đź“– For prose that lingers long after the last page.
These are the books that make you think, feel, and maybe even dog-ear a page or two (despite your principles). Lush writing, layered characters, and lasting impact.
A coming-of-age classic about two Jewish boys growing up in Brooklyn in the 1940s, this “profound and universal” (The Wall Street Journal) story of faith, family, tradition, and assimilation remains deeply pertinent today. “Works of this caliber should be occasion for...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER 2023 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Winner Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a mystery that will haunt the survivors, unravel a...
The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that "explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building" (Publishers Weekly). In an elegant hôtel particulier in Paris, Renée, the concierge, is all but invisible—short, plump, middle-aged, with...
Nordic Tales is a collection of 16 traditional tales from the enchanting world of Nordic folklore. Translated and transcribed by folklorists in the 19th century, these stories are at once magical, hilarious, cozy, and chilling. Welcome to a world of mystical...
2021 Annie McDonnell Memorial Literary Award Finalist 2020 Chanticleer International Book Awards Finalist for Paranormal Division 2020 Publisher's Weekly BookLife Prize Quarter Finalist for Fiction 2020 Readers' Favorite Book Awards Silver Medalist for Paranormal...
Remarkable, hilarious, and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by the bestselling author of Infinite Jest, "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent" (The New York Times Book Review).David Foster Wallace was one of America's most prodigiously talented and original...
The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous...
A woman reflects on the history of her small rural Southern town, and her family's legacy within it, in this "beautiful and mythic" literary novel (Daniel Wallace).An Honorable Mention for the Southern Book PrizeJanie Treeborne lives on an orchard at the edge of...
Pulitzer Prize Finalist From the bestselling author of The Circle and The Eyes and the Impossibles comes the “profoundly moving, occasionally angry, and often hilarious” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir chronicling Dave Eggers’s life after losing both of his...
“A small treasure of a book . . . part of a long line that descends from Chaucer to Katherine Mansfield to William Trevor.” —Chicago TribuneThis charming collection features seven evocative short stories “filled with gentle humor” about the life and times of a...