Literary Fiction

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Recommended by the New York Times Book Review, Today show, People, Elle, Good Housekeeping, Parade, Harper's Bazaar, and more! "Fans of The Office will delight." — SHELBY VAN PELT • "Wickedly funny."...

Other people's families are always more interesting that our own and we really didn't want to leave Lily and Nick (and the rest of the cast) behind… Grab a friend, this is a family you'll want to talk about.From the award-winning author of...

'The greatest Scottish novelist of modern times.' -- Ian Rankin. In this first novel by Muriel Spark - author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie - the only things that aren't ambiguous are Spark's matchless originality and glittering wit. With an...

'One of her funniest novels . . . Spark at her sharpest, her purest and her most merciful' -- ALI SMITH. In The Finishing School Muriel Spark is once again at her biting, satirical best. On the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, a struggling would-be...

Poignant, hilarious, and spooky, Memento Mori addresses old age.   In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on the telephone reminds each: Remember you must die. Their geriatric feathers are...

'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life. This story of a clash between a determined young girl and an authoritarian regime is both perceptive and painfully emotional, convincing in every detail' - Hermione Lee, Observer.With a new...

The incomparable Richard Price weaves the perspectives of individual characters into the voice of a community shaken by disaster. This is a snapshot of life and death from the author of Freedomland.In this electrifying novel, Richard Price, the author of...

Girl, Edna O’Brien’s hotly anticipated novel, envisages the lives of the Boko Haram girls in a masterpiece of violence and tenderness.   I was a girl once, but not anymore. So begins Girl, Edna O’Brien’s harrowing portrayal...

Meet Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's (“One of America's most spectacularly inventive writers” —The TLS) remarkable novel, Timbuktu. Mr. Bones is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled, and...

OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLD.Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, she's walking out on her job, her home, her life. It's a day she thought might come, one she's prepared...

The hardest part of death is learning how to live. The last thing Alice expects to see at her husband’s graveside on his birthday is a giant, talking frog. On closer inspection, it’s a grown man dressed as Kermit. Turns out Alice’s...

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...

An exhilarating literary mystery, Swimming Lessons keeps readers guessing until the final page. Disenchanted by the life in which she’s found herself, Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four. Now a highly acclaimed, award-winning Netflix series...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: Vox * The Paris Review * NPR * Vanity Fair / A FINALIST FOR THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FIRST FICTION.James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage...

A multigenerational saga of Native American heritage and culture, Wandering Stars is Tommy Orange's long-awaited follow-up to There There, tracking back in time and telling a story across centuries. Beginning with the Sand Creek Massacre, this book is a...

What happens when what was once considered dystopia is now reality?This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women shape themselves beneath the gaze of love, friendship, and the algorithm—“a fever dream for the AI age” (People)...

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM STARRING ADAM SANDLER AND CAREY MULLIGANSHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION.An intergalactic odyssey of love, ambition, and self-discovery.Orphaned as a boy, raised in the Czech countryside by his...

The Read with Jenna Today Book Club Pick.Basking in Singapore's non-stop sunshine, low tax rate and crocodile Birkins on every other arm, Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the dream - until their carefully constructed lives are upended by a handsome...

A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick. "A riveting mother-daughter tale." — Elle. "Radiant. … An intimate account of one family’s planting of roots in American soil and the sacrifices great and small that each member makes...