The Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers—who happen to be polar bearsThe Memoirs of a Polar Bear stars three generations of talented writers and performers—who happen to be polar bears...

A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZEAND THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE “A blistering coming of age story” —O: The Oprah Magazine Named...

2009 National Book Award FinalistMy father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He'd say it had gone west. But going west always sounded pretty good to me. After all, westwards is the path of the sun. And through as much...

When Jerry Delfont, an aimless travel writer with writer's block (his "dead hand"), receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs. Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is...

Like his creator, Paul Theroux, the hero of BLINDING LIGHT, Slade Steadman, became famous for a best-selling travel book. In Theroux’s case it was THE GREAT RAILWAY BAZAAR, in Steadman’s it’s TRESPASSING, a book abou...

"Theroux possesses a fabulously nasty sense of humor." — Stephen King, New York Times Book Review  To those in her Cape Cod town, Mother is an exemplar of piety, frugality, and hard work. To her husband and seven children...

As he travels around the coast of Great Britain, the author of The Mosquito Coast provides a profile of Britain and her people in a collection of interviews with citizens during the time of the papal visit, the Falklands crisis, a gre...

Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award // Finalist for the Man Booker Prize and the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction "A powerfully expansive novel…Thien writes with the mastery of a con...

Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment. Not that anyone has much time for enlightenmen...

On an early spring morning in Richmond, Virginia, in the year 1885, a young pregnant woman is found floating in the city reservoir. It appears that she has committed suicide, but there are curious clues at the scene that suggest foul ...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Scot Harvath series and "heir to Tom Clancy and Robert Ludlum" (Chicago Tribune) returns with this unputdownable, white-knuckled thriller following the Secret Service agent as ...

Best friends Mia and Lorrie Ann couldn't be more different; where Mia is reckless and proudly hard-hearted, Lorrie Ann is kind, serenely beautiful, and seemingly immune to the kind of teenage mistakes that Mia can't help but make.  B...

A Chicago Tribune,Electric Literature, and BookRiot Best Book of the Year A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" AuthorMarie is a waitress at an upscale Dallas steakhouse, attuned to the appetites of her patrons and gifte...

Elf and Yoli are sisters. While on the surface Elfrieda's is an enviable life (she's a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, and happily married) and Yolandi's a mess (she's divorced and broke, with two teenagers growing up too ...

"[A] 21st-century response to Herman Melville's 'Bartleby, the Scrivener.'"—NPR "A revelation."—Time A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits...

A BOOKLIST BEST DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAROne very special work of art—a Chaim Soutine painting—will connect the lives and fates of two different women, generations apart, in this enthralling and transporting debut novel that moves f...

"The women at the heart of this novel inhabit the harsh world of the urban Indian poor, and struggle separately and together for dignity and survival. Thrity Umrigar has written a moving human tale that vividly brings to life bot...

Couples is the book that has been assailed for its complete frankness and praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrait of love, marriage, and adultery in America. But be it damned or hailed, Couples drew back the curtain...

John Updike's short story collections are occasions for celebration -- the pleasures to be found in them are great indeed. This marvelous volume contains one gem after another, stories to be savored one at a time and returned to again...

Long-listedfor the 2016 International Dylan Thomas PrizeAfter two acclaimed story collections, Laura van den Berg brings us Find Me, her highly anticipated debut novel--a gripping, imaginative, darkly funny tale of a young woman str...

In a riveting exploration of the power the past wields over the present, critically acclaimed author Antoinette van Heugten writes the story of a woman whose child's life hangs in the balance, forcing her to confront the roots of her ...

Skipping back and forth in time, this novel relates the tale of Elsa Pendleton, wife of a British archaeologist working at Easter Island in 1913, and Greer Farrady, a botanist who is there 60 years later.

In Canada in the year 1871, Charles and Addington Gaunt are sent by their father to locate Charles's twin, Simon, who has gone off on an expedition with a missionary to help convert the savages of the northwest territories to Christia...

A tale of two cities―Piura and Lima―rocked by scandal, and the disintegrating bonds of loyalty between the generationsNobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa's newest novel follows two fascinating characters whose lives are destined to ...

Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the six-day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to her losing Edwin's friendship and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER  An achingly beautiful story of female friendship, betrayal, and a mysterious disappearance set in the changing landscape of San Francisco  Teenage Eulabee and her magnetic best friend, Maria Fabiola, o...

The elusive narrator of this beautifully written, complex, and powerfully disconcerting novel is the scion of a decayed aristocratic family from the farther reaches of the defunct Austro-Hungarian Empire. In five psychologically fraug...

In exile now for more than twenty years, Kenyan novelist, playwright, poet and critic Ngugi wa Thiong'o has become one of the most widely read African writers. Commencing in "our times" and set in the fictional "Free Re...

Growing up in the care of the "old man" he was entrusted to at birth, Franklin Starlight has never really known his biological father, Eldon. The fleeting moments he shared with the alcoholic man have only ended in disasters...

The Followers is a compassionate and suspenseful story of the dissolution of a family. Judith has been visiting her mother, Stephanie, in prison once a month for the last eight years. She still can't bring herself to talk with her mot...