The axeman's carnival

WINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTION AT THE 2023 OCKHAM NEW ZEALAND BOOK AWARDSA dazzling portrayal of humanity and the natural world that perfectly balances violence and humorTama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Marnie, and this is where his story might have ended....

The bar at twilight

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICEAn incomparable storyteller serves up an enchanting concoction of art, love, and longingIn fifteen masterful stories, Frederic Tuten entertains questions of existential magnitude, pervasive yearning, and the creative impulse. A wealthy older woman reflects on her rel...

The bear

From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth’s last two human inhabitants, and a girl’s journey homeIn an Edenic future, a girl and her father live close to the land in the shadow of a lone mountain. They possess a few remnants of civilization: some b...

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 boys

“Hafner’s taut and utterly delightful debut is a novel of multitudes. . . . What a wonder of storytelling.”—Weike Wang, New York TimesNew York Times Editor’s Choice * Good Morning America Reading Pick * LitHub Most Anticipated Book * Christian Science Monitor Summer Reading PickA delicious summer...

The brittle age

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD Literary Hub Notable Small Press Book of 2025Winner of the 2024 Strega Prize and the 2024 Youth Strega Prize ★ “A gut-wrenching excavation of generational trauma... this contemplative novel offers a subtle but piercing meditation on the complex dynami...

The burning origin

A searing story of identity, ambition, and the cost of leaving home, from one of Italy’s most vital contemporary voices Gabriele left Rome to reinvent himself. He traded the working-class streets of his childhood for the sleek design studios of Milan, where he’s built a successful career and a ne...

The café with no name

A NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BEST-SELLER A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE A vibrant tale of love, companionship, and renewal set against the transformations of 1960s Vienna. “How I loved this book! Filled with truth after truth, poignantly rendered and given to us with tender open-handedness.”—Eliz...

The caricaturist

A young artist meets Stephen Crane as America’s hunger for empire draws them both into warOliver Fischer, a self-styled bohemian, boardwalk caricaturist, and student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, enrages his banker father and earns the contempt of Philadelphia’s foremost realist p...

The colony

NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025・NPR BEST BOOK OF 2025・BOOKLIST BEST BOOK OF 2025 A mega best-seller in Sweden, with rights sold to over a dozen countries and a TV adaptation underway, Annika Norlin’s debut novel The Colony is the biggest Swedish literary phenomenon since Fredrik Backman’s...

The distant marvels

The elegance of the hedgehog

A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous. In an elegant apartment building in the heart of Paris, Renée, the concierge, scrutinizes the vacuous lives of its well-to-do tenants. Outwardly she conforms to every stereotype of the concierge: plump, cantan...

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 great state of west florida

From the beloved author previously compared to Cormac McCarthy and Joyce Carol Oates (Washington Post), a startling and unconventional neon-pink Western of vengeance, family, and first love as two warring factions vie for control of a blood-soaked Gulf CoastIt’s 2026, and Rally is thirteen years ...

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 house on via gemito

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A BEST BOOK OF THE YEARThe Washington Post・Kirkus Reviews A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE This extraordinary Strega Prize-winning novel confirms Domenico Starnone’s reputation as one of Italy’s greatest living writers. Told against the backdrop ...

The ice harp

Ralph Waldo Emerson battles dementia while debating whether to intercede in a Black soldier’s unjust arrestIn 1879, toward the end of his life, the Sage of Concord has lost his words. Beset by aphasia and grief, Ralph Waldo Emerson is scarcely recognizable as America’s foremost essayist and orato...

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 karaoke singer's guide to self-defense

Reunited for a funeral and leery of one another, a family compares splintered memories. Will bathes his grandmother. Mel gives her wig a haircut. Norman is not prepared to take over his father’s club. Jesse has never known how old he is. They each cope with limited options and murky desires. An i...

The malcontents

There is a village carved into the rock of the Maremma hinterland in Tuscany and its name is Le Case. A dying country. A provincial trap. A microcosm of characters who are as vivid as they are universal, their days unchanging and at times tedious.That is, until the small community is shocked by t...

The old man by the sea

New Yorker Best Book of 2025Literary Hub Notable Small Press Book of 2025Kirkus Best Fiction of 2025 From the author of Ties and The House on Via Gemito  ★ “Starnone’s sensitivity, nuance, and subtlety are wonderful to behold.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Domenico Starnone’s The Old Man by th...

The port-wine stain

A young surgical assistant faces his doppelgänger in a chilling tale featuring Edgar Allan Poe and a “lost” Poe story.In his third stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Norman Lock recounts the story of a young Philadelphian, Edward Fenzil, who, in the winter of 1844, falls under the sw...

The road to dalton

A NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEARFrom debut author Shannon Bowring comes a novel of small town America that Pulitzer-winner Richard Russo calls, “measured, wise, and beautiful.”In most small towns, the private is also public. In the town of Dalton, one local makes an unthinkable decision that leaves th...

The sojourn

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTDAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE WINNERA stirring tale of brotherhood, coming of age, and survival during World War IThe Sojourn is the story of Jozef Vinich, who was uprooted from a 19th-century mining town in Colorado by a family tragedy and returns with his father to an ...

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 white chalk of days

This anthology presents translations of literary works by Ukraine’s leading writers that imaginatively engage pivotal issues in today’s Ukraine and express its tribulations and jubilations. It offers English-language readers a wide array of the most beguiling literature written in Ukraine in the ...

The woman dies

Tales from Japan that blend humor, surrealism, and sharp societal critique, by the acclaimed author of Where the Wild Ladies Are “Piercing and sometimes surreal... Matsuda shines.”—Publishers Weekly In The Woman Dies, renowned author Aoko Matsuda approaches often-thorny subjects such as sexism, p...

The wreckage of eden

A nineteenth-century army chaplain confesses his loss of faith in God and country to his first love, poet Emily DickinsonWhen U.S. Army chaplain Robert Winter first meets Emily Dickinson, he is fascinated by the brilliance of the strange girl immersed in her botany lessons. She will become his co...

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...

Troubled lands

A landmark book—the first complete publication of Langston Hughes’s translations of thirty-three stories by eighteen Mexican and Cuban writersIn late 1934, Langston Hughes, already established as a leading voice of literary Black America, traveled to Mexico City, where he stayed for more than fiv...

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...

Vulture

NPR BEST BOOK OF 2025The Economist Best Book of 2025New York Times Editors’ Choice A darkly funny, heart-wrenching satire that tears through the guts of the war news industry. Catch-22 on speed and set in the Middle East, Vulture is a fast-paced satire of the war news industry and a tragi-comic c...

Where the forest meets the river

A SEPTEMBER 2024 INDIE NEXT PICK Return to Dalton as Shannon Bowring draws another stunningly human portrait of small town America.  It’s been five years since Bridget Theroux’s death shocked the small town of Dalton, Maine, leaving behind husband Nate and daughter Sophie, now a vibrant young chi...