Literary Fiction

Strangers living worlds apart.Strangers with nothing in common.But it wasn't always that way...Kerry Hayes is single mum, living on a tough south London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning houses she could never afford. Taken into care as a...

“A wonderful, provocative novel . . . I stepped into the stream of the narrative and didn't look up until I came to the last page.” –Ann Patchett, New York Times bestselling author of Tom Lake.As character actress Edie O'Dare finishes...

"Warm and wise, Frankie is a woman worth getting to know."—Bonnie Garmus, New York Times-bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry. From internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show, a dazzling and decades-sweeping...

Roxane Gay is an award-winning literary voice praised for her fearless and vivid prose, and her debut collection Ayiti exemplifies the raw talent that made her “one of the voices of our age” (National Post, Canada). The powerful debut...

Following a boy who stays behind in the Caribbean as his parents leave for England in search for a better future for them all, A Trace of Sun is a beautiful, emotionally searing saga of separation, sacrifice and family. Longlisted for the Women's...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations. Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from “a writer of...

Paradise of the Blind is an exquisite portrait of three Vietnamese women struggling to survive in a society where subservience to men is expected and Communist corruption crushes every dream. Through the eyes of Hang, a young woman in her twenties...

At New Seoul Park, Korea's greatest theme park, an enigmatic man tempts visitors with a mysterious jelly candy that promises an unbreakable bond. As the sun beats down on a muggy summer afternoon, a child separated from her disinterested parents, a...

A brave and triumphant story from an author we’ve loved reading for years, this is the searing portrayal of a sickness, a marriage, and a writer who persevered.From #1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an unforgettable story—by turns...

"A beautiful story of unfolding secrets and unforeseen consequences, filled with moments that are somehow restrained and astute and gorgeously written all at the same time." —Holly Gramazio, bestselling author of The Husbands. An alluring literary...

Politics, people, history, entertainment and art: Nothing is off-limits in this screamingly funny satire that delivers a sharp portrait of American (and riffs off Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as it does).Winner of...

The Concubine, Elechi Amadi’s most celebrated work of fiction, paints a picture of pre-colonial life in rural Eastern Nigeria and explores the boundary between myth and reality. Ihuoma is a woman of great beauty and dignity, beloved in a village...

Layered with serious, meaningful themes that will resonate with teens, The Glass Girl gives a stark portrait of a young woman in crisis and the steps needed to find healing and herself. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces...

After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he...

From the bestselling author of In an Instant comes the moving story of a family grappling with grief and a woman with the power to help them through it—or stand in their way. After a tragic accident claims the life of one of her children, Marie...

If you're a fan of novels by Lisa Wingate or Martha Hall Kelly, C.J. Box or Craig Johnson, let us introduce you to prize-winning novelist and crime writer William Kent Krueger, and his new stand-alone historical mystery set in Minnesota.In 1958, a small...

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...

Roberto Calasso, “a literary institution of one” (The Paris Review), tells the story of the eternal life of Utnapishtim, the savior of man, in the eleventh part of his great literary project. A long time ago, the gods grew tired of humans,...

The New York Times bestselling classic of a young woman’s journey in work, love, and life. “In this swinging, funny, and tender study of contemporary relationships, Bank refutes once and for all the popular notions of neurotic...

A desperate young publicist tries to save her career by turning the charismatic leader of a grungy retreat center into the hot new self-care brand in this “wryly funny [and] fabulous debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review).“A...