Adult & Contemporary Fiction

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Taleand The Testaments, a dazzling collection of short stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means...

The always adored Amor Towles is back with all the essentials readers love — wit, humor, intrigue, panache, atmosphere and the list goes on. With a compelling character cast and settings ranging from Golden Age Hollywood to New York City, this...

This hardback edition of The Silmarillion features a cover design by J.R.R. Tolkien himself, complementing the popular The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings hardbacks. It includes a new preface by J.R.R. Tolkien, unique to this edition. The Silmarillion...

The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg’s film, tells of a young boy’s struggle to survive World War II in China.Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a strength greater than...

A thrilling adventure with “an oppressive power reminiscent of Conrad” (Kingsley Amis), considered by many to be Ballard’s finest. In the novel that catapulted him to international acclaim upon its publication in 1962, J.G...

Longlisted for the International Booker Prize.The Wall Street Journal, A Best Book of the Year.Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the relationship of writers with tyranny, Ismail Kadare reflects on...

For readers who loved Song of Silver, Flame Like Night and A Magic Steeped in Poison, this is the start to a brand-new, sharp and dazzling series from an epic duo. The first novel in a sweeping YA fantasy duology based on characters and teachings created...

Your favorite outcasts are back following their adventures in A Royal Conundrum (our overall Children's Book of the Year for 2024), and this time, all of San Francisco is at stake. With mysterious happenings, cryptic clues and (un)natural disasters...

Kathryn Scanlan’s Kick the Latch vividly captures the arc of one woman’s life at the racetrack—the flat land and ramshackle backstretch; the bad feelings and friction; the winner’s circle and the racetrack bar; the fancy suits and...

A killer competition and three contestants who find more common ground with each other than they might've thought. Get ready for The Hunt…From the bestselling author of The Bone Houses and The Drowned Woods comes a thrilling fantasy about three...

To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession.An epic love story set in the sparkling, savage sphere of elite figure skating, starring a woman determined to carve her own path on and off the ice“Part Wuthering Heights and part...

Available for the first time since its original publication more than fifty years ago, Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm is a charming collection whose hilarious title story features Christmas dinner with the Starkadders before Flora's arrival. With Adam...

** A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 **NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, THE SUNDAY TIMES, AND THE FINANCIAL TIMES.A searing debut set in a modern India simmering with the tension of growing religious intolerance, by a major new...

Kenneth Grahame's exuberant yet whimsical The Wind in the Willows belongs to the golden age of children's classic novels. These charming, exciting and humorous tales of the riverbank and its life featuring the wonderfully imagined Ratty, Mole, Badger and...

Gorgeously written and unflinchingly hilarious, Skippy Dies is built around a bunch of 14-year-old boys and deftly drifts between the completely serious and the outrageously ridiculous with unmatched tact. Populated by characters that will easily endear...

A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner.Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In “one of Morrison’s most haunting works” (The New York Times),the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner reveals what lies beneath the surface of slavery. But at its heart, like Beloved, it is the story of a...

Another Morrison masterpiece in this exploration of responsibility and racial inequality. Ripe with rich characters that will walk right off the page, this is Morrison at her perpetual best.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An official Oprah...

A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner.Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a...

The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present—in prose that soars...