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The Alexandria Quartet

The Alexandria Quartet

By Lawrence Durrell

A four-part story of passion and betrayal in the Mediterranean—voted one of the Modern Library’s 100 Best Novels of the twentieth century.

The Collected Novels Volume One

The Collected Novels Volume One

By Mary McCarthy

Three brilliant novels from a #1 New York Times–bestselling author.

The North and South Trilogy

The North and South Trilogy

By John Jakes

Two families are united—and torn apart—by the Civil War in these three dramatic novels by the #1 New York Times–bestselling master of the historical epic.

Three Classic Novels

Three Classic Novels

By Pat Conroy

A trio of powerful New York Times bestsellers—which

all became the basis for acclaimed films—from the award-winning Southern novelist.  

The Collected Novels Volume One

The Collected Novels Volume One

By Graham Greene

Three iconic novels from “a superb storyteller with a gift for provoking controversy” (The New York Times).

The Collected Novels Volume One

The Collected Novels Volume One

By Pearl S. Buck

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth: These three novels are fascinating portraits of women in China.

The Lyra Novels

The Lyra Novels

By Patricia C. Wrede

Five fantasy novels by the author of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, set in a world of magic and noble adventure.

The Collected Works Volume One

The Collected Works Volume One

By Malcolm Lowry

A quartet of the British novelist’s finest works of fiction, including “Lowry’s masterpiece,” Under the Volcano (Los Angeles Times).

The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Volume One

The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Volume One

By Fritz Leiber

The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning series of swords and sorcery, featuring two unorthodox heroes, from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

The Collected Novels Volume One

The Collected Novels Volume One

By Elizabeth Jane Howard

Four beautifully observed novels from the international bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles and a “compelling storyteller” (The Guardian).

The Collected Novels Volume One

The Collected Novels Volume One

By Alice Hoffman

Four acclaimed novels by "a born storyteller," the New York Times–bestselling author of The Rules of Magic and The Dovekeepers (Entertainment Weekly).

The Jake Grafton Collection

The Jake Grafton Collection

By Stephen Coonts

The hero of the New York Times–bestselling Flight of the Intruder is back in action—“Stephen Coonts, like Jake Grafton, just keeps getting better” (Tom Clancy).

The Collected Novels Volume One

The Collected Novels Volume One

By Doris Grumbach

Two compelling works of fiction from a feminist literary icon hailed as “Virginia Woolf without the evasive prettifying” (The New York Times).

The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Volume Two

The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Volume Two

By Fritz Leiber

The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning series of sword and sorcery—featuring two unorthodox heroes—from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

The Seventh Sword

The Seventh Sword

By Dave Duncan

A young man is transformed into a barbarian fighter in this adventurous series from “one of the leading masters of epic fantasy” (Publishers Weekly).

A Man of His Word

A Man of His Word

By Dave Duncan

A young couple battles forces determined to keep them apart in this high fantasy series by “one of the leading masters of epic fantasy” (Publishers Weekly).

The Book of Isle

The Book of Isle

By Nancy Springer

Now in one volume, the entire epic series set in an ancient island sanctuary of gods and magic—from “the finest fantasy writer of this or any decade” (Marion Zimmer Bradley).

Collected Fiction

Collected Fiction

By Irwin Shaw

Three acclaimed novels plus collected short fiction by the New York Times bestselling author of Rich Man, Poor Man.

The Bitterbynde Trilogy

The Bitterbynde Trilogy

By Cecilia Dart-Thornton

 “A beautifully spun fantasy” of love, war, rebirth, and magical destiny, based on the haunting folklore of England, Ireland, and Scotland (Andre Norton).  

The Collected Novels Volume One

The Collected Novels Volume One

By Alan Sillitoe

These memorable novels show the range of the bestselling author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, “one of the best English writers” (The New York Times).

The Collected Novels Volume One

The Collected Novels Volume One

By Fay Weldon

With wicked wit and savage glee, British novelist Fay Weldon “breaks taboos like tape at a marathon” (Los Angeles Times).

The Collected Novels Volume One

The Collected Novels Volume One

By James Hilton

Three classic novels by James Hilton, about a world—and men—forever changed in the time between two world wars.

Three Classic Novels

Three Classic Novels

By Erskine Caldwell

A collection of three controversial classics set in the rural South by a multimillion-copy-selling author.

Collected Fiction

Collected Fiction

By Michael Chabon

Three extraordinary works by the New York Times–bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Moonglow.

The Color Purple Collection

The Color Purple Collection

By Alice Walker

Three novels by a New York Times–bestselling author—including the Pulitzer Prizewinner The Color Purple—that speak to the African experience in America.

The Barbara Pym Collection Volume One

The Barbara Pym Collection Volume One

By Barbara Pym

Three comedies of manners set in postwar England by the New York Times–bestselling author of Excellent Women and “the rarest of treasures” (Anne Tyler).

Italian Shoes

Italian Shoes

By Henning Mankell

The bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander series delivers a "short, beautiful, and ultimately life-affirming novel" about the path to self-acceptance (Booklist).

The Eye of the Leopard

The Eye of the Leopard

By Henning Mankell

From the creator of the acclaimed Kurt Wallander series: A thrilling story set in Sweden and Zambia told with "heart-stopping tension" (Entertainment Weekly).

The Liam Devlin Novels

The Liam Devlin Novels

By Jack Higgins

Three New York Times–bestselling thrillers take IRA gunman Liam Devlin from WWII to the Cold War to a terrorist plot in Northern Ireland.

The Xanth Novels Books 38–40

The Xanth Novels Books 38–40

By Piers Anthony

Three installments of the New York Times–bestselling series set in a land of enchantment filled with magic, surprises, adventure, and—best of all—puns!

The Secrets We Left Behind

The Secrets We Left Behind

By Susan Elliot Wright

On the southern coast of England, old secrets threaten a happy life in this “riveting and vivid novel about a woman who is forced to examine her past” (Ann Weisgarber, author of The Promise and The Personal History of Rachel DuPree).

The Darwath Series

The Darwath Series

By Barbara Hambly

From a New York Times–bestselling author, three novels of a modern-day medievalist beset by murder and magic—"A fabulously talented writer" (Charlaine Harris).

The Legends of Camber of Culdi Trilogy

The Legends of Camber of Culdi Trilogy

By Katherine Kurtz

Three fantasy novels of intrigue, betrayal, and magic in medieval Gwynedd by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Deryni series—bonus story also included.

House Arrest

House Arrest

By Mike Lawson

"First-rate . . . Lawson's series is the closest thing on the market today to the witty political thrillers of the late, great Ross Thomas." —Booklist

Juliette

Juliette

By Marquis de Sade

"An amazing sequence of imaginatively bizarre sexual adventures punctuated by philosophical and theological digression." —Library Journal

Collected Stories

Collected Stories

By Frank O'Connor

The definitive collection from an Irish literary icon, “one of the masters of the short story” (Newsweek).

Sophie's Choice

Sophie's Choice

By William Styron

This award-winning novel of love, survival, and agonizing regret in post–WWII Brooklyn “belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces” (The Washington Post Book World).

Selected Stories

Selected Stories

By Andre Dubus

Twenty-three unforgettable short stories from one of America’s most celebrated literary masters.

Boy's Life

Boy's Life

By Robert R. McCammon

An Alabama boy's innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song.

The World of Tiers Volume One

The World of Tiers Volume One

By Philip José Farmer

The first three adventures set in the amazing realm created by the Hugo Award–winning author of Riverworld.

The World of Tiers Volume Two

The World of Tiers Volume Two

By Philip José Farmer

From a multiple Hugo Award winner: Four more novels in a brilliantly imaginative series.

In This House of Brede

In This House of Brede

By Rumer Godden

A poignant novel of the spiritual and personal lives of nuns cloistered in a Benedictine monastery as change begins to rock the Catholic Church.

North and South

North and South

By John Jakes

The first volume of John Jakes's acclaimed and sweeping saga about a friendship threatened by the divisions of the Civil War.

The Wall

The Wall

By Jurek Becker

A collection of newly translated stories “filled with astonishing dialogue and imaginative prose” from the acclaimed author of Jacob the Liar (Jewish Book Council).

The Comedians

The Comedians

By Graham Greene

Strangers in Port-au-Prince are united in the corruption, fear, and revolt of Duvalier-era Haiti in “the most interesting novel of [Greene’s] career” (The Nation).

The Rich Are Different

The Rich Are Different

By Susan Howatch

The New York Times bestselling novel about a powerful Wall Street family in the 1920s and the illicit affair that threatens their empire.

Pavilion of Women

Pavilion of Women

By Pearl S. Buck

A “vivid and extremely interesting” novel of an upper-class Chinese wife’s quest for freedom, from the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth (The New Yorker).

Saigon

Saigon

By Anthony Grey

An epic saga of love, blood, and destiny in twentieth-century Vietnam: “This superb novel could well be the War and Peace of our age” (San Francisco Chronicle).

Vanished

Vanished

By Mary McGarry Morris

National Book Award Finalist: A man, woman, and child are bound by a desperate need—and a terrible secret—in this suspenseful, “astonishing” novel (Vogue).

Coromandel Sea Change

Coromandel Sea Change

By Rumer Godden

A hotel in southern India is home to a host of romantic intrigues and human misadventures in this delightful novel from a New York Times–bestselling author.

Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs

By Alison Lurie

A sharp, poignant story of two American scholars visiting London, and the unexpected and complicated relationships they become entangled in.

Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus

By Rumer Godden

Five nuns confront nature—physical and human—in a remote Himalayan convent in this bestselling novel that “bears comparison with A Passage to India” (Arthur Koestler).

The Walking People

The Walking People

By Mary Beth Keane

A “beautifully crafted” novel of two sisters’ lives, spanning from 1950s Ireland to modern-day America (Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin).

Fear of Flying

Fear of Flying

By Erica Jong

The blockbuster novel of female freedom and empowerment that launched a sexual revolution

Desolation Angels

Desolation Angels

By Jack Kerouac

A young man searches for meaning, creates art, and grapples with fame in this semiautobiographical Beat Generation classic by the author of On the Road.

The Sand Pebbles

The Sand Pebbles

By Richard McKenna

The critically acclaimed New York Times–bestseller and the basis for the Academy Award– and Golden Globe–nominated film starring Steve McQueen.

The Wheel of Fortune

The Wheel of Fortune

By Susan Howatch

An “emotion-packed” New York Times–bestselling saga by the author of Cashelmara, set on a Welsh family estate in the early twentieth century (San Francisco Chronicle).

The Queen's Gambit

The Queen's Gambit

By Walter Tevis

“What Walter Tevis did for pool in The Hustler, he does for chess in The Queen’s Gambit” (Playboy).

The Eleventh Man

The Eleventh Man

By Ivan Doig

After Pearl Harbor, the lives of eleven Montana college football teammates are changed forever in an “intensely suspenseful and moving” novel (Scott Turow).

Brighton Rock

Brighton Rock

By Graham Greene

A teenage sociopath rises to power in Britain’s criminal underworld in this “brilliant and uncompromising” thriller (The New York Times).

Count Belisarius

Count Belisarius

By Robert Graves

This “vigorous tale” by the acclaimed author of I, Claudius captures the sixth century fall of the Byzantine Empire as seen through the eyes of a servant (Kirkus Reviews).

From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity

By James Jones

A novel of army life in the calm before Pearl Harbor: A New York Times bestseller, a National Book Award winner, and “one of the great books of our time” (Newsday).

Love and War

Love and War

By John Jakes

Part of the North and South trilogy by the master of historical fiction, this novel tells the story of two families who clash both on and off the battlefields of the Civil War. Over 5,000 five-star Goodreads reviews!

Tobacco Road

Tobacco Road

By Erskine Caldwell

The classic novel of a Georgia family undone by the Great Depression: “[A] story of force and beauty” (New York Post).

Detective

Detective

By Arthur Hailey

A death row confession sparks an investigation that will tear Miami apart in this “engrossing thriller” from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author (Booklist).

Leaving Cold Sassy

Leaving Cold Sassy

By Olive Ann Burns

“A gift” for those who loved the heartwarming million-copy bestseller Cold Sassy Tree (The New York Times).

Coming Up for Air

Coming Up for Air

By George Orwell

An insurance salesman desperately tries to recapture his youth in this “charming” comic novel by the iconic British author (The New York Times).

Justine

Justine

By Lawrence Durrell

This “very remarkable novel”—first in the acclaimed Alexandria Quartet—tells a haunting story of love, desire, and deception in the Egyptian city pre-WWII (New York Herald Tribune Book Review).

The Famished Road

The Famished Road

By Ben Okri

Winner of the Man Booker Prize: “Okri shares with García Márquez a vision of the world as one of infinite possibility. . . . A masterpiece” (The Boston Sunday Globe).

The Memory of Love

The Memory of Love

By Aminatta Forna

“[A] luminous tale of passion and betrayal” set in the post-colonial and civil war eras of Sierra Leone (The New York Times).

The Quiet American

The Quiet American

By Graham Greene

A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian).

Gone to Soldiers

Gone to Soldiers

By Marge Piercy

This sweeping New York Times bestseller is “the most thorough and most captivating, most engrossing novel ever written about World War II” (Los Angeles Times).

Illumination Night

Illumination Night

By Alice Hoffman

A moving novel of fear, desire, loss, and discovery on Martha's Vineyard, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Rules of Magic and Seventh Heaven.

The End of the Affair

The End of the Affair

By Graham Greene

Graham Greene’s masterful novel of love and betrayal in World War II London is “undeniably a major work of art” (The New Yorker).

The Book of Ruth

The Book of Ruth

By Jane Hamilton

PEN/Hemingway Award Winner: An “enthralling” novel of a woman trapped within a tragically dysfunctional family (Entertainment Weekly).

Best Contemporary Women's Fiction

Best Contemporary Women's Fiction

By Elizabeth Benedict, Jenna Blum, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Maggie O'Farrell and Ann Patchett

Six novels in one volume by today’s most outstanding female writers—includes The Magician’s Assistant, Those Who Save Us, and more.

Witch World: High Hallack Cycle

Witch World: High Hallack Cycle

By Andre Norton

Science fiction meets sword and sorcery in these five novels by the legendary New York Times–bestselling author and “superb storyteller” (The New York Times).

The Book of Kells

The Book of Kells

By R. A. MacAvoy

A contemporary couple journeys back in time to ancient Ireland in this delightful fantasy by the author of Tea with the Black Dragon.

Ghost Writer in the Sky

Ghost Writer in the Sky

By Piers Anthony

Two Ordinary People from Mundania travel to Xanth to defeat a rogue Night Colt in the latest in a beloved series from bestselling author Piers Anthony.

Portal of a Thousand Worlds

Portal of a Thousand Worlds

By Dave Duncan

The looming threat of a once-in-a-millennium magical event sends nineteenth-century China into violent chaos in this epic alternate-history fantasy.

The Stranger

The Stranger

By Max Frei

The Russian author's international-bestselling series begins with this "well-written, well-paced grown-up fantasy with a strong dose of reality" (Kirkus Reviews).

Swords and Deviltry

Swords and Deviltry

By Fritz Leiber

The award-winning sword and sorcery classic that introduced Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, from a Grand Master of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

The Moviegoer

The Moviegoer

By Walker Percy

In this National Book Award¬≠–winning novel, a young man, torn between the forces of tradition and change, searches for meaning in postwar America.

A Burnt-Out Case

A Burnt-Out Case

By Graham Greene

A famous architect struggling with a crisis of faith escapes to a leper colony in the Congo, in Graham Greene’s “greatest novel” (Time).

The Confessions of Nat Turner

The Confessions of Nat Turner

By William Styron

The "magnificent" Pulitzer Prize–winning, #1 New York Times bestselling novel about the preacher who led America's bloodiest slave revolt (New York Times).

The Forever War

The Forever War

By Joe Haldeman

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards: A futuristic masterpiece, “perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam” (Junot Díaz).

The Power and the Glory

The Power and the Glory

By Graham Greene

This prize-winning novel of a fugitive priest in Mexico is quite simply “Graham Greene’s masterpiece” (John Updike, The New York Review of Books).

Body & Soul

Body & Soul

By Frank Conroy

This saga of a son of the working class who grows into a piano prodigy is “hypnotically readable . . . The best story I know of in a long, long time” (Vanity Fair).

The War Between the Tates

The War Between the Tates

By Alison Lurie

A husband’s affair pushes a suburban wife to her breaking point in this “near perfect comedy of manners” by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Real People (The New York Times).

The Monkey Wrench Gang

The Monkey Wrench Gang

By Edward Abbey

A motley crew of saboteurs wreak outrageous havoc on the corporations destroying America's Western wilderness in this classic, comic extravaganza.

At Risk

At Risk

By Alice Hoffman

A New York Times bestseller from the author of The Rules of Magic: In 1980s America, a family copes with their daughter’s terrifying diagnosis. 

The Group

The Group

By Mary McCarthy

This smash bestseller about privileged Vassar classmates shocked America in the sixties and remains “juicy . . . witty . . . brilliant” (Cosmopolitan).

The Lords of Discipline

The Lords of Discipline

By Pat Conroy

A cadet encounters hazing and racism at an elite military academy in this novel from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Prince of Tides.

The Lost Mother

The Lost Mother

By Mary McGarry Morris

Abandoned by his wife, a man tries to protect his family during the Great Depression, in this “powerful” novel by the bestselling author of Songs in Ordinary Time (Publishers Weekly).

The Young Lions

The Young Lions

By Irwin Shaw

One of the great World War II novels, this New York Times–bestselling “masterpiece” captures the experiences of three very different soldiers (The Boston Globe).

The Temple of My Familiar

The Temple of My Familiar

By Alice Walker

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple weaves a “glorious and iridescent” tapestry of interrelated lives in this New York Times bestseller (Library Journal).

Henry and Cato

Henry and Cato

By Iris Murdoch

Reunited childhood friends confront their longings and failures in this “engaging” novel by a Man Booker Prize–winning author (The New York Times).

Meridian

Meridian

By Alice Walker

“A classic novel of both feminism and the Civil Rights movement” in 1960s Atlanta by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Ms.).

Requiem for a Dream

Requiem for a Dream

By Hubert Selby Jr.

A tale of four people trapped by their addictions, the basis for the acclaimed Darren Aronofsky film, by the author ofLast Exit to Brooklyn.

Happy All the Time

Happy All the Time

By Laurie Colwin

A witty modern-day classic about two unique couples discovering universal truths about love and marriage from "a wise, bighearted writer" (The Washington Post).

Set This House on Fire

Set This House on Fire

By William Styron

A New York Times bestseller by the author of Sophie’s Choice: Two Americans search for the truth about a mysterious long-ago murder in Italy.

The Thin Red Line

The Thin Red Line

By James Jones

With “shattering prose,” the New York Times–bestselling author of From Here to Eternity captures the intense combat in the battle of Guadalcanal (San Francisco Chronicle).

The Great Santini

The Great Santini

By Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy’s New York Times–bestselling coming-of-age novel about a son’s struggle to escape the domineering expectations of his volatile military father.

The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate

By Richard Condon

The classic thriller about a hostile foreign power infiltrating American politics: “Brilliant . . . wild and exhilarating.” —The New Yorker

The Judas Field

The Judas Field

By Howard Bahr

The author of The Black Flower “re-creates [a] seminal moment in American history with prose that is vivid, unflinching, and often incantatory” (TheWashington Post Book World).

A Washington Post Book World Best Book of the Year and Winner of the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction

The Ice Storm

The Ice Storm

By Rick Moody

The national bestseller and basis for the Ang Lee film is a “powerful” novel of two troubled families during a blizzard in 1970s suburban Connecticut (Newsday).

The Seafort Saga Books 1–3

The Seafort Saga Books 1–3

By David Feintuch

From a John W. Campbell Award–winning author: The original trilogy chronicling the military science fiction adventures of Nicholas Seafort.

Bruno's Dream

Bruno's Dream

By Iris Murdoch

A dying man makes a request of his estranged son that brings secrets and grudges to the surface in a novel by the prize-winning author of Under the Net.

Never So Few

Never So Few

By Tom T. Chamales

Set behind enemy lines in Burma, this New York Times bestseller is “easily one of the best novels to come out of World War II” (Los Angeles Times).

Brown Dog

Brown Dog

By Jim Harrison

“Among the most indelible American novelists of the last hundred years. . . . [Harrison] remains at the height of his powers.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times on The River Swimmer

Mrs. Caliban

Mrs. Caliban

By Rachel Ingalls

In the tradition of The Shape of Water, this “perfect novel” of a housewife who begins a passionate affair with a sea monster is “something of a miracle” (The New Yorker).  

The Lunatic

The Lunatic

By Anthony C. Winkler

This novel reveals that lunacy is by no means restricted to the village madman. . . . “By far the funniest book I’ve read in a decade” (The Washington Post Book World).

Dhalgren

Dhalgren

By Samuel R. Delany

Nebula Award Finalist: Reality unravels in a Midwestern town in this sci-fi epic by the acclaimed author of Babel-17. Includes a foreword by William Gibson.  

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Last Exit to Brooklyn

By Hubert Selby Jr.

“An extraordinary achievement . . . a vision of hell so stern it cannot be chuckled or raged aside.”—The New York Times Book Review

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

By Muriel Spark

“A perfect book”—and basis for the Maggie Smith film—about a teacher who makes a lasting impression on her female students in the years before World War II (Chicago Tribune).

Collected Stories

Collected Stories

By Beryl Bainbridge

The complete short stories—including six previously uncollected works and one novella—of award-winning British literary giant Beryl Bainbridge.

How Green Was My Valley

How Green Was My Valley

By Richard Llewellyn

The international-bestselling winner of the National Book Award and the basis for the Academy Award–winning film directed by John Ford.

Play It as It Lays

Play It as It Lays

By Joan Didion

A “scathing novel” of one woman’s path of self-destruction in 1960s Hollywood—by the New York Times–bestselling author of The White Album (The Washington Post Book World). Spare, elegant, and terrifying, Play It as It Lays is the unforgettable story of a woman and a society come undone.

Real People

Real People

By Alison Lurie

An artists’ colony is a false paradise for a frustrated writer in this “witty, knowing, and perceptive” novel from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author (The New Yorker).

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

By James Hilton

The modern classic about an idealistic British schoolmaster’s influence on his students: “A minor miracle” (The New York Times).

Fortune's Daughter

Fortune's Daughter

By Alice Hoffman

An “intimate, lovely novel, most of whose concerns swirl about the pain and joys of motherhood,” from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Rules of Magic (People).

Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

By Joan London

A New York Times Notable Book from the author of The Golden Age. "A remarkable study of a young woman's most literal rite of passage" (The Baltimore Sun).

Travels with My Aunt

Travels with My Aunt

By Graham Greene

A retired London bank manager is yanked out of the suburbs by his eccentric aunt for a “cheerfully irreverent” romp across Europe (The Guardian).

On the Black Hill

On the Black Hill

By Bruce Chatwin

Whitbread Award Winner: A novel by the author of In Patagonia, about a pair of twins and their long, remarkable lives in the farmlands of Wales.

The Return of Kid Cooper

The Return of Kid Cooper

By Brad Smith

A man of the Old West confronts a new world: "A powerful novel, fully felt and beautifully written" (T. Jefferson Parker, New York Times-bestselling author of The Last Good Guy).

Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, and So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, and So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

By Richard Brautigan

Three masterpieces by “the counterculture’s Mark Twain,” collected in one volume, including the “lost chapters” of Trout Fishing in America (The New York Times Book Review).

City of Night

City of Night

By John Rechy

The cult classic novel from “one of the few major American writers whose life is as interesting, and meaningful, as his work” (Michael Cunningham).

Sins of the Fathers

Sins of the Fathers

By Susan Howatch

A New York Times–bestselling, “grippingly readable” tale of wealth, greed, and power in post-WWII New York by the author of The Rich Are Different (The Sunday Times).

The Company She Keeps

The Company She Keeps

By Mary McCarthy

The celebrated author of The Group offers a “clever, witty, polished” portrait of the 1940s NYC literary bohemia she knew so well in this debut novel (The New York Times).

A Sport and a Pastime

A Sport and a Pastime

By James Salter

The astonishing novel and “tour de force” about a love affair in postwar France from the iconic author of All That Is (The New York Times Book Review).

In the Flesh

In the Flesh

By Ane Schmidt

"As compelling as it is uncomfortable to read . . . succeeds brilliantly as a composed portrayal of a woman who abandons herself to sensation in every form." —Kirkus Reviews

The Silence in the Garden

The Silence in the Garden

By William Trevor

The Whitbread Award–winning author “demonstrates a master’s touch” in this tale of an aristocratic Irish family’s ruinous path toward modernity (The New York Times).

Heaven and Hell

Heaven and Hell

By John Jakes

New York Times Bestseller: The searing conclusion to the North and South Trilogy brings the battle between the Mains and Hazards—and Confederate and Union armies—to a brilliantly satisfying end.

Wolf

Wolf

By Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison's first novel—a walk on the wild side from "a force of nature in American letters" (The Seattle Times).

Dragon Seed

Dragon Seed

By Pearl S. Buck

A New York Times–bestselling historical novel about the Japanese invasion of Nanking from the author of The Good Earth.

Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano

By Malcolm Lowry

“Lowry’s masterpiece” about a fateful Day of the Dead in a small Mexican town and one man’s struggle against the forces threatening to destroy him (Los Angeles Times).

Star of the Sea

Star of the Sea

By Joseph O'Connor

A New York Times Notable Book and “thoroughly gripping” historical mystery: On a ship packed with Irish immigrants, one passenger is a killer (People).

Mrs. Miniver

Mrs. Miniver

By Jan Struther

The beloved classic novel of an English housewife bravely enduring WWII—the basis for the Academy Award–winning film starring Greer Garson.

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

The Mysteries of Pittsburgh

By Michael Chabon

A college grad tries to find himself—and avoid turning into his father, who launders money for the mob—in the novel that launched the career of the Pulitzer-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay.

The Intruders

The Intruders

By Stephen Coonts

In this thriller from a New York Times–bestselling author, Vietnam is over for a Navy pilot—but danger remains in the form of Soviet MiGs and Sumatran pirates.

The Doctor's Wife

The Doctor's Wife

By Brian Moore

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: A married woman begins an impulsive affair in Paris in this novel of “brilliant insight” (The Times, London).

As We Are Now

As We Are Now

By May Sarton

A powerful and beautiful novella of one woman, consigned to a dreary retirement home, who wages a defiant battle against the dulling forces around her.

Ship of Fools

Ship of Fools

By Katherine Anne Porter

This “dazzling” National Book Award finalist set aboard an ocean liner in 1931 reflects the passions and prejudices that sparked World War II (San Francisco Chronicle).

The Drowning Season

The Drowning Season

By Alice Hoffman

From the author of The Rules of Magic: A novel of a Long Island family matriarch and her namesake granddaughter who discover the power the past holds over their present.

Lucy Crown

Lucy Crown

By Irwin Shaw

A New York Times bestseller from an author with “a natural gift for storytelling”: A mother and son are reunited years after a shattering betrayal (The New York Times).

The Neon Bible

The Neon Bible

By John Kennedy Toole

“A moving evocation of the small-town South in the mid-twentieth century” that “belongs on the shelf with the works of Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty” (Orlando Sentinel).

The Golden Apples

The Golden Apples

By Eudora Welty

This collection of short stories of the Mississippi Delta by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author is “a work of art” (The New York Times Book Review).

Songs in Ordinary Time

Songs in Ordinary Time

By Mary McGarry Morris

This New York Times bestseller of a troubled family in 1960s Vermont is “teeming with incident and characters, often foolish, even nasty, but always alive” (The New Yorker).

The Boo

The Boo

By Pat Conroy

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s story about life at the Citadel in the 1960s, a profound exploration of what it means to be a man of honor.

Heir to the Glimmering World

Heir to the Glimmering World

By Cynthia Ozick

A teenage girl goes to work for a chaotic family of Jewish immigrants, in a New York Times bestseller that’s “a cause for celebration” (Ann Patchett).

The Mapmaker's Daughter

The Mapmaker's Daughter

By Katherine Nouri Hughes

A novel of the Venetian girl who became the most powerful woman in the Ottoman Empire—perfect for fans of Netflix’s Magnificent Century.

Wonder Boys

Wonder Boys

By Michael Chabon

The “wise, wildly funny story” of a self-destructive writer’s lost weekend by a Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times–bestselling author (Chicago Tribune).

A Virtuous Woman

A Virtuous Woman

By Kaye Gibbons

A “vivid, unsentimental, powerful” portrait of a Southern marriage by the New York Times–bestselling author of Ellen Foster (Publishers Weekly).

Catholics

Catholics

By Brian Moore

A “near-masterpiece” about faith and doubt by the award-winning, international bestselling author (The New York Times).

Mumbo Jumbo

Mumbo Jumbo

By Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed’s inspired fable of the ragtime era, in which a social movement threatens to suppress the spread of black culture—hailed by Harold Bloom as one of the five hundred greatest books of the Western canon

The Last Crossing

The Last Crossing

By Guy Vanderhaeghe

Journey from Victorian England to the whiskey trading posts of the Old West in this epic award-winning bestseller from the author of The Englishman's Boy.

Seventh Heaven

Seventh Heaven

By Alice Hoffman

A New York Times bestseller about a 1950s suburb transformed by the arrival of a divorced mother: “part American Graffiti, part early Updike” (The New York Times).

The Keepers of the House

The Keepers of the House

By Shirley Ann Grau

A “beautifully written” Pulitzer Prize–winning novel about prejudice and a distinguished family’s secrets in the American South (The Atlantic Monthly). 

The Color Purple

The Color Purple

By Alice Walker

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon.

The Ministry of Fear

The Ministry of Fear

By Graham Greene

In London during the Blitz, an amnesiac must outwit a twisted Nazi plot in this “master thriller” of espionage, murder, and deception (Time).

The Time of the Wolf

The Time of the Wolf

By James Wilde

The national bestselling story of England's real-life Robin Hood. "A masterful tale, graphic and gory, and loaded with medieval history" (Publishers Weekly).

The Truest Pleasure

The Truest Pleasure

By Robert Morgan

A “wondrous” novel of a marriage in the Appalachian Mountains, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Gap Creek (San Antonio Express-News).

Sundog

Sundog

By Jim Harrison

Recovering from a fall down the face of a three-hundred-foot dam in South American, Robert Corvus Strang, a self-educated foreman who works on giant dam projects, recalls his hard but exhilarating life.

October Light

October Light

By John Gardner

New York Times Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: A “dazzling” novel about the tumultuous relationship of two elderly siblings (Los Angeles Times).

The Lost Saints of Tennessee

The Lost Saints of Tennessee

By Amy Franklin-Willis

“A riveting, hardscrabble book on the rough, hardscrabble south,” and the fault lines that can divide, test, and heal a family (Pat Conroy).

Nickel Mountain

Nickel Mountain

By John Gardner

New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Finalist: In an upstate New York town, a man tries to save a teenage girl—and his own soul.

Condor: The Short Takes

Condor: The Short Takes

By James Grady

The legendary CIA spy is back—in a “superb” collection featuring an all-new novella, by the New York Times–bestselling author of Six Days of the Condor (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

Some Tame Gazelle

Some Tame Gazelle

By Barbara Pym

A novel of two sisters in postwar England that lets you "step into the Jane Austen–like lives of Harriet and Belinda Bede" (The Christian Science Monitor).

Hogg

Hogg

By Samuel R. Delany

The narrator of Hogg is a Huck Finn–like youngster caught in society’s most sinister seams—but unlike Huck, he passes no moral judgments on the violence he takes part in . . .

Manchu

Manchu

By Robert Elegant

New York Times Bestseller: This epic novel of the conquest of the Ming dynasty “does for 17th-century China what James Clavell’s Shogun did for 16th-century Japan” (The Christian Science Monitor).

Rosy Is My Relative

Rosy Is My Relative

By Gerald Durrell

A man inherits an elephant with a fondness for alcohol—from the author of the Corfu Trilogy, which inspired the PBS Masterpiece hit, The Durrells in Corfu.

Possessing the Secret of Joy

Possessing the Secret of Joy

By Alice Walker

An American woman struggles with the genital mutilation she endured as a child in Africa in a New York Times bestseller “as compelling as The Color Purple” (San Francisco Chronicle).

The Last Detail

The Last Detail

By Darryl Ponicsán

The acclaimed novel that was the basis for the classic movie starring Jack Nicholson.

A Complicated Kindness

A Complicated Kindness

By Miriam Toews

From the award-winning author of Women Talking: "A darkly funny and provocative novel" of family, faith, and adolescent angst (O, The Oprah Magazine).

Northern Borders

Northern Borders

By Howard Frank Mosher

A New York Times Notable Book: A novel about growing up in a remote corner of Vermont, from the author Richard Russo calls “one of our very best writers.”

Tropic of Cancer

Tropic of Cancer

By Henry Miller

Henry Miller’s famously banned book is “a matter-of-fact celebration of chucking one’s dreary life and following your heart to Paris” (Richard Price).

Night Train to Lisbon

Night Train to Lisbon

By Pascal Mercier

“The age-old intellectual’s dilemma, considered in a compelling blend of suspenseful narrative and discursive commentary . . . an intriguing fiction.” —Kirkus Reviews

Mary, Mrs. A. Lincoln

Mary, Mrs. A. Lincoln

By Janis Cooke Newman

A novel about the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, narrated by the First Lady herself, a USA Today choice for Best Historical Fiction of the Year.

Last Days

Last Days

By Brian Evenson

To find a cult leader’s killer, a former detective must literally give up his body in this award-winning work of literary horror—“A dark treat” (AV Club).

A Collapse of Horses

A Collapse of Horses

By Brian Evenson

A provocative collection of literary horror stories by one of America’s most acclaimed and inventive writers whose unique prose “can be soul-shaking” (New Yorker).

The Inheritance of Loss

The Inheritance of Loss

By Kiran Desai

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Man Booker Prize: An “extraordinary” novel “lit by a moral intelligence at once fierce and tender” (The New York Times Book Review).

Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

By Richard Brautigan

Collected in one volume, three counterculture classics that embody the spirit of the 1960s.

Fail-Safe

Fail-Safe

By Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler

From the New York Times–bestselling authors, the “chilling and engrossing” nuclear-showdown thriller with “a multi-megaton wallop” (Chicago Tribune).

Tropic of Orange

Tropic of Orange

By Karen Tei Yamashita

“David Foster Wallace meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez” in this novel set in a dystopian Los Angeles from a National Book Award finalist (Publishers Weekly).

Dalva

Dalva

By Jim Harrison

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Legends of the Fall: a beautifully crafted story of one woman's journey to find her son.

The Road Home

The Road Home

By Jim Harrison

In one of Jim Harrison’s greatest works, five members of the Northridge family narrate the tangled epic of their history on the Nebraska plains.

The Angel Makers

The Angel Makers

By Jessica Gregson

With the men away at war, women in a small village are intoxicated by their new freedom, in this “story that will hold readers from beginning to end” (Booklist).

Lighthousekeeping

Lighthousekeeping

By Jeanette Winterson

An orphaned girl is held spellbound by the tales of a lighthouse keeper on the Scottish coast, in a novel by the Costa Award-winning author of The Passion.

Outlaw of Gor

Outlaw of Gor

By John Norman

In an alternate world, a warrior finds his power under threat . . .

East of the Mountains

East of the Mountains

By David Guterson

A man plans a final journey into the Western wilderness in this “wonderful” novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars (The Miami Herald).

Jane and Prudence

Jane and Prudence

By Barbara Pym

The author of Excellent Women explores female friendship and the quiet yearnings of British middle-class life—a literary delight for fans of Jane Austen.

An Untamed State

An Untamed State

By Roxane Gay

A Haitian American woman survives a brutal kidnapping in this “commanding debut novel” from the New York Times–bestselling author of Bad Feminist (The New Yorker).

Less Than Angels

Less Than Angels

By Barbara Pym

A tale of a woman’s romantic entanglements with two anthropologists—and the odd mating habits of humans—from the author of Jane and Prudence.

The Caledonian Gambit

The Caledonian Gambit

By Dan Moren

In this “immersive, intergalactic spy-fi,” two rogue agents go after a top-secret super weapon—“A Cold War thriller with wormholes” (John August, screenwriter of Titan A.E. and Big Fish).

Come Closer

Come Closer

By Sara Gran

“What begins as a sly fable about frustrated desire evolves into a genuinely scary novel about possession and insanity. Hypnotic” (Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho).

The Secret River

The Secret River

By Kate Grenville

This Man Booker Award Finalist and Commonwealth Prize-winner is an “unforgettable” tale of crime and survival in colonial Australia (Chicago Tribune).

An Unnecessary Woman

An Unnecessary Woman

By Rabih Alameddine

A happily misanthropic Middle East divorcee finds refuge in books in a “beautiful and absorbing” novel of late-life crisis (The New York Times).

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain

By Robert Olen Butler

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: "Uncannily perceptive stories written by an American from the viewpoint of Vietnamese citizens transplanted to Louisiana" (People).

The Warriors

The Warriors

By Sol Yurick

The basis for the cult-classic film The Warriors chronicles one New York City gang's nocturnal journey through the seedy, dangerous subways and city streets of the 1960s.

The Old Man

The Old Man

By Thomas Perry

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Poison Flower: a retired intelligence officer is caught in "[a] harrowing hunt-and-hide adventure" (The New York Times).

Savage Country

Savage Country

By Robert Olmstead

A “gorgeous, brutal masterpiece” of loss, survival, and buffalo hunting in the nineteenth century Midwest by the “great American writer” of Coal Black Horse (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

The First Protectors

The First Protectors

By Victor Godinez

"Hyper-realistic military action meets otherworldly invaders in this explosive debut that will make you worry there are aliens in your backyard" (Rhett C. Bruno, USA Today–bestselling author).

So Brave, Young, and Handsome

So Brave, Young, and Handsome

By Leif Enger

“An almost perfect novel” of yearning, adventure, and redemption in the dying days of the Old West from the bestselling author of Peace Like a River (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).

Alif the Unseen

Alif the Unseen

By G. Willow Wilson

“[A] Harry Potter-ish action-adventure romance” set during the Arab Spring, from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Ms. Marvel comic book series (The New York Times).

The Painted Bird

The Painted Bird

By Jerzy Kosinski

The classic novel of a boy’s struggle for survival in WWII Poland, from the National Book Award–winning author of Steps and Being There.

Thrush Green

Thrush Green

By Miss Read

Discover the little English village that neighbors Fairacre, in a novel that's "enchanting, lovely, gentle, pointed, and charming" (Minneapolis Sunday Tribune).

Heat and Dust

Heat and Dust

By Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Winner of the Book Prize, this profound and powerful novel intertwines two stories of two Indias over half a century.

Kitchen

Kitchen

By Banana Yoshimoto

The acclaimed debut of Japan’s “master storyteller” (Chicago Tribune).

The Hippopotamus

The Hippopotamus

By Stephen Fry

Now a major motion picture: A “deliciously wicked and amusing” tale of a cranky curmudgeon investigating strange goings-on at an English country house (The New York Times).

The Raw Shark Texts

The Raw Shark Texts

By Steven Hall

This genre-bending national bestseller is “a horror-dystopic-philosophical mash-up, drawing comparisons to Borges, The Matrix and Jaws” (The New York Times Magazine).

The Marrying of Chani Kaufman

The Marrying of Chani Kaufman

By Eve Harris

A “stunning” portrait of life and love inside an insular Jewish community that “reads like an Orthodox Pride and Prejudice . . . Rewardingly delightful” (Bust).

Broken for You

Broken for You

By Stephanie Kallos

"A dazzling mosaic of intersecting lives and fates . . . Comparisons to John Irving and Tennessee Williams would not be amiss in this show-stopping debut" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

The Ginger Man

The Ginger Man

By J. P. Donleavy

“A picaresque novel to stop them all. Lusty, violent, wildly funny, it is a rigadoon of rascality, a bawled-out comic song of sex.” (Dorothy Parker, Esquire)

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

By Peter Hedges

“Wonderfully entertaining . . . This distinctive first novel goes down like a chocolate milkshake but boasts the sharpness and finesse of a complex wine” (Publishers Weekly).

Baltasar and Blimunda

Baltasar and Blimunda

By José Saramago

“A romance and an adventure, a rumination on royalty and religion in 18th-century Portugal and a bitterly ironic comment on the uses of power.” —The New York Times

The Man Who Spoke Snakish

The Man Who Spoke Snakish

By Andrus Kivirähk

“A bestseller in the author’s native country of Estonia, where the book is so well known that a popular board game has been created based on it, “The Man Who Spoke Snakish” is the imaginative and moving story of a boy who is tasked with preserving ancient traditions in the face of modernity.

House Secrets

House Secrets

By Mike Lawson

The mysterious death of a journalist pulls Washington fixer Joe DeMarco into a conspiracy of power and politics in “one of the best thrillers of the year” (Booklist).

Orlando

Orlando

By Virginia Woolf

An annotated edition of “Woolf’s most intense work,” a fantastical biography that spans from the court of Elizabeth I to the year 1928 (Jorge Luis Borges).

Human Voices

Human Voices

By Penelope Fitzgerald

A British radio station struggles through the London blitz, in a “wonderful” novel of World War II England (A.S. Byatt), by a veteran of the BBC.

News from Thrush Green

News from Thrush Green

By Miss Read

From the author of the Fairacre series: "The more turbulent the real world, the more charming we may find the stability of Miss Read's tiny fictional world." —Los Angeles Times.

Storm in the Village

Storm in the Village

By Miss Read

Big changes are afoot in a small English village— “If you’ve ever enjoyed a visit to Mitford, you’ll relish a visit to Fairacre” (Jan Karon, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of To Be Where You Are).

All the Names

All the Names

By José Saramago

From a Nobel Prize winner: “A psychological, even metaphysical thriller that will keep you turning the pages . . . with growing alarm and alacrity.” —The Seattle Times

A Stranger in the Kingdom

A Stranger in the Kingdom

By Howard Frank Mosher

This novel of murder and its aftermath in a small Vermont town in the 1950s is “reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird . . . Absorbing” (The New York Times).

The Hunters

The Hunters

By James Salter

The acclaimed debut novel, a classic of war literature, by one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century.

Being There

Being There

By Jerzy Kosinski

A quirky, brilliant novel starring Chauncey Gardiner, an enigmatic man who rises from nowhere to become a media phenomenon—“a fabulous creature of our age” (Newsweek).

Annabel

Annabel

By Kathleen Winter

An “absorbing . . . beautifully written” debut about the trials of growing up unique in a restrictive environment (The New York Times Book Review).

House Rivals

House Rivals

By Mike Lawson

In this “suspenseful and smart” thriller, Washington, DC, heavy hitter Joe DeMarco is out of town—and out of his element—facing his deadliest enemy yet (Booklist).

Mr. Bridge

Mr. Bridge

By Evan S. Connell

The classic novel about a repressed upper-middle-class husband in the American Midwest, by a New York Times–bestselling and Man Booker Prize–winning author.

Miss Burma

Miss Burma

By Charmaine Craig

"Craig wields powerful and vivid prose to illuminate a country and a family trapped not only by war and revolution, but also by desire and loss." —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author

In the Fall

In the Fall

By Jeffrey Lent

This "richly detailed and expertly plotted" historical epic chronicles the dark secrets and forbidden loves of an American family across three generations (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

The Rector of Justin

The Rector of Justin

By Louis Auchincloss

“[A] certifiable masterpiece” from the acclaimed chronicler of New York City’s old money elite (The New York Observer).

Rock Springs

Rock Springs

By Richard Ford

Ten “beautifully imagined and crafted stories” of the American West by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Independence Day (Joyce Carol Oates).

The Sixteen Pleasures

The Sixteen Pleasures

By Robert Hellenga

A centuries-old book is found in Florence in this novel with “a sympathetic heroine, a suspenseful plot . . . and illuminating meditations on life, art, and love” (Chicago Tribune).

The Suitcase

The Suitcase

By Sergei Dovlatov

From the exiled Russian author of The Zone—“His tales open a small window on to daily life in the former Soviet Union” (The Guardian).

Wash

Wash

By Margaret Wrinkle

"A lyrical story of courageous human beings transcending the cruelty and degradation of their slave-holding society." —The Dallas Morning News

The River Swimmer

The River Swimmer

By Jim Harrison

Jim Harrison is one of America’s most beloved and critically-acclaimed authors on a par with American literary greats like Richard Ford, Anne Tyler, Robert Stone, Russell Banks, and Ann Beattie. His latest collection of novellas, The River Swimmer, is Harrison at his most memorable: a brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in the world, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity.

July, July

July, July

By Tim O'Brien

A “perceptive, affectionate, and often very funny” novel about old college friends at a thirty-year reunion, by the author of The Things They Carried (Boston Herald).

Affairs at Thrush Green

Affairs at Thrush Green

By Miss Read

Make a visit to this English village: "What you will find in the novels of Miss Read is an aura of warm happiness." —The Columbus Dispatch

True North

True North

By Jim Harrison

One of American literature's most significant authors delivers "a coming-of-age story, a familial saga of estrangement . . . A slow-burning revenge tragedy" (The New York Times Book Review).

Village Diary

Village Diary

By Miss Read

“If you’ve ever enjoyed a visit to Mitford, you’ll relish a visit to Fairacre.” —Jan Karon

Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas

By John O'Brien

This “brutal and unflinching” novel of fleeting love in Sin City inspired the film starring Nicholas Cage and Elizabeth Shue (Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City).

The Year at Thrush Green

The Year at Thrush Green

By Miss Read

A year in the life of your favorite English villagers from Thrush Green: “Miss Read’s novels are sheer delight” (Chicago Tribune).

A Personal Matter

A Personal Matter

By Kenzaburo Oe

From the Nobel Prize–winning author: "One of the great short novels of the 20th century" (The Wall Street Journal).

A History of the Future

A History of the Future

By James Howard Kunstler

Humanity hangs on after the fall of civilization in this "wily, funny, rip-roaring, and profoundly provocative page-turner" (Booklist, starred review).

The Witch of Hebron

The Witch of Hebron

By James Howard Kunstler

The dystopian epic of World Made by Hand continues in a novel hailed as "Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove, set in the dystopian world of The Road" (New York Journal of Books).

Shoeless Joe

Shoeless Joe

By W. P. Kinsella

The novel that inspired Field of Dreams: “A lyrical, seductive, and altogether winning concoction.” —The New York Times Book Review

Laughing Boy

Laughing Boy

By Oliver La Farge

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize: “A romantic idyll played out in the rhythms and meanings of a vanished Navajo world.” —The Denver Post

The Hired Man

The Hired Man

By Aminatta Forna

An award-winning Scottish and Sierra Leonean novelist “brilliantly portrays the atmosphere” of Croatia in this haunting tale of war, history, and secrets (The Guardian).

Prayers and Lies

Prayers and Lies

By Sherri Wood Emmons

“A sweet, revealing tale of family, friendship [and] long-held secrets” set in West Virginia—from the acclaimed author of The Sometimes Daughter (Kris Radish).

Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See

Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See

By Juliann Garey

An NPR Great Read: This novel about bipolar disorder and one man’s journey through the world is a “convincing portrait of mental illness” (Entertainment Weekly).

The Cave

The Cave

By José Saramago

An unassuming family struggles to keep up with the ruthless pace of progress in “a genuinely brilliant novel” from a Nobel Prize winner (Chicago Tribune).

How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets

How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets

By Garth Stein

A struggling musician suddenly finds himself father to a teenage boy, in this “compelling” novel by the author of The Art of Racing in the Rain (Seattle Post-Intelligencer).

Damage

Damage

By Josephine Hart

New York Times Bestseller: This psychological thriller is “a taut, sinister tale of erotic obsession” (Vanity Fair).

Emmanuelle II

Emmanuelle II

By Emmanuelle Arsan

The wildly inventive, exuberant, and moving sexual adventures of a young woman continue in this classic work of erotica.

House Blood

House Blood

By Mike Lawson

“The plot and pace are relentless” as Joe DeMarco investigates a pharmaceutical corporation that has gone beyond the bounds of science and into murder (Booklist, starred review).

Father of the Rain

Father of the Rain

By Lily King

A New York Times Editors’ Choice—“a gripping epic about a father and daughter that plumbs the dark side of a family riven by addiction and mental illness” (Entertainment Weekly).

Fire on the Mountain

Fire on the Mountain

By Edward Abbey

A New Mexico man faces off against the government in a battle over his land in this novel by the author of Desert Solitaire.

The Shanghai Factor

The Shanghai Factor

By Charles McCarry

“[A] smart and utterly diverting spy trade masterwork” from the acclaimed author of The Tears of Autumn (NPR).

The Mezzanine

The Mezzanine

By Nicholson Baker

A National Book Critics Circle Award-winner elevates the ordinary events that occur to a man on his lunch hour into “a constant delight” of a novel (The Boston Globe).

The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances

The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances

By Ellen Cooney

“Love is a great teacher and we are all a little unadoptable. Readers of Garth Stein and Carolyn Parkhurst will adore this” (Library Journal).

Battles at Thrush Green

Battles at Thrush Green

By Miss Read

A new season brings changes—and hope—to the little English village of Thrush Green, from the beloved author of the Fairacre series.

Sing Them Home

Sing Them Home

By Stephanie Kallos

One of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of the Year: "A magical novel that even cynics will close with a smile" (People).

The Betrayal

The Betrayal

By Helen Dunmore

A “magnificent, brave, tender” novel of post-WWII Russia from the author of The Siege—shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (The Independent on Sunday).

Stillwater

Stillwater

By Nicole Helget

Fraternal twins separated at birth survive the Northern Minnesota frontier in this historical novel of “true grit” that’s “inventive, outrageous and well told” (MinnPost).

Tarnsman of Gor

Tarnsman of Gor

By John Norman

The first novel in the long-running sword-and-planet series set on a Counter-Earth, where warriors rise above the chaos of bondage and brutality.

The English Major

The English Major

By Jim Harrison

From the New York Times–bestselling author of Legends of the Fall: "Harrison spins the common chaff of a road trip into gold" (Tim McNulty, The Seattle Times).

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ

By Philip Pullman

A thought-provoking retelling of the Gospel story from an atheist perspective.

House Reckoning

House Reckoning

By Mike Lawson

Washington, DC, fixer Joe DeMarco is on a mission of revenge in a thriller that’s “fast, assured and as refreshingly unsentimental as Joe himself” (Kirkus Reviews).

Accidents of Providence

Accidents of Providence

By Stacia M. Brown

“A seventeenth-century heroine for our times” could face death for her dangerous affair with an English revolutionary (O, The Oprah Magazine).

Ragnarok

Ragnarok

By A.S. Byatt

The Booker Prize–winning author of Possession breathes life into the Ragnorak myth through the novel of a young British girl during World War II.

House Odds

House Odds

By Mike Lawson

Washington insider Joe DeMarco returns in an electrifying thriller that will grab you with its “clever, original, fast-moving, and unpredictable plot” (Phillip Margolin, New York Times–bestselling author).

Eleven

Eleven

By Patricia Highsmith

Short stories of suspense by the author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley—"a brilliant collection" with a foreword by Graham Greene (The Sunday Times).

A Woman in Jerusalem

A Woman in Jerusalem

By A. B. Yehoshua

This novel about the struggle to identify a nameless victim in the wake of a terrorist bombing in Israel is “a masterpiece” (Claire Messud, The New York Times Book Review).

Bloody Mary

Bloody Mary

By Sharon Solwitz

A suburban Chicago family comes undone in this “fresh and riveting” novel of domestic disquiet by an award-winning author (Booklist, starred review).

Celebrations at Thrush Green

Celebrations at Thrush Green

By Miss Read

Save the date for some English village fun: “You’ll relish a visit to Thrush Green” (Jan Karon, #1 New York Times–bestselling author).

Too Loud a Solitude

Too Loud a Solitude

By Bohumil Hrabal

A fable about the power of books and knowledge, “finely balanced between pathos and comedy,” from one of Czechoslovakia’s most popular authors (Los Angeles Times).

The Face in the Frost

The Face in the Frost

By John Bellairs

A fantasy classic by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls—basis for the Jack Black movie—and “a writer who knows what wizardry is all about” (Ursula K. Le Guin).

Deathbird Stories

Deathbird Stories

By Harlan Ellison

Masterpieces of myth and terror about modern gods from technology to drugs to materialism—“fantasy at its most bizarre and unsettling” (The New York Times). As Earth approaches Armageddon, a man embarks on a quest to confront God in the Hugo Award–winning novelette, “The Deathbird.”

Tales from High Hallack Volume Two

Tales from High Hallack Volume Two

By Andre Norton

Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master: The second volume of short sci-fi and fantasy stories by New York Times-bestselling author Andre Norton.

Rose Daughter

Rose Daughter

By Robin McKinley

Award-winning author Robin McKinley tells an enthralling story of magic, love, and redemption, based on the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast.

Spellsinger

Spellsinger

By Alan Dean Foster

Snatched through a portal into a land of magic, a young musician must use a mysterious, multistring duar to rescue the world into which he has fallen before he can return to his own.

The Midwich Cuckoos

The Midwich Cuckoos

By John Wyndham

The classic science fiction horror novel of possessed children that inspired the terrifying Village of the Damned films.

Six Days of the Condor

Six Days of the Condor

By James Grady

The classic spy thriller about corruption in the CIA that inspired the hit film and TV show: “A master of intrigue” (John Grisham).

More Than Human

More Than Human

By Theodore Sturgeon

Six misfits, one powerful entity. An award-winning novel about belonging by “one of the greatest writers of science fiction and fantasy who ever lived” (Stephen King).

The Far Arena

The Far Arena

By Richard Ben Sapir

Released from the Arctic ice after two millennia, a Roman gladiator contends with his haunted memories and the modern world.

No Way Out

No Way Out

By Alan Jacobson

The FBI profiler teams up with Scotland Yard in this “outstanding thriller” by the USA Today–bestselling author of The 7th Victim (Library Journal, starred review).

Mockingbird

Mockingbird

By Walter Tevis

This sci-fi masterpiece is “a moral tale that has elements of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Superman, and Star Wars” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).

Eternity

Eternity

By Greg Bear

The New York Times–bestselling author of Eon continues the interstellar saga of the Way.

The Minotaur

The Minotaur

By Stephen Coonts

From a New York Times–bestselling author: A military pilot is entangled in the hunt for a Cold War spy selling high-tech secrets to the USSR.

The Avenue Goes to War

The Avenue Goes to War

By R. F. Delderfield

The residents of a South London street face World War II together in this novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dreaming Suburb.

The Red Horseman

The Red Horseman

By Stephen Coonts

As the USSR collapses, thousands of nuclear warheads may end up in the wrong hands in this thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of War.

The Evening News

The Evening News

By Arthur Hailey

#1 New York Times–bestselling author: A private crisis becomes front-page news when terrorists target a TV anchorman and his family in Arthur Hailey's riveting novel set in the high-pressure network news industry.

Binary

Binary

By Michael Crichton, John Lange

An agent races to stop a chemical attack in this thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park.

Gentleman's Agreement

Gentleman's Agreement

By Laura Z. Hobson

When a reporter pretends to be Jewish, he experiences anti-Semitism firsthand in the New York Times bestseller and basis for the Academy Award–winning film.

The Shepherd

The Shepherd

By Frederick Forsyth

Christmas Eve, 1957: An RAF pilot needs a miracle to make it home as his fighter jet begins to fail, in a story by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.

Hard Target

Hard Target

By Alan Jacobson

After an assassination attempt on the president-elect, the OPSIG team is on the hunt in this “terrific thriller” from the USA Today–bestselling author (Lee Child).Hard Target by Alan Jacobson is a ticking time bomb that will keep you clinging to the edge of your seat . . . and turning the pages.

The River

The River

By Rumer Godden

Facing harsh adult realities, a young English girl in India must leave childhood behind, in this masterful tale from a New York Times–bestselling author.

The Graduate

The Graduate

By Charles Webb

The novel about an aimless young man in 1960s America that inspired the classic film: “Moves with the speed and drive of a runaway locomotive.” —Chicago Sunday Review

The Lost Codex

The Lost Codex

By Alan Jacobson

In a novel Jeffery Deaver has called "brilliant," two ancient biblical documents reveal long-buried secrets that could change the world as we know it.

The Book of the Damned

The Book of the Damned

By Tanith Lee

The award-winning author of The Birthgrave invites you to Paradys, an alternate Paris, with three tales of dark magic, eroticism, and gothic fantasy.

Sunshine

Sunshine

By Robin McKinley

A small-town baker uses her magic to confront a post–vampire apocalypse world in this award-winning fantasy Neil Gaiman called “pretty much perfect."

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

By Harlan Ellison

A Grand Master of Science Fiction and the multiple-award-winning author of A Boy and His Dog presents seven stunning stories of speculative fiction.

Deerskin

Deerskin

By Robin McKinley

From the author of The Hero and the Crown, comes the story of a princess who flees her father's unwelcome attentions and finds an unexpected new life in the forest.

Blood Games

Blood Games

By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

The adventures of a seductive immortal in Nero’s Rome from a Bram Stoker Award winner: “Nobody does historical vampire fiction better” (Laurell K. Hamilton).

The Five Senses Set

The Five Senses Set

By Andre Norton

Adventurous maidens and sinister mages clash in these magical tales by a World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award winner and "one of the all-time masters" (Peter Straub).

St. Patrick's Gargoyle

St. Patrick's Gargoyle

By Katherine Kurtz

In this “charming” fantasy by the author of the Deryni novels, a gargoyle guardian and a Knight of Malta defend a Dublin cathedral and battle a demon (Booklist, starred review).

Tea with the Black Dragon

Tea with the Black Dragon

By R. A. MacAvoy

In this “astonishing fantasy debut,” a mother and a mysterious Chinese man—who is more than he appears—search for her missing daughter in San Francisco (Locus).  

The Sword of Bedwyr

The Sword of Bedwyr

By R. A. Salvatore

The first adventure in the New York Times–bestselling fantasy trilogy from the legendary million-selling author and creator of Drizzt Do'Urden.

The Thread That Binds the Bones

The Thread That Binds the Bones

By Nina Kiriki Hoffman

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award: Tom can see ghosts—and that’s the least of his gifts.

The Door in the Hedge

The Door in the Hedge

By Robin McKinley

From ensorcelled princesses to a frog that speaks, an enchanting collection of fairy tales from the Newbery Medal–winning author.

The Broken Sword

The Broken Sword

By Poul Anderson

This acclaimed fantasy classic of men, elves, and gods is at once breathtakingly exciting and heartbreakingly tragic.

The Iron Dragon's Daughter

The Iron Dragon's Daughter

By Michael Swanwick

A New York Times Notable Book: “Combining cyberpunk’s grit with dystopic fantasy, this iconoclastic hybrid is a standout piece of storytelling” (Library Journal).

Three Hearts and Three Lions

Three Hearts and Three Lions

By Poul Anderson

Transported to a medieval realm of magic and myth, a World War II resistance fighter undertakes a perilous quest in this classic fantasy adventure.

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears

By Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

A collection of re-imagined fairy tales from "a distinguished company of writers" including Neil Gaiman, Joyce Carol Oates, and Tanith Lee (Kirkus Reviews).

Beauty

Beauty

By Robin McKinley

The New York Times–bestselling author of Rose Daughterreimagines the classic French fairy tale of Beauty and the Beast.

Silver Birch, Blood Moon

Silver Birch, Blood Moon

By Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

Winner of the World Fantasy Award: New twists on classic fairy tales from Neil Gaiman, Patricia Briggs, Robin McKinley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and more.

The Wolf's Hour

The Wolf's Hour

By Robert R. McCammon

Master spy, Nazi hunter—and werewolf on the prowl—in occupied Paris: A classic of dark fantasy from a Bram Stoker Award—winning author.

Down Among the Dead Men

Down Among the Dead Men

By Simon R. Green

In this dark fantasy from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Hawk & Fisher novels, an ancient evil awakes in a fort on the edge of civilization.

Witch World: Estcarp Cycle

Witch World: Estcarp Cycle

By Andre Norton

Science fiction meets sword and sorcery in these three novels by the legendary New York Times–bestselling author and “superb storyteller” (The New York Times).

The Sentinel Mage

The Sentinel Mage

By Emily Gee

First novel in the trilogy: “A good read. Death and magic, zombies and assassins, fighting and fleeing. What more could you ask for?” (Fantasy Book

Review).  

The Hour of the Gate

The Hour of the Gate

By Alan Dean Foster

Marooned in another universe, a musician leads a motley army to save two worlds, in an entertaining tale by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.

Those Who Hunt the Night

Those Who Hunt the Night

By Barbara Hambly

From a New York Times–bestselling author: A former spy is recruited to unmask a vampire hunter in this Locus Award Winner.

Wylding Hall

Wylding Hall

By Elizabeth Hand

This Shirley Jackson Award–winning novel is “a true surreal phantasmagoria

. . . [a] gothic supernatural” horror story set in the decadent world of British rock (Chelsea Quinn Yarbro).  

The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall

By Budd Schulberg

“The quintessential novel of boxing and corruption.” (USA Today).

The Third Hill North of Town

The Third Hill North of Town

By Noah Bly

Three people take a road trip to Missouri in the early 1960s in “an eerie, haunting, beautifully realized novel populated by charming misfits and eccentrics” (Joseph Olshan, author of Cloudland).

The Last Gentleman

The Last Gentleman

By Walker Percy

National Book Award Finalist: A lonely Southerner forges a surprising bond with a New York family in this “brilliant” novel by the author of The Moviegoer (Time).

Spies

Spies

By Richard Ben Sapir

An FBI investigation of a German spy ring on American soil threatens to devastate lives, loves, and families forty years after the end of World War II

A Model World

A Model World

By Michael Chabon

A story collection from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, “one of his generation’s most eloquent new voices” (The New York Times).

The Nature of the Game

The Nature of the Game

By James Grady

An ex-CIA operative is on the run from his former employers in this “brutal, moving” thriller from the author of Six Days of the Condor (James Ellroy).

Murder in Georgetown

Murder in Georgetown

By Margaret Truman

New York Times Bestseller: The author of Murder at the FBI delivers a political thriller that “ends with several bangs” (Publishers Weekly).

Bloodlines

Bloodlines

By Bruce Ducker

A timely, suspenseful, and historically detailed novel about the nefarious dealings of people who profited from the Holocaust.

The Trespassers

The Trespassers

By Laura Z. Hobson

A World War II refugee family struggles to reach America in the debut novel from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Gentleman’s Agreement.

The Outsider

The Outsider

By Howard Fast

The New York Times–bestselling author of Spartacus evokes the postwar Jewish-American experience through the story of a compassionate but conflicted rabbi.

Midshipman's Hope

Midshipman's Hope

By David Feintuch

First in the military science fiction series that does “an excellent job of transferring Hornblower to interstellar space. A thoroughly enjoyable read” (David Drake).

Virgin

Virgin

By F. Paul Wilson

An international thriller about the search for Mary, the mother of Jesus, from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Repairman Jack novels.

Briggs Tanner Series

Briggs Tanner Series

By Grant Blackwood

The complete international spy thriller trilogy from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Tom Clancy Duty and Honor—"Pure fun. Pure adventure" (Clive Cussler).

Homeland

Homeland

By Clare Francis

In this “thoughtful, deeply atmospheric novel” by the author of Wolf Winter, a Polish refugee faces suspicion after a death in rural postwar England (Daily Mail).

Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon

By James Hilton

In this “engagingly written” international bestseller, survivors of a plane crash discover a peaceful paradise hidden in the Himalayas called Shangri-La (The New York Times).

Moving Mars

Moving Mars

By Greg Bear

A galaxy-altering scientific breakthrough on Mars inspires treachery and revolution, as the colony begins to rebel against Earth.

Exposure

Exposure

By Evelyn Anthony

An investigative reporter hired to expose corruption at the highest levels of the government uncovers a chilling link to World War II in this expertly crafted thriller

The Iron Tiger

The Iron Tiger

By Jack Higgins

A pilot’s struggle for survival against both nature and man from the international bestselling author of The Eagle Has Landed and The Midnight Bell.

Jig

Jig

By Campbell Armstrong

A British counterterrorism agent forms an extraordinary alliance with the IRA’s most skillful assassin in this international bestselling thriller. 

Comes the Dark Stranger

Comes the Dark Stranger

By Jack Higgins

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Midnight Bell delivers a searing novel of psychological suspense in which the past and present collide.

Snow White, Blood Red

Snow White, Blood Red

By Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling

Fairy tales retold—with a twist—from “some of our best storytellers” including Neil Gaiman, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and others (The Washington Post).

The Inside Ring

The Inside Ring

By Mike Lawson

This tale of political suspense was one of the Seattle Times's Top Ten Thrillers of the Year: "I couldn't put it down" (Vince Flynn).

The Second Perimeter

The Second Perimeter

By Mike Lawson

Washington fixer Joe DeMarco returns in a “highly readable” and “fast-paced” thriller that takes readers into the lethal world of international espionage (Publishers Weekly).

House Justice

House Justice

By Mike Lawson

In this “engaging” thriller, Washington, DC, insider Joe DeMarco is on the hunt for a mole deep in the shadows of US intelligence operations (Publishers Weekly).

House Rules

House Rules

By Mike Lawson

Panic grips Washington, DC, in this thriller featuring "a lightning-paced plot [and] a charmingly likeable character" (Tess Gerritsen).

Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway

By Virginia Woolf

A special edition of the “moving, revolutionary” novel about one day in a woman’s life (Michael Cunningham)—with extensive notes from a renowned Woolf scholar.

House Divided

House Divided

By Mike Lawson

Washington political fixer Joe DeMarco is caught in the middle of a silent war—in a thriller that “will make your heart race and your mind ponder” (Lisa Gardner, New York Times–bestselling author).

Under Siege

Under Siege

By Stephen Coonts

A fighter pilot races to stop a terrorist plot in Washington, DC, in this thriller by a New York Times–bestselling author hailed as "brilliant" by Tom Clancy.

Quantico Rules

Quantico Rules

By Gene Riehl

This thriller by an ex-FBI agent about a Supreme Court nominee and a high-level cover-up is “a must-read” (Harlan Coben).

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