Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award: At the suggestion of her friend Tennessee Williams, Southern writer Carson McCullers adapted her novella The Member of the Wedding into a touching and poignant play that was an enormo...

Alice McDermott tells the story of Billy Lynch within the complex matrix of a tightly knit Irish American community, in a voice that is resonant and full of deep feeling. Charming Billy is a masterpiece about the unbreakable bonds of ...

"Compelling, beautifully written, and profoundly human, McFadden has conjured a tale of a fractured family who journey across the country and back through history to unearth painful truths that unexpectedly reshape their relation...

Ruth is widowed, her sons are grown, and she lives in an isolated beach house outside town. Her routines are few and small. One day a stranger arrives at her door, looking as if she has been blown in from the sea. This woman—Frida�...

This unforgettable New York story of glamour, sex, ambition, and heartbreak begins in the heady days before the financial crash. Russell and Corrine Calloway seem to be living the dream: a calendar filled with high-society parties; jo...

From Lisa McInerney, hailed by The Irish Times as "arguably the most talented writer at work in Ireland today," comes The Glorious Heresies, a searing debut novel about life on the fringes of Ireland's post-crash society. �...

From the internationally bestselling author Catherine McKenzie comes an evocative tale of two women navigating the secrets and lies at the heart of a wildfire threatening their town.After a decadelong career combating wildfires, Eliza...

Can you hide a secret with the whole world watching?When an explosion rips apart a Chicago building, the lives of three women are forever altered.A year later, Cecily is in mourning. She was supposed to be in the building that day. In...

Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for FictionFinalist for the Baileys Prize for Women's FictionAn exuberant, one-of-a-kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a brilliant New Yorker contr...

An "artfully constructed novel, which the author, a playwright, unfurls in lush streams of consciousness" (The New Yorker), about a father and son thrown together by tragedy—from the author of Tender, McKeon's new novel co...

All That Is Solid Melts into Air is a gripping end-of-empire novel, charting the collapse of the Soviet Union through the focalpoint of the Chernobyl disaster. Part historical epic, part love story, it recalls The English Patient in i...

Mara, a physically gifted art teacher, lives in the old employee quarters behind the McRae House in exchange for helping Earl McRae fix his fences. Earl, an old rancher set in his ways, is intent upon spending his last days putting hi...

Kaya McLaren, author of Church of the Dog, celebrates moments of pure beauty and wonder in her widely anticipated second novel, On the Divinity of Second Chances. Overflowing with a zany and spirited cast of characters, it revels in t...

Growing up in small-town Oklahoma, cousins Logan and Kelsey Wade were raised like sisters. Rarely separated, they became each other's lifelines, escaping into the small joys of childhood to survive the increasing chaos in their family...

Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard PrizeA Washington Post Notable Book of the YearNamed a Must-Read by Entertainment Weekly, Time, New York Obser...

A young writer hits the dusty Texas highway for the California coast in this “brilliant . . . funny and dangerously tender” (Time) tale of art and sacrifice. Hailed as one of “the best novels ever set in America’s fourth large...

A sweeping, classic romance about the ties that bind us together-and the promises that can break us apart ...Some friends are more like family...and that's exactly how Cara Martin feels about Ryan Langston. He stood by her side throug...

Recently orphaned, eleven-year-old Cathy Benson feels she has been dropped into a cultural and intellectual wasteland when she is forced to move from her academically privileged life in California to the small town of Kersey in the Te...

This provocative, funny, perceptive novel tells the story of the trials of over-conscientious parenthood, as the devoted Braithwaites watch their bright, gifted eighteen-year-old take her disturbing initial steps toward independence, ...

A "beautifully written"* (New York Times Book Review) novel of redemption by a prize-winning international literary star.From the acclaimed author of The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears comes a heartbreaking literary mas...

A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of Europe's b...

"A penetrating autobiographical novel, and for English-language readers this work serves as a stunning introduction to a remarkable author." — Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)"This is not a fictionalized memoir of ...

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist "[A] masterwork of psychological fiction.… Messud teases readers with a psychological mystery, withholding information and then cannily parceling it out." ―Chicago TribuneJulia and...

Compared to the work of Carver, Proulx, Matthiessen, and Faulkner, Twisted Tree has made an already acclaimed author shine anew with deserved praise. Meyers's work has been dazzling readers since his debut, but here they find a writer...

As a wealthy, young real-estate developer in Los Angeles, T. lives an isolated life. He has always kept his distance from people — from his doting mother to his crass fraternity brothers — but remains unaware of his loneliness unt...

Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction: Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband.Lydia Millet’s previous work has been shortlisted fo...

With two novels and one short story collection published to overwhelming critical acclaim ('Monkeys takes your breath away,' said Anne Tyler; 'heartbreaking, exhilarating,' raved the New York Times Book Review), Susan Minot has emerge...

A New York Times Notable BookAn Economist Best Book of the YearEsther Akello is one of thirty Ugandan teenage girls abducted from a Catholic boarding school by rebel bandits. Held captive by the Lord's Resistance Army, Esther is force...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NEW YORK'S "ONE BOOK, ONE NEW YORK" PICKNamed One of the Best Books of 2018 by: Washington Post • NPR • People • Refinery29 • Parade • Buzzfeed"Mirza writes with a...

Feelings are running high in the Cotswold village of Thrush Green. Therector's plan for the neglected churchyard doesn't meet with universalapproval; there is a clash of personalities at the local school; and someonehas returned to th...