Literary Fiction

A terrible heatwave. A very tense baby shower. It will all end in tears.Nicki, Lauren, Charlotte and Steffi have been friends since university. Now in their thirties, life is pulling them in different directions - but when Charlotte organises the baby...

We couldn't put this one down, and we have a feeling you won't be able to, either. A story about the benefits and consequences of wealth and the lengths we'll go to run from our personal mythologies — this cast of characters will hold you for...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE.FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD.WINNER OF THE WHITING AWARD.WINNER OF THE SAROYAN INTERNATIONALPRIZE FOR WRITING.WINNTER OF THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD.WINNER OF THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD.A PUBLISHERS...

We all caught the Sally Rooney bug with her stunning debut Conversations with Friends — now we’re ready to fall in love all over again. Intermezzo absolutely soars with complicated relationships (romantic and familial) and the signature...

You’ve read his story collection Night of the Living Rez, now Morgan Talty returns with his debut novel that absolutely soars. Centered on a man grappling with a secret and trying to care for the few loved ones left in his life, you will come out...

“Catherine Newman sees the heartbreak and comedy of life with wisdom and unflinching compassion. The way she finds the extraordinary in the everyday is nothing short of poetry. She’s a writer’s writer—and a human’s human...

Acclaimed author Garth Greenwell (Cleanness and What Belongs to You) returns to the United States with a haunting story of one man’s emotional reckoning.A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a...

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Jayne Anne Phillips’ historical epic set in a West Virginia lunatic asylum is a story of the persistence of life and the power of family, from the author of Black Trinkets and Machine.PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK...

A haunting and brilliant read that explores the power play between a manipulative teacher and his naïve young student and the lasting effects the affair has on both decades later. Uncomfortable, disturbing and yet extremely relevant, My Dark...

Céline’s masterpiece―colloquial, polemic, hyper-realistic, boiling over with black humor Céline’s masterpiece―colloquial, polemic, hyper realistic―boils over with bitter humor and revulsion at society’s idiocy and...

"Candy is beside me, drenched in sweat. She's breathing gently, long slow breaths. I imagine her soul going in and out: wanting to leave, wanting to come back, wanting to leave, wanting to come back. The day will soon harden into what we need to do. But...

A darkly humorous and touching study in grief and companionship, Nunez’s award-winning novel follows a woman who unexpectedly loses her mentor and best friend and inherits his huge, bereaved Great Dane. A moving story of love, friendship, grief,...

Gorgeous prose woven into the breakneck pace of a page-turning thriller. Set in Los Angeles among Vietnamese refugees after the fall of Saigon, this is a story steeped in stakes and begging to be read. Don’t miss it. Now an HBO Limited Series...

Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides—the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and...

'An astonishing portrait of an innocent on the verge of discovering the cruelties of love... an inimitable read' - Elizabeth Strout, from the introduction.'Life was a perpetual holiday in those days...'Italy, 1930s. It's the height of summer, and...

A big-hearted tale from an award-winning author, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny follows the sweeping story of a novelist and a journalist grappling with love, home and culture. This is perfect for fans of Real Americans. BOOKER PRIZE...

From the International Booker Prize– shortlisted author of What I'd Rather Not Think Aboutcomes a darkly humorous novel about multigenerational family dynamics and individuality in Dutch suburbia.   An unnamed narrator grows up overshadowed by...

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 future ravaged by disastrous weather, a small town on the brink of collapse and one family at the center of it all. Gripping, visceral and taut, Wild Dark Shore is a complex story about survival, isolation and hope at the end of the world...