What’s a classic you genuinely expected to dislike, but ended up loving? Not the one you think you’re supposed to admire. The one that actually surprised you.

1066 and All That has been making fun of English history since 1930. Its joke: the history we remember becomes a glorious mess of kings, dates, myths, and schoolroom certainty. Our annotated edition helps modern readers catch more of the joke. sequoiabook.com/#book/1066-a…

In 1944, the OSS published a sabotage manual for civilians in enemy territory. Its advice could be startlingly ordinary: send matters to committees, work slowly, complicate simple jobs, and be forgetful. That was the point. sequoiabook.com/#book/simple…

Halloween horror wasn’t always costumes and candy. In older tales, graves answered, fairy mounds opened, and roads after dark turned dangerous. The Old Night Came Knocking gathers 18 historical Halloween tales in a restored & annotated Sequoia edition. sequoiabook.com/#book/old-ni…

October should feel a little haunted. Cold windows. Empty roads. Leaves scraping across the pavement. A porch light left on too late. And somewhere in the house, a book you probably shouldn’t have opened after dark.

Be honest: when you say “one more chapter” tonight, how many chapters do you actually mean? 😂

Sunday checklist: Coffee. Ignore Monday. Read something good. Pretend buying another book is self-care. We fully support this plan.

Saturday at Sequoia. New books are coming together, old favorites are finding new readers, and the catalog keeps growing. Take a look through the shelves and see what catches your eye. sequoiabook.com

War in Iraq. Lost love. Addiction. Psychedelics. A road trip across America. Poetry, PTSD, recovery, and a search for meaning. *The Broken Mirror of Memory: Iraq and Other Tales* by @JoeSoel2 is not a conventional war memoir. sequoiabook.com/#book/broken…

One of our authors is giving a lecture about his Iraq War memoir. Find it here. amazon.com/Broken-Mirror-Mem…

Some stories are just fun to read. Others stay with you and quietly change the way you see things.

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This weekend's agenda: something warm to drink, somewhere quiet to sit, and a book older than your grandparents. You've earned it.

Stevenson wrote it in a fever. 140 years later it's never been out of print. Our edition has found over 10,000 readers. Everyone already knows which side of themselves they're hiding. sequoiabook.com

People who don't read think they're missing out on entertainment. What they're actually missing is other people's lifetimes of hard-won thinking, handed to them for $15.

Lovecraft was paid $0.005 per word. He died in 1937 broke and almost unknown, published almost entirely in pulp magazines. He asked to be buried in a pauper's grave. Today his estate generates millions annually and his hometown puts his face on everything.

Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose the exploitation of immigrant workers. America responded by demanding better food inspection. The workers were forgotten. Sinclair wrote: "I aimed at the public's heart and by accident hit it in the stomach."

Abridged classics are not books. They're book-shaped apologies for books. If the story is long, the length is part of the point.