📖 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 famous architect struggling with a crisis of faith escapes to a leper colony in the Congo, in Graham Greene's "greatest novel" ( Time ). Querry is a world-renowned architect noted for his magnificent churches, each designed not for the glory of God, but for the...
"One of the best Italian novels of the year" in a pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante's translator ( Huffington Post , Italy). Winner of the Campiello Prize A 2019 Best Book of the Year ( The Washington Post Kirkus Reviews Dallas...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection • The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story w ith this brilliantly imagined novel . Includes a foreword by the author and a new introduction...
A young female artist faces poverty, sexism, and a marriage gone awry in this “tragic, comic, and completely bonkers” novel set in Depression-era London ( The Observer ). “I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was . . . Quite simply,...
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE • Megha Majumdar’s electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning , is set in a near-future...
" A quietly devastating novel about a mother's attempt to survive after the murder of her 16-year-old son." — Booklist From the author of the critically acclaimed A Cupboard Full of Coats , a provocative and timely novel about a mother's search for meaning and hope in...
A tale of family secrets and the damaging corruption of the British legal system from the author of Great Expectations and Oliver Twist . In Bleak House , Charles Dickens not only pries apart the stultifying and ponderous conduct and contracts of British moneyed...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “A great narrative about personal strength and really captures how books bring communities together.” —Reese Witherspoon From the author of the forthcoming Someone Else’s Shoes , a breathtaking story of five...
A 2025 CALIBA Golden Poppy Awards Finalist A PANTS POD BOOK CLUB PICK One of ELLE's Best Queer Books of 2025 "Jam-packed with queer angst and queer joy . . . and a truly incredible amount of heart. I devoured this novel." —Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling...
A young woman must learn to love and trust again after experiencing the brutality of ritual servitude in West Africa. —Longlisted for the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction —A Black Caucus of the American Library Association 2019 Honor title, Fiction "McFadden, writer of...