Literary Fiction

From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanities,” a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century—inspired by the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola.Girolamo...

*Soon to be a TV series*A Goodreads Most Anticipated Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror Book of 2024For fans of Never Let Me Go and The Giver, an elegant and exhilarating literary speculative novel about an isolated town neighbored by its own past and...

The looming threat of a wildfire in Greece provides all the impetus this book needs to thrive with its dynamic characters and genuine human connection. This is an unforgettable story with a massive scope, an exacting tone and words that practically sing...

Emma Cline's first novel since 2016's The Girls is the story of a con woman posing as a member of Long Island's high society, leaving chaos in her wake as she drifts from place to place in the week before Labor Day. This sly, hypnotic novel is sure to...

When was the last time you fell madly in love with a novel? Smart and unexpected, funny and unforgettable, big-hearted and hopeful, The Last Animal is a story of mothers and daughters, teenage sisters, love and grief (and consequences), big ideas and...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE.Named a Best Book of 2023 by the New Yorker, Washington Post, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews.“You should be reading Sebastian Barry. [He] has a special understanding of the human heart.” —The Atlantic“A...

This absolutely delightful collection of short stories about nonagenarians will have you cackling one moment and gasping at its keen insights the next. A testament to the power of long-standing friendship, you won't regret picking up this little gem of a...

From the author of The Sympathizer, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Refugees is the second piece of fiction from a powerful voice in American letters, praised as “beautiful and heartrending” (Joyce Carol Oates, New Yorker),...

A remarkable story of home and family, coming of age and making art. Idra Novey is a joy to read, even when she's writing about change and loss; this is, ultimately, a hopeful novel about finding our way in the world.A New York Times Notable Book of...

Engaging in the perpetually relevant theme of pressing on after loss, After Annie does not shy away from intense subject matter like opioid addiction and sexual abuse. All the while, the urgent and relevant depictions of real life will resonate with a...

A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers. 'A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and heartbreaking...terrific' WASHINGTON POST Anniversary edition with a new afterword from the author. A worldwide bestseller...

“When a girl leaves home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse."With Sister Carrie, first published in 1900,...

“The essence of Mr. Wilder’s book is really the feeling in it; it is a ‘notation of the heart’ with sympathy. Gaily or sadly, but always with understanding, a belief in the miracle of love runs through it all.”...

The year is 1962, and a young couple at the very start of their honeymoon find themselves unravelling as each carries insecurities and hesitations that threaten to transform their lives forever. A deeply poignant yet brief novel, McEwan’s On Chesil...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family.Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no...

The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments reveals the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century in this "shadowy, fascinating novel" (Time). • A Netflix original miniseries.It's 1843, and Grace...

A breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The TestamentsDisturbing, humorous, and compassionate, Cat’s Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a...

Beautifully imagined and capturing an entire era of history, The Luminaries is bold, clever, tense and full of so many masterfully rendered story elements that the pages keep turning. From the surface entertainment to the meaningful depths, this is a...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Winner of the John Gardner Fiction Award • A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • A Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistFreedom, by the New York...

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett, a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific...