Fiction

Mysterious and utterly mesmerizing, this graphic-novel-within-a-novel pairs the extraordinary prose of David Almond with the visual genius of Dave McKean.Blue Baker is writing a story — not all that stuff about wizards and fairies and happily ever after — a real story, about blood...

In this luminous and deeply reflective novel, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who returns to the seaside town of his childhood in the wake of his wife’s death. Seeking solace, Max finds himself drawn back not just to the...

Ailsa and Humphrey met as children by a grey, northern sea in post-war Britain. She, freckled and furious; he, quietly studious; both fascinated by the other. Years later, their lives collide as adults and burst into an intense yet brief love affair. Now, after...

Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life seems to be looking up....

1992. All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All...

A hypnotic descent into obsession, intellect, and the seductive pull of darkness. At an elite New England college, a tightly knit group of eccentric students falls under the spell of their enigmatic Greek professor—a man who teaches them to seek truth not through conventional...

Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon—a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that contains startling discoveries about the...

Born in the “agrarian ghetto” of Dickens—on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles—the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: “I’d die in the same bedroom I’d grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling...

A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of...

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida―war photographer, gambler, and closet queen―has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are...

A powerful and timely novel that explores themes of migration, identity, and belonging. Set in the small Italian town of Altino, the story follows a group of African migrants seeking asylum and a sense of purpose in an unfamiliar and often unwelcoming place. As...

After years of absence, a man returns to reunite with his wife and young son, taking them to his remote childhood home in the forested mountains of rural France. At first, the wild landscape offers wonder and escape, especially for the young boy, who...

When Jay’s grandfather dies, his family returns south to a once-thriving farm now withered by drought and time. As his father struggles with his own disappointments and his mother holds the fraying family together, Jay is sent to work the land—where he meets Chuan,...

A haunting portrait of Arthur Rosenberg, one of Nazism's chief architects, and his obsession with one of history's most influential Jewish thinkers. In The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical drama. Yalom tells the story of the seventeenth-century...

One of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, this fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett is a subtle but affecting portrait of an everywoman reflecting on an unconventional life. What transforms this seemingly ordinary tale is the richness of Daisy's vividly...

Neapolitan Novels #4.The Story of the Lost Child is the concluding volume in the dazzling saga of two women — the brilliant, bookish Elena, and the fiery, uncontainable Lila. Both are now adults, with husbands, lovers, aging parents, and children. Their friendship has been...

Neapolitan Novels #2.In The Story of a New Name, Lila has recently married and made her entrée into the family business; Elena, meanwhile, continues her studies and her exploration of the world beyond the neighborhood that she so often finds stifling. Love, jealousy, family,...

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward. Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed...

Basking in Singapore’s nonstop sunshine, Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the glamorous expat dream—until a mysterious (not to mention handsome) new arrival infiltrates their tight-knit community and ruins everything. For Dara, a workaholic lawyer from the UK, Singapore is opportunity. Every day, brokering...

The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium lane, fast lane) and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out...

Idealistic young officer Giovanni Drogo is full of determination to serve his country well. But when he arrives at a bleak border station in the Tartar desert, where he is to take a short assignment at Fort Bastiani, he finds the castle manned by...

Nomad Edition An unfulfilled college student tumbles through four alternate realities in search of the perfect campus life in this brilliant, time-bending contemporary classic—now in a pocket-sized Nomad Edition. Stuck in a rut at his prestigious Kyoto university, an unnamed junior has spent two...

Nomad Edition In the boiling heat of summer, a broken remote control for an air conditioner threatens life as we know it in this reality-bending, time-slipping sequel to The Tatami Galaxy. A ruined remote control, a sweltering Kyoto summer, and a time machine hidden...

Artie Dam seems to have a full, steady life—teaching high school history, sharing quiet routines with his wife of thirty years, and sailing Massachusetts Bay. Yet beneath the surface, he feels deeply isolated, haunted by how little people truly know one another. When he...

In Havana, Cuba, a widow tries to come to terms with her husband’s death―and the truth about their marriage―in Laura van den Berg’s surreal, mystifying story of psychological reflection and metaphysical mystery. Shortly after Clare arrives in Havana, Cuba, to attend the annual Festival...

In a Balkan country mending from war, Natalia, a young doctor, is compelled to unravel the mysterious circumstances surrounding her beloved grandfather’s recent death. Searching for clues, she turns to his worn copy of The Jungle Book and the stories he told her of...

When Sommy leaves Nigeria for graduate school in the U.S., her brother Mezie has just survived a suicide attempt. Wracked with guilt and adrift in a new country, Sommy grapples with the dissonance of belonging nowhere—neither at home nor abroad. Her uneasy bond with...

Marking the English-language debut of one of Brazil’s most compelling contemporary voices, The Tokyo Suite unravels the hidden tensions of modern family life and the quiet fractures running beneath everyday routines. On an otherwise unremarkable morning, Maju—a nanny worn down by exhaustion and longing—boards...

Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Undocumented immigrants Cándido and América Rincón...

A deeply atmospheric debut novel about three young people testing the boundaries of intimacy. When Hugo takes a room in the house of one of Stockholm’s wealthiest families, he unwittingly invites himself into the lives of people he will be unable to forget: Thora,...

From one of England’s most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of readingWhen her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering...

Set in a nameless Central European city, The Unconsoled follows Ryder, a world-famous pianist who arrives to deliver the most significant performance of his career—only to be swept into a maze of baffling requests and surreal detours. Each unexpected errand pulls him further from...

Chronicles a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits....

Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband led an ordinary, orderly life. But when violent dreams filled with blood and brutality invade her sleep, Yeong-hye resolves to cleanse herself—first by refusing meat, then by rejecting the constraints of her existence altogether. What begins...

First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single...

First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters--beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys--commit suicide one by one over the course of a single...

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people,...

Paul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar,...

In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic,...

Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious. Alexandra, a sculptor, summons thunderstorms; Jane, a...

In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother’s home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn’t really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and...

Now a Netflix film starring Florence Pugh: In this “old-school page turner” (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review ) by the bestselling author of Room , an English nurse is brought to a small Irish village to observe what appears to be a...

Erin, a 19-year-old girl from middle England, is traveling to Alaska on a journey that takes her through Iceland, Greenland, and across Canada. She is making a documentary about how men are allowed to express this kind of individualism and personal freedom more than...

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women. Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the famed Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless, full of verve and wit,...

One spring morning, a mysterious stranger named Theo arrives in the small city of Golden, asking more questions than he answers. At a local café, he buys pencil portraits of townspeople and returns them to their “rightful owners,” sparking stories, friendships, and quiet transformations....

In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh,...

Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform...

A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing – and ideally, very little thinking. She is sent to a nondescript office building...

Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a...

From Booker Prize–longlisted author Niall Williams comes a luminous novel about first loves, lost chances, and the quiet transformations that mark a life. In the tiny, rain-soaked village of Faha, where nothing ever seems to change, the rain suddenly stops—and with it comes the...