Fiction

Book III n the mesmerizing third installment of Balle’s “astonishing” septology, On the Calculation of Volume, Tara’s eternal November 18th shifts in an instant: she discovers she is no longer the only one trapped in this unending autumn day. She meets someone who remembers—someone...

On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a revolutionary from Bulgaria named Insarov. Facing the wrath and disapproval of her family, Yelena abandons her home to follow Insarov to Bulgaria....

Jack Kerouac’s classic American novel of freedom and the search for originality that defined a generation. Inspired by Jack Kerouac’s adventures with Neal Cassady, On the Road tells the story of two friends whose cross-country road trips are a quest for meaning and true...

For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings... until she learns that the love of her life will marry another. Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal...

It’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day—July 15th—of each year. Dex and Em...

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants,...

Good things happen at the lake. That’s what Alice’s grandmother, Nan, always says—and Alice believes it. She spent one unforgettable summer at Nan’s cottage in Barry’s Bay when she was seventeen. It’s where she snapped that photo: three teenagers laughing in a yellow speedboat,...

Italy, 1940. Lili and Esti have been inseparable since their university days. When Esti’s son, Theo, is born, their friendship deepens into something like sisterhood. Even as war rages across Europe, they manage to carve out moments of ordinary life—until Germany invades Italy and...

Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California hoping to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can thrive. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty ethos, including the luxe wellness...

Grace Woodhouse has left a lot behind. She used to have a great friend group, an amazing girlfriend, and a right foot set to earn her a Division I football scholarship—before she came out as trans. As senior year begins, Grace is struggling to...

In a crowded London pub, two young people meet. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists--he a photographer, she a dancer--and both are trying to make their mark in a world that...

James, a sheltered, shy sixteen-year-old, is alone in his newly discovered sexuality, full of an unruly desire but entirely inexperienced. As he is beginning to understand himself and his longings, he also realizes how his feelings threaten to separate him from his family and...

A fiendishly imaginative book that features Israeli intelligence agents, Palestinian exiles, an accused war criminal, and an enticing charter member of an organization called Anti-Semites Anonymous. In this book, Philip Roth meets a man who may or may not be Philip Roth. Because someone...

A rediscovered classic of Hungarian literature, this spellbinding collection vividly depicts the darkest impulses of the human psyche against the backdrop of Europe’s moral and social decline on the eve of World War I. Géza Csáth (pen name of Joszef Brenner) was a writer,...

“Everything will be fine.”That is what Mary and John promise their children when they announce their divorce.  For Mary and John, the end of their marriage offers a long-delayed escape from mutual dissatisfaction. But separation also exposes the hurt, resentment, and unspoken failures that...

A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize-winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation on space and life on our planet through the eyes of six astronauts circling the earth in 24 hours. A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one...

Emily appears to have it all: a beautiful Upper East Side townhouse, two bright children, and a husband—Jack—who seems devoted. But beneath the surface, her marriage is eroding. Jack’s seemingly gentle demeanor masks subtle coercion and emotional abuse, undermining Emily’s confidence and sense of...

Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology, arrives at the ultramodern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.” The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist, and one of Langdon’s first...

What happens when the self splits—and meets itself face to face? In a quiet café near Paris’s Gare du Nord, literature professor Aline Berger is struggling to reread Orlando by Virginia Woolf when something strange happens: a part of her consciousness breaks away and...

Virginia Woolf's fantastical novel about an Elizabethan nobleman who lives for three centuries and transitions into a woman, with a new introduction by Carmen Maria Machado. The long-lived protagonist of Orlando begins as a passionate teenage aristocrat, whose days are spent in rowdy revelry...

The first volume in the internationally acclaimed MaddAddam trilogy is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague,...

In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona), with elopement, and with intense mutual devotion and that ends precipitately with jealous rage and violent deaths. He sets this...

What if Mary Bennet's life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the...

From the award-winning author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues , a brilliant, anxious, and hilarious new collection. Cerebral and eerie, captivating and profound, these twelve stories expertly guide us through the paranoia and obsession of everyday horrors, not least the horrors of...

Hoping to escape the pain of the recent murder of her best friend, art student Zoe Beech finds herself studying abroad in the bohemian capital of Europe—Berlin. Rudderless, Zoe relies on the arrangements of fellow exchange student Hailey Mader, who idolizes Warhol and Britney...

Dave Win, the son of a a Burmese man he’s never met and a British dressmaker, is thirteen years old when he gets a scholarship to a top boarding school. With the doors of elite English society cracked open for him, heady new possibilities...

Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother, Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left without a trace when he was nine years old. He doesn’t know what happened...

Frankie and George have been inseparable since childhood—best friends since the age of eight. Until now. On the eve of Frankie’s wedding, she isn’t even sure where they stand—or whether George will appear as her best man. Then George shows up. For one shining...

A haunting, lyrical debut novel that blends gothic horror with queer romance and deep-sea mystery. When marine biologist Leah returns from a disastrous deep-sea mission, her wife Miri quickly realizes something is deeply wrong. Leah has changed—physically, emotionally, and spiritually—and Miri is left to...

Scottish Highlands, 1945. Recently returned from the war, former British combat nurse Claire Randall is reunited with her husband for a second honeymoon when an accidental step through a standing stone in an ancient circle changes everything. In an instant, she becomes a Sassenach—an...

In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year...

Rachel Cusk's Outline is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her students in storytelling exercises. She meets other visiting writers for dinner. She...

In this highly anticipated sequel to the “lovely, lighthearted” (School Library Journal) New York Times bestselling To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, Lara Jean still has letters to write and even more to lose when it comes to love. Lara Jean didn’t expect...

In Maylis de Kerangal’s Painting Time, we are introduced to the burgeoning young artist Paula Karst, who is enrolled at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels. Unlike the friends she makes at school, Paula strives to understand the specifics of what she’s painting—replicating...

The Saint of Steel #1 Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year. Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he dies. But all that changes when he encounters a fugitive named...

A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita. The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a...

Parable, 1. As climate catastrophe and economic collapse plunge the early 2020s into chaos, California becomes a landscape of scarcity and violence. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives in a walled community with her preacher father, family and neighbors, clinging to a fragile sense of order...

Parable, 2. By 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the devastation of her home and family, and brought her vision to life: a fledgling community in Northern California built on the principles of Earthseed, the faith she founded. In a fractured, volatile America—now ruled by...

Midway through his life, the artist G begins to paint upside down. Eventually, he paints his wife upside down. He also makes her ugly. The paintings are a great success. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. Her attacker...

From the bestselling and award-winning author of the Patrick Melrose novels comes Parallel Lines, a hilarious and moving story of wildly different characters whose lives are improbably—and inextricably—entwined. With St. Aubyn’s trademark wit and sharp insight, the novel explores extinction and survival, inheritance and...

For reasons of her own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, and finds herself in Prague on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie. Little does she know she’s arrived in a city with a penchant for...

Livia Cable has built a quiet, ordinary life in the rural community where she grew up, making peace with the choices that shaped her future. But when a phone call arrives from someone she loved long ago, the carefully closed chapters of her past...

Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her mother’s love. As time passes, Marianne finds...

New Brunswick, 1934. When a cook in a logging camp finds an orphaned baby bear, he brings it home to his wife, who names the cub Bruno and raises him alongside her newborn daughter, Pearly. Growing up, Pearly and Bruno share a special bond...

An eerie, alienating, yet comic and profoundly sympathetic short story collection about Americans in America by one of Indonesia’s most prominent writers, now in an English translation for its fortieth anniversary, with a foreword by Intan Paramaditha. In these seven stories of People from...

Inspired by a true story, People of the Book is a novel of sweeping historical grandeur and intimate emotional intensity by an acclaimed and beloved author. Called “a tour de force” by the San Francisco Chronicle, this ambitious, electrifying work traces the harrowing journey...

Anna and Tom, an expat couple in Berlin, seem to have built the perfect life. Young, creative, and proudly freelance, they transform taste into a career and their lifestyle into a brand. For a time, it feels effortless—work and love aligned, the city itself...

Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, carefully guarded, old-money Stockton family, followed her heart, trading her job and inheritance for motherhood, sacrificing more of herself than she ever intended. Sasha, middle-class and from New England, has married into the Brooklyn Heights family and...

New York Review Children's Collection: Illustrated. Though Pinocchio is among the most famous books in the world, it remains curiously misunderstood—its image shaped in many minds by the Walt Disney film, which bears little resemblance to Carlo Collodi’s brilliant original. The tale, of course,...

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms...