Fiction

From Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk comes a richly layered novel that blends mystery, romance, and philosophical reflection into a work often hailed as a modern classic. Set in the opulent yet tense world of sixteenth-century Istanbul, My Name Is Red explores the dangerous...

Beneath Oxford’s dreaming spires, Ella Durran finally sees her childhood dream take shape. At twenty-four, the American student has earned a coveted Rhodes Scholarship, a year in England she’s planned for more than a decade. She even secures a remote role on a U.S....

Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis,...

Korede’s sister Ayoola is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola’s third boyfriend in a row is dead, stabbed through the heart with Ayoola’s knife. Korede’s practicality is the sisters’ saving grace. She knows the best solutions for...

In modern-day Paris, a narrator and her two friends juggle missing cats, tangled relationships, and the intimidating challenge of writing about Gertrude Stein—an artist who reshaped literature and championed avant-garde thinking. Yet capturing Stein on the page proves nearly impossible. Her dazzling, unruly art,...

In a single eye-opening year two women, worlds apart, experience parallel awakenings. In New York, Jane Takagi-Little lands a job producing a Japanese television show sponsored by an American meat-exporting business, exposing some unsavoury truths – about the meat industry and herself. In Tokyo,...

From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman's efforts to duck the ills of the world by embarking on an extended hibernation with the help of one of the worst psychiatrists in the annals of literature...

Mystic River, a passionate, ambitious novel of crime, punishment, and misplaced revenge, Lehane fulfills his early promise and takes his place as an important American writer. When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car...

Near to the Wild Heart announced Brazil to the force of “Hurricane Clarice”—a twenty-three-year-old prodigy who wrote her debut in a tiny rented room. She christened it with a title borrowed from Joyce: “He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life.” The...

On a bright spring afternoon, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes off the clothesline, she straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away. Head spinning, all she knows for certain is that...

A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country’s secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young...

From master storyteller Stephen King comes an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines—one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker—featuring the beloved Holly Gibney and a dynamic new cast of characters. When the...

As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later,...

Leah Zhang never expected her life to take such a wild turn—or that she’d be plotting revenge on the boy who once ruined it. After inadvertently sabotaging her cousin’s wedding—forgetting most of her Mandarin in the process—Leah’s parents insist she join a travel program...

Under the streets of London there’s a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks. A single act of kindness to a...

This boxed set includes Nicola Yoon's #1 New York Times Bestsellers "Everything, Everything" and "The Sun Is Also a Star", both of which are now major motion pictures. In "Everything, Everything" Maddy is a girl who's literally allergic to the outside world, and Olly...

Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. As she struggles to decide, the lives of two other women—women's...

A haunting meditation on love, loss, and the ruinous allure of the past. In a seedy ferry terminal in the Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irish gangsters—Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond—wait through the night, searching for a glimpse of Maurice’s missing daughter, Dilly....

Night Shift is Stephen King's first collection of short stories, a perfect showcase of just how far King's dark imagination can go. Here we see mutated rats gone bad ("Graveyard Shift"); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity ("Night Surf," the basis for The Stand);...

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her...

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee, the adult in her family for as long as she can remember, finds herself on a buckboard journey with her...

One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else... An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years...

Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact,...

The East Village streets are overrun with crooked cops, drug addicts, pimps, and prostitutes. Garbage piles up along the sidewalks amid the blaring soundtrack of car stereos. Confrontations are supercharged by the summer heat wave. This merciless noise has left Elizabeth Hall an insomniac....

As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "the...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes an inspired sequence of stories as affecting as it is beautiful.   With the clarity and precision that have become his trademarks, Kazuo Ishiguro...

Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and Sophie feels left behind as they all start to go their separate ways. She's overshadowed by her best friend Grace. She's been in love with Finn for as...

At school, Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He's popular and well adjusted, star of the school football team, while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her job at Marianne's...

Nothing is quite as it seems in this collection of eleven dazzling stories. We meet a queen who makes a bargain she cannot keep; a secretary who watches over the life she has just left; a man who bets on a horse that may—or...

The earliest of her six major novels, Northanger Abbey remained unpublished until after Jane Austen’s death. A deliciously witty satire of popular Gothic romances, it is perhaps Austen’s lightest, most delightful excursion into a young woman’s world. Catherine Morland, an unlikely heroine—unlikely because she...

From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore: A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (The New York Times Book Review) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic...

In this family, everyone is keeping secrets—even the dead. Brecken Hill in upstate New York is an expensive place to live. You have to be rich to have a house there, and Fred and Sheila Merton certainly are rich. But even all their money...

Set in New York City, 1966, Nothing Special follows Mae, a disillusioned seventeen-year-old adrift in a world of dead-end expectations. Living in a crumbling apartment with her alcoholic mother and her mother’s drifting boyfriend, Mae finds herself alienated from both the shallow cliques of high...

A powerful novel that explores the internment and persecution of Japanese Canadians during and after World War II. Told through the eyes of Naomi Nakane, a quiet and introspective schoolteacher, the story weaves together memory, history and personal trauma. After the death of her beloved...

First published in 1859, Oblomov is an indisputable classic of Russian literature, comparable in its stature to such masterpieces as Gogol's Dead Souls, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. The book centres on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of the...

Here are Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone in fresh new versions for contemporary readers and audiences. Each has been the basis for groundbreaking theatrical performances by Theater of War Productions, in which actors present dramatic readings, followed by town hall-style discussions. These forums are designed to...

A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression. They are an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet they have formed a "family," clinging...

Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck’s tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America’s most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American...

In Avigayl Sharp’s bold debut novel, Offseason, a fiercely observant yet deeply unreliable narrator takes a teaching job at an all-girls boarding school on the Eastern Seaboard. Between manic lectures on everything from Bleak House to Stalin and the generational legacy of the Holocaust, she becomes entangled...

Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years.  So Lucy is both surprised and...

t’s 2017, and the Acevedo siblings are living lives that glitter—at least from a distance. Olga, a sought-after wedding planner for Manhattan’s elite, crafts perfect love stories for everyone but herself. Her brother Prieto, a rising congressman, is the pride of Brooklyn’s gentrifying Latinx...

When Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls there. Theirs is a world of strict pecking orders, eating disorders and Instagram angst. While she spends her time at...

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes...

Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is “a compelling life force” (San Francisco Chronicle). The New Yorker has said that Elizabeth Strout “animates the ordinary with an astonishing force,” and she has never done so more clearly...

Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no one but himself to rely on. Fleeing from poverty and hardship, he falls in with a criminal street gang who will not let him go, however hard he tries to escape. One...

Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed to literary stardom. On Beauty is the story of an interracial family living in the university town of Wellington,...

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born -- a history whose...

In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire.Alternating between the tough and the tender, the romantic and the gritty, Bukowski exposes the myriad faces of love in the poems collected here - its selfishness and its narcissism,...

Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Translation Tara Selter has fallen out of time. In On the Calculation of Volume, the first volume in Solvej Balle’s extraordinary seven-part novel, Tara wakes each morning to find the same day unfolding again and again:...

Book II As the first year of November eighteenth draws to an end, Tara Selter finds herself back in her Paris hotel room—the place where time first slipped its axis. Standing on the threshold of the impossible, she braces herself for the leap into...