Browsing: Literary Fiction

The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely…

From a hugely influential author comes a National Book Award winner and one of Time’s All-Time 100 Greatest Novels. In the final days of World War II, Allied intelligence discovers that the Nazis’ V-2 rocket attacks correspond directly to the sexual exploits of one American G.I.

A New York Times bestseller! In this “monumental” novel (The Wall Street Journal) following generations of a logging dynasty, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Shipping News delivers “the masterpiece [she] was meant to write” (The Boston Globe).

“World-class entertainment” (Jonathan Franzen): The legendary Wild Bill Hickcock and his pal Charlie Utter take on the hellish frontier town of Deadwood in this offbeat tale from a National Book Award–winning author. “Deadwood may well be the best western ever written” (The Washington Post Book World).

When successful New York editor Jen Gibbs discovers a decaying slush-pile manuscript on her desk, she has no idea that…

From a New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author: Just after World War II, a soldier goes searching for a missing American woman — and plunges into an epic adventure. “Brilliant… An extraordinary novel” (The New York Times).

A New York Times bestseller: As the discovery of gold transforms San Francisco from a small settlement to a dazzling city, Kendra and Marny follow their dreams — and are swept up in grand adventures. “Bristow has the true gift of storytelling” (Chicago Tribune).

From a New York Times bestselling author comes this spellbinding historical novel, in which fashionable dressmaker Celia Garth becomes a Patriot spy in Revolution-era South Carolina. “An exciting tale of love and war in the tradition of Gone with the Wind” (Chicago Tribune).

Classic of world drama concerns the passing of the old semifeudal order in turn-of-the-century Russia, symbolized in the sale of…

A “spellbinding” New York Times bestseller (NPR) with over 19,800 five-star Goodreads ratings: A king longs for adventure and sets off with an illicitly trained magician… but nothing goes as planned. “Fabulous fantasy spiked with bitter adult wisdom — not to be missed” (Kirkus Reviews starred review).