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Pre Order Your Signed Copies

A rich variety of authors, artists and photographers visit Strand throughout the year, presenting and discussing their work, answering questions, and signing their books. Now when you can't make an event, you can order signed copies from nearly every author that comes to visit!

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YOUR Favorite Books

In celebration of Strand's 80th Anniversary, we are proud to present the top 80 books, as chosen by you, our customers.

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Moleskine at the Strand!

Check out the convenient size and slick design. The legendary notebook of Hemingway, Picasso, and Chatwin.

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Lacuna

Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver

Born in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico - from a coastal island jungle to 1930s Mexico City - Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on... (Save 20%) more...

 

Obamanos!

Obamanos!: the Birth of a New Political Era by Hendrik Hertzberg

The New Yorker's celebrated political essayist observes the astounding presidential campaign of 2007-2008 unfold to reveal the reinvigoration of the Democratic Party, the stupendous Republican tailspin,... (Save 20%) more...

 

The Kingdom of New York

Kingdom of New York: Knights, Knaves, Billionaires, and Beauties In the City of Big Shots by New York Observer; (Introduction) Peter W. Kaplan

A jauntiful chronicling of the Rise and Fall and Rise of New York City, as personified by the protagonists and antagonists of the past twenty years, told in archival pastiche - a breathtaking sprint of... (Save 20%) more...

 

Lit

Lit: A Memoir by Mary Karr

As a self-described "blackbelt sinner," award-winning author Mary Karr has already exposed much of soul in an earlier sequence of outstanding memoirs. Though, perhaps nothing will prepare readers for the... (Save 20%) more...

 

Contact Sheet

Contact Sheet by Steve Crist

Featuring a diverse collection of original contact sheets from over forty international photographers, THE CONTACT SHEET allows in-depth insight into the subject matter and the photographic process - often... (Save 20%) more...

 

When Art Worked

When Art Worked: The New Deal, Art, and Democracy by Roger G. Kennedy

A monumental, extensively illustrated book about the artists, architects, photographers, and designers put to work during the Great Depression - with a focus on the consequences of the art and architecture... (Save 20%) more...

 

Coco

Coco by Ferran Adria; Mario Batali; Alain Ducasse; Alice Waters; (Curators) Et Al

An unprecedented survey of the most significant chefs working today, COCO presents 100 premier contemporary chefs from around the world selected by ten of the most internationally recognized masters. From... (Save 20%) more...

 

Googled

Googled: The End of the World As We Know It by Ken Auletta

Google has changed the way we do business by constantly questioning the old ways of doing business. Bestselling author Ken Auletta investigates Google's inovative rise to the top, and questions if it can stay there. (Save 20%)

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This Time is Different

This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart; Kenneth S. Rogoff

Throughout history, rich & poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed,... (Save 20%) more...

 

The Bedside Book of Beasts

Bedside Book of Beasts: A Wildlife Miscellany by Graeme Gibson

Graeme Gibson gathers from all eras and cultures works of art and literature that capture the power, grace, and inventiveness of both predators and their natural prey. Here are myths, fables, poems, excerpts... (Save 20%) more...

 

Thucydides

Thucydides: The Reinvention of History by Donald Kagan

Donald Kagan's magisterial 4-volume history of the Peloponnesian War and its single-volume adaptation are recognized as landmarks of classical scholarship. In THUCYDIDES, Kagan turns his attention from... (Save 20%) more...

 

First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

First As Tragedy, Then As Farce by Slavoj Zizek

In this take-no-prisoner analysis, Slavoj Zizek frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch... (Save 20%) more...

 

Last Night In Twisted River

Last Night In Twisted River: A Novel by John Irving

In a story spanning five decades, LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER - John Irving's twelfth novel - depicts the recent half-century in the United States as "a living replica of Coos County, where lethal hatreds... (Save 20%) more...

 

Eating Animals

Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer

On the brink of fatherhood, writer Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close), facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a child's behalf, set... (Save 20%) more...

 

Invisible

Invisible by Paul Auster

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia... more...

 

Master of Shadows

Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens by Mark Lamster

Best remembered as the old master with the penchant for fleshy pink nudes, Peter Paul Rubens, in his time, however, had no equal: his contemporaries revered him as the greatest painter of his era, if not... (Save 20%) more...

 

Logicomix

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis; Christos H. Papadimitriou; (Illustrators) Alecos Papadatos & Annie Di Donna

This innovative graphic novel is based on the early life of the brilliant philosopehr Bertrand Russell and his impassioned pursuit of truth. Haunted by famil secrets and unable to quell his youthful curiosity,... (Save 20%) more...

 

The Book of Basketball

Book of Basketball: The Nba According to the Sports Guy by Bill Simmons; (Foreword) Malcolm Gladwell

Nowhere in the roundball universe will you find another single volume that covers as much in such depth as this wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining look at the past, present, and future of pro... (Save 20%) more...

 

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2010 Calendars

Check out our selection of 2010 Calendars!

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Hollywood comes to the Strand

Did you know that Nora Ephron shot a scene from the movie "Julie and Julia" at the Strand? Click here for more info and photos.

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Upcoming Event

November 7
2:00PM - 3:30PM
Luc Tuymans is one of today's most widely admired painters, whose relationship to painting is structured by television, cinema and by the lingering effects of WWII. He will sign copies of his books for Strand customers at this special Saturday meet & greet.

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Upcoming Event

November 9
7:00PM - 8:00PM
New York Times contributing writer Peter Maass, author of Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil will be joined by photojournalist Ed Kashi, author of Curse of the Black Gold, to discuss the underlying forces that make oil a threat to exporting countries.

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Introducing StrandTV

Can't make an event? Watch it live! Click here for more information and to view archived events.

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Strand Street Scene Tote

A new way to tote your books Strand-style! Our latest arrival features our famous Broadway storefront on one side, with our logo on the reverse. Plus, we've added a bottom panel so you can fit even more than before!

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