Melville House Books

How to Keep Your Volkswagen AliveChristopher Boucher

It's hard being a single dad—especially when your son is a 1971 Volkswagen Beetle

How To Wreck A Nice BeachDave Tompkins

The history of the vocoder: how popular music hijacked the Pentagon's speech scrambling weapon

The Complete Essential
Heinrich BöllHeinrich Böll

All 8 books in our Essential Heinrich Böll series collected here and sold at 30% off. The set includes:

The Autobiography of a Super-TrampW.H. Davies

A vagrant de Tocqueville gives an eloquent, dry-eyed report of his tramping adventures in the violent underworld of late 19th century America and Britain

The Duel x 5 SetCasanova, Chekhov, Conrad, von Kleist, Kuprin

DogmaLars Iyer

Two yammering British intellectuals travel to the American south to form a new religion—with Canadians

The Cleanest RaceB.R. Myers

Now in paperback, in a newly revised and updated edition that includes a consideration of Kim Jung Il's successor, Kim Jong-On
"Electrifying... finely argued and brilliantly written." —Christopher Hitchens

THE COLLECTED STORIESHeinrich Böll

The definitive short story collection by the Nobel Laureate and master of the form

The ColonelMahmoud Dowlatabadi

Ambiguous AdventureCheikh Hamidou Kane

The celebrated classic by a groundbreaking figure in African literature addresses a critical contemporary issue—the collision of Islamic African values and Western culture

Lamberto, Lamberto, LambertoGianni Rodari

"Gianni Rodari gave free reign to his imagination, with inspired panache and gleeful lightness." —Italo Calvino

What's to become of the boy? Or, Something to do with BooksHeinrich Böll

A vivid account of growing up poor, rebellious, and anti-Fascist in Nazi Germany

Nairobi HeatMukoma Wa Ngugi

For fans of smart foreign crime books, an action-packed crime story in an unusual setting—Kenya—and rooted in fascinating African history

Occupy Wall Street Bundle

The Fallback PlanLeigh Stein

Bartleby the ScrivenerHerman Melville

"I would prefer not to"

The War with the NewtsKarel Čapek

Orwell meets Vonnegut in the simultaneously hilarious and chilling masterpiece from the man who invented the word “robot”

DebtDavid Graeber

Before there was money, there was debt

How To Sharpen PencilsDavid Rees

A hilarious guide to the lost art of artisanal pencil sharpening

RotisStephane Reynaud

ROASTS FOR EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK

The Factory SeriesDerek Raymond

The Little Girl and the CigaretteBenoit Duteurtre

A wicked satire about the chaos that results when there's a rule for everything.