Literary Fiction

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER OVER 120 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE PUBLISHED IN 89 LANGUAGES “Teaches us about dreams, destiny, and the reason we are all here.”—Oprah Daily, “Best Self-Help Books of a Generation” A spellbinding audio presentation of the extraordinary...

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has....

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere....

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK A USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, celebrated for two prior Oprah Book Club selections, returns with an exceptional third pick, a propulsive novel following a young father grappling with unbearable...

A new recording of Ray Bradbury’s timeless classic Fahrenheit 451 narrated by Penn Badgley! Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its...

Marlowe and Harper share a bond deeper than most sisters, shaped by the loss of their mother in childhood. For Harper, living with what she calls the Up syndrome and gifted with an endless capacity for wonder, Marlowe and she are connected by an invisible thread....

A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Monaro.

Pre-order Evie Woods’ new book The Violin Maker’s Secret now, out in February 2026! The Echo of Old Books meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets. ‘The thing about books,’ she said ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and...

Flynn was only a teenager when her parents were killed in a terrible accident. Too young to lose her parents, too young to take on responsibility for her younger sister Kaiya, too young to protect Kaiya from the harshness of their new lives in the following years....

On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason....

Six years after four family members died of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods live together in pleasant isolation. But one day a stranger arrives....

Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are unquestionably two of the greatest epic masterpieces in Western literature....

Meghann Dontess is a woman haunted by heartbreak. Twenty-five years ago she was forced to make a terrible choice, one that cost her everything, including the love of her sister, Claire....

The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier....

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s beloved novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award–nominee The Shawshank Redemption—about an unjustly imprisoned convict who seeks a strangely satisfying revenge, is available as a...

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959....

2007 Audie Award Finalist for Solo Narration—Male *Winner of the Pulitzer Prize* “A beautiful tale, awash in the seasalt and sweat, bait and beer of the Havana coast. It tells a fundamental human truth: in a volatile world, from our first breath to our last wish, through triumphs and...

From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, a powerful novel that explores the unbreakable bond between parent and child, and questions whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime—or if your mistakes are carried forever. Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Aimee Lou Wood, star of Netflix's Sex Education. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night...

Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Small Great Things, pens her most riveting book yet with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy. Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its...

One day, 14-year-old Sophie finds two notes in her mailbox: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that beginning, she becomes obsessed with philosophical questions....

A Stunning Novel of Hope and Redemption Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse...

The acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author presents a spellbinding tale of a mother's tragic loss and one man's last chance at gaining salvation. Can we save ourselves, or do we rely on others to do it? Is what we believe always the truth? One moment June Nealon was happily looking...

When nineteen-year-old farmgirl Adelaide Hoffman applies for a cadetship at the Gunnawah Gazette, she sees it as her ticket out of a life too small for her. The paper's owner, Valdene Bullark, seeing something of the girl she once was in young Adelaide, puts her straight to work...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult comes a compelling and “multilayered tale of small-town intrigue” (Glamour) about a prep schoolteacher accused of rape by a group of young girls, the woman who stands by him, and the repercussions of the case in a New England town where...

Dickens wrote into life some of the most beloved and well-known characters in the history of English literature, introducing us to Pip, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Little Nell, Scrooge, Nicholas Nickleby, Miss Haversham, and many more who have lived in the imagination of generations of readers and listeners. In this definitive and beautifully curated collection, you discover not only Dickens’s most loved classics, but also hear a short introduction to his life and body of work from Dr Pete Orford.

世界最高峰のミステリー文学賞　英国推理作家協会賞　ダガー賞　翻訳小説部門受賞作。世界が息を呑んだ最狂のシスター・バイオレンス・アクション！

Dramatisations of Calvino’s most famous works, starring Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook, plus bonus programmes Italo Calvino was one of the 20th Century's great experimenters, who consistently pushed the boundaries of literature. His works ranged from fantasy and science fiction to folktales...

'A novelist who has a gift for conveying the charm of the ordinary' Irish Independent on Number One bestselling author Roisin Meaney As opening night nears for a local amateur production, the cast begin to realise that the real drama is taking place off-stage -- and in life there's no such thing...

Des années plus tard, des Blancs se sont installés dans son village du Groenland. Le comptoir qu'ils ont ouvert modifie le quotidien des Inuits. Mais la jeune femme aux yeux pétillants n'a qu'une envie : participer à leurs expéditions. En 1921, Arnarulunguaq ose, et part en traîneau à travers le Grand Nord avec le charismatique Knud Rasmussen, à la rencontre des peuples d'au-delà de la mer.

'You walk and the harvest moon casts the clearest of shadows. You are nervous. With a moon like that, it is not a night for escaping. It is a night made better for hunting runaway girls.' Himalayas: Unknown Year 'Ten thousand strands of trouble', says Bird's father, watching as Bird's sister braids her hair. On the eve of her 14th year, that trouble finds Bird. Fleeing her home to escape an arranged marriage, she attempts to vanish into a crowd of pilgrims – not knowing that violence is circling, and that it already has its eyes on her.

百人を超える死者を出した列車事故。原因は、踏切内に進入した飲酒運転の車だった。危険運転致死傷罪はまだなく、運転していた男の刑期はたったの五年。目の前で死んでいった顔見知りの女子高生、失った自分の右腕。元駅員は復讐を心に誓うが……（表題作）。

「開け，ゴマ」の呪文で有名な「アリババと，女奴隷に殺された四十人の盗賊の話」，魔法の馬に乗って空を飛び，ベンガルの王女に出会ったペルシアの王子の話，美しい妖精と結婚した王子の話，

都下郊外の大型商業施設において重大死傷事故が発生した。死者69名、負傷者116名、未だ原因を特定できず――多数の被害者、目撃者が招喚されるが、ことごとく食い違う証言。防犯ビデオに写っていたのは何か？

Le jour où sa femme disparaît inexplicablement, la vie de Toru Okada bascule – et emporte avec elle les repères du monde. C'est dans une réalité qui s'enfuit sous d'excentriques mirages que le jeune homme s'éveille un matin. Un théâtre d'ombres débutant par de mystérieux coups de téléphone, et où se croisent peu à peu des êtres déroutants, inclassables, aux confins d'un univers guidé par le chant d'un oiseau à ressort.

Set in post-First World War Britain, Woolf’s masterpiece follows Clarissa Dalloway, a vivacious yet self-reflective upper-class woman, through a single day in her life. Preparing for a party that very evening, Clarissa keeps busy by moving through the streets of London, her thoughts drifting between past and present, revealing lost loves, secret regrets and the quiet ache of grief. Interwoven with Clarissa’s narrative is that of Septimus Warren Smith, a war veteran who suffers terribly from his traumatic past. As their two lives tangentially cross...

»Frohes neues Jahr und eine gute Jagd« Der legendäre Privatdetektiv Nigel Strangeways verbringt die Silvesternacht in einem stattlichen Herrenhaus aus dem achtzehnten Jahrhundert im ländlichen England. Doch während überall im Land die Menschen das neue Jahr einläuten, läuft ihm die Zeit davon – denn das Leben eines Kindes steht auf dem Spiel. Nigel Strangeways reist auf Bitte der britischen Regierung über die Weihnachtsferien ins verschneite Südengland, um den Professor Alfred Wragby und seine Familie zu schützen.

Aaron Umber fällt es schwer, Nähe zuzulassen. Ein traumatisches Erlebnis in seiner Kindheit steht noch immer zwischen ihm und den Dingen, die er sich am sehnlichsten wünscht: Vertrauen, Liebe, Zärtlichkeit. Auf einer gemeinsamen Flugreise, zehntausend Meter über der Erde, erkennt er, dass sein Hang zur Einsamkeit auf seinen Sohn Emmett abzufärben droht. Schließlich fasst er sich ein Herz und spricht über das, was ihm widerfahren ist. Denn in der Enge des Flugzeugs gibt es kein Entkommen vor den Geistern seiner Vergangenheit.

Sur une plage éclairée par la lune, un père syrien berce son fils endormi en attendant l'aube et l'arrivée d'un bateau. Il lui parle des longs étés de son enfance, de la ville de Homs telle qu'elle était avec ses ruelles bondées et son grand souk avant que le ciel se mette à cracher des bombes. Lorsque le soleil se lèvera, ils rassembleront leurs affaires, comme tous ceux autour d'eux, et embarqueront pour une traversée maritime périlleuse en quête d'un nouveau foyer.

Als Chirurgin an einer Londoner Klinik rettet Freya täglich Leben. Die Spezialistin für Hauttransplantationen hilft Brandopfern, engagiert sich für Nachwuchsmediziner und genießt ihren gesellschaftlichen Status. Doch hinter der Fassade der erfolgreichen Einzelgängerin schwelt eine düstere Vergangenheit. Tag für Tag fürchtet Freya, entdeckt zu werden. Denn seit sie als Kind einem üblen Streich zweier Spielkameraden zum Opfer gefallen ist, führt sie einen Rachefeldzug gegen die Unschuld.

名プロデューサー・菊池寛時代が求めた男・菊池寛！話題の書籍、待望の文庫化決定！！大ベストセラー作家にして、稀代のプロデューサーだった男はいかにして時代を読み、大衆に愛されたのか？

吹雪に閉ざされた山荘で若い男の死体が発見される。だがそれは、続く惨劇の序曲に過ぎなかった。被害者が2人、3人と増える中で、残された者たちは互いに疑心暗鬼に陥る。

Eigentlich hat Evan Keogh alles. Als gefeierter Fußballprofi lebt er ein glanzvolles Leben in der Londoner High Society. Ein Leben, von dem viele träumen. Doch dann muss er sich vor Gericht in einem Missbrauchsskandal verantworten. Und der Prozess fördert in Evan zutage, was er am liebsten längst vergessen hätte: die eigene Vergangenheit. Er realisiert, dass er vor Jahren nicht nur vor der Enge seiner Heimatinsel geflohen ist, sondern vor sich selbst.

BoJack Horseman meets Joan Didion in this smart, sly, and irresistibly stylish debut novel about a jaded movie star and the two differently conflicted women in his orbit. Some people you meet them and you imagine this movie together. The two of you make a kind of movie and then it’s over...

Una scrittrice si trasferisce a Londra in seguito alla fine del suo matrimonio e dopo lunghe ricerche decide di acquistare un appartamento totalmente da ristrutturare. Mentre la protagonista combatte con la polvere della demolizione e con i nuovi vicini che paiono odiarla a prima vista, i due figli devono trattenersi a casa del padre, almeno per il tempo dei lavori. È un periodo di grandi transizioni e cambiamenti per tutti. E mentre la vita scorre, la scrittrice incontra numerose persone e ne ascolta le storie.

Written during the English Civil War, of which Hobbes had first-hand experience, Leviathan argues for political rule by an absolute authority. Hobbes claimed that human nature was, at its core, ruthless and brutal: people were selfish, self-interested and likely to cause conflict for one another. In order to combat this chaos, individuals ought to submit to a sovereign – a ‘Leviathan’ – in exchange for order, security and peace.

La pubblicazione di Il buio oltre la siepe di Harper Lee nel 1960 fu un evento memorabile: il romanzo vinse il premio Pulitzer, fu tradotto in quaranta Paesi, vendette quaranta milioni di copie, fu adattato in un film che vinse tre Oscar e diventò un classico della letteratura americana. I suoi protagonisti, Scout, Jem e Atticus, sono tra i personaggi più amati dai lettori di tutto il mondo.