10 Books For Fathers About Fathers

When Drew Silver learns that he requires emergency life-saving heart surgery, he makes the radical decision to refuse the operation. In this hilarious and heart-rending tale, he chooses instead to spend what time he has left to repair his relationship with his daughter, become a better man, and live in the moment.

The long-awaited first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring Abraham Lincoln, as well as an unforgettable cast of supporting characters, living and dead, historical and invented.

Ta-Nehisi Coates shares with his son the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences.

The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell is a humorous, well-informed take on the world today, tackling a wide range of issues.

Award-winning historian Daniel Mark Epstein throws the spotlight on one of the more enigmatic aspects of Franklin’s biography: his complex and confounding relationship with his illegitimate son William.

In 1954, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable’s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County—to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto in a story spanning five decades.

An unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul’s father masterfully evokes a man’s quest for autonomy in order to achieve independence.

Tony Webster built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.