HUNTER Textbooks & Course Packs

Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitat...

From the nuts and bolts of craft to the sources of inspiration, this book is for anyone who wants to write poetry-and do it well.The Poet's Compani...

Winner of The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism - 2019When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring ...

New York Times Bestseller • Pulitzer Prize Finalist • An Oprah's Book Club Selection“Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands w...

The bestselling sensation—and one of the most outstanding crime novels of the 20th century—that was banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of v...

Based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions, here is a notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves, u...

"A great American writer…Highsmith's writing is wicked…it puts a spell on you." ―Entertainment WeeklyPatricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsessi...

Muriel Spark’s classic novel, widely hailed as one of the twentieth century's best—the story of a young, unorthodox teacher and her special—and ult...

Machiavelli's highly influential treatise on political powerThe Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics for gain...

Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places--the island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Whether they liv...

The greatest Indian epic, one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytellingA Penguin ClassicA sweeping tale of abduction, battle, and courtsh...

Set in the Canary Islands at the outset of the Spanish Civil War, The Ravine is the provocative, disturbing account of a child's experience with wa...

The Ravishing of Lol Stein is a haunting early novel by the author of The Lover. Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman, securely married, settled in...

The definitive translation of Plato's Republic, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophyLong regarded as the most accurate re...

The clever peasant Arnaud du Tilh had almost persuaded the learned judges at the Parlement of Toulouse when, on a summer’s day in 1560, a man swagg...

Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel...

"An overwhelming, outstanding novel...!"―Irish TimesCaptain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaint...

The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European languag...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of sur...

One of The Atlantic’s Great American NovelsWinner of the National Book Award • Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable Boo...

It was the figure of a girl, her arms thrust out to ward off the ripper... her body distorted, rigid with terror... her mouth open in a silent, ete...

Fifty remarkable short stories from a range of contemporary fiction authors including Junot Diaz, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Jhumpa Lahiri, and more...

"What, for the ancient Egyptians, was the nature of the world's governing spirits'... With the evidence of ancient texts, Assmann considers Egyptia...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Within the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story--and a crucial history of fe...