Literary Fiction

George Saunders returns with an imaginative new story about the pivotal moment between life and death. Jill “Doll” Blaine accompanies the dying as they transition to the afterlife—but her latest assignment forces her to reckon with the...

“A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love.”—The Spectator. Written in 1953, the last book by best-selling novelist Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance is a quietly gripping story about the...

The protagonist of Ti Amo is a woman who is in a deep and real, but relatively new relationship with a man from Milan. She has moved there, they have married, and they are close in every way. Then he is diagnosed with cancer.It’s serious, but they...

Jennette McCurdy, author of I’m Glad My Mom Died, is back with a bold debut novel. Half His Age is a daring exploration of loneliness and desire told through the eyes of a teenage girl struggling to find her place in the world.From...

It may be the defining irony of our time: just as we are coming to recognize our shared destiny and necessary interdependence, our culture seems to be fracturing along every fault line available to it. The Lost Scrapbook is a novel that passionately...

An exuberant and irreverently funny novel about one gorgeously messy friendship-feud-unrequited-love-affair set in Sydney across eighteen years. Nell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant, odd, and friendless. When they meet on the brutal battlefield...

Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers.Theo visits the local...

Peeling off the layers of family dynamics, Newman's witty and moving story of love and loss casts a humorous light on life's ups and downs and the acceptance that follows. A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK · INSTANT NEW YORK...

A group of friends from university; seven summer days in a cabin in rural Denmark. A chance to swim, sunbathe, flirt, read and spend time together like the old days.At least that’s what Sylvia had hoped. But when Gry turns up with her kids and...

Two novellas from a remarkable voice, László Krasznahorkai explores the themes of mortality, obsession and the inevitability of oblivion. Now in paperback, two novellas from the Hungarian master László...

“Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut.” —The New York Times Book Review“A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book.” —NPR“[A] descendent of the Dickensian ‘social...

In time for the centennial of his birth, the Noble Prize winner’s moving final novel Deeply insightful, Saul Bellow’s moving last novel is a journey through love and memory, an elegy to friendship, and a poignant meditation on death. Told in...

In a gripping, atmospheric new novel by acclaimed Mexican writer Daniel Saldaña París, three friends forever bound by erotic flames of the past reunite in a city engulfed by wildfires and an ecstatic dancing plagueAfter years apart, three...

Going to the Dogs is set in Berlin after the crash of 1929 and before the Nazi takeover, years of rising unemployment and financial collapse. The moralist in question is Jakob Fabian, “aged thirty-two, profession variable, at present advertising...

A family curse, an unexpected reincarnation and impending tragedy. This bold and hilarious novel follows a young woman who seeks to break free from following in the footsteps of her unfortunate family.A young woman must shake off a family...

A prize-winning collection of surprising stories from an acclaimed Irish author, available in the United States for the first time.Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire Keegan's debut...

Winner of the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeWinner of the 2023 Arab American Book Award for FictionShortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller PrizeShortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardShortlisted for the 2022 VCU Cabell First...

A woman confronts the afterlife of intimacy, in a deeply tender novel by one of our most acclaimed and inventive fiction writersThe things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside,...

From the Orange Prize-nominated author of The Observations comes an absorbing, atmospheric exploration of one young woman's friendship with a volatile artist and her place in the controversy that consumes him. Jane Harris's Gillespie and...