Literary

Far from the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy – Standard Ebooks (February 21, 2019)

Far from the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy's novels to apply the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England, and the first to gain him widespread popularity as a novelist. When the beautiful...

Territory of Light

by Yuko Tsushima & Geraldine Harcourt – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (February 12, 2019)

From one of the most significant contemporary Japanese writers, a haunting, dazzling novel of loss and rebirth

“Yuko Tsushima is one of the most important Japanese writers of her generation.” —Foumiko Kometani,...

The Sisters Hemingway

by Annie England Noblin – William Morrow Paperbacks (February 12, 2019)

The Sisters Hemingway: they couldn’t be more different…or more alike.

The Hemingway Sisters of Cold River, Missouri are local legends. Raised by a mother obsessed with Ernest Hemingway, they were named after...

The Made-Up Man

by Joseph Scapellato – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (February 05, 2019)

Existential noir meets absurd comedy when a young man reluctantly enlists as source material for an art project

Stanley had known it was a mistake to accept his uncle Lech’s offer to apartment-sit in Prague—he’d...

The Peacock Feast

by Lisa Gornick – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (February 05, 2019)

From “one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America...immensely talented and brave” (Michael Schaub, NPR), a historical saga about love, class, and the past we never escape.

The...

The Glovemaker

by Ann Weisgarber – Skyhorse (February 05, 2019)

A Publishers Weekly starred review

In the inhospitable lands of the Utah Territory, during the winter of 1888, thirty-seven-year-old Deborah Tyler waits for her husband, Samuel, to return home from his travels...

Such Good Work

by Johannes Lichtman – Simon & Schuster (February 05, 2019)

A timely and provocative debut novel that Rivka Galchen calls “wisely comic and tremendously moving,” about a creative writing teacher whose efforts to stay sober land him in Malmö, Sweden, where drugs...

The Winter Sister

by Megan Collins – Atria Books (February 05, 2019)

In this spellbinding and suspenseful debut, a young woman haunted by the past returns home to care for her ailing mother and begins to dig deeper into her sister’s unsolved murder.

Sixteen years ago, Sylvie’s...

Bowlaway

by Elizabeth Mccracken – Ecco (February 05, 2019)

A sweeping and enchanting new novel from the widely beloved, award-winning author Elizabeth McCracken about three generations of an unconventional New England family who own and operate a candlepin bowling alley...

The Curiosities

by Susan Gloss – William Morrow Paperbacks (February 05, 2019)

The follow-up to Susan Gloss's successful debut, Vintage, is a charming mid-western story of artists, inspiration, and how to reinvent your life with purpose and flair.

Nell Parker has a PhD in Art History,...

At the Wolf's Table

by Rosella Postorino & Leah Janeczko – Flatiron Books (January 29, 2019)

The international bestseller based on a haunting true story that raises provocative questions about complicity, guilt, and survival.

They called it the Wolfsschanze, the Wolf’s Lair. “Wolf” was his nickname....

The Falconer

by Dana Czapnik – Atria Books (January 29, 2019)

A New York Times Editor's Choice Pick

O, The Oprah Magazine Reading Room #1 Pick for March

“[An] electric debut novel… Reader, beware: Spending time with Lucy is unapologetic fun, and heartbreak, and awe as...

The White Room

by Craig Higginson – St. Martin's Press (January 15, 2019)

From celebrated South African novelist and playwright Craig Higginson, an international literary tale of loss and love.

South African playwright Hannah Meade arrives in London for the opening night of her new...

The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill

by James Charlesworth – Skyhorse (January 15, 2019)

**ONE OF POPSUGAR'S “10 BOOKS BY DEBUT AUTHORS TO WATCH IN 2019”**

From a powerful new literary voice, a sweeping epic of one family and the destructive power of the American Dream

All their lives, the children...

Mala Vida

by Marc Fernandez & Molly Grogan – Arcade (January 15, 2019)

Finalist for the Readers ofElle Magazine's Grand Prize (France)

Winner of the Plaidoiries Prize for Best Crime Novel at the Festival Clameur(s) of Dijon

Almodóvar meets Orwell in this acclaimed, fast-paced...

Hark

by Sam Lipsyte – Simon & Schuster (January 15, 2019)

A brilliant send-up of our contemporary culture from Sam Lipsyte, the critically acclaimed author of Home Land, centered around an unwitting mindfulness guru and the phenomenon he initiates.

In an America convulsed...

Late in the Day

by Tessa Hadley – Harper (January 15, 2019)

Recommended by Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, Refinery29, The Millions, Book Riot, and Bookpage

“With each new book by Tessa Hadley, I grow more convinced that she’s one of the greatest stylists alive…....

Ghost Wall

by Sarah Moss – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (January 08, 2019)

A Southern Living Best New Book of Winter 2019; A Refinery29 Best Book of January 2019; A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 at The Week, Huffington Post, Nylon, and Lit Hub; An Indie Next Pick for January 2019

“...

Sugar Run

by Mesha Maren – Algonquin Books (January 08, 2019)

One of Entertainment Weekly’s Most Anticipated Books of 2019

“A heady admixture of explosive plot and taut, burnished prose . . . Mesha Maren writes like a force of nature.” —Lauren Groff, author of...

Looker

by Laura Sims – Scribner (January 08, 2019)

*Vogue’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2019”

*Entertainment Weekly’s “One of January’s Hottest Reads”

*Literary Hub’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2019”

*Southern Living’s “Best New Books...

Half of What You Hear

by Kristyn Kusek Lewis – Harper Paperbacks (December 31, 2018)

From well-loved women’s fiction writer Kristyn Kusek Lewis comes a breakout novel about a woman moving to a small community and uncovering the many secrets that hide behind closed doors—perfect for fans...

House Made of Dawn [50th Anniversary Ed]

by N. Scott Momaday – Harper Perennial Modern Classics (December 18, 2018)

The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a stranger in his native land

“Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A book everyone should...

Four Mothers

by Shifra Horn & Dalya Bilu – St. Martin's Press (December 18, 2018)

Shifra Horn's beautifully imagined novel tells the story of five generations of women in one family against the backdrop of one hundred years in Jerusalem.

The story begins with the birth of the family's first...

In Our Mad and Furious City

by Guy Gunaratne – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (December 11, 2018)

Long-listed for the 2018 Man Booker Prize

Short-listed for the 2018 Gordon Burn Prize

Short-listed for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize

Inspired by the real-life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics,...

Persuasion

by Jane Austen – Standard Ebooks (December 05, 2018)

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finishedEmma and completed it in August 1816. She died, aged 41, in 1817; Persuasion was published in December of that year (but...

Milkman

Man Booker Prize 2018

by Anna Burns – Graywolf Press (December 04, 2018)

Winner of the Man Booker Prize

“Everything about this novel rings true. . . . Original, funny, disarmingly oblique and unique.”—The Guardian

In an unnamed city, middle sister stands out for the wrong reasons....

The Last Good Chance

by Tom Barbash – Ecco (December 04, 2018)

In this captivating first novel, a young man’s plan to revitalize his hometown leads four of its inhabitants down alternating paths of desire and deceit

When the charismatic Jack Lambeau returns to his hometown...

The Dakota Winters

by Tom Barbash – Ecco (December 04, 2018)

An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City’s famed Dakota apartment building in the year leading up to John Lennon’s assassination

It’s the fall of 1979...

Come with Me

by Helen Schulman – Harper (November 27, 2018)

Recommended by Vogue, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Skimm, The BBC, Southern Living, Pure Wow, Hey Alma, Esquire, EW, Refinery 29, Bust, and Read It or Weep

A New York Post Best Book of the Week

“Mind-blowingly...

Hazards of Time Travel

by Joyce Carol Oates – Ecco (November 27, 2018)

An ingenious, dystopian novel of one young woman’s resistance against the constraints of an oppressive society, from the inventive imagination of Joyce Carol Oates

“Time travel” — and its hazards—are...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll – Standard Ebooks (November 21, 2018)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down...

 A Marriage in Four Seasons

by Kathryn Abdul-baki – She Writes Press (November 20, 2018)

After a devastating stillbirth and longing for a second child, English professor Joy explores Granada, Spain, hoping to ease her heartbreak and rekindle her relationship with her husband, Richard. Instead, their...

Tentacle

by Rita Indiana & Achy Obejas – And Other Stories (November 15, 2018)

Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a Santería prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean –...

Pulp: the must read inspiring LGBT novel from the award winning author Robin Talley

by Robin Talley – HQ Young Adult (November 13, 2018)

From the award-winning author Robin Talley comes an inspiring new novel about the power of love to fight prejudice and hate.

Two women connected across generations through the power of words.

In 1955 eighteen-year-old...

Muck

by Dror Burstein & Gabriel Levin – Farrar, Straus and Giroux (November 13, 2018)

“Those who lament that the novel has lost its prophecy should pay heed and cover-price: Muck is the future, both of Jerusalem and of literature. God is showing some rare good taste, by choosing to speak to...

The Three Button Trick And Other Stories

by Nicola Barker – Ecco (November 13, 2018)

Nicola Barker weaves humor and tragedy through this fresh and original collection, as her characters struggle to find love, independence, and fulfillment in this new addition to the Ecco Art of the Story series...

Limetown

by Cote Smith, Zack Akers & Skip Bronkie – Simon & Schuster (November 13, 2018)

From the creators of the #1 podcast Limetown, an explosive prequel about a teenager who learns of a mysterious research facility where over three hundred people have disappeared—including her uncle—with...

The Chief of Rally Tree

by Jennifer Boyden – Skyhorse (November 06, 2018)

Dina’s gone. She left a note, she left her plants, and she left what her husband, Roal, thought was her entire world. Nothing remained but some frozen dinners and the mysterious last line of her final message:...

City of Ash and Red

by Hye-young Pyun & Sora Kim-Russell – Arcade (November 06, 2018)

NAMED AN NPR GREAT READ OF 2018

From the Shirley Jackson Award–winning author of The Hole, a Kafkaesque tale of crime and punishment hailed by Korea’s Wall Street Journal as “an airtight masterpiece.”...

The Voyage Out

by Virginia Woolf – Standard Ebooks (November 06, 2018)

Miss Rachel Vinrace, aged twenty-four and previously interested only in music, is on a voyage both literal and metaphorical. An ocean cruise with her father leaves her for the summer at her Aunt’s villa in...

Jeeves and the King of Clubs

by Ben Schott – Little, Brown and Company (November 06, 2018)

The misadventures of P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster and his incomparable valet, Jeeves, have delighted audiences for nearly a century. Now, bestselling author Ben Schott brings this odd couple back to life...

Unholy Land

by Lavie Tidhar – Tachyon Publications (November 06, 2018)

The author of the critically acclaimed, Campbell Award-winning Central Station returns with a subversive new novel evoking The Yiddish Policemen's Union and The City and the City.

When pulp-fiction writer Lior...

I Am PNG - Ethel Lives In Wonggarr

by Nathalie Aigil – Library For All (November 02, 2018)

My name is Ethel and I am from Wonggar in the Madang Province. The I Am PNG series introduces readers to children from all around Papua New Guinea. We are all different, but we have lots of things in common,...

Martha Fellows’ Marvellous Marshmallows

by Kayt Duncan – Library For All (November 02, 2018)

Martha loves having marshmallows when she goes camping! But she has to learn how to cook them just right. Reading Level 4 Books That Travel Collection Keywords: food; family; camping; fire

Slip of a Fish

Northern Book Prize 2018

by Amy Arnold – And Other Stories (November 01, 2018)

Ash collects words, climbs trees and swims in a deserted lake with her beloved seven-year-old, Charlie. Bemused by everyday life, she has a rich and singular interior world. Over the course of a relentlessly...

Crocodile

by Daniel Shand – Sandstone Press (November 01, 2018)

It’s the summer before high school and Chloe is being sent away. Her mother can’t cope and needs something that her daughter cannot provide. All Chloe wants is to get away from her grandparents and back...

Snowflakes and Cinnamon Swirls at the Winter Wonderland

by Heidi Swain – Simon & Schuster UK (November 01, 2018)

***The sparkling new Christmas novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author Heidi Swain!***

'The most delicious slice of festive fiction: a true comfort read and the perfect Christmas treat to alleviate...

Elevation

by Stephen King – Scribner (October 30, 2018)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together—a...

Family Trust

by Kathy Wang – William Morrow (October 30, 2018)

Some of us are more equal than others....

Meet Stanley Huang: father, husband, ex-husband, man of unpredictable tastes and temper, aficionado of all-inclusive vacations and bargain luxury goods, newly diagnosed...

In Every Wave

by Quimper Charles & Guil Lefebvre – Qc Fiction (October 29, 2018)

A man loses his daughter while swimming one summer. This little gem of a novella–sad and beautiful and spellbinding all at once–is the tale of how he strives to be reunited with her again, whether back home...