Empire Book Store's Best Fiction of 2023

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR!“One of those rare emotionally intelligent books that are also fun reads… Going to keep readers turning pages late into the night.” –The New York...

Through the story of the twenty-first century's most intense urban fire, Vaillant examines the devastating effect of climate change on the temperature of the planet and how deadly wildfires will only become more prevalent. Winner...

Teju Cole is back with his first major novel since Open City. Another brilliant work of autofiction, Tremor reckons with the passing of time, survival, and how stories make up the fabric of our lives.An “extraordinary,...

Readers of Claire Lombardo, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, and J. Courtney Sullivan will delight in this debut novel delving deep under the well-manicured facade of a wealthy Brooklyn family.A New York Times bestseller | A Good Morning America Book...

Just read this one. It’s deceptively slim and deeply satisfying, with fabulous characters and two storylines — full of love and grief and joy — driven by the snappy dialogue and wit of Lorrie Moore.From “one of the most acute and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis.Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to...