Random House Publishing Group / Literary

The Age of Miracles

by Karen Thompson Walker

With a voice as distinctive and original as that of The Lovely Bones, and for the fans of the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood, Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles is a luminous, haunting, and...

The Speed of Light

by Elizabeth Rosner

Every family has a story. Every story, eventually, must be told.

For most of their lives, Julian Perel and his sister, Paula, lived in a house cast in silence, witnesses to a father struggling with a devastating...

Los santos de Agua Mansa, California

by Alex Espinoza & Liliana Valenzuela

Agua Mansa, un pueblo en gran parte hispano más allá de la periferia de Los Ángeles, es el hogar de Perla Portillo y su Botánica Oshún, adonde acude la gente en busca de amuletos, hierbas y velas. Más...

The Outside of August

by Joanna Hershon

Critics and readers alike hailed Swimming, Joanna Hershon's fiction debut. "Compelling," said the Washington Post, while Vanity Fair called Swimming a "page-turning premiere." Now Hershon brings us her anticipated...

Becoming Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette #1

by Juliet Grey

This enthralling confection of a novel, the first in a new trilogy, follows the transformation of a coddled Austrian archduchess into the reckless, powerful, beautiful queen Marie Antoinette. Why must it be...

Next to Love

by Ellen Feldman

“War . . . next to love, has most captured the world’s imagination.”—Eric Partridge, British lexicographer, 1914 A story of love, war, loss, and the scars they leave, Next to Love follows the lives of...

Northwest Corner

by John Burnham Schwartz

Madame Bovary's Daughter

by Linda Urbach

Picking up after the shattering end of Gustave Flaubert’s classic, Madame Bovary, this beguiling novel imagines an answer to the question Whatever happened to Emma Bovary’s orphaned daughter? One year after...

The Definition of Wind

by Ellen Block

Independence: the freedom to be yourself—or a day for fireworks, depending on your point of view

Summer has come to Chapel Isle, the quaintly quirky island that Abigail Harker has called home since she...

The Language of Light

by Meg Waite Clayton

FINALIST FOR THE BELLWETHER PRIZE

Nelly Grace is starting over. With her two young sons, Nelly has fled to the simple stone house built by her great-grandfather in the moneyed horse country of Maryland in order...