A spectacularly riveting novel based on a real life crime by a con man who preyed on widows: "a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year" (Stephen King)—"think In Col...

Bob Dollar is a reluctant land swindler. When the 25-year-old protagonist in Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole signs on as a location scout for Global Pork Rind, an industrial hog farming corporation, he has no idea what kind of...

Daniel Quinn, well known for Ishmael – a life-changing book for readers the world over – once again turns the tables and creates an otherworld that is very like our own, yet fascinating beyond words. Imagine that Nazi Germany was ...

A Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • NPR • Vogue • Elle • Real Simple • InStyle • Good Housekeeping...

In 1971, Dominick Pindle is 16 years old, and his family life is chaotic, to say the least. His father is a drunk who has impregnated a local divorcTe, and his mother is also pregnant, but not by his father. When Dominick is forced to...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTLook for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader's Circle for author chats and more.The author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fa...

Originally published in 1964 and hailed by critics including Cynthia Ozick and Elie Wiesel, Other People's Houses is Lore Segal's internationally acclaimed semi-autobiographical first novel. Nine months after Hitler takes Austria, a ...

"A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance."HARPER'SA TOWN LIKE ALICE tells of a young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and of an Australian soldier,...

In the rural hamlet of Lark Rise and the market town of Candleford, life is marked by the pattern of the seasons and the customs of the countryside. Seen through the eyes of a young girl, Laura - based on author Flora Thompson herself...

9 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list!'A novel that attests once again to Ms. Tyler's enormous gifts as a writer.'--THE NEW YORK TIMES 'Captivating . . . . Compelling . . . . There is a kind of magic at work in this novel.'--T...

The final installment of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach TrilogyIt is winter in Area X. A new team embarks across the border on a mission to find a member of a previous expedition who may have been left behind. As they press deeper i...

Forbidden Places is Penny Vincenzi's 8th riveting family drama and is about love and marriage, families and secrets, and about wartime and what it does to every accepted social value.

Set in the haunting landscape of eastern Australia, this is a stunningly accomplished debut novel about the inescapable past: the ineffable ties of family, the wars fought by fathers and sons, and what goes unsaid.After the departure ...

In this explosive debut novel, Neil Abramson explores the beauty and redemptive power of human-animal relationships and the true meaning of communication in all of its diverse forms.As a veterinarian, Helena was required to choose whe...

In his first new fiction since winning the National Book Award for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, best-selling author Sherman Alexie delivers a virtuoso collection of tender, witty, and soulful stories that expertly ...

From the internationally best-selling author of I'm Not Scared comes a dizzying and compulsively readable novel set in a moribund town in industrial Italy, where a father and son contend with a hostile world and their own inner demons...

SIX TALES OF LOVE• When Araki finds an old fax machine, he starts corresponding with the only girl who can receive his letters. But there’s a twist!• A brother’s dying request: deliver a videotape to his girlfr...

Six months after losing his wife and two young sons, Vermont Professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. One night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost film by silent comedian Hecto...

COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD WINNERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE"A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making."—Kazuo Ish...

    What does one sensitive but ordinary woman makes of a publicly disgraced woman like Fuller, and how do women make use of what they learn from other women?  Miss Fuller is a historical novel that also poses timeless questions a...

In 1920s London, Cecilia Summers, a recent widow, and her sister-in-law, Emmeline, face difficulties in their relationships with, respectively, the kind, but unemotional Julian Tower, and Mark Linkwater, who dictates the terms of his ...

A landmark of twentieth-century literature. Paul Bowles examines the ways in which Americans' incomprehension of alien cultures leads to the ultimate destruction of those cultures. A story about three American travelers adrift in the...

Dr. Tobin Voss is accused of the murder of a biker who may have raped his daughter, Maisey. Tobin’s friend, lawyer Billy Bob Holland, wades into the case and soon finds himself in a great deal of trouble, as Missoula County&rsqu...

Ms. Beatrice Hempel, teacher of seventh grade, is new—new to teaching, new to the school, newly engaged, and newly bereft of her idiosyncratic father. Grappling awkwardly with her newness, she struggles to figure out what is expecte...

New York-based photographer Cat Jordan is ready to begin a new life with her successful, button-down boyfriend. But when she learns that she's inherited the estate of a complete stranger—a woman named Isabelle de Florian—her life ...

In her latest international adventure with her journalist aunt, nineteen-year-old Maddie finds herself on a beautiful South Pacific island, but when she and Aunt Sid learn that this third-world country is literally dying of AIDS, a se...

A riveting spy thriller, Jericho's Fall is the spellbinding story of a young woman running for her life from shadowy government forces. In a secluded mountain retreat, Jericho Ainsley, former CIA director and former secretary of defe...

IAnnie A loving mother and wife, Annie O'Neill was the heart of the small community of Kiss River. But her generous nature hid a darker side that remained secret for years after her tragic death. PIb/ILacey When Lacey O'Neill final...

"Chiaverini has once again written an intense and beautiful book-so much so that readers will almost hear the hollow echo of the fife and drum as they immerse themselves in every compelling page . . . Truly unforgettable." ...

From the author of The Tattoo Artist ("Beautifully written"—Alice Sebold; "Boldly conceived"—The New York Times Book Review), a new novel—taut, moving, accomplished—set in a fraught, post-9/11 New York... a...