Literary Fiction

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...

A Sino-Chinese family find their destiny is inseparably entangled with that of the country they have adopted as a home. Not long before the Communist revolution, Tong, sent by his peasant-parents in impoverished rural China to work with a relative in...

Eleven stunning stories that explore the most intimate and transforming moments of existence, from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the foremost practitioners of the short story” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York...

If you're looking to lose yourself in a great story, start here: longing, lost love, scientific inquiry, Perry's prose will transport— and transform — you.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR, Telegraph, Washington Post, The New Yorker...

NYPL's Best Books of 2024.A groundbreaking, potent novel about the destructive force of romantic love from award-winning writer Vigdis Hjorth.A relatively young woman, aged thirty. She married in her early twenties, had two children. It is winter...

The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating midcentury trilogy introduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes to go discover the whereabouts of his mother. In the latter part of this curious...

The re-dipping of dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality. Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife of distinguished barrister Evelyn Gresham,...

From the time she was born, she had been hemmed into an ever-narrowing space, until now she was very nearly walled in . . . New York City, 1940s. In a crumbling tenement in Harlem, Lutie Johnson is determined to build a new life for herself and her...

All the King's Men is considered the finest novel ever written on American politics. Set in the 1930s, this book traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles the real-life Huey 'Kingfish' Long of Louisiana. Stark begins his political...

A Southern Living Best New Book of Winter 2019; A Refinery29 Best Book of January 2019; A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at The Week, Huffington Post, Nylon, and Lit Hub; An Indie Next Pick for January 2019...

“Compelling . . . unfailingly interesting, building suspense as readers wonder what will happen” —Booklist (starred review). “Schlink knows how to tell a gripping yarn . . . [The Grandaughter] is a rewarding and wonderfully...

“Compelling . . . unfailingly interesting, building suspense as readers wonder what will happen” —Booklist (starred review). “Schlink knows how to tell a gripping yarn . . . [The Grandaughter] is a rewarding and wonderfully...

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by The Washington Post, Debutiful, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and LitHub.Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch for Spring 2025.There, There meets The Night...

For fans of Coco Mellors and Daisy Jones & the Six comes a dazzling story of sisterhood, stardom, and buried secrets from the author of The Summer Place. One of the most anticipated books of the year, from #1 New York...

NAMED A "FALL 2020 MUST-READ" AND ONE OF THE "BEST BOOKS OF FALL 2020" BY TIME, VULTURE, THE BOSTON GLOBE, COSMOPOLITAN, WIRED, TOR AND MORE. Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose...