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An enchanting, highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the world--part travelogue, part memoir, part "excursions through death," by the author of Our Share of Night and "queen of horror" (Los Angeles Times) "Not a travelogue so much as a...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade--about a woman questioning her place in the world, wavering between stasis and movement, between the need to...

"Cats, books, young love, and adventure: catnip for a variety of readers!" --Kirkus Reviews "Whimsical and wise."--Shelf Awareness The long-awaited sequel to the #1 international bestseller The Cat Who Saved Books--an uplifting tale from Japan about a talking cat, a book-loving...

Historical fiction meets crime fiction in The Djinn's Apple, an award-winning YA murder mystery set in the Abbasid period--the golden age of Baghdad. A ruthless murder. A magical herb. A mysterious manuscript. When Nardeen's home is stormed by angry...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The groundbreaking Korean phenomenon that Entertainment Weekly called "The Hunger Games meets Squid Game"--now in English for the first time! A COSMOPOLITAN BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK OF THE YEAR * A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST...

A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century masterpiece of satire and fantasy, in a newly revised version of the acclaimed Pevear and Volokhonsky translation Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. One spring...

Now a major motion picture A Man Called Otto starring Tom Hanks! #1 New York Times bestseller--more than 3 million copies sold! Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon--the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside...

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, NPR * The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth * Rome--metropolis and monument, suspended between past and...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From Mieko Kawakami, award-winning author of Breasts and Eggs, comes a bold novel of sacrifice and the tumultuous bonds of sisterhood, set in the gritty Tokyo of the 1990s. "I have a feeling I won't forget Hana, perpetually running up life's down...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN FICTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * A haunting, unforgettable collection of tales by Samanta Schweblin, winner of the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature and three-time Booker Prize finalist "The stories of...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence. "Deeply rewarding . . . a dreamscape with a powerful undertow . . . [a]...

SOON TO BE A MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY DIEGO LUNA An arrestingly beautiful, award-winning novel about separation, migration, and love left behind. Alone and adrift in Barcelona, an unnamed narrator is haunted by the death of her teenage brother, Diego....

INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE LONGLIST NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST--THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2025--THE WALL STREET JOURNAL 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2025--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 2025 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR--CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST BOOKS OF 2025 --THE NEW YORK TIMES "The...

WINNER OF THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE WINNER OF THE 2026 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NBCC GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be...