📖 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.
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The beloved Southern Gothic classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century."A remarkable book…From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and...
This novel of a family secret revealed as a famous painter nears the end of her life is a "heart-lifting testament to the power of memory and love and art" (Margaret Renkl, author of Late Migrations).Ninety-three-year-old Violet Swan has spent a lifetime translating...
Now published in the United States for the first time—an early novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes.Isabel Delancey, a classical violinist, has always taken her comfortable life for granted....
“Slumdog Millionaire meets Ratatouille” (The New York Times Book Review) in this foodie novel set in Europe that’s “delicious fairytale-like read” (NPR) about family, nationality, and the mysteries of good taste.Born above his grandfather’s modest restaurant in...
An astonishing debut about a teenage girl in 1970s Brazil who is torn away from her twin sister—and who must learn what it means to fight for those she loves when all the odds are stacked against her.“I hesitate to call anything this beautiful ‘magic.’ It’s more than...
A “splendidly intelligent and entertaining” (NPR) novel that boldly reimagines one of history’s most intriguing relationships: between legendary philosopher Aristotle and his most famous pupil, the young Alexander the GreatIn development as the Netflix original...
A hostile mother-daughter relationship stands at the center of this astonishing, blackly humorous novel by the acclaimed author of First Love.Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places, a...
"Deeply felt and evocative. . . . Alive with characters and unafraid to examine ambiguous emotional complexities, this a moving debut." —Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Interestings and BelzharSpanning seventy years and several continents, this...
From the Nobel Prize winner, a coming-of-age story that illuminates the harshness and beauty of an Africa on the brink of colonization."[Gurnah's novels] recoil from stereotypical descriptions and open our gaze to a culturally diversified East Africa unfamiliar to...
AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLERA captivating new historical novel from Madeline Martin, set in Victorian London about a forbidden book club, dangerous secrets, and the women who dare to break free.You are cordially invited to the Secret Book Society… London, 1895:...
