Literary Fiction

Tereza and Ivan share secrets. Tereza is now in art school away from the town where she grew up. Ivan is a teacher and artist. Tereza is now nineteen, Ivan is fifty-seven. They have known each other for years. Tereza shares her secrets with her friend...

An engrossing literary novel about a family mystery, revenge, and forgiveness by Lars Mytting, the bestselling and award-winning author of Norwegian Wood and The Bell in the Lake. An international bestseller and longlisted for the...

Lars Mytting’s engrossing epic novel The Bell in the Lake—a #1 bestseller in Norway—is the story of a young woman whose fate plays out against her village’s mystical church bells.As long as people could remember, the stave...

From the author of Oprah's Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller Nightcrawling, here is an astonishing new novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a small town on the Florida...

Equal parts haunting, brutal and beautiful, Fruit of the Dead is an easy one to read in one sitting. Written with tactful prose, it’s a thriller with roots in Greek mythology built on the love between mothers and daughters.Named a Best...

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...

Sisterhood is the stuff of fairytales, and Julia Phillips has written a wild story about the collision between people's dreams and animals' realities.NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the celebrated author of Disappearing Earth comes a tale of...

WINNER OF THE STELLA PRIZE.A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice."Theory & Practice is a thrillingly original hybrid work that seeks truthful answers to the most difficult questions of the day—questions about the nature of...

I Found Myself: Last Dreams confirms again the richness and variety of Mahfouz's storytelling—"the single most important writer in modern Arabic literature" (Newsweek).   I found myself in our old house in El Abbassiya, visiting my mother...

From the author of The Incendiaries comes a spirited and sexy novel about one woman’s search for meaning and feeling.NATIONAL BESTSELLER.NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE."Hypnotic...a haunting romance about desire, obsession, and...

This is a story of mothers and daughters and finding home, set in an unforgettable building and a near-future world, from the bestselling author of Tiger's Wife. Perfect for fans of Emily St. John Mandel's Sea of Tranquility and Tom...

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction.Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes...

Across three generations, three wars, two continents, and the mythic waters of the Mediterranean, one family’s history leads to an inevitable question: What price do our descendants pay for the choices that we make?   Naïma knows Algeria...

The second of four volumes of short stories which reflect Somerset Maugham's wry perception of human foibles and gift for evoking drama from a sense of time and place. Set in Malaya, America and England, they include "Flotsam and Jetsam," "The Man With...

These 30 short stories, comprising Somerset Maugham's first collection, are set in locations ranging from England, France and Spain to the silver sands of the South Pacific. They include "Rain," "The Three Fat Women of Antibes," "The Voice of the...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE SWEDISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD • A profoundly moving debut novel that follows an elderly man’s struggle to maintain autonomy over his own life: an emotional story of love, friendship, fatherhood,...

Daisy Jones and the Six meets Patricia Highsmith in this addictive, intense novel about the brutal and ferocious road to glory, from the award-winning author of My Husband.  Ever since she was a child, Cléo, the French-American...

What if you could enter the mind of the person you love the most?Enka meets Mathilde in art school and is instantly drawn to her. Mathilde makes art that feels truly original, and Enka—trying hard to prove herself in this fiercely competitive...

A love story, a coming-of-age tale and a war novel wrapped in one, the incomparable Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping story that reintroduces us to the Del Valle family who we met in The House of the Spirits.In this spellbinding historical...

BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GROUP. 'A jagged diamond of a book' OBSERVER. 'A woman of intellect and style' CELIA MCGEE, NEW YORK TIMES. 'Timeless, brilliant and frighteningly insightful' DAILY MAIL. Told...