Literary Fiction

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK. In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers. “Patchett leads...

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it — how much of what we love can we lose before we are lost? And then what...

A wicked stepmother finds her ideal prey in Carlone Blackwood's “quite brilliant” (The Times) debut.   A lavish Upper West Side apartment is the site of a familial cold war about to enter a phase of dangerous escalation. J is a lonely...

Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming...

From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children...

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well that she is the only person left on earth...

Winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, this is one of the defining books of the 1970s, an experimental novel about a young journalist trying to navigate life in America. When Speedboat burst on the scene in the late ’70s it was like...

This cozy Korean bestseller invites readers into a warm, sunlit pottery studio where a burned-out young TV broadcast writer begins to heal, working the clay, piece by piece, season by season. After breaking down at the office and abruptly quitting...

A probing masterpiece-in-miniature of self-reflection and cultural reckoning.The Times • 12 Best Books of 2024Financial Times • Best Books of 2024 [Fiction in Translation]A Vanity Fair "Can't Miss Novel to Read"Literary Hub • Best...

From the Pulitzer Price winning author of The Return, this literary novel is surprising and special. With a propulsive narrative, it's a story of friendship and belonging, exile and home.WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION •...

The bestselling author of Babel harnesses her satirical powers in this tantalising and deliciously humorous literary thriller that investigates ambition, greed and white privilege with deadly precision. Athena Liu is a literary darling.June Hayward is...

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’re not alone.This is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a troubled teenage boy.You mustn’t do that to yourself Shy. You...

An astonishing and monumental masterpiece from the towering Australian writer Alexis Wright whose “words explode from the page” (The Monthly). In a small town in the north of Australia, a mysterious cloud heralds both an ecological...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST.NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST.A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018.LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER.ALA CARNEGIE MEDAL WINNER.THE STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER.Soon to Be a Major Television Event, optioned by Amy...

An artist's life, a pact with the devil, a novel about the dangerous illusions of the silver screen.G.W. Pabst, one of cinema’s greatest directors of the 20th century, was filming in France when the Nazis seized power. To escape the horrors of...

In a small, sleepy town, a mediocre witch, in a mediocre marriage, tries to pass on her gifts to her twin daughters, who, it becomes immediately apparent, have skills far beyond her own.'NDiaye at her most dazzling' Katie Kitamura'This is NDiaye at her...

From the author of The Door and Abigail and for fans of Elena Ferrante and Clarice Lispector, a newly translated novel about a theater star who is forced to reckon with her painful and tragic past.In The Door, in Iza’s...

A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a deluxe Centennial edition.In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the...

An NYRB Classics Original.Don Lope is a Don Juan, an aging but still effective predator on the opposite sex. He is also charming and generous, unhesitatingly contributing the better part of his fortune to pay off a friend’s debts, kindly assuming...

A shocking crime leads to a cutting exploration of class and power in this taut tale about news, language and life from the author of Assembly.Remember—words are your weapons, they’re your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery...