Browsing: Literary Fiction

A masterful novel set in 1920s Louisiana, The Missing is the story of Sam Simoneaux, a floorwalker at a New…

Like a modern Scheherazade, incarcerated Libertad González spins a spellbinding tale for her fellow inmates. Written by an award-winning screenwriter, this “warm and ingenious novel” (Alexander Payne, screenwriter of Sideways) is also a “whimsical, humorous, and passionate mystery” (Univision’s Jorge Ramos).

An international bestseller with over 11,000 five-star Goodreads ratings: In the wake of a horrifying crime, a cordial dinner turns into a ruthless battle between two couples who are equally determined to save their children. “Chilling, nasty, smart, shocking, and unputdownable” (Gillian Flynn).

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award! When his employer is murdered, an unlikely amateur sleuth goes hunting for the killer — and finds his world unraveling. Hailed upon publication as “the best novel of the year… Utterly original and deeply moving” (Esquire).

A New York Times bestseller from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Remains of the Day: In 1930s Shanghai, detective Christopher Banks seeks to solve his parents’ long-ago disappearance — and finds himself trapped in his own past. “His fullest achievement yet” (The New York Times Book Review).

In this haunting masterpiece from a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author, young Pecola navigates tragedy, hardship, and racism. “So precise, so faithful to speech, and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).

A New York Times bestseller: As Christmas approaches, wayward angels Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy set out to help a little boy, a lonely young woman, and a maternity nurse longing for a child of her own… “Heartfelt, touching” (Library Journal).

As a pestilence ravages the galaxy, humanity sends Marjorie Westriding Yrarier and her family to investigate a seemingly immune planet. “One of the most satisfying science fiction novels I have read in years” (The New York Times Book Review), with nearly 4,300 five-star ratings on Goodreads.