Literary

Hope: A Tragedy: A Novel

by Shalom Auslander

The bestselling debut novel from Shalom Auslander, the darkly comic author of Foreskin's Lament and Beware of God.

Hope: A Tragedy is a hilarious and haunting examination of the burdens and abuse of history,...

The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland

by Frank Delaney

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Frank Delaney's The Last Storyteller.

In the summer of 1943, as World War II rages on, Ben MacCarthy is haunted by the disappearance of his wife, the actress Venetia...

Man in White

by Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash. The Apostle Paul. Passionate. Controversial. Fiery. Destructive. Redeemed.

Two legendary men. Two thousand years apart-yet remarkably similar.

Both struggled with a "thorn in the flesh." And both...

The Satanic Verses: A Novel

by Salman Rushdie

One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvanizing book. Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the...

Shame: A Novel

by Salman Rushdie

The novel that set the stage for his modern classic, The Satanic Verses, Shame is Salman Rushdie’s phantasmagoric epic of an unnamed country that is “not quite Pakistan.” In this dazzling tale of an ongoing...

The Rachel Papers

by Martin Amis

In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of the most noxiously believable -- and curiously touching -- adolescents ever to sniffle and lust his way through...

In the Skin of a Lion

by Michael Ondaatje

Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire...

A Regular Guy

by Mona Simpson

Anywhere But Here and The Lost Father have established Mona Simpson as one of our most accomplished writers. In her new novel--the portrait of a legendary, quintessentially American entrepreneur trapped by the...

The Dog Who Came in from the Cold

Corduroy Mansions #2

by Alexander Mccall Smith

CORDUROY MANSIONS - Book 2

In the Corduroy Mansions series of novels, set in London’s hip Pimlico neighborhood, we meet a cast of charming eccentrics, including perhaps the world’s most clever terrier, who...

Tin House Special 50th Issue: Beauty

by Win McCormack, Rob Spillman & Lee Montgomery

Tin House is a beautifully designed periodical that features the best writers of our time alongside a new generation of talent poised to become the most important voices of the future. For the special 50th issue,...

The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti

by Stephen Jones

"Suicide notes from a father who can’t quite manage to kill himself, the nine final hours of customer support at a help desk for a video game no one has played in almost a decade, train-length, time-traveling,...

Zipper Mouth

by Laurie Weeks

The long-awaited debut novel destined to join the ranks of On the Road and Naked Lunch.

Mrs. Bridge

by Evan Connell & Salter

In Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, a consummate storyteller, artfully crafts a portrait using the finest of details in everyday events and confrontations. With a surgeon’s skill, Connell cuts away the middle-class...

Wrestling With Gabriel

by David Lynn

The story is told from the point of view of Baltimore reporter, Jason Currant. He is a recently divorced, Viet Nam veteran. His ex-brother in law has been accused of rape in a small Iowa town and he is asked...

Malcolm & Jack (And Other Famous American Criminals)

by Ted Pelton

"An audaciously entertaining and insightful creation myth about the genesis of the late 20th century's counterculture and political liberation movements in the so-called birth of the cool in New York City jazz...

Hooked

by John Franc

In the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov and Henry Miller, John Franc's masterful novel explores sexual obsession, as a group of male friends delve further and further into the world of brothels under the gleaming...

Damascus

by Joshua Mohr

An ambitious, uplifting, and vital new work that underlines Mohr's relevance as a major American voice.

The Tracey Fragments

by Maureen Medved

Naked under a tattered shower curtain, 15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz has been sitting on a bus for two days, telling her story and looking for her brother, Sonny, who thinks he’s a dog. She confesses her hopes...

Ovenman: A Novel

by Jeff Parker & Sam Lipsyte

Skateboarder, punk rocker, kitchen slave, and general ne’er-do-well with a slightly tarnished heart of gold, When Thinfinger tries mightily to survive a seemingly endless round of troubles in small-town Florida....

A Dream in Polar Fog

by Yuri Rytkheu & Yazhbin Chavasse

An ethnographic chronicle of the Chukchi people. A politically and emotionally charged Arctic adventure story.