They will drown in their mothers' tears

This daring speculative novel tackles terrorism and anti-immigrant hysteria, combining lyric intensity with the tools of science fiction.

Thirty-seven

The Survivors, their members known only by the order in which they joined, live alone in a rural Colorado mansion. They believe that sickness bears honesty, and that honesty bears change. Fueled by the ritualized Cytoxan treatments that leave them on the verge of death, they instigate the Day of ...

This book is not for you

Utilizing an innovative mashup of genres, ranging from pulp fiction, dark comedy, and metafiction, This Book Is Not for You charts the actions of nineteen-year-old Neptune, a misfit and punk haunted by the death of his parents. Having fallen in with an anarchist group determined to blow up a univ...

This child's gonna live

Classic novel of an African American woman's survival amidst poverty, called "a small masterpiece" by the New York Times.

This is not your city

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

This war called love

Nine stories of Latino/Chicano life at full throttle--a toda máquina.

Those who leave and those who stay

Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by “one of the great novelists of our time” (The New York Times). In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into ...

Three

An Indie Next List Pick From the international bestselling author of Fresh Water for Flowers, a beautifully told and suspenseful story about the ties that bind us and the choices that make us who we are. 1986: Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school and quickly become i...

Three novels

Few works of contemporary literature are so universally acclaimed as central to our understanding of the human experience as Nobel Prize winner Samuel Beckett’s famous trilogy.Molloy, the first of these masterpieces, appeared in French in 1951. It was followed seven months later by Malone Dies an...

Time of white horses

WINNER OF THE 2026 NEUSTADT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE ~ SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION"Nasrallah's intensely eloquent voice gives Western audiences an insight into the lives of the marginalized "—New StatesmanSpanning the collapse of Ottoman rule and the Briti...

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 assume a pleasing shape

An exquisitely written, sexually charged debut short story collection by The New York Times Book Review fiction reviewer.

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.

Tokio whip

A group of people walk across, around, and all over Tokyo.They talk, talk, talk. A linguistic, experiential, cartographical novel.

Tokyo cancelled

Thirteen passengers are stranded at an airport. Tokyo, their destination, is covered in snow and all flights are cancelled. To pass the night they form a huddle by the silent baggage carousels and tell one another stories. Thus begins Rana Dasgupta's Canterbury Tales for our times.In the spirit o...

Tolstoy as philosopher. essential short writings

This anthology is the fullest edition to date of the rich variety of Tolstoy’s philosophical output collected in a single volume that covers more than seven decades of his life, from 1835 to 1910. The seventy-seven texts included exemplify Tolstoy as an artistically inventive, intellectually powe...

Tooth of the covenant

Nathaniel Hawthorne pens a new tale to exact revenge on his ancestor, a notorious judge of the Salem witch trials Best known for his novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne was burdened by familial shame, which began with his great-great-grandfather John Hathorne, the infamously unrepentant...

Touba and the meaning of night

An epic masterpiece by Iran's most celebrated living author, Shahrnush Parsipur.

Transparent city

A gripping portrait of contemporary urban Africa—by turns magic realist, deeply emotional, and savagely satirical.

Trees without wind

Unfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village in which a rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted. Director Liu, an older revolutionary and local commune head, becomes embroiled in a power struggle w...

Trini

Epic tale of a Mexican-American girl's journey into womanhood and independence on both sides of the border.

Trust

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF FALL 2021 Following the international success of Ties and the National Book Award-shortlisted Trick, Domenico Starnone gives readers another searing portrait of human relationships and human folly. Pietro and Teresa’s love affair is tempestuous and passionate. After yet...

Try

Two dreams

The collected stories of the American Book Award winning author of Among the White Moon Faces

Two hours

Two Hours is an exceptional novel. Witty, perceptive, and profoundly humane, this is the work of a writer at the height of her powers.

Two-step devil

WINNER OF THE WILLIE MORRIS AWARD FOR SOUTHERN WRITING - FICTION“Jamie Quatro is a writer of sinuous, muscular power and grace. Two-Step Devil is a starkly gorgeous story of God and loss and art and love, and her best book yet.” —Lauren GroffFrom a New York Times Notable “writer of great original...

Ululu (clown shrapnel)

An imaginative triumph, this carnivalesque narrative brings the history of an archetypal stage character to life.Operatic in scope, ULULU (Clown Shrapnel) is a dramatic, genre-bending narrative and a lyrical cultural biography of the archetypal seductress Lulu. In a furious performance of text an...

Umbertina

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

Under her skin

Tucked away in her tattoo studio in the port city of Halifax, Shaz draws meaning and symbolism onto the bodies of her clients. After the ransacking of her home, the brutal attack on her friend and the sudden appearance of her white father, Shaz is compelled to explore the racial divides in her li...

Under the witness tree

Multi-generational lesbian love story set in both modern and Civil War era Atlanta.

Unseen city

Unseen City is a multi-generational portrait of New York and the unexpected connections between a lonely Brooklyn librarian, a widower returning to his roots, and a ghost still lingering in a home that was once part of an activist-founded farming settlement.

Unsex me here

“A fairy tale, in the classic, sparkling, and powerful ways." —Michelle TeaIf Aurora Mattia is a switchboard operator, then Unsex Me Here is her call log. Please hold. There’s someone on the other line. A spider, a sibyl, an angel, a mermaid, a goddess, or an ex-girlfriend.Unsex Me Here is a pray...

Vanishing world

From the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial inseminationSayaka Murata has proven herse...

Variations in the key of k

Variations in the Key of K: Stories, concerning the inner lives and passions of artists, and the distortions of history, framed through the lens of biography.

Verklempt

Linked stories expose generational conflicts, broken relationships and Jewish insecurity post-Holocaust. Darkly humorous, absurd, sometimes tragic and erotic.

Verse plays and epic

Five enduring works that demonstrate Goethe’s mastery of poetic form and engagement with neoclassical idealsThis volume presents the four plays and the narrative poem that, along with Faust, established Goethe as one of the masters of European verse drama and epic. These timeless works display a ...

Victoria

Victoria is an incisive study of the coercive power of economic and social forces that is also renowned for its innovative and psychologically probing narrative techniques.

Victorious

From the author of The Memory Monster, a New York Times Notable Book of 2020, comes a gripping examination of the complexities of military service as experienced by Abigail, a psychologist who becomes implicated in the dilemmas soldiers encounter both on and off the battlefield.The tenacious narr...

View from a burning bridge

Visible

Brimming with enigmatic photographs, future memes, and mud drawings, Visible showcases six genre-defying works from around the world that raise questions about the relationship between how we see, how we read, and how we write in “the age of the calligram.” In a rewrite of René Magritte’s “Les mo...

Voices in the dead house

Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott meet the horrors of the Civil War as they minister to its casualtiesAfter the Union Army’s defeat at Fredericksburg in 1862, Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott converge on Washington to nurse the sick, wounded, and dying. Whitman was a man of many contradictions...

Voices of jewish-russian literature

This definitive and comprehensive anthology of major nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, nonfiction and poetry by eighty Jewish-Russian writers explores both timeless themes and specific tribulations of a people’s history.

Walden (or life in the woods)

A TRANQUIL VOYAGE OF SPIRITUAL DISCOVERYIn Walden, (Or, Life in the Woods) Henry David Thoreau details his 1845 retreat into a cabin he built near Walden Pond. Set amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, it served as Thoreau’s immersion into nature and escape from the ...

War and peace books vi - x

War and Peace (1869) is a novel by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Serialized between 1865 and 1867, it was published in book form in 1869 and has since been recognized as a masterpiece of world literature. Notable for its epic scale, War and Peace encompasses hundreds of characters, diligently follo...

War and peace books i - v

War and Peace (1869) is a novel by Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. Serialized between 1865 and 1867, it was published in book form in 1869 and has since been recognized as a masterpiece of world literature. Notable for its epic scale, War and Peace encompasses hundreds of characters, diligently follo...