"A beautifully written novel about living with our many selves." - Nicola Keegan, author of Swimming Clare Moorhouse, the American wife of a high-ranking diplomat in Paris, is arranging an official dinner crucial to her hus...

The acclaimed, best-selling author of In the Fall and Lost Nation returns with a magnificent novel of love and grief set in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century.

"Your situation is always ambiguous, isn't it, Guido?", his father-in-law, Count Orazio Falier, observes of Donna Leon's soulful detective, Guido Brunetti, at the beginning of her superb 28th Brunetti novel, Unto Us A Son Is...

A vibrant new novel from Penelope Lively—a wry, wise story about the surprising ways lives intersect When Charlotte Rainsford, a retired schoolteacher, is accosted by a petty thief on a London street, the consequences ripple across ...

"Rarely is a first novel as smart and engaging and learned and funny and moving as The Borrower." —Richard Russo, author of Pulitzer Prize–winning Empire FallsLucy Hull, a children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, find...

The acclaimed author of The Borrower returns with a dazzlingly original, mordantly witty novel about the secrets of an old-money family and their turn-of-the-century estate, Laurelfield."Rebecca Makkai is a writer to watch, as sn...

Jesper Humlin is a mildly famous author and poet with lackluster book sales. Not even his editor will support his artistic vision, suggesting instead that he start writing crime novels in the place of poetry. In his travels, Humlin en...

Finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction One of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of the Year Named one of the best novels of the year by Time, Washington Post, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Esquire, BBC, and many others Nation...

Dramatizes the Japanese experience from the eve of World War II through the degradation of the postwar era.

In the follow-up to Thrush Green, the arrival of a stranger in the village stirs ripples of speculation and interest.

A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history―a dazzling retelling of Liberia's formationWayetu Moore's powerful debut novel, She Would Be King, reimagines the dramatic story of Liberia's early years through three unfo...

What would you do if the love of your life, and all your memories, were lost- only to reappear, but with such shocking revelations that you wish you had never remembered... Emmett Conn is an old man, near the end of his life. A World...

A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian emigre who, like Nabokov, is a novelist, poet and critic. There are threads linking the fictional hero with his creator as he reconstructs the im...

Transparent Things revolves around the four visits of the hero--sullen, gawky Hugh Person--to Switzerland . . .  As a young publisher, Hugh is sent to interview R., falls in love with Armande on the way, wrests her, after  multipl...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018Shakespeare's dark and tragic play retold in a heart-pounding New York Times bestselling thriller from the author of The Snowman and The Thirst.  Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industr...

"Dr. Eldon Chance is a man primed for spectacular ruin. His wife has left him for a dyslexic fitness instructor, his teenaged daughter is disappearing into drugs; he owes the IRS untold sums; his neuro-psychiatry practice has been red...

A popular Irish comedian chronicles with raw humor and great affection the comic misadventures of a large and lively North Dublin family in the 1960s. The film version, directed by and starring Anjelica Huston, is tentatively schedule...

Mudgirl is a child abandoned in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate—or destiny. After her rescue, the well-meaning couple who adopt Mudgirl quarantine her poisonous history ...

Galip is a lawyer in Istanbul. When his wife R'ya disappears, along with her half-brother Jelal (a journalist with a murky political past), Galip makes a desperate attempt to trace her. Alongside the action-filled narrative of Galip's...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER A HELLO SUNSHINE x REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE WASHINGTON POST - NPR - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY-THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS - ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH- LIBRARY ...

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantly observant story that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway ...

The Washington Post"Brilliantly written… a joy to read… Bleeding Edge is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best." (Michael Dirda) It is 2001 in New York C...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERIndignation, Philip Roth's twenty-ninth book, is a powerful exploration of a remarkable moment in American history. It is a novel that highlights his masterful ability to re-create a time and a place and to populate...

Set in the African republic of Botswana--the locale of his acclaimed short story collection, Whites--Norman Rush's novel simultaneously explores the highest of intellectual high grounds and the most tortuous ravines of the erotic. tac...

From one of America's greatest comic novelists, a hilarious new novel about aging, family, loneliness, and loveThe Bergman clan has always stuck together, growing as it incorporated in-laws, ex-in-laws, and same-sex spouses. But famil...

This novel, which won the Booker Prize in 1977, is a coda to "The Raj Quartet". It is set in the new India of 1972, where an elderly couple--Colonel Tusker Smalley and his wife Lucy (minor characters in the "Quartet&quo...

1944. After the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, a German counterattack lands on British soil. Within a month, half of Britain is occupied. The seat of British government has fled to Worcester, Churchill to Canada. A netw...

A reader and bookseller favorite from its first publication, Pulitzer Prize–winning, nationally bestselling author Jane Smiley's wickedly funny, darkly satiric novel is set in an agricultural college in the American heartland.Here, ...

SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2014 GOLDSMITHS PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD WINNER OF THE SALTIRE LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA Best Book of the Year:...

A literary tour-de-force ranging from the American frontier to Edwardian England and the decadent carousing of the Bright Young People of London's jazz age.1904. A pretty young woman travels apprehensively across the American prairies...