Fiction

Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else’s shoes? Nisha Cantor lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband announces a divorce and cuts her off. Nisha is determined to hang onto her glamorous life. But in...

After abandoning his once-promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush meets Hannah—a photographer whose way of seeing the world shows him the possibility of finding not only love but family. Now, five years later, with his marriage...

A gentle, humorous, and deeply tender novel about found families, the people who shape us, and the quiet complexities of love beyond blood ties. Yuko has lived under four different surnames and grown up in more than one household. Though none of her parental...

The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a new foreword by the author. Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest...

As the sensitive and delicate Gertrude begins to shrink from her drunken and violent husband, their marriage becomes a battleground. Gertrude turns increasingly towards her two eldest sons, William and Paul, and determines that they will not grow up to be coal miners living...

Sophie Pattison has always turned to books for comfort, finding solace in the stories that have accompanied her through life. On the surface, she seems to have everything she could want: meaningful work at a beloved book festival, a loving marriage, a cherished friendship,...

All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains....

Everyone tells Martha Friel she is clever and beautiful, a brilliant writer who has been loved every day of her adult life by one man, her husband Patrick. A gift - her mother once said - not everybody gets. So why is everything broken?...

South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels.Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood...

From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will...

Mia and Cricket Lowe have always been inseparable, growing up in a small Maine town as the daughters of a young single mother whose past casts a long, quiet shadow over their lives. Known locally as the “Lowe girls,” each sister steps into a...

A brilliant, genre-defying novel that captures the disorienting speed and fragmentation of modern life. First published in 1976 and hailed as a cult classic, the book follows Jen Fain, a sharp, perceptive journalist living in New York City, as she navigates the shifting landscapes...

James drifts through life with the restlessness of someone who’s seen too many near-successes slip away. Once an almost-millionaire, a film producer, and a fleeting entrepreneur, he now lives alone in Bloomsbury, running a dubious horse-racing tip service. Katherine, meanwhile, manages a luxury hotel...

The Sea of Fertility #1. It is 1912 in Tokyo, and the hermetic world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders—rich provincial families unburdened by tradition, whose money and vitality make them formidable contenders for social and political...

Carl Stagg, a writer researching imperial power struggles in 17th century Sri Lanka, ekes out a living as a watchman in a factionalized America where confidence in democracy has eroded. Along his nightly patrol, Stagg finds a beaten prostitute, one in a series of...

In this collection of one novel and three novellas, Torrey Peters’s keen eye for the rough edges of community and desire push the limits of trans writing. In Stag Dance, the titular novel, a group of restless lumberjacks working in an illegal winter logging...

Long ago, in the quiet English village of Wall—where reality ends and magic begins—nothing is quite as it seems. When a star falls from the sky, young Tristran Thorn vows to retrieve it for the woman he loves, the distant and beautiful Victoria Forester....

An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. Kirsten...

The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix dramas Fool Me Once and The Stranger proves that the past never truly fades away in this shocking thriller. Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side....

Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has tried everything. But when her relatives insist upon a new wife, it is too much for Yejide to bear.Unravelling against the social...

Ilesa, Nigeria. Ever since they first met and fell in love at university, Yejide and Akin have agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage—after consulting fertility doctors and healers, and trying strange teas and unlikely cures—Yejide is still not...

The second volume of The Passenger series. 1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Alicia has been diagnosed...

A decade after her father abandoned the family, a queer literature student joins him on the road across Russia, riding in his freight truck as he makes deliveries across the vast, desolate steppe. She wants to understand the man who left her, to find...

Betty Lou Dearden has spent more than two decades with the Ogden Quilter's Association, but nothing has prepared the group for the news that the nation's premier quilting competition is landing right in their small Utah town. With the clock ticking and a bitter...

Burned out and seeking refuge, a middle-aged woman retreats from her life in Sydney to the remote rural town where she grew up. There, on the stark plains of Australia, she slips almost unintentionally into a reclusive religious community—despite having no faith in God...

One of Stevenson’s most famous and enduringly popular works, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde describes the mysterious relationship between a respectable and affable doctor and his brutal associate. Set in the grimy streets of Victorian London, this tale of murder, split...

Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, "Sensei," in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him "Sensei" ("Teacher"). He is thirty years her senior, retired, and presumably...

A woman leaves her homeland to keep house for her brother in the remote northern country of their ancestors after his wife abandons him. As strange events unsettle the isolated community, suspicion turns toward the newcomer. With an atmosphere of quiet dread, Study for...

Success follows two foster brothers whose lives have been painfully intertwined since childhood. After Terry’s little sister is murdered, he’s taken in by the wealthy Riding family, where he meets Greg—confident, privileged, and destined to outshine him. As adults, the two men now share...

A striking and surprising debut novel from an exhilarating new voice, Such a Fun Age is a page-turning and big-hearted story about race and privilege, set around a young black babysitter, her well-intentioned employer, and a surprising connection that threatens to undo them both....

Glamour has a price. Sometimes, it’s your soul. Agnes is a 21-year-old cleaner stuck in a dead-end routine, clubbing away her weekends to escape a stifling life at home. That is, until she meets Emily: model, London socialite, and sugar baby. Emily's world is...

Sula and Nel are born in the Bottom, a small town at the top of a hill. Sula is wild, and daring; she does what she wants, while Nel is well-mannered, a mamma's girl with a questioning heart. Growing up they forge a bond...

In her witty, masterful debut novel, Margaret Drabble conjures a gripping story of sibling rivalry. Louise, beautiful and sophisticated, marries wealthy novelist Stephen Fairfax. Sarah, recently graduated from Oxford, is thrown back into family matters. Louise's life becomes one of parties, gossip columns and...

In 2024, Nina survives a plane crash in the remote mountains of Wyoming. Her boyfriend Ben, who was piloting the small aircraft, has vanished without a trace. Stranded on the freezing shore of a lake with meager supplies and no cell service, Nina must...

Sweet Bean Paste is a quietly moving novel about unlikely friendships, second chances, and the small joys that give life meaning. Sentaro, a lonely man with a criminal record, runs a modest dorayaki (sweet bean pancake) stand with little passion—until an elderly woman named...

Arriving at a holiday villa in the hills above Nice, Joe is startled to find a young woman floating in the swimming pool. She is alive—and she claims to be Kitty Finch, a botanist whose unexpected presence unsettles the fragile balance of the family...

A private jet crosses the winter sky over Greenland. David, a retired executive, passes the time with solitaire, while the notebook in his pocket—filled with reminders in his own handwriting—has become strangely unfamiliar. The world that once made perfect sense is slipping beyond his...

Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the...

College freshman Lily Chen spends the summer in Taipei at an intensive language program, hoping to connect with the culture she’s always felt just outside of. But grueling classes, social drama, and a reckless decision that sparks vicious gossip leave her feeling more like...

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time... From the author...

A master of many literary genres, Arthur Conan Doyle excelled particularly in the short-story form, and was acclaimed in his day as much for his detective stories as for his thrilling tales of mystery and the supernatural. While the adventures of Sherlock Holmes have...

A luminous debut about migration, memory, and the fragile search for belonging, Tangerinn moves between London and the windswept coast of southern Italy to explore what it means to inherit a life shaped by displacement. Mina is thirty, living in London, and increasingly unmoored....

A ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary reinvention of the love story by the legendary Nobel Prize winner. Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a Black...

From the bestselling author of The Murmur of Bees comes a transportive novel of two families uprooted by war and united by the bonds of love and courage.With war looming dangerously close, Ilse’s school days soon turn to lessons of survival. In the harshness...

With her “extraordinary capacity for radical empathy” (The Boston Globe), remarkable insight into the human condition, and silences that contain multitudes, Elizabeth Strout returns to the town of Crosby, Maine, and to her beloved cast of characters—Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess, and more—as...

Tenth of December is the most honest, moving, and critically acclaimed collection yet from George Saunders, one of the most important writers of his generation. These stories take on the big questions and explore the fault lines of our own morality, the characters vividly...

Why did the taxi crash on the autobahn in Vienna?Who exactly were Besfort Y and Rovena, the mysterious couple who died after being flung from the back seat?How was Besfort connected to the war in the Balkans? And why was his affair with Rovena...

As soon as it first appeared in 1953, this novel by the great Saul Bellow was hailed as an American classic. Augie, the exuberant narrator-hero, is a poor Chicago boy growing up during the Great Deptression. A “born recruit,” Augie makes himself available for...

A Penguin Classic Carved from wood by the kindly carpenter Geppetto, Pinocchio comes to life—and immediately begins to misbehave. While generations have adored the mischievous puppet, the novel’s deeper message is often overlooked. Pinocchio’s trouble isn’t simply his tendency to lie; it’s his refusal...

From his Baker Street apartment, Sherlock Holmes wields his powers of deduction in pursuit of justice and truth, venturing out into foggy Victorian London accompanied by his faithful sidekick Dr. Watson. This classic collection of Holmes tales includes many of the detective's most-loved exploits....