Adult & Contemporary Fiction

A tale about identity, coming-of-age, friendship and love, The Three Lives of Cate Kay is a dazzling, big-hearted journey.REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK | NATIONAL BESTSELLER.Named a Best Book of 2025 by Time, NPR, Goodreads, and others...

Zola's masterpiece of working life, Germinal (1885), exposes the inhuman conditions of miners in northern France in the 1860s. By Zola's death in 1902 it had come to symbolize the call for freedom from oppression so forcefully that the crowd...

Is it wrong to love whatever is beautiful and rich? I love it precisely because it is beautiful, because it is rich — because, I think, it brings joy to my heart. . .On Christmas day, in the flurry of a snow storm, the Huberts discover a ragged...

The quintessential noir mystery, delivered with razor–sharp prose that leaves you craving more — the mood, the poetry, the suspense. Meet, and at once say goodbye to Raymond Chandler’s iconic detective, Philip Marlowe. ONE...

Comic energy + telling details (some that shock) + and dialogue that pops. A story collection by George Saunders always surprises (in voice, or plot, or jokes) even as it shows us where we've gone completely off the trail.NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...

High Hill Manor has hidden a secret for decades. Now it will finally be revealed.Chloe Carter is the new girl. After leaving her previous school in a whirl of vicious rumours, she desperately needs a new start.But things don’t go as Chloe had hoped...

Gillian McAllister is back with an electrifying thriller chronicling a series of disturbing events. After her daughter is kidnapped, Simone will do anything to get her back home in this harrowing story of courage and motherhood. "An unputdownable...

One of the most well-known and cherished novels of the 19th century, Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ tells the amazing story of a fictional Jewish aristocrat named Judah of the House of Hur. Judah’s misfortunes begin with him...

In this epic and seductive gothic fantasy, a vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on her own search for self-discovery and true love, from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide.Her name was written in the pages...

Epic fantasy meets murder mystery in this inventive and mystic tale. With sprawling world-building, fierce competition, ample twists and surprises, funny banter and a hint of romance, this is highly recommended for fans of authors like R. F. Kuang and...

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is an exuberant, intensely fluid, and probing examination of the ways in which we make stories of our own and of other people’s lives Jonathan Buckley’s Tell is a probing, exuberant and complex...

Charting the course of the intense and at times fractious relationship between middle-aged composer Rebekah Rosen and the young star-saxophonist Evie Bennet, Discord is a wry and insightful exploration of creative collaboration...

Inspired by true events, the New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home is the poignant story of a group of Irish emigrants aboard RMS Titanic—a seamless blend of fact and fiction that explores the tragedy's...

The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller!Discover a world where magic isn’t learned. It’s survived. A gritty and intoxicating epic fantasy romance.Rhya Fleetwood is a healer, an outcast, and like the realm itself—about to die...

A love that burns brighter than starlight. A gift that could leave her world in ashes. It's time for Zarya to release the fire within.   In the jeweled city of Dharati, Zarya found passion and adventure for the first time. A mysterious stranger...

A golden thread joined them, a bond that went deeper than love – and it had nearly destroyed them. Wren Embervale and Torj Elderbrock share a dark and bloody history. On the brink of another war, and overwhelmed by the force of their feelings for...

'Let us go on, then! And I will tell you the story of my sister and her daughter, from beginning to end.'Alis al—Bustani's Sa'iba (1891) is one of the earliest known novels authored in Arabic by a female writer. Written when the Arabic...

'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.'In the eight lives of this collection...

Winner of the Best Translated Book Award. Deception—the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others—is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects...

Perfect on the screen, the Newmans have played curated versions of themselves for decades, but as their off-screen lives begin to unravel, ratings plummet, and 1960s television may never be the same again. From #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING...