Literary Fiction

The wait is finally over — we’ve all grappled with the heart wrenching ending to Jill Santopolo’s bestseller, and now we can finally find some closure. Join Lucy on a journey to Rome to uncover secrets of the heart and mend old wounds...

A beautifully written short novel about the price of isolation and the desire for community and connection that's perfect for fans of one of our fiction monthly picks, Paul's Harding's This Other Eden.“Tender, riveting, and inventive...

Sasha Filipenko traces the arc of Russian history from Stalin’s terror to the present day, in a novel full of heart and humanity.   One struggles not to forget, while the other would like nothing better. Tatiana Alexeyevna is an old woman,...

To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession.An epic love story set in the sparkling, savage sphere of elite figure skating, starring a woman determined to carve her own path on and off the ice“Part Wuthering Heights and part...

A harrowing, unforgettable masterpiece by the winner of the Booker International Prize. A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld’s international...

Longlisted for the Prix Sade 2021. Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. A New York Times Notable Book of 2020. A New York Times Critics Top Ten Book of the Year. Named a Best Book of the Year by over 30...

*From the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These.* Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. The evening is fine. In the sky a few early stars...

Part desert survival story, part examination of grief — Melissa Broder mixes the absurd with the profoundly human in a feat of imagination. Weird, tender and wild, this is an unforgettable journey into the unknown.Named a Best Book of the Year by...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Story Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Named a Best Book of the Year by Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Esquire, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews. A new...

Joan Didion is a cultural icon and this is where it all began. This collection of nonfiction is exactly as you’d expect from Didion, detailing a specific and fascinating age in California when John Wayne was a mainstay. It’s billiant...

The most famous anti-war novel ever written. In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is...

A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community, Brian is also a tangential work of film criticism, one that is not removed from its subject matter, but rather explores with great feeling how art gives meaning to and enriches...

A taut and concise work of fiction. Shibli strikes a balance of saying exactly what needs to be said to advance the plot while perfectly placing just the right amount of pause so the reader can absorb the gravity of the story.A searing, beautiful novel...

We love immersive books you can read in one sitting, and Jessica Anthony's novel of a housewife at her wits end packs a punch. The clever premise and unflinching narrative voice might remind you of The Swimmer by John Cheever.From “one of our most...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The bestselling author of Nobody's Fool and Straight Man delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace. “Rich, humorous .....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE. International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story—an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history. In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off...

Kafka's gripping work of psychological horror.A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K, an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once...

The charming international bestseller about an unlikely friendship between an elderly door-to-door bookseller and a nine-year-old girl that changes his life.Small-town German bookseller Carl Kollhoff delivers his books to special customers in the evening...

No Longer Human is a beautifully crafted novel that tells the story of a man who feels disconnected from those around him, ostracized by society. With a fresh voice that doesn’t hold back, Dazai perfectly captures the wonders — and cruelty...

Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason takes readers on a journey through American history via the inhabitants of a single plot of New England land. This is ultimately a story of how we are all connected, through our environment and our history, and is one...