Literary Fiction

'Endo is one of the world's greatest novelists' -- Washington Post. A group of Japanese tourists journey to the sacred River Ganges, each on a secret personal pilgrimage. Widower Isobe mourns for the devoted wife he neglected; gentle children's writer...

A collection of nine exceptional stories from the much-loved author of The Catcher in the Rye. An American soldier has a strange encounter with an orphaned English teenager the night before he leaves for war. A four-year-old boy runs away in a dinghy; a...

Joan Didion is a cultural icon and this is where it all began. This collection of nonfiction is exactly as you’d expect from Didion, detailing a specific and fascinating age in California when John Wayne was a mainstay. It’s billiant...

Before The Dutch House and Tom Lake, there was Bel Canto. This is the luminous novel about music and art, love and connection that put Ann Patchett on the map for readers. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award • Winner of the Orange Prize •...

‘If there’s any metaphor I would use for the act of writing, it would have to be listening,’ says Jon Fosse in A Silent Language, the lecture he delivered after being awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature. When he writes, Fosse...

What would you do with a second chance at life? This multigenerational tale is a stunning story of time, memory and family for fans of Clear by Carys Davies.LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of...

A sweeping epic in the vein of Philipp Meyer’s The Son and Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and inspired by a true story, this stunning US literary debut captures the never-before-told journey of the Baleine Brides: a ship full of young women plucked...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE. Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, this mesmerizing literary debut is part coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a...

A taut and concise work of fiction. Shibli strikes a balance of saying exactly what needs to be said to advance the plot while perfectly placing just the right amount of pause so the reader can absorb the gravity of the story.A searing, beautiful novel...

In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the...

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A courageous young Sri Lankan woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor in this “heartbreaking exploration of a family fractured by civil war” (Brit Bennett, #1 New York...

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and “one of the great American prose stylists of our time"  – New York Times. Paul Auster’s brilliant eighteenth novel opens...

COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNER.LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE."A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making." —Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize-winning...

Pale Horse is a thinly disguised retelling of the assassination of Grand Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich. Written in the form of a diary by the leader of a group of five revolutionaries, the novel provides a straightforward and clinical account of the...

Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Mason takes readers on a journey through American history via the inhabitants of a single plot of New England land. This is ultimately a story of how we are all connected, through our environment and our history, and is one...

The always adored Amor Towles is back with all the essentials readers love — wit, humor, intrigue, panache, atmosphere and the list goes on. With a compelling character cast and settings ranging from Golden Age Hollywood to New York City, this...

“Marvelous . . . [Vonnegut] wheels out all the complaints about America and makes them seem fresh, funny, outrageous, hateful and lovable.”—The New York TimesIn Breakfast of Champions, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s most beloved...

"[The Doloriad] just might be what your rotten little heart deserves." —J. Robert Lennon, The New York Times Book ReviewOne of Vulture's Best Books of 2022. Winner of the 2023 Republic of Consciousness...

England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young, alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on in this national best seller and winner of the Women's Prize...

In this "warm, funny" novel (Good Housekeeping), Jamaican immigrant Hubert Bird rediscovers the world he'd once turned his back on as he learns to find happiness after staying in isolation for so long. In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia,...