Literary

Maya's Notebook

by Isabel Allende

Neglected by her parents, nineteen-year-old Maya Nidal has grown up in a rambling old house in Berkeley with her grandparents. Her grandmother Nidia, affectionately known as Nini, is a force of nature—willful...

The Slippage

by Ben Greenman

William and Louisa Day are a suburban husband and wife, with no children, confronting the question of what their relationship means to them and if and how it will survive. One day, after weeks of bizarre behavior—disappearing...

The King of Good Intentions

by John Andrew Fredrick

Set in Los Angeles in the early 90s, the novel chronicles the early days of an indie band as they meet, practice, make their first record, and get their first break/big gig. It’s also the story of the the...

Was: a novel

by Geoff Ryman

Dotty, old and maybe crazy, sees The Wizard of Oz on TV, and recognizes it as her own story.

Body and Bread

by Nan Cuba

A bereft anthropologist assembles the artifacts of her family’s history and her brother’s suicide, hoping to discover herself within them.

Beautiful Fools: The Last Affair of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald

by R. Clifton Spargo

In this evocative and meticulously detailed novel about the last romance of one of America's greatest literary couples, R. Clifton Spargo crafts an exhilarating portrait of the passionate yet tragically dysfunctional...

Virgin Soul: A Novel

by Judy Juanita

From a lauded poet and playwright, a novel of a young woman's life with the Black Panthers in 1960s San Francisco

At first glance, Geniece's story sounds like that of a typical young woman: she goes to college,...

The Honey Thief: Fiction

by Najaf Mazari & Robert Hillman

This enchanting novel of interwoven legends burns with both gentle intelligence and human warmth

This extraordinary book, derived from the long oral tradition of storytelling in Afghanistan, presents a mesmerizing...

Gut Symmetries

by Jeanette Winterson

The highwire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and any accurate Grand Unified Theory (GUT) must encompass desire...

The PowerBook

by Jeanette Winterson

Winterson enfolds her seventh novel within the world of computers, and transforms the signal development of our time into a wholly human medium. The story is simple: an e-mail writer called Ali will compose...

Written on the Body

by Jeanette Winterson

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the...

Mo Said She Was Quirky

by James Kelman

James Kelman, the Man Booker Prize–winning author of How Late It Was, How Late, tells the story of Helen—a sister, a mother, a daughter—a very ordinary young woman. Her boyfriend said she was quirky but...

Fresh Fields

by Peter Kocan

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

The Lost Sailors

by Jean-Claude Izzo

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

A Sun for the Dying

by Jean-Claude Izzo & Howard Curtis

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

Snapper

by Brian Kimberling

A great, hilarious new voice in fiction: the poignant, all-too-human recollections of an affable bird researcher in the Indiana backwater as he goes through a disastrous yet heartening love affair with the place...

Amity & Sorrow: A Novel

by Peggy Riley

A mother and her daughters drive for days without sleep until they crash their car in rural Oklahoma. The mother, Amaranth, is desperate to get away from someone she's convinced will follow them wherever they...

Where You Can Find Me

by Sheri Joseph

A searing exploration of a family’s struggle to heal in the wake of unthinkable tragedy

A week after his eleventh birthday, Caleb Vincent vanishes with hardly a trace. After a three-year search, he is found living...

The Coldest Night

by Robert Olmstead

Henry Childs is just seventeen when he falls into a love affair so intense it nearly destroys him. To escape the wrath of the young girl's father, Henry joins the Marines, arriving in Korea on the eve of the...

Literary Pasadena: The Fiction Edition

by Patricia O'Sullivan, Jervey Tervalon & Michelle Huneven

Short stories, essays and poems from the talented writers who live in the shadow of the San Gabriel Mountains.