Hawthorne Books is committed to independent publishing. While our interest in American literary fiction and narrative nonfiction shapes our catalog, one of our goals is to discover more international titles and books in translation. All of our titles are published as affordable original trade paperbacks but feature details not typically found even in case bound titles from bigger houses: acid-free papers; sewn bindings that will not crack; heavy, laminated covers with double-scored French flaps that function as built-in bookmarks.