Fiction

A hurricane is gathering strength in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the small coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. Esch's father, a hard drinker and mostly absent, is suddenly anxious—but for once, it's not the bottle he reaches for. Esch and her three brothers...

It's 2032, and in this near-future America, all citizens are chipped and everyone is tracked. It's almost impossible to survive as an undocumented immigrant, but that's exactly what sixteen-year-old Vali is doing. She and her family have carved out a stable, happy life in...

For twenty years, Rocky has cherished her family’s annual trip to Cape Cod. Their unassuming beach-town rental has hosted it all: sun-soaked afternoons, beloved traditions, fabulous dinners, and every kind of mess imaginable—emotional missteps, marital tangles, and, courtesy of the cottage’s prehistoric plumbing, literal...

The novel that inspired Béla Tarr’s classic film, is proof that the devil has all the good times. Set in an isolated hamlet, the novel unfolds over the course of a few rain-soaked days. Only a dozen inhabitants remain in the bleak village, rank...

Can they save themselves—or will they destroy each other? Ruby is reeling: her worst nightmare has come true, and now Oxford—and all the dreams she thought were finally within reach—hang in the balance. Even worse, everything points to James as the one responsible, despite...

A new paperback edition of Rachel Cusk’s debut novel, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award.In Saving Agnes, Agnes Day―subeditor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire―has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally middle-class and incurably romantic, Agnes finds herself chronically confused by...

Paris, 2019. An apartment in Belleville. Following a miscarriage and a breakdown, Anna, a psychoanalyst, finds herself unable to return to work. Instead, she obsesses over a kitchen renovation and befriends a new neighbor―a younger woman called Clémentine who has just moved into the...

Arc of a Scythe #1 A world without hunger, disease, war, or suffering. Humanity has conquered every hardship — even death itself. Yet life must still be limited, and that burden falls to the Scythes, the only individuals permitted to end it, charged with...

Foundation #5. The third novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series. The Foundation lies in ruins—destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity’s annihilation. But it’s rumored that there’s a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established...

Foundation #5. The third novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series. The Foundation lies in ruins—destroyed by a mutant mind bent on humanity’s annihilation. But it’s rumored that there’s a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established...

Jodi Picoult’s Second Glance weaves a layered story of love, loss, and the uncanny, beginning in contemporary Vermont. When an elderly landowner decides to sell a plot of property, the local Abenaki tribe rises in protest, claiming the land holds ancestral remains. Soon, strange and...

A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long,...

Magnetic, lively, and wildly original, Beňová captures the verve and sophistication of Renata Adler and Rosalyn Drexler while carving out a singular voice. Set in a sprawling apartment complex outside Bratislava—where the walls echo with music and time drifts seamlessly—the novel follows young couple Elza...

Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social...

The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin's tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back inside: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a...

Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, she's had her fill of uncertainty. She's content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone...

Soldier . Summoner. Saint. Orphaned and expendable, Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold--a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters. But when her regiment is attacked, Alina unleashes dormant magic not even...

All Souls, Book 2. The thrilling sequel to A Discovery of Witches, catapults witch Diana Bishop and vampire scholar Matthew Clairmont into the heart of Elizabethan London—a world of alchemists, spies, and shadowy secrets. In their quest to uncover the origins of Ashmole 782,...

Milwaukee, 1932. The Great Depression is raging, Prohibition’s end is on the horizon, Al Capone sits in federal prison—and the private-eye business is shifting from labor disputes to more personal troubles. Hicks McTaggart, a former strikebreaker turned detective, thinks he finally has steady work....

Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really...

Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the indifferent world around him. With his mother long gone, his only company is the sound of the nearby train. Just as he fears that the end...

René Karabash’s groundbreaking Bulgarian LGBTQ+ novel draws readers into a remote Albanian village where the ancient Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini—a rigid code of honor and law—still shapes everyday life, casting a shadow as imposing as the surrounding mountains. At its center is Bekija, who...

In a coastal village in medieval Japan, a young boy called Isaku battles to keep his family alive against the odds. With his father gone, Isaku is forced to grow up well before his time. He must learn how to catch fish, how to...

In her second story collection, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels. In these dazzling stories, she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends, laying bare the moments when their long...

1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a...

1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances for a...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely boy growing up in 1980s Glasgow, where Thatcher’s policies have left families struggling and unemployment is rife. At the center of Shuggie’s world is his mother,...

The story follows a troubled teenage boy through a few strange, harrowing hours. Wandering the night, he hears the voices of teachers, parents, those he has hurt, and those who love him, while escaping Last Chance, a home for “very disturbed young men.” Caught...

After 18 years of marriage Astrid, the wife of the novel's narrator, has left home. Her departure leaves her art-historian husband feeling loss and loneliness that force him to reassess his life: not only his relationship with Astrid, but with their children, friends, his...

I have a mouth, but must not speak;Ears, but must not hear;Eyes, but must not see. Joseon, 1800. Sixteen-year-old Seol—homesick, orphaned, and bound by servitude to the police bureau—has come to embody an old curse: May you live in interesting times. Ordered to aid...

Wren Darlington has spent her entire life in the shadows, sharpening her psychic abilities and quietly supporting the rebel Uprising. On the Continent, being Modified is a death sentence—and Wren is one of the most powerful Mods alive. So when a single mistake lands...

With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, "My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist," author Tayari Jones unveils a breathtaking story about a man's deception, a family's complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta...

Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian’s evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré...

This special edition of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by award-winning author Becky Albertalli includes new Simon and Blue emails, a behind-the-scenes scrapbook from the Love, Simon movie set, and Becky Albertalli in conversation with fellow authors Adam Silvera and Angie Thomas. Sixteen-year-old...

Every life has its own soundtrack—if you pause long enough, you can hear it. For Zoe Baxter, music has always narrated her story. There’s a bright tune that recalls sun-soaked summers spent chasing the perfect tan, a pulsing rhythm that takes her back to...

Sisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered, moneyed life as the picture-perfect wife of a conservative politician in Singapore. Emerald is a nihilistic sugar baby in New York, living from whim to whim and using her charms to make ends...

Rising star Mieko Kawakami reaches new heights in this fast-paced, electrifying novel — a Japanese Breaking Bad — in which a group of friends fight for freedom, independence, and survival in 1990s Tokyo, a city increasingly split between haves and have-nots. Each of them...

Shiori’anma, the sole princess of Kiata, harbors a dangerous secret: forbidden magic flows through her veins. She keeps it hidden—until the morning of her betrothal ceremony, when she loses control. At first, her mistake seems like a stroke of luck, halting the wedding she...

Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price―and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams....

The World, The Flesh, and L.A. Few figures embodied the allure and excess of Los Angeles quite like Eve Babitz, whose beauty, charisma, and unapologetic appetite for life made her a magnetic presence in the city’s cultural scene of the 1960s and ’70s. Surrounded...

After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, a little know avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin, where he stumbles through the city's dreamy streets ruminating about race,...

Universally acclaimed as the master of the short-story form, Anton Chekhov began his literary career as the author of brief tales and vignettes of Russian life when he was still a young medical student. Later rejected by the writer in the same self-effacing way...

Ruth Jefferson has spent more than twenty years as a labor and delivery nurse in a Connecticut hospital, but nothing prepares her for the day she is abruptly removed from a newborn’s care. The baby’s parents, identified as white supremacists, demand that Ruth—who is...

A poet’s life is upended by a sudden, excruciating pain that drives him to the ICU and into the bewildering machinery of the American healthcare system. Trapped in a hospital bed and cut off from the life of the mind he has long inhabited,...

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which...

Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan. At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante...

Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don’t dare leave their mansions. His home is a shared 20...

A triptych of stories about love, lust, betrayal, misogyny, and the ever-intriguing interchanges between women and men. Celebrated for her powerful short fiction, Claire Keegan now gifts us three exquisite stories, newly revised and expanded, together forming a brilliant examination of gender dynamics and...

Exploring the clash of fierce love with a seismic shift in identity, Kilroy conjures the raw, tumultuous emotions of a new mother, as her marriage strains and she struggles with questions of equality, autonomy, and creativity. Soldier Sailor is a tale of boundless love...

Michel Faber’s short stories reveal an extraordinarily vivid imagination, a deep love of language and an adventurous versatility. Playful, yet profoundly moving, wickedly satirical yet sincerely humane, these tales never fail to strike unexpected chords. ‘Some Rain Must Fall’ juxtaposes the tragic circumstances of...