The gabriels

From the author of The Apple Family plays, this illuminating trilogy reflects on American life during the 2016 national election.

The girls club

This insightful novel of independence and family ties is the latest winner of the Bywater Prize for Fiction.

The golden age

The gowkaran tree in the middle of our kitchen

From International Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist Shokoofeh Azar, comes a stylistically audacious and emotionally powerful novel about one large, complicated family and a love affair lasting decades.★ “A wildly ambitious novel about Iran's past, present, and future filled with long...

The hottest dishes of the tartar cuisine

“What begins as a cruel comic romp ends as a surprisingly winning story of hardship and resilience.”—The New Yorker The story of three women tangled up in a family dynamic at turns hilarious and tragic. When Rosa Achmetowna discovers that her seventeen-year-old daughter Sulfia is pregnant, she tr...

The impostor

Two exquisite novellas on memory, perception, and shifting intimaciesIn “The Impostor,” a man travels with his wife through Italy and recalls a family legend about an uncle who was swallowed by Mt. Vesuvius. Preoccupied by this mysterious event, he grapples with the fallibility of memory and the ...

The inheritance of loss

Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, Kiran Desai’s extraordinary novel of love and loss, now reissued with a new introduction by the authorPublished to astonishing acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful nove...

The last language

From Jennifer duBois, “one of a handful of living American novelists who can comprehend both the long arc of history and the minute details that animate it” (Karan Mahajan) and “a writer of thrilling psychological precision” (Justin Torres), comes a gripping new novel. In 2001, a few months after...

The last movement

An intimate portrait of genius, love, and betrayal at the end of Gustav Mahler’s life.  New York, 1911. Gustav Mahler’s recent tenure conducting the New York Philharmonic has been an extraordinary success and a time of feverish artistic defiance. He is arguably the most celebrated musician alive....

The loved ones

A Mahfouz Medal-winner that weaves together a tender tale of bittersweet love between a mother and son.

The lying life of adults

A NEW YORK TIMES & NATIONAL BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF 2020The Washington Post・O, The Oprah Magazine・TIME Magazine・NPR・People Magazine・The New York Times Critics・The Guardian・Electric Literature・Financial Times・Times UK・Irish Times・New York Post・Kirkus Reviews・Toronto Star・The Globe and Mail・Ha...

The meagre tarmac

An Indo-American Canterbury Tales, by a North American master of short fiction.

The playwright's house

When a renowned Cuban theater director is arrested under mysterious circumstances, a successful young lawyer and his estranged brother must overcome their family’s tragic past and confront their country’s unforgiving political reality in order to free their father.

The postcard

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEARTIME Magazine・NPR・Library Journal・The Globe and Mail・Lilith・Forward Magazine・Toronto Star・The New Yorker Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investiga...

The promise

WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE On her deathbed, Rachel Swart makes a promise to Salome, the family’s Black maid. This promise will divide the family—especially her children: Anton, the golden boy; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose li...

The rise & fall of the scandamerican domestic

Shirley Jackson for the contemporary Midwest, where the ties of family and community intersect darkly with suburban American life.In these stories, an enraged village gaslights unsuspecting vacationers and a young man delays an impending confession, fondling the nostrils of his mother’s pet pig. ...

The son of man

A Dua Lipa Service95 Book Club PickFrom the author of the “extraordinary” Animalia (Sunday Times), winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize and finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and Best Translated Book Award, a blazing new novel exploring nature, family, and violence, set on a hostile ...

The sorrows of others

2024 WHITING AWARD WINNERA NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE LONGLISTTHE STORY PRIZE LONGLISTSet in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others is a dazzling collection about people confronted with being outsiders—as ...

The surfacing

In Irish novelist Cormac James’s “vivid, hypnotic, and acutely piercing” (Colum McCann) North American debut, a ship’s lieutenant discovers a stowaway, pregnant with his child, while battling crushing Arctic ice“An extraordinary novel, combining a powerful narrative with a considered and poetic u...

The ten loves of nishino

WINNER 2020 PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE Best-selling and beloved Japanese author Hiromi Kawakami (The Nakano Thrift Shop) tells the story of an enigmatic man through the voices of ten remarkable women who have loved him.     “If you like Haruki Murakami and Yoko Ogawa, it’s a safe bet that you’ll love ...

The tokyo suite

NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025NPR BEST BOOK OF 2025 Nominated for the 2026 Dublin Literary Award The English-language debut of one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Brazilian literature, The Tokyo Suite is a gripping exploration of the complexities of modern family dynamics and...

The tuner of silences

"Eleven when I saw a woman for the first time, I was seized by such surprise I burst into tears."

The witch’s mouth

From the looted tombs of Tuscany to the art galleries of California, a sweeping saga about family, betrayal, and the deadly trade in ancient treasures. Tuscany, 1972. Beneath rolling vineyards and medieval hill towns lies a buried empire—and a ruthless underground economy built on stealing it. Ba...

The year of the comet

A stunning novel about growing up in Russia on the brink of collapse, from the preeminent storyteller of his generation.

Things to come and go

From the acclaimed author of Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage and the memoir W-3, a trio of novellas about three women’s bold exploration of the desire for belonging as it comes into conflict with the fulfillment of our individual selves. With an introduction by Rumaan Alam.Over the past several ye...

This is not your city

In 11 darkly comic stories, women isolated by geography, emotion, or circumstance cut imperfect paths to peace.

Tinkers

PULITZER PRIZE WINNERSpecial edition featuring a new foreword by Marilynne Robinson and book club extras insideIn this deluxe tenth anniversary edition, Marilynne Robinson introduces the beautiful novel Tinkers, which begins with an old man who lies dying. As time collapses into memory, he travel...

To the mountain

During a Colorado snowstorm, 11–year–old Marshall vanishes from a remote juvenile center. His father must ascend a mountain to find his autistic son in this tale of sacrifice, hope, and the bond between parent and child.

Umbertina

A quintessential immigrant narrative, now acknowledged as a contemporary classic of Italian-American women's literature.

Underneath

Martha Johnson wants to be a good mother and a devoted wife. It’s all she’s ever wanted in life, and she tries her very best, but when her husband threatens to leave her, her desperation reveals only one strategy that can save her family, punish her ungrateful husband, and earn power: murder.

Water

The winner of the 2006 Mary McCarthy Prize, selected by Norman Rush.

Winter stories

The internationally acclaimed and nationally bestselling author of Brightly Shining returns with a trio of tender, powerful stories of courage and overcoming adversityIngvild Rishøi is one of Scandinavia’s most revered literary voices, winner of the Dobloug Prize from the Swedish Academy, and her...