The Book of Records
Named a 2025 Most Anticipated Release by Toronto Star • Literary Hub • Esquire • The Washington Post • 49th Shelf • She Does the City
The sublime, long-awaited, major new novel from the beloved author of the Governor General's Literary Award-winning, Booker Prize-shortlisted bestseller Do Not Say We Have Nothing.
The Book of Records opens inside "The Sea," a mysterious shape-shifting enclave, a staging-post for waves of migrants coming and going, a building made of time where pasts and futures collide. Here, a girl named Lina cares for her ailing father.
Having arrived carrying her few possessions by hand, Lina grows up with only three books to read—a trio taken from a grand 90-volume series about the lives of famous "voyagers"…
$36.95
May 6, 2025
MADELEINE THIEN is the author of the story collection Simple Recipes (2001) and four novels: Certainty (2006), Dogs at the Perimeter (2011), Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016) and The Book of Records (2025). Do Not Say We Have Nothing was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the Folio Prize, and won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, among other honours. Her books have been translated into twenty-five languages, and her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Granta, Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books and elsewhere. As a librettist, she created Chinatown, a full-length opera by Alice Ping Yee Ho and Paul Yee, and collaborates on a…
The Book of Records
Madeleine Thien
Letters to a Writer of Color
Edited by Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro
Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Madeleine Thien
Certainty
Madeleine Thien
Dogs at the Perimeter
Madeleine Thien
The Journey Prize Stories 28
Selected by Kate Cayley, Brian Francis, and Madeleine Thien
Simple Recipes
Madeleine Thien
The Summer Pact
Emily Giffin
There Are Rivers in the Sky
Elif Shafak
Mina's Matchbox
Yoko Ogawa; Translated by Stephen B. Snyder
The Heart in Winter
Kevin Barry
Code Noir
Canisia Lubrin
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
Homesickness
Colin Barrett
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
A Minor Chorus
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Other Worlds
André Alexis
The Names: A Read with Jenna Pick
Florence Knapp
The Paris Novel
Ruth Reichl
The Pretender
Jo Harkin
The Book of Form and Emptiness
Ruth Ozeki