This month on the shelves

The collection, summer 2026.

A rotating selection of staff picks, new arrivals, and quiet classics. Visit in person to see the full range — we keep more than 8,400 titles in stock.

Staff picks

Twelve books we're recommending right now.

Literary Fiction

The Salt Path

by Raynor Winn

A walking memoir disguised as a love story disguised as a survival manual. We have three copies left.

$18.00
Poetry

Devotions

by Mary Oliver

The collected poems. If you only ever own one book of contemporary poetry, make it this one.

$24.00
History

The Warmth of Other Suns

by Isabel Wilkerson

The Great Migration told through three lives. Thoroughly reported, beautifully written. A Houston favorite.

$22.00
Essays

Bluets

by Maggie Nelson

240 numbered fragments on the color blue. Surprisingly devastating. Perfect for a single sitting.

$15.00
Rare Edition

East of Eden (1952)

by John Steinbeck

First edition, second printing. Original dust jacket, light shelf wear. Authenticated provenance.

$1,400.00
Children's

The Wild Robot

by Peter Brown

Roz the robot washes up on an island and learns to live. Reread by adults more often than they admit.

$9.00
Cookbook

Six Seasons

by Joshua McFadden

The vegetable cookbook that changed how our staff actually eats. Worn copies in three of our kitchens.

$35.00
Biography

The Power Broker

by Robert A. Caro

1,344 pages on Robert Moses and how cities get made. We sell more of these than is statistically reasonable.

$28.00
Literary Fiction

Trust

by Hernan Diaz

The same story told four different ways. A novel about money, about marriage, about the act of writing itself.

$17.00
Essays

The White Album

by Joan Didion

California in the 1960s and 70s, observed at a slight remove. A masterclass in the personal essay.

$16.00
Children's

The Phantom Tollbooth

by Norton Juster

For the bored eight-year-old in your life. Or the bored forty-year-old. Both will be cured.

$12.00
Rare Edition

Dubliners (1914)

by James Joyce

Maunsel & Co. issue. A scarce survivor — most copies were destroyed in 1912. Inquire for full provenance.

$3,200.00

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"There is no friend as loyal as a book."

— Ernest Hemingway