Adult & Contemporary Fiction

New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her collected stories. Her fictional world is haunted by...

A Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee. A Book of the Month Club Pick. A Book of the Year Nominee for BOMC. A Best Book of the Year for Marie Claire. “A beautifully-written, deeply-felt exploration of what it means to love and be loved...

A counter-prophet attempts the impossible to prove his power; a girl sees the hideous fate of her sister and father in a mirror bought from a gypsy; the death of a prostitute causes an unanticipated uprising; and the lives of every ordinary person since...

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a...

Seventeen-year-old Julie has her future all planned out—move out of her small town with her boyfriend Sam, attend college in the city, spend a summer in Japan. But then Sam dies. And everything changes.Heartbroken, Julie skips his funeral, throws...

Three years. Twelve months. A timeless grief. After losing her beloved sister three years ago, Savannah Litchfield has been living half a life. Now seventeen—the age Poppy died—the pain of losing her is worse than ever. When Savannah's...

My arrogant fake fiancé? I can't stand him. Cocky and charismatic Emmett Rhodes isn't the relationship kind of guy, but now that he's running for mayor of our small town, his bachelor past is hurting the campaign. Thankfully, I'm the last woman...

Named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR."This weird, lovely and sweetly satisfying novel [is] engaging and accessible...Clover’s emergence from a shuttered life is moving enough to elicit tears, and Brammer’s take on death and grieving is profound...

A queer new adult romance that provides the perfectly spicy level-up that readers of YA romance are looking for. Tryst Six Venom turns the heat up around Liv and Clay with a steamy tension that will have readers flying through pages to get to the payoff...

Featuring clockwork boys, poisoned candy and impish snow globes, this enchanting holiday novella set in the bestselling world of Garber's Caraval series is a heartwarming delight from start to finish. Snowflakes are falling.Invitations are arriving.And...

How many loves do you get in a lifetime? And are Magnolia and BJ each other's one and only? It’s been nearly a year since everything happened between Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine on the steps of the Mandarin Oriental, and since then it...

The Thursday Murder Club is back! The ever-inquisitive residents of the Coopers Chase Retirement Community must be more inquisitive than ever as there’s another murder to solve. And this time, it’s an old friend who’s been killed...

All twenty-year-old Daisy Haites has ever wanted is a normal life, but as the heiress to London’s most notorious criminal empire, it’s just not in the cards for her.Raised by her older brother, Julian, after their parents were...

From the bestselling horror author of Within These Walls and The Bird Eater comes a terrifying novel that follows a teenager determined to break from his family’s unconventional—and deeply disturbing—traditions.Deep...

Perfect summer reading for all fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Idea of You centres on a megastar boyband member and the passionate affair that must remain a closely guarded secret. Everyone in the world knows his name... but it's you he...

An instant #1 New York Times bestseller The funny, touching and unpredictable new novel from the 13 million copy internationally bestselling author of A Man Called Ove.'A brilliant and comforting read' MATT HAIG 'Funny, compassionate and wise . . . an...

It's a classic old-fashioned haunted house story - set in a big box Swedish furniture superstore. Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring wardrobes,...

Three magical gowns. Two kingdoms on the brink of war. One chance to save them all.Maia Tamarin proved her skill as a tailor when she wove the dresses of the sun, the moon, and the stars, but it will take more than a beautiful gown to hide the darkness...

NOW CELEBRATING ITS 75th ANNIVERSARY.Betty Smith's debut novel is universally regarded as a modern classic. The sprawling tale of an immigrant family in early 20th-century Brooklyn, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is one of the great distinctively...

'May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again... An ecstatic celebration of love and language' -- Washington PostThe language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak. It is a language...