North and south

First published in 1854, North and South is Elizabeth Gaskell’s boldest and most ambitious novel: a work of fierce social commentary and subtle emotional power.

Now we shall be entirely free

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2019 “Mr. Miller strikes an impressive balance between adventure and atmosphere.”—The Wall Street Journal When Captain John Lacroix returns home from Spain, wounded, unconscious, and alone, he believes that he has seen the worst of what men may do. It is 1809, and...

Opium and other stories

A rediscovered classic of Hungarian literature, this spellbinding collection vividly depicts the darkest impulses of the human psyche against the backdrop of Europe’s moral and social decline on the eve of World War I Géza Csáth (pen name of Joszef Brenner) was a writer, playwright, musician, psy...

Outcast

"Tells more about Iraq than many commentaries being offered up these days." --Le Monde

Paper conspiracies

The keys to a historic trap are discovered in a cache of forgeries and crumbling film stock.

Perma red

Bold, passionate, and more urgent than ever, Debra Magpie Earling’s powerful classic novel is reborn in this new edition.On the Flathead Indian Reservation, summer is ending, and Louise White Elk is determined to forge her own path. Raised by her Grandmother Magpie after the death of her mother, ...

Puppet flower

Yao-Chang Chen’s historical novel Puppet Flower retells the story of the 1867 sinking of the American merchant ship the Rover and its aftermath. He brings to light the pivotal role of this incident in Taiwanese history, merging documented events and literary imagination.

Quelling the demons' revolt

In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. Quelling the Demons’ Revolt is centered on the rebellion led by Wang Ze in 1047–48, warning of the vulnerability of a world plagued by dem...

Ravage & son

A master storyteller’s novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early 20th-century ManhattanRavage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan’s Lower East Side—the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of the twentieth century—in a dark mirror.Abraham Cahan, editor of the...

Red crosses

Sasha Filipenko traces the arc of Russian history from Stalin’s terror to the present day, in a novel full of heart and humanity. One struggles not to forget, while the other would like nothing better. Tatiana Alexeyevna is an old woman, over ninety, rich in lived experience, and suffering from A...

Risk

Elana Dykewomon contemplates war, class, race, community, love, relationships and change in mythic, historic Berkeley. Whew!

Savage coast

Never before published, this autobiographical novel captures the politics and passion of the Spanish Civil War.

Sealed in stone

Self-imprisoned in a Parisian cemetery wall, a woman reflects on the savage turmoil of the medieval world.

Shadowplay

Set during the golden age of West End theater in a lamp-lit London shaken by the crimes of Jack the Ripper, Shadowplay is a gripping novel of love, celebrity, and ambition by New York Times best-selling author, Joseph O’Connor. Henry Irving is Victorian London’s most celebrated actor and theater ...

Siblings

A New Yorker Best Book of 2023 A story of sibling love ruptured by the Iron Curtain, by one of the most significant East German writers. “I will never forgive you,” Uli says to his sister Elisabeth. It is 1960 and the border between East and West Germany has long been closed. Their brother Konra...

Silence of the chagos

Based on a true, still-unfolding story, Silence of the Chagos is a powerful exploration of cultural identity, the concept of home, and above all the neverending desire for justice. Shenaz Patel draws on the lives of exiled Chagossians in this tragic example of 20th century political oppression.

Soft burial

Soft Burial is one of the most remarkable—and most controversial—recent works of Chinese literature. Part mystery, part historical fiction, and part social exposé, the novel intercuts different generations, regions, and time periods.

Teresa, my love

Mixing fiction, history, psychoanalysis, and personal fantasy, Teresa, My Love follows Sylvia Leclercq, a French psychoanalyst, academic, and incurable insomniac, as she falls for the sixteenth-century Saint Teresa of Avila and becomes consumed with charting her life.

The ada decades

Over the course of seven decades, one woman reaches her own form of Southern womanhood—compassionate, resilient, principled, lesbian.

The anarchist who shared my name

Bearing witness to key moments in Europe’s history, this thrilling novel explores the life of an anarchist in 1920s Spain.

The arid sky

“This dark, sprawling novel is the English language debut of Emiliano Monge, a Mexican writer who is often compared to the US literary superstar Cormac McCarthy. Written in a tone that evokes McCarthy’s unrelenting classic Blood Meridian, the novel tells the story of Germán Alcántara Carnero, a d...

The blind owl

The boy in his winter

Huck Finn’s mythic adventures—and childhood—abruptly end when he steps off his raft into Hurricane KatrinaHuck Finn and Jim float on their raft across a continuum of shifting seasons, feasting on a limitless supply of fish and stolen provisions, propelled by the currents of the mighty Mississippi...

The communist of montmartre

Michael Kleeberg's historical farce about the Paris communist Party.

The country of the blind

In this short story H.G. Wells conducts a thought experiment. What would become of a community if its members were somehow deprived of sight?

The dance of the demons

A semi-autobiographical portrait of the original "Yentl" and the eccentric Singer family she grew up in.

The enchanted clock

Part detective mystery, part historical fiction, The Enchanted Clock is a philosophically and linguistically multifaceted novel, full of poetic ruminations on memory, love, and the transcendence of linear time.

The great gatsby original classic edition

Long regarded as one of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century, The Great Gatsby expresses many of the central themes of the American myth: romance, love, the quest for wealth and status, loneliness, and corruption.

The history of man

The second in Windham Campbell Prize winner Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu’s highly acclaimed book series centered on an unnamed Southern African country, but a standalone novel in its own right, The History of Man sketches decades of history through the eyes of Emil Coetzee, on his journey from boyhood t...

The invisible collection

When Zweig’s anonymous narrator sets off to the provinces in search of a lucrative bargain, he finds himself caught up in the slow unfolding of a family tragedy.

The lost civilization of suolucidir

Indiana Jones meets Italo Calvino in a masterful, absurdist blend of biting social satire, rollicking adventure, invented history and mythology.

The lost journals of sacajewea

Winner of the American Book AwardWinner of the Montana Book AwardWinner of the PNBA Book Award“In my seventh winter, when my head only reached my Appe’s rib, a White Man came into camp. Bare trees scratched sky. Cold was endless. He moved through trees like strikes of sunlight. My Bia said he cam...

The man in the wooden hat

The naked woman

A woman’s feminist awakening drives a hypocritical village to madness in rural Uruguay in this "wild, brutal paean to freedom" (NPR.org). Shortlisted for the National Translation AwardWhenThe Naked Woman was originally published in 1950, critics doubted a woman writer could be responsible for its...

The new internationals

A stunning novel of post-war Paris that interweaves a coming-of-age story, a cross-cultural romance, and a portrait of the international youth at a definitive moment in contemporary history Paris, 1947. The city, recovering from the Nazi occupation, suffers from an economy in shambles and an unr...

The parisian

A “sublime” (Zadie Smith) debut novel by Plimpton Prize winner Isabella Hammad, The Parisian illuminates a pivotal period of Palestinian history through the journey and romances of one young man, from his studies in France during World War I to his return to Palestine at the dawn of its battle fo...

The present moment

A novel that pays tribute the lives of seven aging women by one of East Africa's most celebrated writers.

The rarest fruit

NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025・BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - Washington Independent Review of Books  “A gorgeous novel.”—New York Times Based on a true story, The Rarest Fruit is a captivating tale of resilience, discovery, and the secret history of a beloved flavor. Born into slavery, orphane...

The raven's heart

The Raven’s Heart is a breathtaking epic set during the disastrous reign of Mary Queen of Scots.

The restless

A young girl's curiosity about her teacher's sudden disappearance sets the stage for her community's resonant analyses of 1960s Pointe-à-Pitre.

The rover

Joseph Conrad’s last completed novel is a masterpiece of narrative tension and psychological insight.

The secret river

Kate Grenville's modern classic of one man's loss, struggle and survival in the Australian wilderness, introduced by Diana Athill

The sing-song girls of shanghai

Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a...

The slowworm's song

A Best Book Of 2022 (New Yorker)A Best Book Of Fall 2022 (Wall Street Journal) From Costa Award-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author Andrew Miller comes a tender tale of guilt, trust, and a father's yearning to atone.  A harmless-looking letter drops onto the doormat in Stephen Rose's Some...