Browsing: Literary Fiction

Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful…

An epic adventure and one of the most enduring fables in Western literatureEdmond Dant s has a life that any…

First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief  novel so disturbed critics and the public that it  was banished for decades afterward. Now…

A “sweeping, carefully plotted” novel (The New Yorker) from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author and “master storyteller” (Los Angeles Times): Over three decades, the Langdon family weathers war and the Great Depression on their Iowa farm. With over 3,500 five-star Goodreads ratings.

“A sweeping historical love story that hits all the marks” (Publishers Weekly). Destitute Kathleen Deacey leaves Ireland to support her family — and develops unexpected feelings for Jack Montgomery, an English sea captain. But with society’s expectations against them, do they have a chance at love?

Prince Myshkin, a trusting and compassionate man, struggles to fit into modern society. A classic from the 19th-century Russian master hailed as “the man more than any other who has created modern prose” (James Joyce).

Winner of the National Book Award! Joe Allston, a retired literary agent, goes on an emotional journey to his mother’s birthplace in Denmark in a novel both “elegant and entertaining” (The Atlantic).

A “charming” New York Times bestseller (The Washington Post) with over 5,800 five-star ratings on Goodreads: When five women and one man begin a book club centered around Jane Austen, their lives are transformed in surprising ways. “A luxuriant pleasure” (Alice Sebold).

An Oprah’s Book Club selection and a New York Times bestseller from the author of Practical Magic: When March returns to her childhood home after years away, she must face her difficult past. “Haunting… Will enthrall the reader from beginning to end” (Library Journal).

A New York Times bestseller and “an important book” (Library Journal): After a whirlwind romance, Cassie thinks she’s found her perfect match in Alex. But when life takes a devastating turn, she’ll have to find the strength to escape.