Adult & Contemporary Fiction

Enter a world equal parts Dexter and 50 Shades of Grey in this first award winning erotic thriller from A.R. Torre!My life is simple, as long as I follow the rules.1. Don't leave the apartment. 2. Never let anyone in. 3. Don't kill anyone.I've...

“Catherine Newman sees the heartbreak and comedy of life with wisdom and unflinching compassion. The way she finds the extraordinary in the everyday is nothing short of poetry. She’s a writer’s writer—and a human’s human...

Acclaimed author Garth Greenwell (Cleanness and What Belongs to You) returns to the United States with a haunting story of one man’s emotional reckoning.A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a...

“Prescient and technically astonishing.” —Geoff Dyer, GQ.Often considered Jean Rhys’s most autobiographical novel, this masterful and moving work follows a chorus girl, Anna, who struggles to adjust to cold and inhospitable...

The second book in the acclaimed Grant County Series from Karin Slaughter, the New York Times bestselling author of Pieces of Her. “Karin Slaughter is a fearless writer. She takes us to the deep, dark places other novelists don’t dare to go...

An instant USA Today bestseller!It all began with just one line.“I’ll wait forever if I have to.”The BookTok sensation PEN PAL is a high-octane, tautly written dark romance with an unforgettable twist that will leave readers gasping...

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They stole his crown. So, he stole their daughter. For years Erik, the scarred king of the Ever Kingdom, has thought of nothing but vengeance against the man who killed his father and trapped him beneath the waves, making him a prisoner in his own realm...

Darkness Will Bind Them…watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season 2 on Prime Video. A revised and expanded edition of Tolkien’s own Hobbit-inspired poetry, including previously unpublished poems and notes, and...

The followup novel to International Booker-shortlisted Boulder is a story of queer motherhood and survival deep in the countryside. Mammoth’s protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She’s inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to...

Like us, Barbara Kingsolver is a fan of this epic, unputdownable novel about the natural world and our deep-seeded connection to it. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in FictionWinner of the William Dean Howells MedalShortlisted for the Booker PrizeOver One...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER. "A juicy melodrama cast against the sultry, stylish imagery of North Africa in the fifties." --The New Yorker. The last person Alice Shipley expected to see since arriving in Tangier with her new husband was Lucy Mason. After the...

The next seductive, sweeping, action-packed installment in the addictive Sacred Stones trilogy.A prophecy of death. A weapon of hope. A sacrifice of love.Arwen Valondale is sailing for the mysterious Kingdom of Citrine after the battle of Siren’s...

For fans of the hit show Only Murders in the Building, this murder mystery will have you obsessed. The true crime lover in everyone will revel in joining Pip as she attempts to solve a cold case involving her childhood friend. If you’re a true...

In Fiasco, Kentucky, there is one rule: never fall for a Foxx brother. Any woman who did, ended up dead-or so the rumor goes. Townies call it a curse. But I've lived it, and I won't survive it again. I'm not a cop anymore, but I've seen enough danger to...

A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Ann Douglas. Following the explosive energy of...

From New York Times bestselling author Elle Kennedy and USA Today bestselling author Sarina Bowen comes the next in the spin-off series of their wildly successful Him and Us books. "I'm ridiculously attracted to you, Hottie. I figured I should be up...

For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai’s darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer. A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher an awful manuscript, filling...

Every Halloween, Satan's Affair will come to you. We travel the country, offering terrifying haunted houses, thrilling rides and the tastiest food. And with every passing town, I cleanse this world, one execution at a time. I hide within the walls,...

A collection of four spooky tales for the modern era, all tied to a certain Kyoto curio shop. A basket wriggles, a masked man lingers in the shadows, and things are offered, lost, and forgotten. What mysteries lie hidden in the city’s winding...