Literary Fiction

With her daughter in the throes of drug addiction, a mother takes over the care of her granddaughter—and is transformed by the bond that forms between them—in this warm, sharp-witted, and psychologically acute story of familial love by a...

Short-listed for the National Book Award for FictionA Most Anticipated Read: The New York Times, The Guardian, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, The Bay Area Reporter, Datebook, Electric Literature, The...

A retired school teacher grapples with change over time. Olive Kitteridge is a work that embodies the human condition, it is deeply moving, and at times it’s even devastating. This is an important work of literature, and it is well worth the read...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new historical novel: the dramatic story of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a...

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists--a haunting story of love and war   Recipient of the Women's Prize for Fiction "Winner of Winners" awardEmpire's Pick for The Best...

The fraying fringes of 1950s literary London.I can't help it. Sometimes the words just come out and I can't stop them. It feels like preaching the gospel. When publishing assistant and war widow Nancy Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett he 'urinates frightful...

Told in short snippets of crystalline prose, Weather is a wry, quietly powerful novel whose understated insight and keen intelligence illuminates aspects of everyday life in Trump’s America. Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020...

A Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nation, and of the grand sweep of timeOn the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there was once a colonial settlement...

It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before...

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006. Empire's Pick for The Best Books Made By Women in Fiction 2021. Light struck the double glass doors that led to the garden, filtering through the arch that split the kitchen. It rested...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017, Exit West is a daring, inventive love story. Travelling from the Middle East to London and beyond, Hamid imagines the potential for a world without borders. Nadia and Saeed are two ordinary young people,...

The Bean Trees is bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver's first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting...

All at once heartbreaking and hilarious, Stacey Swann’s debut novel Olympus, Texas is a must-read for anyone who loves stories of familial bonds and complexities — with a dash of classical mythology. March Briscoe returns to his family and...

Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise.A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking...

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times bestselling novel of North Korea: an epic journey into the heart of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship.“Imagine Charles Dickens paying a visit to Pyongyang, and you see the canvas on...

A Visit From The Goon Squad’s characters are more human than some flesh and blood people. Full of all the ups and downs of living an actual life, this is the story of pasts begetting futures, and the paths we all walk, sometimes together...

One of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearOne of Slate's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Last 25 YearsON MORE THAN 25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR LISTS: including TIME (#1 Nonfiction Book), NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine (10 Favorite...

Masterful, Pulitzer-prize winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths of human nature, this is a landmark in modern American...

A brilliant work that mixes the historical with the fictional, this is James McBride at his perpetual best. It’s the story of a young slave swept up on the perilous journey of a lifetime and it reads well for adults and young readers alike. Now...

WINNER OF THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION.NATIONAL BESTSELLER.In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high school struggle and thrive in a rarified bubble, ambitiously pursuing music, movement,...