Literary

Bridget Jones: The Singleton Years

by Helen Fielding

A dazzling urban satire of modern relationships? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? Two diaries, two enduring best-sellers,...

In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods

by Matt Bell

In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods tells the story of a newly married couple who take up a lonely existence in the title's mythical location. In this blank and barren plot far from the...

Instructions for a Heatwave

by Maggie O'farrell

Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O’Farrell’s beguiling novels—After You’d Gone, winner of a Betty Trask Award; The Distance Between Us, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award; The...

Eleven Days

by Lea Carpenter

Powerful and lean, Eleven Days is an astonishing first novel full of suspense that addresses our most basic questions about war as it tells of the love between a mother and her son. When the story opens on May...

Courting Greta

by Ramsey Hootman

Samuel is a computer genius who’s just left his high-paying job to teach programing to high schoolers. Greta is the tough, sarcastic gym coach who no kid dares to mock—at least within hearing. He’s...

Children of the Jacaranda Tree

by Sahar Delijani

A COUNTRY DIVIDED BY REVOLUTION A PEOPLE UNITED BY LOVE

Neda is born in Tehrans Evin Prison, where her mother is allowed to nurse her for a few months before the arms of a guard appear at the cell door one day...

Frolic of His Own

by William Gaddis

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Second Skin

by John Hawkes

"John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should be more widely read."-Saul BellowSkipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin, interweaves...

Cinnamon

by Samar Yazbek & Emily Danby

A fast-paced novel, coupling intense drama with insight, Cinnamon portrays the lives of Damascene women, rich and poor.

The Dark Road: A Novel

by Ma Jian & Flora Drew

From one of world literature's most courageous voices, a novel about the human cost of China's one-child policy through the lens of one rural family on the run from its reach

Far away from the Chinese economic...

The Engagements

by J. Courtney Sullivan

From the New York Times best-selling author of Commencement and Maine comes a gorgeous, sprawling novel about marriage—about those who marry in a white heat of passion, those who marry for partnership and...

The Execution of Noa P. Singleton: A Novel

by Elizabeth L. Silver

An unforgettable and unpredictable debut novel of guilt, punishment, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive

      Noa P. Singleton never spoke a word in her own defense throughout a brief trial...

Electrico W

by Herve Le Tellier

By the celebrated Oulipo writer, this brilliant and witty novel set in Lisbon explores love, relationships, and the strange balance between literature and life.

Journalist, writer, and translator Vincent Balmer...

Conquistador of the Useless

by Joshua Isard

Sex is fun, but a baby? Why climb a mountain? What’s your favorite band? A Generation X+Y novel of answers.

The Why of Things

by Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop

Since the tragic loss of her seventeen-year-old daughter less than a year ago, Joan Jacobs has been working hard to keep her tight-knit family from coming apart. But it seems as if she and Anders, her husband,...

The Silver Star

by Jeannette Walls

The Silver Star, Jeannette Walls has written a heartbreaking and redemptive novel about an intrepid girl who challenges the injustice of the adult worlda triumph of imagination and storytelling.

It is 1970 in...

Baskerville: The Mysterious Tale of Sherlock's Return

by John O'Connell

Dartmoor, 1900. Two friends are roaming the moors: Arthur Conan Doyle – the most famous novelist of his age – who has recently killed off his most popular creation, Sherlock Holmes; and Bertram Fletcher...

Crazy Rich Asians

by Kevin Kwan

Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes...

Turtle Diary

by Russell Hoban & Ed Park

Life in a city can be atomizing, isolating. And it certainly is for William G. and Neaera H., the strangers at the center of Russell Hoban’s surprisingly heartwarming novel Turtle Diary. William, a clerk at...

The Enchantment of Lily Dahl

by Siri Hustvedt

Lily Dahl, the young heroine of Siri Hustvedt’s riveting novel, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, is a strong, beautiful and daring nineteen year old girl poised on the brink of womanhood. In the small town of...