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.
Featuring an exclusive excerpt from Kate Quinn's next incredible historical novel, THE HUNTRESSNEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER#1 GLOBE AND MAIL HISTORICAL FICTION BESTSELLEROne of NPR's Best Books of the Year!One of Bookbub's Biggest Historical Fiction Books of...
A New York Times bestseller, The Silver Linings Playbook was adapted into the Oscar-winning movie starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. It tells the riotous and poignant story of how one man regains his memory and comes to terms with the magnitude of his...
This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable. “A beautifully crafted novel of international significance that has the capacity to have us...
Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize: A literary mystery about a black jazz musician vanishing in Berlin on the eve of World War II.A Man Booker Prize FinalistAn O, The Oprah Magazine Best Book of the YearShortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for...
In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now available in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition One of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, this fictionalized autobiography of...
"...gem of a novel..." -Lorna Landvik, Last Circle of Love"...beautifully written story..." -Robert Alexander, The Kitchen Boy"... deft touch of a master storyteller..." -Greg Fields, Through the Waters and the Wild"An entertaining debut." -Sarah Stonich,...
"So good, so damn compulsively readable, that I can hardly believe it." —Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly In his stunning follow-up to the #1 best-selling House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus draws us into the lives of three deeply flawed, driven people whose paths...
Forty years after its original publication, James Agee's last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man's death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then...
"Stripped-down . . . sentences burn with the raw, lonesome pathos of Hank Williams's best songs," in an Oprah's book club pick about married life in Appalachia (The New York Times Book Review).Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times...
A Penguin ClassicIn his first novel to follow the publication of his enormous success, The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck’s vision comes wonderfully to life in this imaginative and unsentimental chronicle of a bus traveling California’s back roads, transporting the lost...