Literary Fiction

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable.

After Tova Sullivan’s husband died, she began working the night shift at the Sowell Bay Aquarium, mopping floors and tidying up....

1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing.

Deep down here by the dark water lived old Gollum, a small slimy creature. I don’t know where he came from, nor who or what he was. He was Gollum—as dark as darkness, except for two big round pale eyes in his thin face.

Combining magic, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of discovery, this is a modern classic narrated by the inimitable Jeremy Irons.

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....

In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake.

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality.

Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism....

The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier....

This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families....

Daisy is a girl coming of age in LA in the late '60s, sneaking into clubs, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock 'n' roll she loves most. By the time she's 20, her voice is getting noticed....

A great American classic with many invaluable teaching moments. It continues to touch hearts and minds.

For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books....

A tale of sorrow, a tale of survival, a tale of one man's search for meaning in his universe, and how that search, and the indomitable will that drove it, gave birth to a legend....

A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time....

From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.

Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.

A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR), A Little Life is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century.

More than 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women converge....

It seems like any other day. You wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and head out. But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. The contents of this mysterious box tells you the exact number of years you will live.

George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is an intimate part of our contemporary culture....

Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she’s been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city.

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has....

Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins....

In self-imposed exile after returning home from the war in Vietnam, David Larson meanders into the barren town of Slut's Hole, Wyoming, where a local widow takes him under her wing. After making a sort of home among the town's hardscrabble locals, David grudgingly adopts a young Vietnamese girl abandoned along the highway. This sets in motion a set of tragic turns as Western mythos and frontier justice clash against the tides of a changing world.

Joan’s life is a series of unexpected events: she never thought she would live in California, nor did she expect her first marriage to implode—especially as quickly and spectacularly as it did. She definitely did not expect to fall in love with an older, wealthy American man and become his fourth wife and mother to his youngest children. Joan and her children grow older, and one day she makes a drastic change: she opens the Satisfaction Café, a place where customers can find connection through conversation.

A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room are three giants: Alba, Stanley, and Drew. If they talk, the spaceship keeps moving; if they are silent, they resume growing. Talk they must, and as they do, Alba, Stanley, and Drew recover their shared memory of what has been done to their former selves—experiences of imprisonment, violence, and disempowerment.

November, 1967, Iceland. Fourteen-year-old Marsi has a secret penpal – a boy who lives on the other side of the country – but she has been writing to him in her older sister's name. Now she is excited to meet him for the first time. But when the date arrives, Marsi is prevented from going, and during the night her sister Stína goes missing – her bloodstained anorak later found at the place where Marsibil and her penpal had agreed to meet. November, 1977. Stína's disappearance remains unsolved.

This is a book sure to capture the attention and imagination of a wide audience, including the legions of Steinbeck fans, those who love the legendary adventures of King Arthur and his Knights, as well as the countless fans of science fiction and fantasy literature, and everyone who loves Paolini's bestselling novels.

She writes until she falls asleep, though she weeps, she knows her secrets the ocean will keep for the writer sitting alone in the deep.

Will Alexander is the sheriff in a small town in southern Appalachia, and he knows that the local thug Holland Winchester has been murdered. The only thing is the sheriff can find neither the body nor someone to attest to the killing. Simply, almost elementally told through the voices of the sheriff, a local farmer, his beautiful wife, their son, and the sheriff's deputy, One Foot in Eden signals the bellwether arrival of Ron Rash, one the most mature and distinctive voices in Southern literature.

Here, she comes, watch out for her glow, she glitters with magic as her beautiful tresses flow, but one thing you should know, her magic comes with a price too high for anyone to go.

Yes, I'm sneaky, they call me The Sneak, but they don't realize I just want to breathe and feel free, I may be sneaky, but I just want to feel free, that's the true sneak in me.

Bud thought he could outgrow Camp Creek. He thought adulthood meant distance, that silence was safety, and that the house on the lake was just another parcel to be sold. But when he returns with his sons—divorced, dislocated, and morally exhausted—he finds that the past hasn’t collapsed under the weight of time. It’s calcified. And it’s waiting. At the heart of this novel is a myth—a Dragon, invented by a boy who didn’t know how to process abandonment. That boy is now a father, and the Dragon has grown with him. The Prince of Camp Creek is not a tale of redemption. It is a ...

Her worn boots crunched on shards of broken glass and twisted metal, remnants of a world that had once teemed with life. Buildings, skeletal remains of their former glory, clawed at the sky, their empty windows like hollowed-out eyes staring blankly at the desolate landscape. She moved with the slow, deliberate grace of someone who had learned to conserve energy, every movement measured, every step calculated. Survival was a delicate dance, a precarious balance between hope and despair. Elara clutched the worn leather satchel close to her chest, its contents her lifeline: a handful of dried...

Part 3: Hope Ain’t Lost is a Vampire Marriage of Convenience Romance Tayla Brown has survived everything life threw at her—until her best friend went missing with barely a trace. In a small Mississippi town of Selwood, haunted by secrets and struggle, a mysterious stranger with eyes like shadows offers her answers… but it comes with a cost. Trapped in a gothic mansion and a marriage she never asked for, Tayla must decide how far she’s willing to go to uncover the truth. But in the dark, where monsters are beautiful, even love might have fangs. An entertaining & Cozy Paranormal ...

Nicholas is fifteen when he forgets how to breathe. He had plenty of reason to feel unstable already: He’s been living with his dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs since his Russian-born mom kicked him out. Then one day in geometry class, Nicholas suddenly realizes that his hands are objects. The doctor says it’s just panic, but Nicholas suspects that his real problem might not be a psychiatric one: maybe the Greek god Pan is trapped inside his body.

There’s a reason they say don’t shit where you eat. Drew Harrington wasn’t looking for anything more than a job that he enjoyed - but what he found was far more dangerous: a boss who can’t be read, a coworker who knows too much, and a mounting desire that no HR policy can contain. Nolan Sotherby runs his company with ice in his veins and an iron grip on control. But when a bold new hire pushes past his defenses, the lines between power and vulnerability begin to blur. Then there’s Ashley Quinn - laid-back, too observant, and far too willing to get involved. Desire simmers. ...

Patuxent County is the story of Les Wadkins, an aging American tobacco farmer, who struggles against nature, time and the human element to bring in his crop in the dead of summer. When Les encounters a trespasser on his farm, an old feud reignites, causing Les to ponder the circumstances of a tragic hunting accident that occurred decades earlier.

Fearing for his life and concerned about being framed for a crime by his partner, Victor leaves an abusive relationship. With help from Caitlin's Escape Route, he returns home to Florida. During a conversation with his father, he reveals that after he came out as gay, eight years earlier, his mother told him he had been adopted. That was just before she walked out on them. Victor admits that he felt responsible for the pain this caused his father. He returns to work as a chef in his father’s restaurant. At the same time, he joins the Big Brother program, believing mentoring troubled ...

Three timelines. One mountain. No way out. In the remote highlands near Macao, a group of young explorers sets off into the snow—only for one of them to return days later, alone, battered, and claiming the impossible. According to her, there was a village buried in the mountain. A church. And something waiting in the dark. As a rescue mission is launched, secrets begin to emerge: the ruins of a forgotten colonial settlement from 1763, the last known traces of a Swiss expedition in 1962, and a trail of faith twisted into something unrecognizable. Told across three intertwined eras, Hollow ...

"Elegantly Unsaid: Behind the Velvet Rope (Book 2)" Behind every great bon vivant is someone quietly picking up the pieces. For ten years, Henry has impeccably managed the life of Del Renault—aristocrat, entrepreneur, and master of elegant chaos. But as Del's extravagant 40th birthday approaches, Henry, ever the stoic chief of staff ("Never 'butler,' please"), faces his own quiet reckoning. Traveling from the sun-soaked terraces of Sitges to Monaco's glittering casinos, from Paris Fashion Week's runway disasters to a Día de los Muertos-themed party in Mexico City, Henry's razor-sharp wit...

This epic love story follows the engaged couple Renzo and Lucia as they navigate a perilous journey to be together amidst Spanish occupation, war, famine, and plague. Their struggle against the tyrannical Don Rodrigo, who seeks Lucia for himself, is interwoven with themes of faith, justice, power, and truth. Celebrated for its historical significance and cultural impact, the novel has inspired countless artists and remains a staple in Italian education and literature, praised by luminaries such as Giuseppe Verdi, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, and Pope Francis.

Three Hockey Players. One Girl. But Does She Really Have to Choose? You’d think I’d have learned by now not to get involved with hockey players. But here I am—after a scandal that nearly tanked my career—signing on as the new rehab therapist for the Kingston Reign. My rules? Stay professional. Keep my head down. Absolutely no falling for the talent. Then I meet them. Luca Petrenko: brooding team captain with a jawline sharp enough to cut my resolve—and a grudge against anyone who gets too close. Jax Carter: the golden boy winger who flirts like it’s a contact sport and makes me ...

One slice changes everything. Welcome to the Great Game. This isn’t just a book. It’s an invitation to a universe that edits itself as you read. A place where memory is clay in the right hands, truth is a negotiation, and belief is both the lock and the key. To join the Great Game is to accept that certainty is brittle and doubt is a kind of magic. It’s to follow muses who deal in “maybe,” to bargain with gods updating their brands for modern worshippers, to find prophecies scrawled on pizza boxes and secret histories buried in the mundane. These pages hold stories of anti-heroes ...

The Grand Tour to Forty A Novel of Expensive Mistakes and Exquisite Timing Meet Del Renault: French-German aristocrat, reluctant tech executive, and professional avoider of life's larger questions. As his fortieth birthday looms like a particularly well-dressed apocalypse, Del embarks on a year-long odyssey through the world's most glamorous cities, armed with nothing but a trust fund, a cutting wit, and an alarming addiction to rosé wine and LEGO Ferrari sets. From the sun-soaked tennis courts of Sitges (where he loses spectacularly) to the champagne-hazed casino floors of Monaco (where ...

La novel·la que va consagrar Han Kang com una de les grans autores del segle: una lectura pertorbadora i transformadora. La vegetariana narra la història d'una dona, la Yeonghye, que per la simple decisió de no tornar a menjar carn converteix una vida normal en un malson pertorbador. Narrada a tres veus, explica el despreniment progressiu de la condició humana d'una dona que ha decidit deixar de ser allò que l'obliguen a ser.

In an uncertain future, nothing is more dangerous than an original idea. The Oracle, the greatest artificial intelligence program ever known, has erased history. In its place, The Oracle has created a post-racial society canceling words, peoples, moments, and ideas that cause the slightest disturbance to the greater peace. The Oracle controls all thought and language. Gabriel Prosser, the slave behind Gabriel's Rebellion, is reborn with an original idea: that mankind should be free. He pulls back the veil of the cybernetic world to realize that The Oracle is lying about history, insisting ...

From Juan Carlos Boíza López, acclaimed author of The Book of Toth, Sindone, and Taste of Earth, comes The Book of Reflections—a unique anthology featuring over thirty short stories that span thriller, drama, science fiction, and horror. But beyond genres, all these stories share a common goal: to use fantasy and fiction as a mirror—one that provokes, stirs emotions, and inspires reflection on the world we inhabit. Dare to step through the looking glass and immerse yourself in unsettling tales such as: An agoraphobic man trapped in a world that seems to have forgotten him. A future ...