Literary Fiction

An electrifying, prizewinning short story collection from the Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen and My Year of Rest and Relaxation.There's something eerily unsettling about Ottessa Moshfegh's stories, something almost dangerous while also being...

Does money talk? Taking several leaps up the socioeconomic ladder, István finally finds himself surrounded by London's elite but at what price? Szalay's poignant writing offers a lens into one teenage boy's brush with trauma that continues to...

A mega best-seller in Sweden, with rights sold to over a dozen countries and a TV adaptation underway, Annika Norlin’s debut novel The Colony is the biggest Swedish literary phenomenon since Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove...

The essential coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. Kincaid's novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood...

A NEW YORK TIMES Editors' Choice! From the BELOVED, AWARD-WINNING author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, centering three sisters navigating queer love and loss in a drowning world “One of my FAVORITE NOVELS of...

An ordinary man and his extraordinary story. You'll want a copy for you and one for someone you love.Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. "A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that...

New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her collected stories. Her fictional world is haunted by...

From best-selling Brazilian novelist Patrícia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the Amazon and their reckoning with brutal oppression—by turns poetic, humorous, dark, and inspiring.   The Simple Art of Killing a...

'A masterpiece... One of the best prose writers in our time' -- Michael Ondaatje. An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West, felling...

Two novellas about domestic life, isolation, and the passing of time by one of the finest Italian writers of the twentieth century.Carmine, an architect, and Ivana, a translator, lived together long ago and even had a child, but the child died, and their...

A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a...

In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near-extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers speak to each other. They parse, with precision, with familiarity, the endless aspects of their love. Out of their dialogues, piece by piece, a composite...

Nuanced, intelligent and tackling a range of important issues from reproductive rights to body dysmorphia, this beautifully written chronicle of the rise and fall of a relationship heralds the emergence of a striking new literary voice. Sam is 28,...

Winner of the inaugural Novel Prize, an elegant and subtle exploration of the mysteries of our relationships to others. A mother and daughter travel from abroad to meet in Tokyo: they walk along the canals through the autumn evenings, escape the typhoon...

One man hunts obsessively for his lost identity, in this intoxicating noir masterpiece from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.'Modiano is a pure original' -- Adam Thirlwell.'I am nothing. Nothing but a pale shape, silhouetted that evening...

`Few venture as thou hast in the alarming paths of sin.' This is the final judgement of Satan on Victoria di Loredani, the heroine of Zofloya, or The Moor (1806), a tale of lust, betrayal, and multiple murder set in Venice in the last days of the...

A reflection on the different components that make up a typical day in the lives of ordinary people. This is the perfect read for anyone who loves examining their friends and neighbors from an anthropological perspective.ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE...

Taylor Jenkins Reid is back — and her new book is out of this world. One innovative space shuttle program, six astronauts and an endless universe makes this complex and compassionate story one of Reid’s best.GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK...

Another of Morrion’s marvels, this story digs into all the emotional touchpoints of friendship, love, and societal roles. It’s the tale of two lifelong best friends and how far they’ll go to repair what is thought lost.Sula and Nel are...

An “evocative read and a powerful portrait of friendship, feminism, and political activism” (People) set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran—from nationally bestselling author Marjan Kamali. In 1950s Tehran,...