Literary Fiction

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...

A tale of complex family mythologies and storytelling from a dazzling voice in fiction. This is perfect for fans of Anne Enright and Rumaan Alam.ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • DAKOTA JOHNSON’S TEATIME PICTURES SEPTEMBER...

A terrible heatwave. A very tense baby shower. It will all end in tears.Nicki, Lauren, Charlotte and Steffi have been friends since university. Now in their thirties, life is pulling them in different directions - but when Charlotte organises the baby...

We couldn't put this one down, and we have a feeling you won't be able to, either. A story about the benefits and consequences of wealth and the lengths we'll go to run from our personal mythologies — this cast of characters will hold you for...

FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE.FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD.WINNER OF THE WHITING AWARD.WINNER OF THE SAROYAN INTERNATIONALPRIZE FOR WRITING.WINNTER OF THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD.WINNER OF THE NEW AMERICAN VOICES AWARD.A PUBLISHERS...

You’ve read his story collection Night of the Living Rez, now Morgan Talty returns with his debut novel that absolutely soars. Centered on a man grappling with a secret and trying to care for the few loved ones left in his life, you will come out...

Acclaimed author Garth Greenwell (Cleanness and What Belongs to You) returns to the United States with a haunting story of one man’s emotional reckoning.A medical crisis brings one man close to death—and to love, art, and beauty—in a...

A Boston Globe Book We’re Most Excited About This Summer • An Electric Lit Queer Books You Need to Read this Summer • A Town & Country’s Best Book to Read This July • A Debutiful Noteworthy Debut of July •...

Jayne Anne Phillips’ historical epic set in a West Virginia lunatic asylum is a story of the persistence of life and the power of family, from the author of Black Trinkets and Machine.PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK...

A haunting and brilliant read that explores the power play between a manipulative teacher and his naïve young student and the lasting effects the affair has on both decades later. Uncomfortable, disturbing and yet extremely relevant, My Dark...

Céline’s masterpiece―colloquial, polemic, hyper-realistic, boiling over with black humor Céline’s masterpiece―colloquial, polemic, hyper realistic―boils over with bitter humor and revulsion at society’s idiocy and...

"Candy is beside me, drenched in sweat. She's breathing gently, long slow breaths. I imagine her soul going in and out: wanting to leave, wanting to come back, wanting to leave, wanting to come back. The day will soon harden into what we need to do. But...

A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor, and...

A darkly humorous and touching study in grief and companionship, Nunez’s award-winning novel follows a woman who unexpectedly loses her mentor and best friend and inherits his huge, bereaved Great Dane. A moving story of love, friendship, grief,...

From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. A dark, haunting masterpiece by the author of The Melancholy of Resistance and Seiobo There Below. Now in paperback, Satantango, the novel that inspired Béla...

Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides—the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and...

Ghosts of a passionate college love triangle resurface, stirring up Jordan’s life decades later. Known for witty and emotionally moving stories that deeply resonate with her fans, Lily King does it again.INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...

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...

From the International Booker Prize– shortlisted author of What I'd Rather Not Think Aboutcomes a darkly humorous novel about multigenerational family dynamics and individuality in Dutch suburbia.   An unnamed narrator grows up overshadowed by...

Humor and heartbreak collide in this inventive tale that takes on war, art and human connection. Blurring the lines between fiction and reality, this is a thought-provoking novel about a character grappling with survival, identity and existential...