August Shroeder, a burned-out teacher, has been sober since his nineteen-year-old son died. Every year he's spent the summer on the road, but making it to Yellowstone this year means everything. The plan had been to travel there with ...

A New York Review Books OriginalWinner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for TranslationTwo women, both artists, no longer young, live and work on opposite sides of a large apartment building, their studios connected by an attic passagew...

Like the clear, brilliantly blue sky that hangs over the small island on which it’s set, The Summer Book is intense, fleeting, and perfect. Tove Jansson’s slender novel is a season told in episodes in the lives a six-year-...

An Esquire "Best Book of Spring 2022" A San Francisco Chronicle "Most Anticipated Novel of 2022" A Literary Hub "Most Anticipated Book of 2022" From “an important writer in every sense” (David Fo...

A brilliant literary debut, inspired by a true story: the final days of a young woman accused of murder in Iceland in 1829.Set against Iceland's stark landscape, Hannah Kent brings to vivid life the story of Agnes, who, charged with t...

A charming ne'er-do-well returns to his haunted Irish hometown to uncover the truth about his mother in this "supernaturally skilled debut" (Vanity Fair) and turns the town—and his life—upside down.Having been abandoned ...

The first novel about present-day North Korea to be published in the West. A moving and true-to-life tale of courage in the face of oppression and exile.Hyejin Kim’s Jia follows the adventures of an orphaned young woman, Jia, wh...

The Big Chill meets The Group in Deborah Copaken Kogan's wry, lively, and irresistible new novel about a once-close circle of friends at their twentieth college reunion. Clover, Addison, Mia, and Jane were roommates at Harvard until t...

Rachel Kushner has written an astonishingly wise, ambitious, and riveting novel set in the American community in Cuba during the years leading up to Castro's revolution -- a place that was a paradise for a time and for a few. The firs...

A visit from his daughter and her fiancee from Oregon prompts Jerry Battle to reassess his life, his family relationships, his professional success, and his disengagement from those around him, as he reflects on his professional succe...

The "superb" New York Times bestselling author delivers a sweeping epic set during the early days of the Civil War.In 1853, Carolyn Vinton is left alone and pregnant after her fiance, abolitionist doctor William Saylor, disa...

"If you enjoyed Sarah's Key and Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale, then this wonderful book by Ann Mah is for you."   -- Tatiana de RosnaySweetbitter meets The Nightingale in this page-turning novel about a woman who retu...

National Book Award FinalistA New York Times Editors’ ChoiceA Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of 2016Named a Best Book of 2016 by: Esquire,Time magazine, Vulture.com Longlisted for the FT/Oppenheimer Emerging Voices Award�...

The classical novel (and basis for the acclaimed film) now in a new editionIntroduction by Kevin BakerThe Natural, Bernard Malamud's first novel, published in 1952, is also the first—and some would say still the best—novel ever wr...

'This is a literary gem . . . one of the best books I've read this year.'-Ellen HartOccasionally a debut novel comes along that rocks its readers back on their heels. Red Audrey and the Roping is one of that rare and remarkable breed....

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER • NPR • TIME • THE WASHINGTON POST• ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • AND MORE! “The perfect novel. . . . Freshly mysterious.&...

"Extraordinary...beautifully precise...[an] earnestly ambitious debut."—The New York Times Book Review "A wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book."—NPR"[A] descendent of the Dickensian 'social n...

Barlowe, a single, African American in his forties, shares a ramshackle house with his nephew in an Atlanta neighborhood, the old Fourth Ward, known both as the center of the civil rights movement and for its main street, Auburn Avenu...

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017"A wonderful book. [Jon McGregor]'s an extraordinary writer, unlike anyone else." —Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water Midwinter in an English village. ...

A new collection of stories by one of America's most beloved and admired short-story writers, her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America ("Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial . . . Will stand by itself as one of our funni...

The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store.  Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha...

In the 'brilliant novel' (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man—an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great rive...

Published in hardcover to astounding acclaim, The Refugees is the remarkable debut collection of short stories by Viet Thanh Nguyen, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Sympathizer. In these powerful storie...

A haunting novel of loss, love, and human connection from the author of Astrid & Veronika Linda Olsson's first novel, Astrid & Veronika, introduced readers to her gorgeous prose, and her extraordinary understanding of human relationsh...

Rivals anything Chaim Potok has ever produced. It is a book written with passion about passion. You're not likely to read anything better this year.'THE DETROIT NEWSTwenty years have passed for Asher Lev. He is a world-renowned artist...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The Seattle Times • The Globe and Mail • Kirkus Reviews • Daily Mail • The Vancouver SunFor fans of Jennifer Egan, Dave Eggers, and Donna Tartt—the brilliant, intricately wo...

David Rhodes's long-awaited new novel turns an unblinking eye on an array of eccentric characters and situations. The setting is Words, Wisconsin, an anonymous town of only a few hundred people. But under its sleepy surface, life rage...

n this sweeping epic, true love transcends the brutality of war. Octavio Ribeiro loves truth, beauty, literature, and above all else, his wife Salome. As a student in Chile, he courted her with the words of great poets, and she fell i...

Conrad Farrell does not come from a military family, but as a classics major at Williams College, he has encountered the powerful appeal of the Marine Corps ethic: Semper Fidelis comes straight from Sparta, a society where every citiz...

David Pepin has been in love with his wife, Alice, since the moment they met in a university seminar on Alfred Hitchcock. After thirteen years of marriage, he still can't imagine a remotely happy life without her—yet he obsessively ...