Literary Fiction

A haunting feminist sci-fi masterpiece and international bestseller that is “as absorbing as Robinson Crusoe” (Doris Lessing). While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find...

A slow-burn love story unfolds on a fading Malaysian farmstead. Hailing in the winds of change with vividly poetic prose, this teenage summer coming-of-age journey will leave its mark.A radiant, intimate novel of the longing that blooms between two boys...

There are the books you read and then there are the books you experience, like this one by poet, photographer and bestselling writer Ocean Vuong, whose novels are spun from gorgeous prose and vibrant, original imagery.“The Emperor of...

The definitive cult, post-modern novel – a shocking blend of violence, transgression and eroticism – reissued with an introduction from Zadie Smith. After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find...

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A grieving mother calls out to her faraway son. A student forgoes the lurid appeal of dating apps in exchange for a painter’s love. The anonymous voices...

The "original, first-rate, serious, and beautiful" short fiction (New York Times Book Review) that introduced J. D. Salinger to American readers in the years after World War II, including "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" and the first appearance of...

Instead of the book he’s meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction. We learn of...

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...

“Laurie Colwin was the best kind of master: human and humorous, full of wisdom and love.” —Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of All Adults Here.   In these fourteen tales, Laurie Colwin explores love and...

Sharp, smart and hilarious, Rejection introduces us to characters that could be our old friends, coworkers or neighbors. Stories of belonging, vanity and connection, this is a wry take on modern relationships.LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL...

Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy's clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she...

An anarchic and unflinching cult novel “charged with reflection, anger, and the feeling of being alive” (Village Voice), tracing a year of love and lust in San Francisco’s lesbian underground, with a new foreword by Maggie...

A group of three best friends in Belfast approach thirty and start to question their days at dead-end entry-level jobs, and their nights of never-ending bar tabs.Sometimes friends hold you together.Sometimes they’re why you’re falling apart...

The gripping tale of a brother and sister living in an authoritarian future. Dystopian yet hopeful, disconcerting yet warm, Gliff is an impressive feat of storytelling.THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • From a literary...

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...

We all caught the Sally Rooney bug with her stunning debut Conversations with Friends — now we’re ready to fall in love all over again. Intermezzo absolutely soars with complicated relationships (romantic and familial) and the signature...

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...