Browsing: Literary Fiction

When young Nell arrives at 16th-century England’s royal court, her striking resemblance to Queen Elizabeth arouses rumors, intrigue, and mortal danger. “Beautifully written fiction with a fascinating hook” (New York Times bestselling author Karen Harper).

After her father dies, Jessica must support herself and her mother as a maid on the Duke of Fornay’s estate. When she follows a riderless horse back to an injured man in the woods, she helps him immediately — only to discover that he is the duke himself! A dazzling Victorian romance.

From the author of A Town Like Alice: After his sister dies, a modest man must sail the globe to reclaim his orphaned niece’s inheritance. “Nevil Shute was, in brief, the sort of novelist who genuinely touches the imagination and feeling” (The Times).

A grizzled professional cat burglar gets trapped inside the bedroom closet of one of the world’s richest men, only to…

An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selectionWith this brilliantly imagined New York Times bestselling novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age…

With over 2,500 five-star ratings on Goodreads, this is a hilarious peek into the life of an eccentric family at the height of British society! Follow Linda, the beautiful but unruly eldest daughter, as she seeks the perfect husband. “Utter, utter bliss” (Daily Mail).

Hailed as “the single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick’s career” (The New York Times), this Hugo Award–winning novel explores an alternate history in which the Axis powers won World War II, and Nazi Germany and Japan split control of the US.

Direct and vivid in her account of Clarissa Dalloway’s preparations for a party, Virginia Woolf explores the hidden springs of…

In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister: a sister equal to Shakespeare in…

“Compulsively readable” (The Guardian): Witness the forbidden romance between poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning through the eyes of a loyal servant. “Grips the reader’s imagination on every page” (San Francisco Chronicle).