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  • 12.15.22
    FSG’s Staff Best Books of 2022
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    FSG’s Staff Best Books of 2022

    Every year at FSG, we ask our staff to come together and talk about their “Best Books” of the year. This year, we asked them to tell us about an FSG book that they’ll be gifting along with their favorite books from 2022.     JOSHUA PORTER   ...

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  • 02.13.20
    Six Western Landscape Novels
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    Six Western Landscape Novels

    S. M. Hulse's new novel Eden Mine features a small cast of core characters: Jo, a wheelchair-bound artist grappling with the government's eminent domain seizure of her family home; her radicalized brother Samuel, a fugitive from the law following an act of violent...

    S. M. Hulse Reading List

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  • 12.20.19
    FSG Holiday Gift Guide
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    FSG Holiday Gift Guide

    We can't think of anything better than giving the gift of a book. So to make your holiday shopping less hectic, we've curated a Gift Guide with something for everyone on your list: the uncle who spends an hour lecturing you on history, the...

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  • 12.13.19
    FSG’s Favorite Books of 2019
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    FSG’s Favorite Books of 2019

    We asked the staff of Farrar, Straus and Giroux to pick the best book published this year, name their favorite titles—old, new, or forthcoming—that they read or reread this year, and share which FSG books they’ll be gifting during the holidays. THE BEST BOOKS PUBLISHED...

    Recommendations and Gift Guide

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  • 08.23.19
    Sixteen FSG Memoirs
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    Sixteen FSG Memoirs

    A list of sixteen memoirs new and old, spanning a story of growing up in the most hated family in America, a psychedelic journey through the ’60s, and an inside view of Silicon Valley. The perfect additions to your fall reading list. Unfollow by...

    Reading List

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  • 07.16.19
    A Poetry Reading List
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    A Poetry Reading List

    FSG’s poetry list for 2019 celebrates voices old and new, from Seamus Heaney to Katie Peterson. These are poems that interrogate today’s politics and anger—that reinvigorate and offer clarity, singing “the music of what happens.” Published A Piece of Good News by Katie...

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  • 06.20.19
    10 FSG Authors on Foundational Queer Books That Influenced Them
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    10 FSG Authors on Foundational Queer Books That Influenced Them

    This week’s edition of Work in Progress celebrates Pride Month. We asked ten of our authors to reflect on a foundational queer text in their life—works that influenced their writing, style, or path as an artist. In their responses we see a wide range...

    Celebrating Gay Pride Month

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  • 03.28.19
    19 FSG Writers on the Women Who Inspire Them
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    19 FSG Writers on the Women Who Inspire Them

    This week’s edition of Work in Progress celebrates Women’s History Month. We asked nineteen of our authors to write about the women who influenced their writing, style, or path as an artist, and their varied responses speak to the way a person or work...

    Celebrating Women's History Month

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  • 01.11.19
    Celebrating Works in Translation
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    Celebrating Works in Translation

    FSG has a long history of championing international voices and works in translation, from Roberto Bolaño to Marguerite Yourcenar. In honor of that history and our efforts to carry on the work of our predecessors, we’ve compiled a list of some of our favorite...

    A Reading List

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  • 12.14.18
    FSG’s Favorite Books of 2018
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    FSG’s Favorite Books of 2018

    We asked the staff of Farrar, Straus and Giroux to pick the best book published this year, name their favorite titles—old, new, or forthcoming—that they read or reread this year, and share which FSG books they’ll be gifting during the holidays. THE BEST BOOKS PUBLISHED...

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  • 10.31.18
    15 FSG Writers on the Stories that Terrify Them
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    15 FSG Writers on the Stories that Terrify Them

    In this special Halloween-themed edition of Work in Progress, we feature the voices of our growing list of female authors who explore the otherworldly and spooky side of literature in innovative and chilling ways. We asked them to write about the scariest story (book,...

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  • 08.23.18
    Environmental Issues
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    Environmental Issues

    “We need the tonic of wildness . . . At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us...

    A Reading List

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  • 06.29.18
    How Did We Get Here?
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    How Did We Get Here?

    In our current moment of political turmoil, words hold immense power. As we live through a time when words themselves are often being twisted and corrupted, we must look to voices that reclaim language as a tool of change. What follows is a reading...

    A Midterm Election Reading List

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  • 05.11.18
    FSG’s Summer Travel Reads
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    FSG Summer Travel

    FSG’s Summer Travel Reads

    As summer finally approaches and the sunshine beckons, it’s hard not to daydream of trading desk chairs for deck chairs or hopping on a plane for an adventurous escape. In the meantime, we offer a list of books that will transport you with stories...

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  • 03.16.18
    Ten Standout Essay Collections
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    Ten Standout Essay Collections

    In honor of Women’s History Month, we have chosen ten standout essay collections by women we’ve published in the last year. From Marilynne Robinson’s ruminations on modern politics and faith to Durga Chew-Bose’s exploration of creativity and first-generation American identity, these essay collections explore,...

    Celebrating Women's History Month

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  • 02.09.18
    Celebrating Black History Month
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    Celebrating Black History Month

    In honor of Black History Month, we’ve compiled some of our favorite FSG reads, on a broad range of subjects—from a personal journey along the paths of the Atlantic slave trade to a Man Booker Prize-winning satire to a historical analysis of race’s complicated...

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  • 12.15.17
    FSG’s Favorite Books of 2017
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    FSG's Favorite Books of 2017

    FSG’s Favorite Books of 2017

    We asked the staff of Farrar, Straus and Giroux to pick the best book published this year, name their favorite titles—old, new, or forthcoming—that they read or reread this year, and to share which FSG books they’ll be gifting during the holidays. The Best Books...

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  • 10.31.17
    FSG Halloween Recommended Reading
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    Halloween Reads

    FSG Halloween Recommended Reading

    Halloween is here, and what better way to get in the mood than curling up with some chilling and thrilling reads? We’ve compiled some of our favorite books for this scary season—featuring ghosts and witches, darkly reimagined fairy tales, a house that traps us...

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  • 09.29.17
    Hispanic Heritage Month
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    Hispanic Heritage Month

    To celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month we are highlighting some of FSG’s incredible writers from Spain, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America whom we are proud to publish. From Mario Vargas Llosa’s forthcoming detective novel to a poetry anthology surveying the twentieth century’s...

    FSG Reading List

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  • 06.29.17
    Pride Reads
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    Pride Reads

    Pride Reads

    June is Pride month, and we're incredibly proud to be able to share a list of FSG books that touch on LGBTQ life. From young gay men experiencing the first bloom of desire, to a lesbian poet playing with language and the erotics of...

    Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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