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Farrar, Straus and Company was founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus and John C. Farrar. In 1964 Robert Giroux’s name was added to the roster and the company became Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The firm is renowned for its international list of literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux authors have won extraordinary acclaim over the years, including twenty-five Nobel Prizes in Literature and numerous National Book Awards and Pulitzer Prizes. Nobel Prize winners include Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse, T. S. Eliot, Pär Lagerkvist, François Mauriac, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Salvatore Quasimodo, Nelly Sachs, Yasunari Kawabata, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Pablo Neruda, Eugenio Montale, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Czeslaw Milosz, Elias Canetti, William Golding, Wole Soyinka, Joseph Brodsky, Camilo José Cela, Nadine Gordimer, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Mario Vargas Llosa, Peter Handke, and Louise Glück. Poetry has always played a pivotal role on the Farrar, Straus and Giroux list, which boasts some of the greatest names in modern verse, ranging from Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, and Philip Larkin to Thom Gunn, Les Murray, Paul Muldoon, francine j. harris, Valzhyna Mort and Frank Bidart. Fiction has an even greater international reach, distinguished by Jamaica Kincaid, Sally Rooney, Jonathan Franzen, Peter Høeg, Amitav Ghosh, Roberto Bolaño, Denis Johnson, Marilynne Robinson, Bernard Malamud, Alice McDermott, Sheila Heti, Péter Nádas, Flannery O’Connor, Jeffrey Eugenides, Paul Beatty, Susan Sontag, Rachel Cusk, Ben Lerner, André Aciman, and Mario Vargas Llosa. History, art history, natural history, current affairs, and science round out a strong list in nonfiction represented by Thomas Friedman, Philip Gourevitch, Daniel Kahneman, George Packer, Alex Ross, William Langewiesche, Evan Osnos, Gina Kolata, Louis Menand, and John McPhee, among others.

Most Requested Books (40 Total )

Down Time

General Fiction (Adult)
Empire of Orgasm

Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction (Adult), True Crime
Transcription

General Fiction (Adult)
My Lover, the Rabbi

General Fiction (Adult), LGBTQIAP+, Religion & Spirituality
Lost Lambs

General Fiction (Adult)
Trip

General Fiction (Adult), Literary Fiction, Sci Fi & Fantasy
The Silver Book

General Fiction (Adult), Literary Fiction
Palaver

General Fiction (Adult), LGBTQIAP+
Starry and Restless

Biographies & Memoirs, History
The Wayfinder

General Fiction (Adult), Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Enshittification

Computers & Technology, Nonfiction (Adult)
The Renovation

General Fiction (Adult)
This Year

Arts & Photography, Poetry & Verse, Reference
Poor

Poetry & Verse
The Snakes That Ate Florida

Essays & Collections, Nonfiction (Adult)
Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower

History, Home & Garden, Science
Ripeness

General Fiction (Adult)
Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues

General Fiction (Adult), LGBTQIAP+
Tomorrow Is Yesterday

History, Politics & Current Affairs
Near Flesh

General Fiction (Adult)
Down Time

General Fiction (Adult)
Empire of Orgasm

Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction (Adult), True Crime
Transcription

General Fiction (Adult)
My Lover, the Rabbi

General Fiction (Adult), LGBTQIAP+, Religion & Spirituality
Lost Lambs

General Fiction (Adult)
Trip

General Fiction (Adult), Literary Fiction, Sci Fi & Fantasy
The Silver Book

General Fiction (Adult), Literary Fiction
Palaver

General Fiction (Adult), LGBTQIAP+
Starry and Restless

Biographies & Memoirs, History
The Wayfinder

General Fiction (Adult), Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Enshittification

Computers & Technology, Nonfiction (Adult)
The Renovation

General Fiction (Adult)
This Year

Arts & Photography, Poetry & Verse, Reference
Poor

Poetry & Verse
The Snakes That Ate Florida

Essays & Collections, Nonfiction (Adult)
Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower

History, Home & Garden, Science
Ripeness

General Fiction (Adult)
Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues

General Fiction (Adult), LGBTQIAP+
Tomorrow Is Yesterday

History, Politics & Current Affairs
Near Flesh

General Fiction (Adult)
Down Time

General Fiction (Adult)
Empire of Orgasm

Health, Mind & Body, Nonfiction (Adult), True Crime
Transcription

General Fiction (Adult)
My Lover, the Rabbi

General Fiction (Adult), LGBTQIAP+, Religion & Spirituality
Lost Lambs

General Fiction (Adult)
Trip

General Fiction (Adult), Literary Fiction, Sci Fi & Fantasy
The Silver Book

General Fiction (Adult), Literary Fiction
Palaver

General Fiction (Adult), LGBTQIAP+
Starry and Restless

Biographies & Memoirs, History
The Wayfinder

General Fiction (Adult), Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
Enshittification

Computers & Technology, Nonfiction (Adult)
The Renovation

General Fiction (Adult)
This Year

Arts & Photography, Poetry & Verse, Reference
Poor

Poetry & Verse
The Snakes That Ate Florida

Essays & Collections, Nonfiction (Adult)
Chasing Lewis's Monkeyflower

History, Home & Garden, Science
Ripeness

General Fiction (Adult)
Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues

General Fiction (Adult), LGBTQIAP+
Tomorrow Is Yesterday

History, Politics & Current Affairs
Near Flesh

General Fiction (Adult)