Fiction - Literary

Anatural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love& Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories showwomen oppressed but not defeated.These are hopeful stories about love, lust, fame, and cultural thievery, the delight of new lovers, and therediscovery of old friends, affirmed even...

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF 2024 A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR "Short, strange, spiky and sublime." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Funny, ghastly, eye-opening, marvelous." --Wall Street JournalFrom the visionary author of Sudden Death, a...

A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF 2024 A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR "Short, strange, spiky and sublime." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Funny, ghastly, eye-opening, marvelous." --Wall Street JournalFrom the visionary author of Sudden Death, a...

A "provocative and seductive debut" of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities as she endeavors to lead an authentic life (O, The Oprah Magazine). On a hot day in Bethlehem,...

A haunting, provocative novel, You Feel It Just Below the Ribs is a fictional autobiography in an alternate twentieth century that chronicles one woman's unusual life, including the price she pays to survive and the cost her choices hold for the society she is...

"Gripping, straight-up, no-nonsense stories about American soldiers and their families. . . simple, tough, and true."--The New York Times "Prose that's brave and honest."--People "Terrific. . . and terrifically illuminating."--The Washington PostAn award-winning story collection from the author of The Confusion of Languages. Through...

Now a Major Motion Picture From the internationally bestselling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatural tale of a writer's emotional collapse A screenwriter, his wife, and their four-year old daughter rent a house in the mountains of Germany, but...

"A powerful allegory of our civilization's many maladies, artfully and elegantly articulated, by one of the young wise women of our generation." --New York Times Book ReviewAn intelligent and madly entertaining debut novel reminiscent of The Crying of Lot 49, White Noise, and City...

Taking the accessible, pop history of Coe's You Never Forget Your First and adding a healthy dose of nerdy, punk humor, You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grant is for both history and humor readers alike. This farcical biography forces us into an urgent discussion...

The first paperback edition to include full annotations of these twenty Hawthorne tales written between the 1830s and 50s, this volume contains the classic pieces "Young Goodman Brown," "The Maypole of Merry Mount," "The Birthmark," "The Celestial Railroad," and "Earth's Holocaust," as well as...

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW AND THE STORIED LIFE OF A. J. FIKRY "SLY, EXHILARATING . . . HILARIOUS." --People (Book of the Week) "BRILLIANT AND HILARIOUS." --Chicago Tribune This is the story of five women...

A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain A national bestseller, acclaimed as one of the best books of the year by NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Time, and Amazon, and...

A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree Winner of the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature Enter the small, rural town of Glanbeigh, a place whose fate took a downturn with...

Longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness US and Canada Prize - A World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2024 - A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2024A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most...

Finalist for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness PrizeKirkus Reviews, "Best Fiction of 2023"An artist of color becomes obsessed with a white model in a novel with the glamour of Clarice Lispector and the viscerality of Han Kang.At an otherwise forgettable party in Los Angeles,...

A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff.A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is...

A quirky Chicago kid raised by his junkie dad stumbles upon an unusual Maxwell Street bluesman; a Twelve-Step wannabe swaps addictions to match the support groups that meet in his favorite recovery room; a case of mistaken identity shines a bright light on a...

Winner of the 2025 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Gold Medal Winner for the 94th Annual California Book Awards Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about the price of secrecy, the weight...

THE #1 FRENCH BESTSELLER MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE The feel-good #1 bestselling French novel about a woman whose mission to cure her "routine-itis" leads her to lasting joy and true fulfillment, for fans of The Alchemist and Hector and the Search...

What if everyone in the world found out who their soulmates are at the same time? Olivia Adler's life is picture-perfect: a behind-the-scenes job she loves in a bustling Manhattan newsroom, an engagement to golden-boy Wells, and a once-in-a-lifetime chance to create the documentary...