Literary Fiction

Combining magic, wisdom, and wonder into an inspiring tale of discovery, this is a modern classic narrated by the inimitable Jeremy Irons.

For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its spell, these three unsuspecting strangers will discover that their own stories are every bit as extraordinary as the ones found in the pages of their beloved books....

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable.

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....

Thirty-eight year old Cassandra is lost, alone, and grieving....

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

Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish unaltered in a 1,000 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....

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....

Clare and Henry have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was 36. They were married when Clare was 23 and Henry was 31....

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....

Georgie Jutland is a mess. At 40, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace....

The Rachel Incident is an all-consuming love story. But it's not the one you're expecting. It's unconventional and messy. It's young and foolish. It's about losing and finding yourself. But it is always about love.

Two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives from scratch....

Before the Swallows Come Back is a story of love, found family, and redemption that will break your heart and have it soaring time and time again as you sit on the edge of your seat desperately hoping.

An “edgy, sexy” (Booklist) story where love battles against betrayal, and every confession hides a dangerous secret—from the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of Regretting You, Verity, and It Ends with Us.

In a post-apocalyptic America, a father and his young son walk toward the coast. Their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world of utter devastation....

Cormac McCarthy, best-selling author of National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, delivers his first new novel in seven years....

Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord....

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....

Unlike the rest of her family, Maggie Walsh has always done the right thing....

Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of its monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul.

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

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her....

Dolphin Westward spent her childhood as the supporting character in the story of her beautiful, wild, volatile mother Marigold. Now thirty-three, she’s painfully aware that not much has changed. She lives in a tiny bedsit, works in a tattoo shop by day and collects her illustrated mum from police stations by night. Dol yearns to climb out of the rut she is stuck in, but has no idea where to begin. Could gardener Lee and his daughter Ava be her chance for a wholesome family life? Or maybe a steamy romance with roguish actor Joel is just what she needs.

Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize 2019 with her novel, Girl, Woman, Other. The author of ten books and numerous essays, literary criticism, poetry and drama, her 2013 novel Mr Loverman was adapted into an eight-part BBC 1 TV drama series in 2024. She has received over 80 awards, honours and nominations and was elected President of the Royal Society of Literature 2022-2025. Featured here are some of her most innovative works, as well as an illuminating documentary about her life and career.

Meet Orlando: a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, poet, lover, adventurer—and, after a transformational sleep, a woman. Spanning over 300 years of British history, Orlando bends the rules of time, gender, and narrative as its protagonist navigates shifting societies, identities, and expectations, all while seeking something elusive: the truth of the self. Playful, profound, and radically ahead of its time, Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking novel is part love letter, part satire, and part meditation on the fluid nature of existence.

For the first time since university, James and Roland's paths through life - one drawn in straight lines, the other squiggled and meandering - began to cross... James Drayton has always found things too easy. By the time he leaves university, he's still searching for a challenge worthy of his ambitions, one that will fulfil the destiny he thinks awaits him. Roland Mackenzie, on the other hand, is an impulsive risk-taker, a charismatic drifter with boundless enthusiasm but a knack for derailing his own attempts to get started in life.

音楽史上最大のスキャンダル「会話帳改竄事件」。宮部みゆき氏絶賛の衝撃的歴史ノンフィクション、待望の文庫化！現代に語り継がれるベートーヴェン像は、秘書により捏造されていた！？　「会話帳改竄事件」の真相に迫る、衝撃的な歴史ノンフィクション。

A thrilling epic of loss and redemption in the vein of Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers and Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, about a group of four women who formed a deep friendship in the turbulent years leading up to and after Georgia’s independence from the Soviet Union.

A woman settles in a remote Polish village. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of its living and its dead. There's the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet.

Quando assiste alla morte di Athena in uno strano incidente, June ruba il romanzo che l'amica aveva appena finito di scrivere ma di cui ancora nessuno sa nulla, e decide di pubblicarlo come fosse suo, rielaborato quel tanto che basta. Quando però qualcosa comincia a trapelare, June deve decidere fino a che punto è disposta a spingersi pur di mantenere il proprio segreto.

In 1924, Alice tells a terrible lie to reinvent herself, seeking refuge in the ill-fated Western Australian Group Settlement Scheme. But the past is not so easily erased. Decades later, Jarrah begins to unravel the mystery of Alice's silence. Following a trail of buried secrets from Australia to England, she pieces together a hidden past—one that forces her to question everything she thought she knew about family and identity.

The Jungle is a gritty exposé of the American meatpacking industry in the early 1900s, told through the eyes of Jurgis Rudkus, a Lithuanian immigrant chasing the American Dream in Chicago. Hoping for a better life, Jurgis and his family are quickly crushed by brutal labour conditions, poverty, corruption, and exploitation.

Literatur muss nicht kompliziert oder voll von Fremdwörtern und langen Sätzen sein. Alle können mit Geschichten in Einfacher Sprache etwas Neues erfahren. Einfache Sprache ist eine Sprache, die wir verlernt haben. Der Herausgeber Hauke Hückstädt hat das Experiment fortgesetzt und 12 namhafte Autor:innen dafür gewonnen.

30年ぶりにアメリカから帰国し、武蔵野の一角・うらはぐさ地区の伯父の家にひとり住むことになった大学教員の沙希。そこで出会ったのは、伯父の友人で庭仕事に詳しい秋葉原さんをはじめとする、一風変わった多様な人々だった。

「売れない作家の夫に三行半」「スナックママの妻に愛想が尽きた」おしどり夫婦が消えた！？

溜め池近くの植え込みから、ビニールシートに包まれた男の惨殺死体が発見された！　警視庁捜査一課の警部補・姫川玲子は、これが単独の殺人事件で終わらないことに気づく。捜査で浮上した謎の言葉「ストロベリーナイト」が意味するものは？

恋愛リアリティショー「DTOPIA」新シリーズの舞台はボラ・ボラ島。ミスユニバースを巡ってMr.LA、Mr.ロンドン等十人の男たちが争う──時代を象徴する圧倒的傑作、誕生！

Life is hard in Ireland in 1867. Eliza Carthy moves with her lighthouse-keeper husband James and sons Peter and Joseph to the remote island of Skellig Michael. When assistant keeper Edmund and his wife Ruth arrive, Eliza hopes for respite. But her new neighbours are not what she'd expected.

The Magnificent Ambersons tells the story of the rise and fall of a wealthy Midwestern family as America transitions from a genteel, aristocratic society to a fast-paced, industrial age. At the center is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled heir of the proud Amberson family, who struggles to accept change and the loss of his family's social status.

Between the Acts is Virginia Woolf’s final novel, set in a quiet English village just before World War II. The story unfolds over the course of one day, as villagers prepare for and perform an outdoor pageant that reflects the history of England. Beneath the surface of this seemingly simple event, tensions rise—between family members, within relationships, and in the looming shadow of war.

Da Harold Fry, pensionist og gift med Maureen, modtager et brev fra en tidligere og nu døende kollega Queenie, ved han ikke, at han har taget hul på sit livs rejse: En 800 km lang vandring til fods fra Devon i Sydengland til det sydlige til Berwick-upon-Tweed i nord. Hans fravær får Maureen til at tænke over deres samliv, glæder og sorger, og gamle følelser vækkes til live igen. På sin vej op gennem England har Harold også tid til at reflektere over sit liv med Maureen. Harold deler sin historie om brevet til Queenie med de mennesker, han møder undervejs.