"Taut with tension.… [E]nding with a hint of hope."―Rob Merrill, Associated PressCathartic, affirming, and steeped in the empathy and precise observations of character for which Dubus is celebrated, Gone So Long explores...
Declared "a writer to watch" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), New York Times bestselling author María Dueñas pours heart and soul into this story of a woman who discovers the power of second chances.A talented college ...
A major new translation of a stunning rediscovered novel by Alexandre Dumas, Georges is a classic swashbuckling adventure. Brilliantly translated by Tina A. Kover in lively, fluid prose, this is Dumas’s most daring work, in whic...
"A spy novel but one that has been quietly and ingeniously deepened well beyond the ambitions of genre . . . [it] is one of those books that you read with your heart in your mouth, your mind fully engaged, and with a sense of des...
Preston Clearwater has been a criminal since stealing two chain saws and 1,600 pairs of aviator sunglasses from the army during the Second World War. Back on the road in postwar North Carolina, now a member of a car-theft ring, he pi...
Unabridged, 12 CDs, 15 hours Read by TBA The highly anticipated new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter.
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circlecomes an exciting new follow-up. When the world’s largest search engine/social media company, The Circle, merges with the planet’s dominant e-commerce site, it create...
"Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against Amer...
From his first novel — Less Than Zero — published when he was still a college student — to American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis has been a powerful and original presence in contemporary literature, whether giving voice to a previo...
A sharp, funny, delightfully unhinged collection of stories set in the dark world of domesticity, American Housewife features murderous ladies who lunch, celebrity treasure hunters, and the best bra fitter south of the Mason Dixon lin...
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE • With the emotional complexity of Everything I Never Told You and the psychological suspense of The Girl on the Train, O. Henry Prize winner Jan Ellison delivers a...
A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK and INSTANT NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL “A profound, beautiful novel.” —People * “Poignant.” —BuzzFeed * “A br...
The Veins of the Ocean: A Novel
Patricia EngelA New York Times Editors' ChoiceA Book Riot Best Book[s] of the Year So Far and a Buzzfeed, "The 27 Most Exciting Books Coming In 2016""Sumptuous . . . This is a writer who understands that exile can be as much an emoti...
Ministry of Special Cases, The
Nathan EnglanderFrom its unforgettable opening scene in the darkness of a forgotten cemetery in Buenos Aires, Nathan Englander's debut novel The Ministry of Special Cases casts a powerful spell. In the heart of Argentina's Dirty War, Kaddish Poznan s...
What We Talk About When We Talk About...
Nathan EnglanderThese eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place En...
Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction One of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 “A critique, a confession, a love letterand another brilliant novel from Anne Enright.” Ron Charles, Washington Po...
"With language so vibrant it practically has a pulse, Enright makes an exquisitely drawn case for the possibility of growth, love and transformation at any age." ―PeopleFrom internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright co...
This updated edition of National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich’s 1998 novel now features fascinating new content, a new title, new cover art, and a new foreword by the author—a riveting st...
On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt Fritzie and her husband, Pete; ordinary M...
Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich's grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington, D...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF 2020 AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2020 NPR BEST BOOK OF 2020 CBS SUNDAY MORNING BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST FICTION OF 2020 CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY'S BEST OF THE BEST G...
The Understory-the debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of The Virgins-is the haunting portrayal of Jack Gorse, an ex-lawyer, now unemployed, who walls off his inner life with elaborate rituals and routines. Every day he t...
Overcome by a fear that a lake that has miraculously appeared in Los Angeles is out to take her son from her, a single mother plunges into its depths and emerges as a powerful dominatrix and seer, while thousands of miles away, anothe...
Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for the best translated novel of 2014, now a New Directions paperbackThe End of Days, a brilliant novel of contingency and fate, by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, consists ...
"Madame Bovary meets Fifty Shades of Grey."* Anna was a good wife, mostly. For readers of The Girl on the Train and The Woman Upstairs comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fasc...
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Se...
Danielle EvansThe debut of a "striking" new voice in fiction (Entertainment Weekly) Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self offers a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day Am...
Walking on Water: A Novel (The Walk)
Richard Paul EvansWith this New York Times bestseller, the beloved Walk series ends as Alan Christoffersen reaches his destination and the beginning of a new life: "Definitely a journey worth taking" (Booklist).After the death of his beloved ...
A bold new novel that "augments a body of work worthy of a Nobel Prize" (Kirkus Reviews), from the internationally acclaimed author of Crossbones Nuruddin Farah—"the most important African novelist to emerge in the p...
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to...
Richard FarinaThis is the ultimate novel of college life during the first hallucinatory flowering of what has famously come to be known as The Sixties. Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me follows haunted ur-hippy Gnossos Pappadopoulis upon ret...
'It's time to stop fighting, and go home'. Those were the words that finally persuaded Aruna to walk out of her East London flat in the middle of breakfast, wearing flimsy sandals on a brisk Spring day, carrying nothing more substanti...