Literary Fiction

This smash bestseller about privileged Vassar classmates shocked America in the sixties and remains “juicy . . . witty . . . brilliant” (Cosmopolitan). At Vassar, they were known as “the group”—eight...

Selected by The Atlantic as one of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELS.  ("You have to read them.").One of The New Yorker’s “The Best Books We Read in 2020” picks.No novel about any Black woman could ever be the same after this' TONI...

Get lost in this taut tale about mothers and daughters, survival and life from the author of Sea Wife. A NATIONAL BESTSELLER.A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK!“You will open this book and you will not stop reading...

A very special bottle of wine sends 4 neighbors back to 1950s Paris, where they each find the key to a happy future.“A glorious time-slip caper... Just wonderful”  — Daily Mail.When Hubert Larnaudie, chair of the management...

The city is Rome, the hub of Italian life and culture. The house is Le Margherite, a home where the sprawling cast of The City and the House is welcome. At the center of this lush epistolary novel is Lucrezia, mother of five and lover...

Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura school, inspires both rumour and curiosity in the parents of her students because of her unconventional manner - not least when she tells the children the fable of a princess whose hand in marriage is promised to...

A taut story of hidden violence and self-deception from “an Indian Chekhov” (Suketu Mehta). An upper-middle class couple in Bangalore, Venkat and Viji, find their quiet life upended—and the flaws in their marriage exposed—when two...

A NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER. A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE. A vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna. “How I loved this book! Filled with truth after truth,...

Read Alice Munro’s dark and powerful exploration of the human heart in this ten-story collection. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. ‘Brilliant at evoking life's diversity and...

A “revelatory” (The Boston Globe), “exhilarating” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of twelve stories that “[redraw] the boundaries between fiction and memoir” (O: The Oprah Magazine), from Nobel...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Eight “sparkling [and] beautifully drawn” (Entertainment Weekly) stories about love and its infinite betrayals and surprises, from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro.“Each of the stories...

These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. ‘Brimming with intensely believable characters and rich...

**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009. Previously published as 'The Beggar Maid', Alice Munro's wonderful collection of stories reads like a novel, following Rose's...

Discover Alice Munro’s first mesmerising and atmospheric short story collection. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 200. ‘A remarkable writer whose major characters emerge in shining clarity....

BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • Forget room service: this is a riotous elegy, a deadpan celebration of colliding worlds, and a spirited defense of love. Blending incisive wit with surprising compassion, Hotel World is a wonderfully invigorating,...

“A profound novel about friendship. I loved it to pieces.” —Madeline Miller“A shining tour de force about a long friendship’s respects, disrespects, loyalties and moralities.” —Ali Smith From the...

THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED DEBUT NOVEL BY STAR OF STAGE AND SCREEN, LARRY LAMB.   "One of the best." James Corden "Speedy, sexy and amusingly truthful. I loved it." Celia Imrie "An irresistible homage to the unsung heroes of filmmaking...

*Soon to be a TV series*Jimmy Fallon’s Book Club Top Four Pick and a PBS Book Club Pick.For fans of Kazuo Ishiguro and Emily St. John Mandel, this “mind-bending take on time travel” (The New York Times) is about an isolated town...

The concluding instalment in Boyne's acclaimed elemental quartet, Air is a moving and profound examination of trauma and redemption as a father and son attempt to mend their relationship on a life-changing flight.  From internationally...

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize and the Kenzaburo Oe Prize, these eleven surreal tales, set in the offices, zoos, bus stops, boutiques, and homes of contemporary Japan "are reminiscent, at least to this reader, of Joy Williams and Rivka Galchen and George...