Literary Fiction

To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession.An epic love story set in the sparkling, savage sphere of elite figure skating, starring a woman determined to carve her own path on and off the ice“Part Wuthering Heights and part...

Gorgeously written and unflinchingly hilarious, Skippy Dies is built around a bunch of 14-year-old boys and deftly drifts between the completely serious and the outrageously ridiculous with unmatched tact. Populated by characters that will easily endear...

The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present—in prose that soars...

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession that brings us back and forth in time, as a narrative is assembled from the emotions, hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by...

Longlisted for the Prix Sade 2021. Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. A New York Times Notable Book of 2020. A New York Times Critics Top Ten Book of the Year. Named a Best Book of the Year by over 30...

*From the Booker-shortlisted author of Small Things Like These.* Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. The evening is fine. In the sky a few early stars...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024. Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, suppressing not only her heritage but her growing desire for her best friend Fran. Yuki leaves the...

Daring, darkly comical and profound, The Zone of Interest masterfully blends humour, moral curiosity and fearless originality to deliver a harrowing love story set in Auschwitz. Martin Amis returns with a violently dark love story set in a Second...

Part desert survival story, part examination of grief — Melissa Broder mixes the absurd with the profoundly human in a feat of imagination. Weird, tender and wild, this is an unforgettable journey into the unknown.Named a Best Book of the Year by...

** ONE of THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 **A pioneering, revelatory masterpiece of modern literature that conjures the life of 16-year-old girl living on the Argentine pampas — now in English for the very first time.With echoes of Edith...

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Story Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, and the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Named a Best Book of the Year by Los Angeles Times, Vulture, Esquire, NPR, and Kirkus Reviews. A new...

From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road • In this taut, chilling story, Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East...

Embrace the unknown in this novel of discovery — of secrets and self — by an author who knows how to make us feel less alone.“In Haig’s sure hands, magic comes to breathtaking life.” —Publishers Weekly (starred...

The most famous anti-war novel ever written. In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up. What follows is...

A tender meditation on friendship and the importance of community, Brian is also a tangential work of film criticism, one that is not removed from its subject matter, but rather explores with great feeling how art gives meaning to and enriches...

We love immersive books you can read in one sitting, and Jessica Anthony's novel of a housewife at her wits end packs a punch. The clever premise and unflinching narrative voice might remind you of The Swimmer by John Cheever.From “one of our most...

An addictively gripping coming-of-age story about an all-consuming, insidious love affair between a college freshman and a mysterious older woman, from an unforgettable new voice in fiction  Eighteen-year-old Natalie has just arrived at her first...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The bestselling author of Nobody's Fool and Straight Man delves deep into the blue-collar heart of America in a work that overflows with hilarity, heartache, and grace. “Rich, humorous .....

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE. International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story—an epic tale that threads together a century of Korean history. In contemporary Seoul, a laid-off...

Kafka's gripping work of psychological horror.A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K, an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of a crime he did not commit, a crime whose nature is never revealed to him. Once...