Literary

Secrets She Left Behind

by Diane Chamberlain

One afternoon, single mother Sara Weston says that she's going to the store—and never returns. In her absence, she leaves her teenage son alone with his damaged past and a legacy of secrets.

Keith Weston nearly...

The Last Summer of the Camperdowns: A Novel

by Elizabeth Kelly

Set on Cape Cod during one tumultuous summer, Elizabeth Kelly's gothic family story will delight readers of The Family Fang and The Giant's House.The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, from the best-selling author...

The Redemption of Oscar Wolf

by James Bartleman

A saga of mid-20th-century Native life in Canada and abroad, The Redemption of Oscar Wolf is a novel of resonating ideas and unforgettable characters with a fascinating anti-hero protagonist who sets out on...

The Faint-Hearted Bolshevik

by Lorenzo Silva, Nick Caistor & Isabelle Kaufeler

Short-listed for one of the most prestigious literary awards in Spain before being made into a successful film, The Faint-hearted Bolshevik has, over the fifteen years since its first edition, become an undisputed...

The Emperor's Tomb

by Joseph Roth & Michael Hofmann

An intensely beautiful book about one of history's bleakest periodsThe Emperor's Tomb - the last novel Joseph Roth wrote - is a haunting elegy to the vanished world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and a magically...

The More You Ignore Me

by Travis Nichols

A habitual interloper crashes a wedding blog in this darkly comic novel of Internet obsession, unrequited love, and isolation.

And the Mountains Echoed

by Khaled Hosseini

An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else.

Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel...

We Need New Names: A Novel

by Noviolet Bulawayo

Darling is only 10 years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. In Zimbabwe, Darling and her friends steal guavas, try to get the baby out of young Chipo's belly, and grasp at memories of...

The Universe Versus Alex Woods

by Gavin Extence

A rare meteorite struck Alex Woods when he was ten years old, leaving scars and marking him for an extraordinary future. The son of a fortune teller, bookish, and an easy target for bullies, Alex hasn't had...

Voluptua

by Jason Martin

Voluptua is the story of Ellen, a young professor who gives up a promising university career to immerse herself in the mysterious world of Amazonian shamanism. Participating in ayahuasca ceremonies, Ellen spends...

Norwegian by Night

by Derek Miller

A profoundly moving, deliciously suspenseful novel about an American grandfather and a newly orphaned boy racing across the Norwegian wilderness, fleeing demons both real and imagined.

Golden Boy: A Novel

by Abigail Tarttelin

The Walker family is good at keeping secrets from the world. They are even better at keeping them from each other.

Max Walker is a golden boy. Attractive, intelligent, and athletic, he’s the perfect son, the...

My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain

by Patricio Pron & Mara Faye Lethem

The anticipated American debut of one of Granta’s Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists: a daring, deeply affecting novel about the secrets buried in the past of an Argentine family.

A young writer, living...

Restraint: A Novel

by Sherry Sonnett

A fast-paced novel hailed by Entertainment Weekly as a "well-crafted, suspenseful thriller [which] offers sex, erotica, and more sex."

In Sherry Sonnett’s compelling first novel, Vega Johnson, a successful...

King of Cuba

by Cristina Garcia

Vivid and alive, Cristina García’s new novel transports readers to Cuba, to Miami, and into the heads of two larger-than-life men—a fictionalized Fidel Castro and an octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with...

The One Facing Us

by Ronit Matalon & Marsha Weinstein

A richly colored narrative of a flamboyant Jewish-Egyptian family and its dispersal across three continents, from Israel's most original new novelist.

Esther, seventeen years old, wild and rebellious, is sent...

The Heir

by Henry Luk

Hong Kong-a marriage of East and West, where the old blends with the new, where ancient Chinese culture and civilization linger below towering structures of steel and concrete. Beth O'Connor, former US Olympian...

Godspeed

by Lynn Breedlove

Jim is a speed-freak bike messenger whose devotion to her drug habit rivals the intensity of her adoration for Ally, her brilliant stripper girlfriend. When she's forced to choose between drugs and the girl,...

Bliss

by Ronit Matalon & Jessica Cohen

Set in Tel Aviv and Paris, a powerful story of love, friendship, regret, and war, as current as today's headlines

Ronit Matalon's fiction has been praised as "haunting," "inventive," "refreshingly daring." Now...

The Translation of Dr Apelles

by David Treuer

A daring new novel that "may be David Treuer's best book" (Charles Baxter)

He realizes he has discovered a document that could change his life forever.

Dr Apelles, Native American translator of Native American...