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Farrar, Straus and Giroux has published award-winning fiction, nonfiction, & poetry since 1946. Home of MCD Books, FSG Originals, and AUWA Books.
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Vote for our four titles in the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards
📖 BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY for Readers’ Favorite History & Biography
📖 THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW for Readers’ Favorite Memoir
📖 DOMINION for Readers’ Favorite Debut Novel
📖 ENSHITTIFICATION for Readers’ Favorite Nonfiction
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📖 BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY for Readers’ Favorite History & Biography
📖 THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW for Readers’ Favorite Memoir
📖 DOMINION for Readers’ Favorite Debut Novel
📖 ENSHITTIFICATION for Readers’ Favorite Nonfiction
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November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Vote for our four titles in the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards
📖 BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY for Readers’ Favorite History & Biography
📖 THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW for Readers’ Favorite Memoir
📖 DOMINION for Readers’ Favorite Debut Novel
📖 ENSHITTIFICATION for Readers’ Favorite Nonfiction
bit.ly/488CFEi
📖 BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY for Readers’ Favorite History & Biography
📖 THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW for Readers’ Favorite Memoir
📖 DOMINION for Readers’ Favorite Debut Novel
📖 ENSHITTIFICATION for Readers’ Favorite Nonfiction
bit.ly/488CFEi
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"As this potent novel demonstrates, whether in art or politics we must be careful who’s doing the constructing."
Sara Batkie's review of “The Silver Book” by Brisa Carlton (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
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Sara Batkie's review of “The Silver Book” by Brisa Carlton (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
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Art Imitates Life in "The Silver Book" - Chicago Review of Books
Our review of Olivia Laing's new novel, "The Silver Book."
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November 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"As this potent novel demonstrates, whether in art or politics we must be careful who’s doing the constructing."
Sara Batkie's review of “The Silver Book” by Brisa Carlton (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/18/a...
Sara Batkie's review of “The Silver Book” by Brisa Carlton (@fsgbooks.bsky.social) is out now.
chireviewofbooks.com/2025/11/18/a...
"Sublime . . . [A] visceral portrait of Italian renegade filmmaking . . . Laing’s prose is taut and clear-eyed." @nytimes.com
THE SILVER BOOK is out now!
THE SILVER BOOK is out now!
An Extravagant Dive Into Italian Cinema, Filled With Love and Death
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November 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"Sublime . . . [A] visceral portrait of Italian renegade filmmaking . . . Laing’s prose is taut and clear-eyed." @nytimes.com
THE SILVER BOOK is out now!
THE SILVER BOOK is out now!
George Packer’s THE EMERGENCY is a gripping fable of imperial collapse that illuminates the crises of our times. bit.ly/47zK2FX
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
George Packer’s THE EMERGENCY is a gripping fable of imperial collapse that illuminates the crises of our times. bit.ly/47zK2FX
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“This is what I emerged from, Dani says, looking with disgust at the drainage ditches that line the road. Low horizons. In more ways than one.”
Olivia Laing from The Silver Book, which will be published this November by @fsgbooks.bsky.social.
Olivia Laing from The Silver Book, which will be published this November by @fsgbooks.bsky.social.
Film Rites, by Olivia Laing
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November 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“This is what I emerged from, Dani says, looking with disgust at the drainage ditches that line the road. Low horizons. In more ways than one.”
Olivia Laing from The Silver Book, which will be published this November by @fsgbooks.bsky.social.
Olivia Laing from The Silver Book, which will be published this November by @fsgbooks.bsky.social.
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📣NYers, Cynthia Zarin presents Estate on November 12 - 7:00pm at McNally Jackson Seaport!
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November 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
📣NYers, Cynthia Zarin presents Estate on November 12 - 7:00pm at McNally Jackson Seaport!
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Check out the cover for our inaugural title, @kevinhartnett.bsky.social’s THE PROOF IN THE CODE, coming June 9, 2026! Shoutout @fsgbooks.bsky.social for the beautiful design. Want a copy of your own? You can now preorder here: us.macmillan.com/books/978037....
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Check out the cover for our inaugural title, @kevinhartnett.bsky.social’s THE PROOF IN THE CODE, coming June 9, 2026! Shoutout @fsgbooks.bsky.social for the beautiful design. Want a copy of your own? You can now preorder here: us.macmillan.com/books/978037....
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"You sense the silences and threats of the deep forest. You taste the pungently Siberian flavor of the desperately remote towns." Nice review of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES from The Times (of London). Owls of the Eastern Ice won Times Nature Book of the Year in 2021. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
On the trail of the Siberian tiger — ‘a knot of muscle and rage’
In Tigers Between Empires, Jonathan Slaght follows the daring conservation project which is saving these big cats from extinction
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November 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"You sense the silences and threats of the deep forest. You taste the pungently Siberian flavor of the desperately remote towns." Nice review of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES from The Times (of London). Owls of the Eastern Ice won Times Nature Book of the Year in 2021. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
A finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, PALAVER is finally here! This is a life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from Bryan Washington. bit.ly/4oQtK0X
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, PALAVER is finally here! This is a life-affirming novel of family, mending, and how we learn to love, from Bryan Washington. bit.ly/4oQtK0X
MAMBA & MAMBACITA FOREVER is a beautiful and moving testament to the enduring lives of Kobe and Gianna Bryant, and the murals that went up to honor their legacies. In stores November 18. Read more at @peoplemag.bsky.social’s exclusive inside look: people.com/kobe-bryant-...
October 31, 2025 at 2:50 PM
MAMBA & MAMBACITA FOREVER is a beautiful and moving testament to the enduring lives of Kobe and Gianna Bryant, and the murals that went up to honor their legacies. In stores November 18. Read more at @peoplemag.bsky.social’s exclusive inside look: people.com/kobe-bryant-...
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The lesson: Nobody survives the wilderness alone. In love with hazard orange and tranquil blue, the humor and danger all caught up together. Thanks @corraldesign.bsky.social (design) and Giacomo Girardi (art), and everyone at @fsgbooks.bsky.social, for promoting beautiful, true caregiver stories.
COVER REVEAL! 🌊 A GUIDE TO OPEN WATER LIFESAVING by @virginiaeeubanks.bsky.social is a spirited, wise, often hilarious, profoundly moving story of one woman's efforts to survive caregiving, trauma, love, and the systems seemingly set up to fail us. Available on August 11, 2026. bit.ly/4hAFUJb
October 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
The lesson: Nobody survives the wilderness alone. In love with hazard orange and tranquil blue, the humor and danger all caught up together. Thanks @corraldesign.bsky.social (design) and Giacomo Girardi (art), and everyone at @fsgbooks.bsky.social, for promoting beautiful, true caregiver stories.
COVER REVEAL! 🌊 A GUIDE TO OPEN WATER LIFESAVING by @virginiaeeubanks.bsky.social is a spirited, wise, often hilarious, profoundly moving story of one woman's efforts to survive caregiving, trauma, love, and the systems seemingly set up to fail us. Available on August 11, 2026. bit.ly/4hAFUJb
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
COVER REVEAL! 🌊 A GUIDE TO OPEN WATER LIFESAVING by @virginiaeeubanks.bsky.social is a spirited, wise, often hilarious, profoundly moving story of one woman's efforts to survive caregiving, trauma, love, and the systems seemingly set up to fail us. Available on August 11, 2026. bit.ly/4hAFUJb
Enter to win @jonathanslaght.com's TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES ⬇️
***giveaway*** this signed, Advance Reader Copy of TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES (pub date 4 Nov 25 from @fsgbooks.bsky.social)! Like/Reskeet to enter! US addresses only! Will pick random winner on Thurs, 9 Oct 25 and ship quick. 🐅 #booksky
October 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Enter to win @jonathanslaght.com's TIGERS BETWEEN EMPIRES ⬇️
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Loaded with snarky one-liners and absurdist set pieces, Madeline Cash’s glittering debut novel follows the middle-class Flynn family as they try and fail to find a sense of purpose. It’s unforgettable. @fsgbooks.bsky.social
Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash
Loaded with snarky one-liners and absurdist set pieces, Cash’s glittering debut novel (after the collection Earth Angel) follows...
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October 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Loaded with snarky one-liners and absurdist set pieces, Madeline Cash’s glittering debut novel follows the middle-class Flynn family as they try and fail to find a sense of purpose. It’s unforgettable. @fsgbooks.bsky.social
Listen here: Author Nicholas Boggs joins @npr.org's Morning Edition to talk about his new book BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY, a biography that documents James Baldwin's intimate relationships and how they influenced his work.
'Baldwin: A Love Story' explores how the author's love life inspired his work
NPR's Michel Martin talks to author Nicholas Boggs about his new book "Baldwin: A Love Story," a biography that documents James Baldwin's intimate relationships and how they influenced his work.
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October 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Listen here: Author Nicholas Boggs joins @npr.org's Morning Edition to talk about his new book BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY, a biography that documents James Baldwin's intimate relationships and how they influenced his work.
Katherine Dunn's "first and only collection of short fiction, gleaned from her archive, pulses with energy and struggling characters." @nytimes.com
Katherine Dunn’s Stories, Newly Unearthed, Float and Sting
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October 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Katherine Dunn's "first and only collection of short fiction, gleaned from her archive, pulses with energy and struggling characters." @nytimes.com
Congratulations to our National Book Award finalists Bryan Washington and Yiyun Li!
PALAVER by Bryan Washington is a finalist for the Award for Fiction, and THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW by Yiyun Li is a finalist for the Award for Nonfiction.
PALAVER by Bryan Washington is a finalist for the Award for Fiction, and THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW by Yiyun Li is a finalist for the Award for Nonfiction.
October 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Congratulations to our National Book Award finalists Bryan Washington and Yiyun Li!
PALAVER by Bryan Washington is a finalist for the Award for Fiction, and THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW by Yiyun Li is a finalist for the Award for Nonfiction.
PALAVER by Bryan Washington is a finalist for the Award for Fiction, and THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW by Yiyun Li is a finalist for the Award for Nonfiction.
In TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY the analyst Hussein Agha and the diplomat Robert Malley offer a personal and bracing perspective on why the Israeli–Palestinian peace process failed, and anticipate what lies ahead. bit.ly/4gnljHs
September 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
In TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY the analyst Hussein Agha and the diplomat Robert Malley offer a personal and bracing perspective on why the Israeli–Palestinian peace process failed, and anticipate what lies ahead. bit.ly/4gnljHs
Nicholas Boggs joins Full Bio to discuss his new biography, BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY. Listen here:
Full Bio: The Early Years of James Baldwin | All Of It | WNYC
Our latest installment of Full Bio focuses on the life of writer James Baldwin, a literary master and essential figure of the Civil Rights movement. Nicholas Boggs discusses his new b...
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September 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Nicholas Boggs joins Full Bio to discuss his new biography, BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY. Listen here:
🎧 Listen here: Nicholas Boggs joins the You Are What You Read podcast to talk about literary icon James Baldwin and his new biography BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY.
The Love Story of James Baldwin: A conversation with Nicholas Boggs
Podcast Episode · You Are What You Read · 09/09/2025 · 34m
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September 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🎧 Listen here: Nicholas Boggs joins the You Are What You Read podcast to talk about literary icon James Baldwin and his new biography BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY.
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George Packer, a journalist and winner of the National Book Award for The Unwinding, delivers a propulsive Orwellian novel set in a strange future world known as “the empire.” It’s a knockout. @fsgbooks.bsky.social
The Emergency by George Packer
Packer, a journalist and winner of the National Book Award for The Unwinding, delivers a propulsive Orwellian novel set in a str...
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August 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
George Packer, a journalist and winner of the National Book Award for The Unwinding, delivers a propulsive Orwellian novel set in a strange future world known as “the empire.” It’s a knockout. @fsgbooks.bsky.social
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Listen to Addie E. Citchens discuss the path to publishing her debut novel, DOMINION, on the Debutiful podcast!
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August 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Listen to Addie E. Citchens discuss the path to publishing her debut novel, DOMINION, on the Debutiful podcast!
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My translation of Kim de l'Horizon's stunning debut novel #Blutbuch was published yesterday, with @fsgbooks.bsky.social in the US and @sceptrebooks.bsky.social in the UK. To read an extract, head over to @literaryhub.bsky.social... 👇
“It was one of those things we couldn’t say to one another. I had told Father, Father had told Mother, Mother must have told you.” Read from Kim de l’Horizon’s debut novel Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues, translated by @jamielsearle.bsky.social.
Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues
For example, I never officially told you about “it.” I just came over for coffee one day wearing makeup, with a box of Lindt & Sprüngli (the medium-sized, not the small ones like usual), and th…
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August 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
My translation of Kim de l'Horizon's stunning debut novel #Blutbuch was published yesterday, with @fsgbooks.bsky.social in the US and @sceptrebooks.bsky.social in the UK. To read an extract, head over to @literaryhub.bsky.social... 👇
COVER REVEAL! In MUTINY, Noam Scheiber paints a portrait of a new working class with vivid detail and striking empathy while telling the dramatic story of its revolt against the status quo. MUTINY by Noam Scheiber is coming out April 7, 2026. bit.ly/4fZjRv1
Cover design by Ben Grandgenett.
Cover design by Ben Grandgenett.
August 27, 2025 at 2:44 PM
COVER REVEAL! In MUTINY, Noam Scheiber paints a portrait of a new working class with vivid detail and striking empathy while telling the dramatic story of its revolt against the status quo. MUTINY by Noam Scheiber is coming out April 7, 2026. bit.ly/4fZjRv1
Cover design by Ben Grandgenett.
Cover design by Ben Grandgenett.
Read an excerpt from SEA, MOTHERS, SWALLOW, TONGUES featured by @literaryhub.bsky.social
Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues
For example, I never officially told you about “it.” I just came over for coffee one day wearing makeup, with a box of Lindt & Sprüngli (the medium-sized, not the small ones like usual), and th…
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August 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Read an excerpt from SEA, MOTHERS, SWALLOW, TONGUES featured by @literaryhub.bsky.social