literary fiction

Nine people arrive at a boutique wellness retreat hoping for transformation, but the mysterious director has plans they never could have imagined.

A blind French girl and a German boy's paths converge in occupied France during World War II in this luminous, devastating novel.

A hitman with a moral code takes one last job, but when he's double-crossed, his plans for a quiet retirement turn into a quest for vengeance and redemption.

A graduate student discovers a mysterious book that leads him to an ancient underground library where stories come alive and fate hangs in the balance.

A letter from a son to his Vietnamese mother who cannot read, exploring their family's history of violence, addiction, and the search for beauty.

In Nigeria, a mother must uncover the truth behind her son's death—a truth that reveals who Vivek truly was and the people who loved him.

When Griffin's first love dies, he must confront his grief alongside Theo's last boyfriend - the person who replaced him.

When an old scandal threatens to destroy their family, three generations of women must confront secrets, betrayals, and the fierce bonds that hold them together.

Connell and Marianne weave in and out of each other's lives from small-town Ireland to Trinity College Dublin in this intense exploration of love and class.

A man returns to his childhood home and remembers a terrifying, magical adventure with the mysterious girl who lived at the end of his lane.

Two years after her husband's death, Lisey Landon begins to confront the dark secrets of their marriage and the fantastical world he kept hidden.

In 1970s West Texas, the aftermath of a violent crime exposes the fault lines in a small oil town and tests the bonds between its women.

The only Latin novel to survive in its entirety, following a young man transformed into a donkey who witnesses the follies and vices of Roman society.

One of China's Four Great Classical Novels, following 108 outlaws who gather at Mount Liang to form a righteous army against corrupt officials.

A short, heartwarming tale about a man who is losing weight without changing size, and how his condition brings a divided community together.

A sharp social commentary wrapped in a page-turning story about a young Black woman caught between her white employer and her white boyfriend, both with their own ideas about what she should be.

A haunting novel about the mysterious death of a young woman on a Caribbean island vacation and her sister's obsessive quest for truth years later.

A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone wrong.

A riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives.

A genre-defying novel exploring the aftermath of a rumor about a high school party, told through multiple perspectives and forms, questioning the nature of truth and storytelling itself.

An adult Scout returns to Maycomb, Alabama, and must grapple with her father Atticus's views on race in this controversial novel, written before To Kill a Mockingbird.

The great American novel follows Huck Finn and escaped slave Jim as they travel down the Mississippi River, exploring themes of race, freedom, and morality in antebellum America.

A lyrical masterpiece following Macon "Milkman" Dead III as he journeys from Michigan to the South to uncover his family history, discovering the power of heritage and the meaning of flight.

A newly retired teacher in Edinburgh navigates disappointing online dates and her underachieving adult son - until an impossible secret threatens to upend everything: Pamela is pregnant, and she has no idea how.

A woman on a grand jury hears the case of a retired teacher brutally raped by her former student. As three perspectives interweave - victim, accused, and juror - the story becomes an unflinching examination of moral uncertainty.

A boy survives a terrorist bombing at an art museum that kills his mother, and in the chaos, steals a priceless painting that becomes both his solace and his burden. Donna Tartt's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic about loss, art, and the search for meaning.

A dual-timeline story connecting two women - one in 1924 Louisiana fighting to keep her land, and one in modern times struggling to save her family home - explores themes of race, land ownership, and generational trauma. An ambitious literary novel about heritage and resistance.

Nobel Prize winner José Saramago reimagines the biblical story of Cain, using his journey through time to question religious doctrine and explore themes of justice, morality, and the nature of God. A provocative philosophical novel that challenges traditional narratives.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that weaves together interconnected stories about a group of characters connected to the music industry, exploring themes of time, memory, and aging through an innovative narrative structure.

In the summer of 1944, a polio epidemic sweeps through Newark's Jewish community. Playground director Bucky Cantor watches helplessly as children in his care fall ill - then flees to a mountain camp where he believes he brings the disease with him, destroying his life with guilt.

On the night a famous actor dies performing King Lear in Toronto, a deadly flu pandemic begins. Twenty years later, a traveling theater troupe performs Shakespeare for scattered survivors - and one of them carries a mysterious comic book given to her by the actor the night he died.

A stunning portrait of a geisha's life in pre-war and wartime Japan. Through the eyes of Sayuri, we witness the beauty, artistry, and complex world of geisha culture.

A coming-of-age story set in the Midwest after 9/11. Tassie Keltjin takes a job as a nanny and finds herself drawn into a complex family dynamic that challenges her understanding of race, identity, and belonging.