Selected Works

A track record in titles, not adjectives

More than 100 award-winning books and 30-plus New York Times and national bestsellers — edited or published across the sciences and the humanities.

Get Started

These are books Thomas LeBien edited or published over three decades at top-tier university and commercial presses — from Pulitzer- and Bancroft-honored history to New York Times bestsellers in science and ideas. The list below is a sample, not a catalog. The through-line is the same: serious nonfiction, made to reach readers.

Awards & Bestsellers

The ones the prizes and the lists noticed.

A handful that earned a Bancroft Prize, a spot on the bestseller lists, or both — Katrina's history won the Bancroft; Waking Up, Impeachment, and Extraterrestrial reached a national readership.

  • Waking Up by Sam Harris Bestseller

    Waking Up

    Sam Harris

  • Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 by Andy Horowitz

    Katrina: A History, 1915–2015

    Andy Horowitz

    Bancroft Prize

  • Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide by Cass R. Sunstein Bestseller

    Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide

    Cass R. Sunstein

  • Extraterrestrial by Avi Loeb Bestseller

    Extraterrestrial

    Avi Loeb

The Full Selection

Books edited and published by Thomas LeBien.

Across memoir, business, biography, history, and science — at Harvard, FSG, Simon & Schuster, Princeton, and Oxford.

  • Waking Up by Sam Harris Bestseller

    Waking Up

    Sam Harris

  • Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong

    Slouching Towards Utopia

    J. Bradford DeLong

    An Economic History of the 20th Century

  • Traveling Black by Mia Bay

    Traveling Black

    Mia Bay

    A Story of Race and Resistance

  • Katrina: A History, 1915–2015 by Andy Horowitz

    Katrina: A History, 1915–2015

    Andy Horowitz

    Bancroft Prize

  • The Gales of November by John U. Bacon

    The Gales of November

    John U. Bacon

    The Edmund Fitzgerald

  • What Works by Iris Bohnet

    What Works

    Iris Bohnet

    Belknap / Harvard

  • Their Life's Work by Gary M. Pomerantz

    Their Life's Work

    Gary M. Pomerantz

  • Mirror to America by John Hope Franklin

    Mirror to America

    John Hope Franklin

  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

    Fahrenheit 451

    Ray Bradbury

    Hill & Wang

  • Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide by Cass R. Sunstein Bestseller

    Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide

    Cass R. Sunstein

  • Extraterrestrial by Avi Loeb Bestseller

    Extraterrestrial

    Avi Loeb

  • Health Care Reform by Jonathan Gruber

    Health Care Reform

    Jonathan Gruber

Want your book on a list like this one? It starts the same way every one of these did — with a candid read and an honest plan. See how the work breaks down, then tell us where your manuscript stands.

Let's add yours to the list.

Tell us about your book and where it stands. We'll tell you, candidly, what it needs to get there.

Get Started Today