Browsing: Literary Fiction

Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she’s a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she’s…

“It’s that moment about two months in, when you think you’ve finally got a handle on the place. Everything clicks…

A Pulitzer Prize winner hailed as “deeply affecting” (The New York Times) and “wildly imaginative” (USA Today): As young Calliope Stephanides grapples with gender and sexuality, a sprawling family history unfolds. With over 211,000 five-star Goodreads ratings.

After a traumatic childhood of abuse, Rebecca Brownell finally finds herself able to build a promising new life thanks to Dr. John Sanders. But when eerily personal letters begin to arrive in the mail, Rebecca’s fresh start — and her sanity — will be dangerously threatened.

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE “The Goldfinch is a rarity that comes along perhaps half a dozen times per decade,…

A #1 New York Times bestseller and Booker Prize winner with over 430,000 five-star ratings on Goodreads: Stranded at sea in a lifeboat, Pi struggles to survive alongside an assortment of animals. “A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction” (Los Angeles Times).

The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of…

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Circe: This “spellbinding” reimagining of the Trojan War and the story of Achilles (O, The Oprah Magazine) will leave readers breathless! “A book I could not put down” (Ann Patchett).

A New York Times bestseller told with “a big dollop of Southern flavor” (Publishers Weekly): Claire tends her family’s long-standing magical garden. But when her sister returns home with a daughter in tow, secrets emerge… “Tender and enchanting” (Luanne Rice), with over 30,000 five-star Goodreads ratings.

This “classic of 20th-century American fiction” (The New York Times) with over 1,360,000 five-star Goodreads ratings tells the unforgettable story of mysterious, self-made millionaire Jay Gatsby. “Perhaps the supreme American novel” (The Sunday Times).