Books written by George Saunders

Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

Nixon's attorney general, John N. Mitchell, had famously threatened the Post's owner, Katharine Graham, in a call to reporter Carl Bernstein. “All that crap you're putting in the paper?” said Mitchell, as both Graham and Bernstein later ...
Quemada #1: The Spectacle of it All: Transatlantisches Magazin für Essays, Stories & Fotografie

Quemada #1: The Spectacle of it All: Transatlantisches Magazin für Essays, Stories & Fotografie
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

Foremost among the pirates of Ulysses was the legendary New York pornographer Samuel Roth. A semitragic, almost Dostoevskian figure, widely reviled, often imprisoned, a lifelong Orthodox Jew who wrote the notorious anti- Semitic screed ...
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases

These powerful stories, along with essays from Neil Gaiman, Meg Wolitzer, Salman Rushdie, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Louise Erdrich, George Saunders, and many more, remind us that the issues the ACLU has engaged over the past one ...
The Braindead Megaphone

McDonald's, chief villain of the American imperialist program, will henceforth be known as “Burger King.” That will really mess with everybody's head. Some enemy of the revolution here in Tehran goes into a McDon—do we still even have ...
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel

How exactly would we say it? inquired Mr. Kane. We aren't exactly “kings of words"! said Mr. Fuller. Tell them that we work to save a boy, Mr. Vollman said. Whose only sin is that he is a child, and the architect of this place has, ...
Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE The “devastatingly moving” (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln, as ...
Pastoralia

I'm winning. Today we're friends, Gene and I, and he acknowledges that I was right all along. And as for Ellen, Ellen still has some issues, she'd take a big old dump in my oatmeal right now ... Tom Rodgers held up his hand.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and...

Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.
In Persuasion Nation: Stories

Contains a collection of short satirical works, including "The Red Bow," in which a town is consumed by pet-killing hysteria, and "Bohemians," in which two Eastern European widows attempt to fit into suburban America.
Tenth of December

The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'The best book you'll read this year' New York Times 'Dazzlingly surreal stories about a failing ...
Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness

An inspiring message from the inaugural Folio Prize winner, George Saunders, one of today's most influential and original writers
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-Winning, New York Times-bestselling Author of Lincoln in...

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-Winning, New York Times-bestselling Author of Lincoln in...
The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

So begins The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil. An Animal Farm for the 21st century, this is an incendiary political satire of unprecedented imagination, spiky humor, and cautionary appreciation for the hysteric in everyone.
Sielanki

... życzliwa mała Angielka z wadą wymowy pomiatana przez bogatą arogancką siostrę, która miała nienaganną dykcję i zawsze zdobywała wszystko, czego zapragnęła, a mimo to wiecznie narzekała, jednocześnie ssąc różowe cukiereczki.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and...

Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.
Liberation Day: Stories

With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collection of prismatic, resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, ...
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and...

Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline: Stories and a Novella

With a new introduction by Joshua Ferris and a new author’s note by Saunders himself, this edition is essential reading for those seeking to discover or revisit a virtuosic, disturbingly prescient voice.
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY, I PAPER, PROSPECT, REVEW31 AND EVENING STANDARD AS A...