harper Lee
From one of America’s most beloved authors, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces, offering a fresh perspective on the remarkable literary mind of Harper Lee. It combines Lee’s early short fiction and later nonfiction in a volume covering territory from the Alabama schoolyards of Lee’s youth to the luncheonettes and movie houses of midcentury Manhattan, The Land of Sweet Forever invites still-vital conversations about politics, equality, travel, love, fiction, art, the American South, and what it means to lead an engaged and creative life.
Harper Collins

Marisa Meltzer
A vivid portrait of Birkin and her profound legacy, from her early years in 1960s London to her rise as a beloved celebrity in France, detailing personal challenges, her relationships with creative powerhouses, and the duality of her public and private selves. Based on interviews and deep archival research, Meltzer reveals the nuances of Birkin’s character: her famously tempestuous romantic relationships, life with her three famous daughters, and the creative energy that drove her. It Girl tells the story of her indelible impact on femininity and style, and how what we think of as French girl style grew from her. Far from being just a muse, Birkin is at last given her well-deserved due.
Atria Books