Summer Reads

Short-listed for the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection“As profound as it is lyrical. The stories are music.” —Marcela Davison Avilés, NPR   In Ayse Papatya Bucak’s dreamlike narratives, dead girls recount gas explosions...

Named a Best Book of the Year by:The New York Times * New York Magazine * Lit Hub * TIME * O, the Oprah Magazine * Good Housekeeping Two generations of an American family come of age—one before 9/11, one after—in this moving and original novel from the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Lauren Graham, the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and Parenthood, comes a witty, charming, and hilariously relatable debut novel about a struggling young actress trying to get ahead―and keep it together―in New York City...

(Available after November 30th, 2022)From the beloved star of Gilmore Girls and the New York Times bestselling author of Talking as Fast as I Can comes a candid, insightful, and wildly entertaining essay collection about her years in show business,...

One of Goodreads Most Popular Horror of 2022"Engrossing, character-rich, powerful. Sten is on a roll."—Publishers Weekly(starred review)Crimson Peak meets The Sanatorium in The Resting Place, a heart-thumping, unforgettable novel of horror and suspense...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR"Her most unsettling work yet — and her most realistic." —New York TimesNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine,...

The brooding, pervasive aura of the Suffolk fens permeates every nook and cranny of Michelle Paver’s grippingly gothic historic tale of madness, witchcraft and family enmity. As in her previous adult novels, Dark Matter and Thin Air, Paver proves...

(Available after 3-20 days)A propulsive and chillingly prescient novel of suspense and terror from the Bram Stoker award–winning author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.   “Absolutely riveting.” — Stephen King In a matter of...

From the national bestselling author of Alice comes a postapocalyptic take on the perennial classic "Little Red Riding Hood"...about a woman who isn't as defenseless as she seems.It's not safe for anyone  alone in the woods. There are predators that come...

Perfect town. Perfect homes. Perfect families. It’s enough to drive some women mad…   In a tale inspired by real events, pregnant journalist Joan Harken is cautiously excited to follow her fiancé back to his Minnesota hometown. After spending a childhood...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A family returns to their hometown—and to the dark past that haunts them still—in this masterpiece of literary horror by the New York Times bestselling author of Wanderers.“The dread, the...

Sometimes a filmmaker is a detective at heart and curiosity brings out their inner sleuth. Here, Camilla Sten’s Alice Lindstedt takes us on a dark journey. Scandinavian noir at its finest.   *BEST MYSTERY/THRILLER FOR THE YEAR* for NPR"Come for the...

We still remember vividly when Jo Nesbo’s The Snowman made its way to our stores. It was the first big splash for Nesbo fans. It wasn’t his first book, but it was the first one with impact. What we remember most, is just how scary Nesbo’s mysteries are...

A deliciously elegant and immersive tale of friendship, intimacy and inner contradiction, The Trio finds three young people from different walks of life magnetically drawn together in the warmth of a Stockholm summer.   Sophisticated, mature and...

Detective Moralès takes on a chilling case set on the icy seas of Quebec's remote Magdalen Islands, in the midst of a brutal seal hunt. A breathtaking, atmospheric, race-against-the-clock thriller...**Number One bestseller in Canada**Fisheries officer...

Told from four different perspectives, At the Breakfast Table is a story of hidden histories and family secrets, from the author of The Silence of Scheherazade. Buyukada, Turkey, 2017. In the glow of a late summer morning, family gather for the 100th...

A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and wanting to...

Áróra becomes involved in the search for an Icelandic woman who disappeared from her home while making dinner, as she continues to hunt for her missing sister. The second breathtaking instalment in the chilling, addictive An Áróra Investigation series.....

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new...

'I'll never understand the fucking Army.'Prew won't conform. He could have been the best boxer and the best bugler in his division, but he chooses the life of a straight soldier in Hawaii under the fierce tutelage of Sergeant Milt Warden. When he refuses...