Sequoia Books

Classics revived. Horror celebrated. Stories that endure. Sequoia Book Publishers — unearthing the books that matter.

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New look. New books. New authors. Same obsession with getting the classics right.

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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.

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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. https://t.co/KwHR4t0yZV

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@NewickPea The Pursuit of Love gets better every time — Mitford is criminally underrated.

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What's a book you've read more than twice? Genuinely curious what that list looks like.

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@BoldyCraig Pratchett twice is understandable — Wheel of Time twice is a whole different level of commitment.

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@eileenwanita Ha, that says it all.

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@realPeterCrerar Exactly right — the cuts are never the boring parts either.

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

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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.

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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.

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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."

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There's a specific kind of person who keeps their most important books within arm's reach of the bed. Not for decoration. Because those are the ones they go back to when things get hard. You know who you are.

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Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years of hard labor. He entered prison the most celebrated writer in England. He left broken, in debt, and in exile. He died three years later in a Paris hotel room. The Picture of Dorian Gray was used as evidence against him in court.

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Which classic would make a great movie right now that nobody has actually made yet?

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Our new annotated version :)

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The CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual was classified for 70 years. When it was finally declassified in 2008, people's first reaction wasn't shock. It was recognition. The tactics designed to destroy enemy organizations from the inside looked exactly like normal corporate life.

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@lhallwriter King of course! And The Lost World is a good pick too!

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@eileenwanita That's beautiful!

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@ParanormalJunk2 Stephen Kings books have a special place in our hearts.

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@robertomed42469 Fahrenheit 451 hits differently every time you come back to it.