Fiction - Literary

"The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one." -Miss Ley, Mrs. Craddock (1902) by Somerset Maugham Mrs. Cr...

“Brilliant. . . . A shimmering meditation on the ebb and flow of love.”  — New York Times “In her elegant, sophisticated prose, Dillard tells a t...

“A mesmerizing novel about a family in crisis.”— Miami Herald A disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human ...

One of the New York Times' 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years "A towering landmark of postwar Realism…A sustained w...

A magnificently stark book—within the smallness of one poor, muddled, provincial life, Natalia Ginzburg finds enormous pain and loss An almost un...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD"What is the cost of a mother's desire?...Emily Itami explores this question with wit and poignancy." --...

A modern classic, this edition has been restored by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III and features a personal foreword by Fitzgerald's great-g...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKWinner of the 2022 BookTube Silver Medal in Fiction * Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "A wise novel of love a...

"A classic for a reason. My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again." -- Greta GerwigThe authorized, orig...

Max Wendt has a family . . . but it's sliding sideways, and he has been complicit in its faltering. His wife and his daughter have pulled away fr...

A son’s collapse pulls his two mothers together and apart in a novel that probes the limits of love, hope, and forgiveness In Norway, thousands o...

Meet the Manoukians—a dysfunctional Armenian family—and the fraying rope that binds them. Set in Queens, New York, while a father deteriorates fr...