Browsing: Literary Fiction

“A thrilling tale of time travel” (Andy Weir): Technology has fine-tuned everything in Tom’s world — but after a heartbreak, he journeys to an imperfect alternate reality for a second chance. Featuring dialogue “reminiscent of Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” (Publishers Weekly).

A “mesmerizing” New York Times bestseller (Chicago Tribune) with over 7,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads: Two best friends dream of becoming dancers — but their lives and careers will soon diverge. “A multilayered tour de force… Smith burnishes her place in the literary firmament” (Los Angeles Times).

“An addictive, sprawling epic; I wolfed it down” (Miranda July): Chosen as an NPR Best Book of 2017, this “roaringly funny… intellectually subtle, surprising, and enlightening” novel (The New York Review of Books) follows Selin as she makes her way to adulthood in the mid-’90s.

A classic comedy of manners for fans of Jane Austen: In 1950s England, a well-meaning spinster takes an active interest in her neighbors’ personal lives! “Reading Barbara Pym is… a wonderful experience, full of unduplicable perceptions, sensations, and soul-stirrings” (Newsweek).

A brilliantly inventive novel about three astronauts training for the first-ever mission to Mars, an experience that will push the…

Twenty-year-old Jacob Ariesen is uprooted from his home in Concord, Massachusetts in the year 1850. His father is hell-bent on…

From a New York Times bestselling author, with nearly 800 five-star Goodreads ratings: An English professor works to solve a mystery that spans millennia to protect a beloved cathedral. “I enjoyed it immensely” (John Grisham).

When popular Lena meets Juliet, the alluring new girl, she finds herself wanting more than just friendship. But does she have the strength to follow her heart? A smart, moving novel with over 450 five-star ratings on Goodreads.

An NPR Best Book of 2017: When 15-year-old Cat moves to a rural town and befriends wild Marlena, they share a year that will affect Cat’s life for decades to come. A “generous, sensitive novel of true feeling” (The New York Times Book Review).

When Lacey faces a crisis she can’t handle alone, she turns to her best friend, handsome doctor Quinn — only to discover emotions she never expected… Can he convince her they were meant to be all along?