Empire Book Store's Best Fiction of 2023

This coming-of-age story features two teenage misfits and their artistic adventures that will have long-term effects on their lives as they become adults. With a biting wit and playful prose, this delightful novel full of young love and the way our...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A “tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seismic romantic, political, and familial shifts for a...

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION.Finalist for the 2023 Pen/Faulkner Award and the Southern Book Award. Nominated for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, the...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly...

All’s fair in love and chemistry. It’s 1960s California and there are certain things that women just don’t do. When scientist Elizabeth Zott finds herself the host of a television cooking show, she kicks off a revolution that does more...

Bodie Kane has always been plagued by questions about a murder that rocked her boarding school in 1995 ... When she returns to campus as a professor, the doubt she has kept at bay about the investigation comes creeping back. Does she know something that...

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...

2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF TIME AND SLATE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEARNamed one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022...

Nathan Hill, author of The Nix, brings us Wellness, a funny and moving novel that charts the course of a marriage over several decades, through the lens of wellness culture, raising children and the ability to recognize one's self and one's...

This big-hearted debut about music and its ability to heal proves that it's never too late for a second chance. You can't help but root for Prudence and Alexei. The Second Ending is a crescendo of joy.A former prodigy who refuses to believe her...

A sophisticated novel about survival, this story of a guerilla gardening collective and an inscrutable billionaire grappling with their own values and ideologies will keep readers on the edge of their seats.INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & NATIONAL INDIE...

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker PrizeFrom the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and thought-provoking tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the...

This book is full of unputdownable heartbreak and hilarity. Beagin skillfully blends complicated characters, a messy love story, and an unmatched voice into a witty and original story.BIG SWISS is the story of Greta, a transcriptionist for a Hudson, New...

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young men, once best friends, whose lives collide again after a loss.Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Alternatingly heart-pounding and heartbreaking. This collaboration between two best-selling authors seamlessly weaves together Olivia and Lily’s journeys, creating a provocative exploration of the...

From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and friendship and how to survive both.Andy's story wasn't meant to turn out this way. Living out of a suitcase in his best friends' spare room, waiting for his...

Another thrilling domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door“The most addictive book I've read in ages—so slick and disquieting and clever. Just brilliant.” —Lisa...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK • Two top women gladiators fight for their freedom within a depraved private prison system not so far-removed from America’s own in this explosive, hotly-anticipated debut novel from...

“A moving meditation on motherhood, inter-generational trauma and how surface appearances often obscure a deeper truth. . . . A stunning second novel from a writer who set the bar very high with her first!”—Tara Conklin, New York...

From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story—and who gets to be believedIt is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet...