Adult & Contemporary Fiction

History of Violence is international bestselling French author Édouard Louis’s autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath.   On Christmas Eve...

Humor and heartbreak collide in this inventive tale that takes on war, art and human connection. Blurring the lines between fiction and reality, this is a thought-provoking novel about a character grappling with survival, identity and existential...

A novel about the rich stories of small places, from the Nobel Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the DeadA woman settles in a remote Polish village...

An anarchic and unflinching cult novel “charged with reflection, anger, and the feeling of being alive” (Village Voice), tracing a year of love and lust in San Francisco’s lesbian underground, with a new foreword by Maggie...

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:THE GUARDIAN • LIBRARY JOURNALSteeped in a rich heritage of bewitching Albanian myth and legend, Crossing is a deeply timely and deeply necessary novel about war,...

"Deliciously funny and spicy." -Elsie Silver, New York Times bestselling author.Alone and Looking to Bone! Loudmouthed Mountain Man Seeks Fiery Woman to Grow Old With.I might look like a tall, tattooed, bearded neanderthal...but like an onion,...

Having married her childhood sweetheart, Riko now finds herself trapped in a relationship that has been soured by infidelity. One day, she runs into her old friend Mr Takaoka, who offers friendship, love, and an unusual escape: he teaches her the trick...

THE #1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD.For fans of magical realism and the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi comes this cozy fantasy debut.What if there was a store that sold dreams? Which would you...

From New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon Charts bestselling author Meghan Quinn comes a new laugh-out-loud summer rom-com.   "I got what I wanted. I became buddy-buddy with my boss in an instant. But the cost will be...

Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the city guard's investigations. It's a peaceful, if solitary profession…until the day when he's called to the river to examine the latest in a series of...

Longlisted for The Center For Fiction's 2024 First Novel Prize • Named a Best Book of 2024 by Elle, Vogue, and Debutiful.“This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled...

Longlisted for the 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Named one of the Best Books of 2024 by Glamour and one of them's Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2024. RuPaul and Eric Cervini's Allstora Book Club Pick for June.   “A novel that should...

A mega best-seller in Sweden, with rights sold to over a dozen countries and a TV adaptation underway, Annika Norlin’s debut novel The Colony is the biggest Swedish literary phenomenon since Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove...

In this charming, fable-like book from Japan, a fox spirit sells magical confections to troubled humans, only for them to get a little more than they bargained for.  Welcome. We don't get many humans here.In a cozy night-alley lies a very...

The gripping tale of a brother and sister living in an authoritarian future. Dystopian yet hopeful, disconcerting yet warm, Gliff is an impressive feat of storytelling.THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From a literary...

Her life for freedom. Her blood for love. Her soul for vengeance.Ripped from a forgotten homeland as a child, Tisaanah learned how to survive with nothing but a sharp wit and a touch of magic. But the night she tries to buy her freedom, she barely...

Set over 500 years, this tale of three sapphic vampires is a story about hunger, rage and the ways in which women are told to be satiated even when they aren’t. From V. E. Schwab, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The...

A reporter embarks on an investigation of a string of unconnected suicides—which then leads into an exploration of the phenomenon of suicide itself—in this elegant existential novel, the third and final volume of Antonio Di Benedetto’s...

Walter Mitty is an ordinary man living an ordinary life. But he has dreams - vivid, extraordinary day dreams - in which the life he leads is one of excitement and even adventure, in which he - a weary, put upon middle-aged man - is the hero of his own...

Pushed and pulled between her parents and her children, a woman faces her past and her future, in a story about the ins and outs and joy of life. Think Vintage Contemporaries by Dan Kois or anything by Laurie Colwin.Look for Wreck, the new...