Literary Fiction

Yamamoto offers a deeply relatable lens into the complexities faced by contemporary women in five stories. This is a timely and engaging read that tackles heavy themes without skimping out on humor. “Now offered in translation for the first time,...

Sure, marriage is hard, but it makes for great reading. Lombardo is a joy to read — especially when your own family starts to stress you out.   NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED A BEST BOOK...

Bitter and bold, Liars takes a loving marriage and flips it on its head, one painful revelation at a time. This is perfect for fans of Rachel Yoder's Nightbitch and Miranda July's All Fours.An “eviscerating” (The New York Times) novel about...

Ethics and technology collide when two people end up dead in this thrilling and thought-provoking family drama. Delving into our increasing dependance on artificial intelligence, this is a page-turner perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Dave Eggers...

Did Vivienne Volker Kill Wilma Lang?This question has dogged Vivienne ever since Wilma jumped from a window to her death shortly after Volker stole her lover, the visionary artist Hans Bellmer, in the 1970s. Once a famous artist and fashion icon,...

A teacher's affair with his underage student jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own power. Their nascent desires surprise even themselves as they find the practice room where they rehearse with their saxophone teacher is the...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books. ‘I had rather die in the adventure of noble achievements, than live in obscure and sluggish security’ In 1666, Margaret Cavendish had a vision: there was a crack in reality at the North...

A novel about fathers and sons, complex family mythologies and buried secrets. This story of a man's odyssey to heal past wounds is perfect for fans of Adam Haslett and Kaveh Akbar.From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed writer, a taut, elegiac...

Ideal for fans of What You Are Looking for is in the Library and DallerGut Dream Department Store, Yagi's winningly quirky tale revolves around a museum attendant who strikes up an unlikely friendship with the Venus de Milo. Rika...

Anna Deerin moves to a remote Cotswold cottage to become a gardener, trying to strip away everything she's spent all her life as a woman striving for, craving the anonymity and privacy her new off-grid life provides. But when she clears the last...

Shortlisted for the Weatherglass Novella Prize 2024The Secret History meets Stranger ThingsAli Smith says:“Some teenage girls have – yes – performed a spell and hexed the moon. Now the moon, smooth-skinned, street-smart, dryly witty,...

In pursuit of color, fire, and the unknown. Ophelia abandons her home in Amsterdam and embarks on a journey of self-discovery that takes her across the globe. Led by strange connections and coincidences, she sets out on a solo trip to Lanzarote, travels...

A breathtaking award-winning novel about an extraordinary, all-consuming love affair. One night an eighteen-year-old Irish girl, recently arrived in London to attend drama school, meets an older man--a well-regarded actor in his own right. While she is...

Fernando, a writer, returns to Medellin after an absence of thirty years. He meets Alexis, sixteen years old, a male prostitute and a hitman - a Medellin child - with whom he falls in love. But their tender love is doomed. Alexis needs no reason to kill:...

An unforgettable and heartwarming debut following a trans high school teacher from a small town in South Dakota who befriends the only other trans woman she knows: one of her students.Erica Skyberg is thirty-five years old, recently divorced—and...

Ebenezer Le Page, cantankerous, opinionated, and charming, is one of the most compelling literary creations of the late twentieth century. Eighty years old, Ebenezer has lived his whole life on the Channel Island of Guernsey, a stony speck of a place...

From the award-winning Korean author Gu Byeong-mo and International Booker-nominated translator Chi-Young Kim, comes a thought-provoking story of community and the cultural expectations of motherhood. What are you willing to sacrifice for a 'better'...

A ghost haunts his girlfriend's apartment and pieces together the secrets of their fraught relationship in this sharp and tender read.From the award-winning novelist, a ravishing new novel set between London and rural Australia, both a love story and a...

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Fiction.Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes...

The bestselling South Korean phenomenon, To the Moon is a bittersweet tale of wealth and class, female friendship, and the promise of the future when good fortune seems to be just around the corner.In Seoul, three young women meet while working...