Literary Fiction

We were so, so pleased when we heard that Colm Tóibín was writing a sequel to his beloved novel, Brooklyn. Family secrets and complicated choices drive this exhilarating story that we won't forget. OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK *...

A vast, sweeping tale across humanity, time and history from Elif Shafak. This story of love, grief and hope is great for fans of Richard Powers and Ruth Ozeki.From the Booker Prize finalist, author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new...

Join a young Ghanaian woman on her journey into Europe's heart of whiteness to meet the natives in this iconoclastic modern classic. 'A wondrous discovery.' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie'A treasure: one of the works that inspired my own literary journey.'...

A beautifully written short novel about the price of isolation and the desire for community and connection that's perfect for fans of one of our fiction monthly picks, Paul's Harding's This Other Eden.“Tender, riveting, and inventive...

Spanning three generations of a South Yorkshire mining family, poet Andrew McMillan's fiction debut is a concise, powerful lament for a lost way of life and a ringing tribute to resilience and authenticity. The town was once a hub of industry. A place...

Perfect reading for fans of Elizabeth Strout and Alice Munro, Night Swimmers is an affecting debut set in a quirky coastal community where three individuals are forced to reckon with the traumas of the past. Grace lives alone in a coastal...

A sharp collection of musings on middle-age, life, love and regret, Show Don't Tell is a funny and intimate exploration of domestic discontent.A funny, fiercely intelligent, and moving collection exploring marriage, friendship, fame, and...

It’s a Friday night in a campus bar in Berkeley, fall of 2000, and Percy Marks is pontificating about music again. Hall and Oates is on the jukebox, and Percy—who has no talent for music, just lots of opinions about it—can’t stop...

A beautifully written, unforgettable novel of a troubled marriage, set against the lush landscape and political turmoil of Trinidad—by the award-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch and Passiontide.Monique Roffey's Orange...

When your life falls apart, all you need is a friend. Abbie Finch loves her job. Unfortunately, her boss doesn’t love her. When she finds herself unexpectedly unemployed, Abbie realises that she’s let all her friendships fall by the wayside...

In this icy, knife’s-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of the darkest episodes of the 20th century, Amis (“at his intriguing, heedful, and powerful best” —Time Out), finds a...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD. "A beautiful portrait of a family reaching for their dreams while holding on to their roots."—Publishers Weekly. "Each chapter reads like a small masterpiece."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review). An...

"I won't rest until everyone in America has read (and fallen in love with) this fabulous author." —Elizabeth Gilbert. The debut novel that redefined the coming-of-age genre, now with an introduction by New York Times bestselling author Maria Semple...

In 1836 the 23-year-old Dickens was invited by his publishers to write `a monthly something' illustrated by sporting plates. Thus the Pickwick Club was born: its supposed `papers' soom outgrew their origins and became a brilliantly comic novel, still...

Going Home is a sparkling, funny, bighearted story of family and what happens when three men—all of whom are completely ill-suited for fatherhood—take charge of a toddler following an unexpected loss.Téo Erskine, now in his thirties,...

A novel about marriage, parenthood, life and death, This Is a Love Story is a timeless exploration of family and a glittering ode to New York City.An intimate and lyrical celebration of great love, great art, and the sacrifices we make for bothFor fifty...

ONE OF THE BOSTON GLOBE'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR.A love story about what it means to be an outsider from the most imaginative new voice in international fiction. In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but...

A quiet, poetic, and exquisitely gorgeous novel describing a wandering mythic figure in a Kyoto monastery, by the National Book Award winner. The grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in...

ONE OF NPR’s “BOOKS WE LOVE" 2024.NAMED ONE OF THE OBSERVER’S 10 BEST NEW NOVELISTS FOR 2024."The stakes could barely be higher in Leo Vardiashvili’s propulsive page-turner…It’s a spellbinding achievement."—The...

Sasha Filipenko traces the arc of Russian history from Stalin’s terror to the present day, in a novel full of heart and humanity.   One struggles not to forget, while the other would like nothing better. Tatiana Alexeyevna is an old woman,...