Adult & Contemporary Fiction

“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”—Kansas City Star.Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread Prize.The luminous novel by one of the finest living Irish writers, which Brian Moore has praised as "in every sense a triumph…moving throughout and ending triumphantly and joyously in its own...

Winner of 2018 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. From the author of the highly acclaimed Trieste, a fierce novel about history, memory, and illness. Andreas Ban, a psychologist who no longer psychologizes, a writer who no longer writes, lives...

Chosen as one of fifteen remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write in the 21st century by the book critics of The New York Times."Funny...odd, original, and nearly unclassifiable...unlike any novel I can think of."—David...

Bullet Train's hapless underworld operative and his handler are back in this thrilling new novel from internationally bestselling author Kotaro Isaka. In Bullet Train, underworld operative Ladybug was tasked by his handler Maria Beetle with retrieving a...

Winner of the Yomiuri Prize and recipient of the 2022-23 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation. Introducing Tatsuhiko Shibusawa—Japan’s Italo Calvino—in this fantastical tale of a Japanese prince who...

As the nineteenth century draws toward its close, King Ludwig II of Bavaria binge-watches television to escape his reality, side-lined by his own advisers. His one wish is to meet Wagner, the mysterious composer pumping out new music and scores of...

The author of Crime Scene takes us to the wilds of California in the fifth installment of the Clay Edison series that will leave your fingertips covered in paper cuts from how quickly you’ll be turning the pages…The riveting new Clay Edison...

#1 New York Times bestselling Catherine Coulter returns with a brilliant new thriller in her FBI series, in which agents Sherlock and Savich find themselves dealing with very powerful figures from the past who could wreak havoc in the present...

In this chilling mystery from a #1 New York Times bestselling author, a small New England town is hit with a wave of crimes after the arrival of a mysterious stranger who brings more questions than answers. Hollows Bend, New Hampshire, is...

Catherine Coulter’s Vortex will leave you spinning. A brutal murder and shocking kidnap attempt open the latest book in the FBI Series and the pace only picks up from there. Coulter gives us two gripping mysteries in one!NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...

Jimmy Juliano brings on those 90’s feelings alongside tension filled with thrills and horror. Don’t be fooled by this VHS retro cover (love it). Within this book … “there be monsters.”"An ominously slow burn...Keep the...

Equal parts campy and creepy, this ode to slashers will have you pressing play on all your favorite old horror flicks.From Bram Stoker Award‑nominated author Craig DiLouie comes a darkly humorous horror novel that sees a famous 80s slasher director set...

From horror maestro Paul Tremblay, Horror Movie is another shimmering story built on the precariousness of not knowing. Akin to "theater of the mind," it's an unsettling spiral into true terror.Instant New York Times Bestseller! A chilling twist on the...

A haunting thriller featuring two women, their collective rage, and a shared past that haunts them both.“Urgent, haunting, and fearless.” —Megan Abbott, author of Beware the Woman. An Empire Book Store Mystery & Thriller Pick | An...

The Sunday Times: Best Thrillers of 2023. Financial Times: Best Summer Thrillers of 2023. “A classic thriller of the new Cold War.” Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad. A highly topical espionage novel about a Russian plot to cut the undersea...

In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and bloody politics of an era engulfed in flame.Can a white man...

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • James Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with a wild riff on the Marilyn Monroe death myth in an astonishing, behind-the-headlines crime epic.Los...

Amy Chua's debut novel, The Golden Gate, is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change.In...

In the second book in the Detective Harriet Foster thriller series, author Tracy Clark weaves a twisted journey into the underbelly of Chicago as Harriet and her team work to unmask a serial killer stalking the city’s aldermen. The Chicago PD is on...