Fiction

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Updated August 22, 2025
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If You Love It, Let It Kill You
Hannah Pittard
Paper Book
Recommended Summer Reading according to The New York Times, Elle, Zibby Owens, and the Minnesota Star Tribune "A dishy work of autofiction that everyone will be talking about." --The New York Times A refreshingly...
The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK A USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, celebrated for two prior Oprah Book Club selections, returns with an exceptional third pick, a...
Creation Lake
Rachel Kushner
Paper Book
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION* *AN INSTANTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BYTHE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ATLANTIC, VULTURE, VOGUE, THE...
Playground
Richard Powers
Paper Book
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first...
The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong
Paper Book
The instant New York Times bestseller * Oprah's Book Club Pick * Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive "Stunning . . . A heartfelt and powerful examination of those...
These Days
Lucy Caldwell
Ebook
WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION WINNER OF THE E. M. FORSTER AWARD AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4s BOOK AT BEDTIME Two sisters. Four nights. One City. April, 1941. Belfast...
The Hounding: A Novel
Xenobe Purvis
Paper Book
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Pick * Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by NPR, TIME, LitHub, Paste, and PopVerse * The Crucible meets The Virgin Suicides in this haunting debut about five sisters in a...
Flashlight
Susan Choi
Paper Book
Long-listed for the Booker Prize "The first major American novel to be published this year." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "Gorgeous . . . Almost impossibly heartbreaking." --Sam Worley, New York Magazine A...
Run for the Hills
Kevin Wilson
Paper Book
"A touching and generous romp of a novel . . . Wilson makes a bold and convincing case that every real family is one you have to find and, at some point, choose, even if it's the one you're born into." -- New York Times Book Review An unexpected road trip across America...
The Doorman
Chris Pavone
Paper Book
A pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats. Chicky Diaz is everyone's favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world, home of...
Black Woods, Blue Sky
Eowyn Ivey
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Snow Child returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question: Can love save us from ourselves? "No one writes like Eowyn Ivey."--Geraldine Brooks ...
The Poppy Fields
Nikki Erlick
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit The Measure--a runaway bestseller and a Read with Jenna TODAY Show pick--comes a stunning speculative story of healing, self-discovery, forgiveness, and found friendship. "This ambitious novel tells a speculative...
Rabbit Moon: A Novel
Jennifer Haigh
Paper Book
A tense, propulsive drama set in Shanghai, about a fractured American family, secret lives, and the unbreakable bond between two sisters, from the New York Times bestselling author of Mercy Street   Four years after...
The Homemade God
Rachel Joyce
Paper Book
With sparkling wit and insight, this "gorgeous . . . page-turner" (People) from the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry reminds us that family is everything, even when it falls apart. "The beautiful writing, unforgettable characters, and...
The Correspondent
Virginia Evans
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Discover the word-of-mouth hit hailed by Ann Patchett as "a cause for celebration"--an intimate novel about the transformative power of the written word and the beauty of slowing down to reconnect with the people we love. "I cried more than once as I...
The Usual Desire to Kill
Camilla Barnes
Time of the Child
Niall Williams
My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Isabel Allende
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In this "stunning" (People), "riveting" (Entertainment Weekly) historical novel, a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth about her father--and herself. "All of Allende's books, My Name Is Emilia del Valle...
The Paris Express
Emma Donoghue
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling and "soul-stirring" (Oprah Daily) author of Room, a sweeping historical "nail-biter" (People) of a novel about the infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station. Based on an 1895...
O Sinners!: A Novel
Nicole Cuffy
In this "engrossing" (Los Angeles Times) novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back, a grieving young man is drawn into the orbit of a charismatic cult leader who forces him to reconsider why people give up control--and what it takes, ultimately, to find one...
Far and Away: A Novel
Amy Poeppel
Where the Rivers Merge: A Novel
Mary Alice Monroe
Paper Book
USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Wade into the Lowcountry of South Carolina with Mary Alice Monroe's sweeping Southern epic."--People "This is book club fiction at its finest!" --Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author From the New York Times bestselling author, the...
A Family Matter
Claire Lynch
Show Don't Tell
Curtis Sittenfeld
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The bestselling author of Eligible and Romantic Comedy "blends acerbic wit, shrewd insight and sharp-eyed observation [in this] bravura collection" (The Washington Post), including a story that revisits the main character from her iconic novel Prep<...
The Antidote
Karen Russell
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five...
Good Dirt
Charmaine Wilkerson
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick "Engrossing . . . Wilkerson...
Mothers and Sons
Adam Haslett
Paper Book
A mother and son, estranged for years, must grapple with the shared secret that drove their lives apart in this enthralling story about family, forgiveness, and how a fleeting act of violence can change a life forever, by "one of the country's most talented writers" (Wall Street Journal)<...
Heartwood
Amity Gaige
Paper Book
"The best thriller of 2025." --The Boston Globe * "Genius." --The Washington Post "A literary thriller of the highest order" (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Couple), Heartwood takes you on a gripping journey as a...
Rooms for Vanishing: A Novel
Stuart Nadler
Paper Book
A prismatic mind-bending epic about the splintering of a family into different worlds Everyone had been survived into different futures and I would never see any of them again. I could sense this. I would hear them in their separate rooms, within their separate lives, but...
Old School Indian: A Novel
Aaron John Curtis
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * INDIE NEXT PICK "[An] entrancing new voice . . . Aaron John Curtis will be your new literary obsession." --Marion Winik, The Boston Globe "An inspired novel by an author whose voice...
The Float Test: A Novel
Lynn Steger Strong
Paper Book
"What I loved most about The Float Test is the sense of place. ... The adult children of the family gather on the hot ground of their childhood following their mother's death, where they try to untangle decades of betrayals and sorrow, and reclaim their sense of home." -- Ann Napolitano, New York...
Stop Me If You've Heard This One
Kristen Arnett
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things, a sparkling and funny new novel of entertainment, ambition, art, and love. A TODAY SHOW SPRING PICK "Sweet, sexy, sad, articulate, and funny." - Vogue "As much heart...
What Will People Think?
Sara Hamdan
Paper Book
Mia's secret comedy career, forbidden office crush, and a long-guarded family secret take center stage, threatening her newfound confidence and her one shot at fame in this hilarious, heartfelt coming-of-age story perfect for fans of Curtis Sittenfeld and Etaf Rum. Mia Almas...
Three Days in June
Anne Tyler
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant classic: a socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding. "What a treat." --Washington Post "Simply exquisite." --Liane...
Dream State
Eric Puchner
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK "The story of relationships built and broken, mistakes inherited and repeated, and the beauty of trying again....already one of the year's best." -People Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her...
All That Life Can Afford
Emily Everett
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "An effervescent debut chock full of Austenian nods. Swoonworthy!" --Sarah McCoy, New York Times bestselling author of Mustique Island "All That Life Can Afford is about love, ambition, and the cost of belonging, and I cannot...
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