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A Vietnam War novel unlike any other. The narrator, one of the most arresting of recent fiction, is a man of two minds and divided loyalties, a half-French half-Vietnamese communist sleeper agent living in America after the end of the war. A gripping spy...

A luminous meditation on grief, memory, and the fragile threads of life. In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion chronicles the year that followed the sudden death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne, and the near loss of their only daughter, Quintana....

Science, ambition, and a crisis of conscience. Martin Arrowsmith is a brilliant medical student with dreams of transforming the world through science. But as he rises through the ranks of public health and research, personal loss, ambition, and society’s expectations threaten to derail his...

Young Huck Finn escapes his abusive father and sets off down the Mississippi River with Jim, a runaway enslaved man. What begins as a bid for freedom becomes a deeper journey of moral awakening as Huck grapples with the values he’s been taught and...

The intelligent and charming Newland Archer – a member of one of New York's most prominent families – is living the life that has always been expected of him: he is engaged to the beautiful and well-connected May Welland and understands the rarefied world...

Four women, with very different backgrounds and characters – the artless Lottie Wilkins, the pious Rose Arbuthnot, the cantankerous Mrs Fisher and the haughty Lady Caroline Dester – respond to an advertisement in The Times offering a medieval castle to rent in Italy that...

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...

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....

Award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky give us a brilliantly faithful rendition of this classic novel, in all its tragedy and tormented comedy. In this second edition, they have updated their translation in honor of the 200th anniversary of Dostoevsky's birth.One of the...

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation, and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease:...

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...

In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality.  David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David...

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel’s story is...

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...

Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister...

Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, believes his mother died giving birth to him. One of Marek’s few consola­tions is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby. For some...

While on her daily walk with her dog in a secluded woods, a woman comes across a note, handwritten and carefully pinned to the ground by stones. "Her name was Magda. Nobody will ever know who killed her. It wasn't me. Here is her...

After the 2011 tsunami, a Hello Kitty lunchbox washes up on the shore of a remote Canadian island. Inside, novelist Ruth discovers a diary written by Nao, a sixteen-year-old girl in Tokyo grappling with deep loneliness, bullying, and thoughts of ending her life. Before...

One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are...

Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. With bold ideas and rigorous evidence, Adam Grant investigates how we...

What happens when you're confined to a single room for six weeks? For Xavier de Maistre, a young French officer arrested after a duel in 1790, the answer was simple: he became a traveler in his own home. Dressed in his pink and blue...

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...

Manchuria, 1908.In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Her death is clouded by rumors of foxes, which are believed to lure people by transforming themselves into beautiful women and handsome men. Bao, a detective...

The Bridge Kingdom #1 A warrior princess trained in isolation, Lara is driven by two certainties. The first is that King Aren of the Bridge Kingdom is her enemy. And the second is that she’ll be the one to bring him to his knees. ...

The Bridge Kingdom #2 A queen now in exile as a traitor, Lara has watched as Ithicana is conquered by her own father, helpless to do anything to stop the destruction. But when she learns her husband, Aren, has been captured in battle, Lara...

The Bridge Kingdom #3 A soldier raised as heir to an empire, Zarrah is motivated by two truths: The first is that the Veliant family murdered her mother. The second is that her pursuit of vengeance will put every last one of them in...

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial: A collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed...

This new edition of one of Virginia Woolf’s most celebrated novels features an introduction by Michael Cunningham, acclaimed bestselling author of The Hours. Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands...

The enchanting and bloodthirsty sequel to the New York Times bestselling novel The Cruel Prince. After the jaw-dropping revelation that Oak is the heir to Faerie, Jude must keep her younger brother safe. To do so, she has bound the wicked king, Cardan, to...

No play in the modern theater has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public as Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie. As Williams's first popular success, it launched the brilliant, if somewhat controversial, career, of our pre-eminent lyric playwright. Since its premiere...

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....

Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on...

After being rescued as infants from a sinking ocean liner in 1914, Marian and Jamie Graves are raised by their dissolute uncle in Missoula, Montana. There--after encountering a pair of barnstorming pilots passing through town in beat-up biplanes--Marian commences her lifelong love affair with...

Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike. Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on...

From a young age, Taylor Swift was determined to become a country music star. At just thirteen, she persuaded her parents to relocate from Pennsylvania to Nashville—the heart of the country music scene—to chase her dream. As a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Taylor poured...

Louisa Clark is still reeling from the loss of Will Traynor. Though months have passed since his death, Lou struggles to find purpose in a world without him and when a sudden accident lands her back in the care of her quirky, well-meaning family,...

Set in a peaceful retirement village in the English countryside—where four unlikely friends meet weekly to solve cold cases over tea and biscuits. The club includes Elizabeth, a former intelligence agent; Joyce, a sweet but sharp former nurse; Ron, a retired trade union leader;...

Liz Buxbaum has always believed in grand romantic gestures, sweeping movie moments, and the promise of a perfect prom. So when her longtime crush Michael moves back to town, it feels like fate—and Liz is ready to script her own love story. There’s just...

To save her brother, she sacrificed herself. To save her world, she must awaken a sleeping god—and survive the pull of her own heart. For generations, deadly storms have ravaged Mina’s homeland. Her people believe the Sea God, once a guardian, has cursed them...

All Souls, Book 3. The spellbinding conclusion to the All Souls Trilogy, witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return from the perils of Elizabethan London to confront an even more dangerous present. Their journey brings them back to Sept-Tours—Matthew’s ancestral stronghold—where allies...

Eight hours. Six friends. One killer. Only five will survive. Red Kenny thought her spring break road trip would be a chance to unwind with five friends—her best friend, his perfect girlfriend, a secret crush, a classmate, and her best friend’s older brother. But...

After spending five years in prison for a tragic mistake that changed her life forever, Kenna Rowan returns to the town she once called home, determined to reconnect with the daughter she’s never met. But the path to redemption is anything but easy. The...

In the final days of the Second World War, an Italian villa-turned-hospital houses four unlikely companions, each scarred—physically or emotionally—by the trauma of conflict. At the heart of The English Patient lies a mystery: the identity and past of a man lying in an...

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...

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...

Lydia is dead. But no one knows it yet. So begins this haunting novel of a Chinese American family in 1970s Ohio, where quiet tensions run beneath the surface of their seemingly ordinary lives. Lydia is Marilyn and James Lee’s beloved middle child—the one...

Reality is coming apart at the seams. What begins as a strange affliction—an epidemic of false memories that leaves its victims shattered by lives they’ve never lived—soon reveals itself to be something far more terrifying. This isn’t a disease. It’s the first tremor of...

Effy Sayre has never been free of fairy tales—or the shadows they leave behind. Since childhood, she has been haunted by visions of the Fairy King, and the only solace she finds is in Angharad, the legendary tale of a mortal girl who loved...

A haunting, mystical dialogue between creator and creation, this posthumous work—never before translated—offers a unique glimpse into the mind of Clarice Lispector. In this extraordinary text, Lispector, disguised as a male author, converses with Angela Pralini, the woman he brings to life. Through a...

For the past year, June has been seeing things that shouldn’t exist—ghostly wind chimes, a voice calling her name, and a mysterious door that appears and vanishes without warning. She’s always feared this day would come, but now that it’s here, June is determined...