The powerful tale of an Egyptologist determined to find a mythic treasure buried in the desert sand—even if it costs him his life.After losing a chance to be an assistant professor, Dr. Mark Davison is saved from unemployment by a s...

The American master's first novel since Winter's Bone (2006) tells of a deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations.Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent family in We...

A REMARKABLE NEW WOMAN AT THE COLLEGE BOOKSHOP HELPS A PROFESSOR--AND THE SON HE NEVER KNEW HE HAD--REALIZE LIFE'S SMALL BLESSINGSTom Putnam has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. An English professor in a sleepy col...

ANEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR\"A spectacular novel that only this legend can pull off.\" -Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of  HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST, in T...

THE WAVES, Woolf's highly experimental, almost-prose-poem of a novel, asks the reader, 'What endures?' The answer calls out from the novel like an echo in a seashell: nothing. Everything changes, decays, morphs. Woolf sketches six liv...

From one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, an emotionally powerful, award-winning novel about an outsider haunted by an inescapable past. Jake Whyte has retreated to a remote farmhouse on a craggy British island, a place of c...

Sent to a Hawaiian orphanage for treatment of tuberculosis in 1913, Anah struggles with the deaths of her two younger sisters but finds their spirits growing angry as she survives into adulthood and prepares for married life. By the a...

Named Most Anticipated Book of the Year in Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Weekly, TIME, Huffington Post, The Chicago Tribune, BuzzFeed, Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Orlando Sentinel, Ploughshares, Bustle, TheMillion...

A Washington Post Notable BookWhen Kristin Stevens loses her job at a prestigious California university, she and her husband, Cal, relocate to suburban Massachusetts, where Kristin is forced to take a position at a third-tier college....

A Happy Marriage is both intimate and expansive: It is the story of Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, a novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margare...

Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel AwardFrom 70-year-old debut author Anne Youngson, a novel about a farmer's wife and a museum curator seeking second chances, hailed by NPR as "the charmer of the summer."In Denmark, Professor Ande...

From Koren Zailckas, author of the iconic memoir SMASHED: an electrifying debut novel about a family being torn apart by the woman who claims to love them most Josephine Hurst has her family under control. With two beautiful daughter...

A brilliant novel from "the herald of a new wave of Chilean fiction" (Marcela Valdes, The Nation)Alejandro Zambra's Ways of Going Home begins with an earthquake, seen through the eyes of an unnamed nine-year-old boy who live...

A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, and Junot DíazWinner of the PEN/Robert W. B...

Zola's depiction of the life of the laboring classes, and the struggle between capital and the workers in the mines of northern France, is an epic of naturalism that also possesses the richness and exactitude of a sociological documen...

Is it wrong to love whatever is beautiful and rich? I love it precisely because it is beautiful, because it is rich - because, I think, it brings joy to my heart. . .On Christmas day, in the flurry of a snow storm, the Huberts discove...

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Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered construction of truth and illusion. ...