From the INew York Times bestselling author of IMe Emma comes one woman's unforgettable story about what it is to lose control as the world watches, and to figure out what went so very wrong.  P PWhile breaking the hottest news sto...

Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families -- one English, one Bengali -- as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces event...

This breakout novel from the author of The Jump-Off Creek tells the heartwarming story of a determined young woman with a gift for "gentling" wild horses.

A quintessentially American epic, Sunnyside stars the one and only Little Tramp, Charlie Chaplin.  It's 1916 and, after an extraordinary mass delusion where Chaplin is spotted in more than eight hundred places simultaneously, his fam...

"Wool is frightening, fascinating, and addictive. In one word, terrific." — Kathy Reichs, author of the Temperance Brennan and Tory Brennan series In a ruined and toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant silo undergr...

From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comesan exquisite love story about Queenie Hennessy, the remarkable friend who inspired Harold's cross-country journey.A runaway international bestseller, The Unlike...

A new edition of Virgil's epic work from the award-winning translator of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey is presented in modern language and endeavors to retain the original work's humanity as well as its influential blend of poetry and ver...

'When I picked up this 1949 reprint I offered it the tenderly indulgent regard I would any period piece. As it turned out, the book survives perfectly well on its own merit-although it nearly finished me. If you like a novel that expe...

The bestselling and award-winning author of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life, and Aloft returns with his most ambitious novel yet-a spellbinding story of how love and war echo through an entire lifetime. June Han was orphaned as a girl...

From the prizewinning ''master of atmosphere'' (The Boston Globe) and the creator of the best-selling Kurt Wallander mystery series comes the surprising and affecting story of a man well past middle age who suddenly finds himself on t...

Jerusalem in 1945 is a city in flux: refugees from the war in Europe fill the streets and cafes, the British colonial mandate is losing steam, and tensions are on the rise between the Arab and Jewish populations. Arriving onto this co...

It is the end of the 19th century and Victoria's reign is coming to an end. It is also the end of an era, but no one knows. The landed gentry, so soon to lose their power, are the last to suspect. Bertha Ley is mistress of Court Ley,...

As a teenager, Mose Sharp goes into vaudeville after the death of his sister. He takes up with Rocky Carter, and as Carter and Sharp they find fame and fortune as comedians on the circuit. McCracken's novel explores not only the compl...

McGahern...has written something far beyond the funny adventures of urban newcomers confronting and settling into a picturesque rural community. Essentially Ruttledge and Kate are his means to explore and evoke a passing Ireland in a ...

Set in a trendy New York neighborhood, THE GOOD LIFE resumes the story started in Jay McInerney's earlier BRIGHTNESS FALLS (1992). Corrine and Russell Calloway are undergoing a separation while also coping with the trauma of the attac...

"IN ITS POETIC SPLENDOR AND MORAL SERIOUSNESS, THE SPORT OF KINGS BEARS THE TRACES OF FAULKNER, MORRISON, AND MCCARTHY. . . . IT IS A CONTEMPORARY MASTERPIECE."―SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLEHailed by The New Yorker for its "...

From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Ann Packer, a “tour de force family drama” (Elle) that explores the secrets and desires, the remnant wounds and saving graces of one California family, over the course of five ...

The new collection from the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children, featuring stories focusing on Perrotta's familiar suburban nuclear familiesTom Perrotta's first book, Bad Haircut, consisted of link...

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 ...

Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders into the woods onto private property near his North Carolina home, discovers a grove of marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. A...

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...

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.