Ann Packer's debut novel, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, was a nationwide bestseller that established her as one of our most gifted chroniclers of the interior lives of women. Now, in her long-awaited second novel, she takes us on a jo...

With extraordinary emotional power, Linda Olsson's stunningly well-crafted debut novel recounts the unusual and unexpected friendship that develops between two women. Veronika, a young writer from New Zealand, rents a house in a small...

With The Sportswriter, in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later - after Independence Day won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award - was hailed by The Times of London as 'an extraordinary epic [t...

A novel set in the North Carolina mountains in the early 1920s tells the story of two vastly different brothers--one who is embittered, wild, and dissolute, the other shy, innocent, and intent on building a rock church with his own ha...

New from the bestselling author of Atonement and The Children ActTrudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home—a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse—but John's not there. Instead, she's with his brother...

Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels hers...

The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño has been called the García Marquez of his generation, but his novel The Savage Detectives is a lot closer to Y Tu Mamá Tambien than it is to One Hundred Years of Solitude. Hilarious and sexy, ...

NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER • From the author of The House of the Spirits,this epic novel spanning decades and crossing continents follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a plac...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY | NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • NPR • Chicago Tribune �...

A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki-shortlisted for the Booker Prize"A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be."...

Jane Austen's beloved Sense and Sensibility has moved to Westport, Connecticut, in this enchanting modern-day homage to the classic novel When Joseph Weissmann divorced his wife, he was seventy eight years old and she was seventy-fiv...

Susan Sontag's new novel is a brilliant and profound investigation into the fate of thought and culture in America. Like her last novel, THE VOLCANO LOVER, IN AMERICA masquerades as historical fiction, flaunting the stuff of drama and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  Charles Frazier, the acclaimed author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons, returns with a dazzling novel set in small-town North Carolina in the early 1960s. With his brilliant portrait of Luce, a young wom...

A charming, clever, and quietly moving debut novel of of endless possibilities and joyful discoveries that explores the promises we make and break, losing and finding ourselves, the objects that hold magic and meaning for our lives, a...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess B...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize"Everything about this novel rings true. . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique."―The GuardianIn an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons. She reads while...

The electrifying new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Stephen Hunter takes you deep inside the mind of the most notorious serial killer of all time: Jack the Ripper.In the fall of 1888, Jack the Ripper slaughtered five ...

A dramatic story of WWII espionage, betrayal, and loyalty, by the #1 bestselling author of Life After LifeIn 1940, eighteen-year old Juliet Armstrong is reluctantly recruited into the world of espionage. Sent to an obscure department ...

National BestsellerFrom the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold It 'Til It Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative Southern-fried comedy about four UC Berkeley students who stage a dramatic protest during...

A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive."The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and ...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERA new American classic from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead and HousekeepingMarilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns to the...

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...

A true triumph of voice and storytelling, The Book of Night Women rings with both profound authenticity and a distinctly contemporary energy. It is the story of Lilith, born into slavery on a Jamaican sugar plantation at the end of th...

A decade after a devastating fire that destroyed her friend's home of Rockhaven and claimed her own alcoholic mother's life, Roberta continues to be haunted by the tragedy and struggles to come to terms with the dark secret she posses...

When a whirlwind affair with a gorgeous financier leads to a hasty marriage, Kate Colson soon discovers that her new husband is not what he seems after she arrives at his family's estate and begins seing disturbing visions, which caus...

Instant New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence "The Guest Book is monumental in a way that few novels dare attempt." --The Washington Post The thought-provoking new novel by New York...

Set agains the background of the Civil Rights movement and based on true events, this novel tells the story of Reesa McMahon, who loses both her best friend and her brother to Ku Klux Klan violence and who must struggle to overcome ha...

From New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende, "a magical and sweeping" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) love story and multigenerational epic that stretches from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the...

Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession, the debut of a precociously assured and provocative young literary voice. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into ...

An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of ...