Literary Fiction

Sharp, smart and hilarious, Rejection introduces us to characters that could be our old friends, coworkers or neighbors. Stories of belonging, vanity and connection, this is a wry take on modern relationships.LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL...

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, Blue of Noon is a blackly compelling account of depravity and violence. As its narrator lurches despairingly from city to city in a surreal sexual and mental nightmare of squalor,...

'Literature is not innocent,' stated Georges Bataille in this extraordinary 1957 collection of essays, arguing that only by acknowledging its complicity with the knowledge of evil can literature communicate fully and intensely. These literary profiles of...

They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging together in the face of loneliness and alienation. Laborers in...

The text for this edition of Notes from Underground is Michael Katz’s acclaimed translation of the 1863 novel, which is introduced and annotated specifically for English-speaking readers. "Backgrounds and Sources" includes relevant...

The text for this edition of Notes from Underground is Michael Katz’s acclaimed translation of the 1863 novel, which is introduced and annotated specifically for English-speaking readers. "Backgrounds and Sources" includes relevant...

A wicked stepmother finds her ideal prey in Carlone Blackwood's “quite brilliant” (The Times) debut.   A lavish Upper West Side apartment is the site of a familial cold war about to enter a phase of dangerous escalation. J is a lonely...

One of Baldwin's best known novels, often the first that readers discover; a classic of gay literature. A deluxe edition of James Baldwin's groundbreaking novel, with a new introduction by Kevin Young and special cover art designed by Baldwin's...

Does money talk? Taking several leaps up the socioeconomic ladder, István finally finds himself surrounded by London's elite but at what price? Szalay's poignant writing offers a lens into one teenage boy's brush with trauma that continues to...

“Sarah Hall's writing has conquered the body and the soul and now it conquers the wind itself. She gets better with every word she writes.”–Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters and The Hotel. From the twice-Booker-nominated...

"Equal parts mischievous, moony, and tart." ― The New Yorker“Her weirdest and funniest yet — in the best way possible.” ― Los Angeles Times"Audacious, incisive and very funny." ― Daily MailA masterful story that asks:...

Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize. Winner of the 2024 New York City Book Award. Finalist for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.“Absolutely gorgeous. Taut as a thriller, lovely as a watercolor.”—Jennifer Croft. In...

Does money talk? Taking several leaps up the socioeconomic ladder, István finally finds himself surrounded by London's elite but at what price? Szalay's poignant writing offers a lens into one teenage boy's brush with trauma that continues to...

A lively and poignant exploration of life’s latter decades. In The Rest of Our Lives, memoirist Judy Goldman brings her devoted readers dispatches from the edge of life, when turning eighty can be as surprising and baffling as losing your...

A sophisticated and suspenseful novel about the poignant lives of two women living in different eras. On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, an uncompromising young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie O, struggles over the...

"My favorite book of the year was Tin Man. Sparsely written and achingly beautiful...The most powerful take on love, loss and vulnerability I've read in years."--A Cup of Jo.From internationally bestselling author Sarah Winman comes an unforgettable and...

Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman.Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair,...

In a world of hidden meanings and yearnful glances, she fatefully runs into him one summer. But all she wants to know is what his bathroom tiles look like… Mila is in her late 20s and she’s made it this far in life without really being...

One of The New York Times Book Review's "10 Best Books of 2015"An NYRB Classics Original.The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer, educated, married to an academic,...

“A bold, beautiful, complex novel, and I can’t wait to read what Hughes writes next. She, too, is an unstoppable force.” —New York Times Book Review.“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective...