Literary Fiction

The dawn of the internet, budding influencer culture and a remarkable story of complicated family ties makes this a standout for your book club.A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • In this dazzling debut, Jemimah Wei explores the...

This modern family is coming apart at the seams — and one child is at the center of it all. Funny, warm and big-hearted, you'll want to read this in one sitting.A poignant, sharp-eyed, and bitterly funny tale of a family struggling to stay...

A beautifully jacketed hardcover edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's beloved epic novel about a stubbornly independent Icelandic sheep farmer and his spirited daughter.Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both...

Longlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize. We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. That's how it seems to me, being alive for a little while, the teller and the told. So says Ruthie Swain...

Patricia Highsmith meets The White Lotus in this surprising and suspenseful modern gothic story following a couple running from both secretive pasts and very present dangers while honeymooning on a Greek island.“Fantastically...

Longing, lost love and scientific inquiry — Perry's prose is transportive and transformative. Refreshingly unexpected and packed with human complexities, there's so much here to love. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Telegraph, Washington Post,...

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions, and...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. ‘I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security’ In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a vision: there was a crack in reality at the North...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. Best known for his hardboiled Harlem Detective series, Chester Himes was also a superb literary writer, beginning his creative life by writing short stories in the 1930s while serving jail time...

Possibly the most clockwork-perfect plot that Wodehouse ever concocted, The Code of the Woosters fizzes with memorable characters, ingenious slapstick and gossamer light dialogue that feels remarkably effortless. Aunts, cow creamers and ersatz...

“A delightful coming-of-age story set in Jamaica, amid heartbreak, hopefulness, and mirth.”—Charmaine Wilkerson, New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake.   “Poignant and emotional, with touches of both...

A novel about fathers and sons, complex family mythologies and buried secrets. This story of a man's odyssey to heal past wounds is perfect for fans of Adam Haslett and Kaveh Akbar.From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer, a taut, elegiac...

A story of personal and generational grief, family relationships and resilience. Hilarious and heartbreaking, this is a warm, uplifting novel about a young woman's journey to discover who she truly is.A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK...

Informed by traditional adventure stories, this is a timely and engaging novel written with a beautiful combination of infectious humor and vivid characters. While jostling with serious themes, I Cheerfully Refuse never loses its glorious...

Now a major motion picture and titled for the screen as RUMBLE THROUGH THE DARK; a blistering tale of violence and deliverance set against the mythic backdrop of the Mississippi Delta.The acres and acres of fertile soil, the two-hundred-year-old...

A marvelous debut from the hugely talented young French writer Claire Baglin, this tender and painful portrait of working-class life finds shards of poetry inside the twin hardships of poverty and service work.   Claire Baglin’s On the...

First acclaimed as a story-length memoir, then expanded into a novel, Sylvia draws us into the lives of a young couple whose struggle to survive Manhattan in the early 1960s involves them in sexual fantasias, paranoia, drugs, and the extreme...

A beguiling debut novel about friendship and failure.Nicola Long is a few years out of a fine arts degree, listless and unenthusiastically employed in London. She begins to spend her hours at a small underfunded archive dedicated to women’s art...

An intimate portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke's life and art in interwar Paris by his friend and translator, offering unparalleled insight into the creative processA stunningly written, deeply personal biography that’s also a master class in the art...

A major new novel set in nineteenth-century New Orleans by the author of Signs Preceding the End of the World.   New Orleans, 1853. A young exile named Benito Juárez disembarks at a fetid port city at the edge of a swamp. Years later, he...