Literary Fiction

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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....

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

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....

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...

THE BRAND-NEW BOOK FOR 2025 BY 2 MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR BOB MORTIMER. Bathroom salesman Matt is at a crossroads. He has lost his job, he is about to be made homeless and his girlfriend has left him. He wants his luck to change and he wants things to go back to how they were. Out of...

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....

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...

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....

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

"[Narrator Julia] Whelan's performance is unforgettable in this darkly romantic fantasy about one young woman cursed always to be forgotten...Her depiction of the darkness is smooth with a low cadence, capturing listeners' attention and their heart strings." –Booklist In the vein of The Time...

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....

“A timeless story for every young person who needs to understand that they are not alone.” —Judy Blume “Once in a while, a novel comes along that becomes a generational touchstone. The Perks of Being a Wallflower is one of those books.” —R. J. Palacio, #1 New York Times bestselling...

This acclaimed new translation of Dostoyevsky's 'psychological record of a crime' gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged, staccato urgency and fevered atmosphere as never before....

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...

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

#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...

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....

After more than two years on the bestseller lists, Khaled Hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel of enormous contemporary relevance. A Thousand Splendid Suns is a breathtaking story set against the volatile events of Afghanistan's last thirty years—from the Soviet...

In The Storyteller, Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined....

A National Bestseller One family. Four generations. A secret son. A devastating addiction. A Texas family is met with losses and surprises of inheritance, but they’re unable to shake the pull back toward each other in this family saga perfect for readers of Mary Beth Keane and Claire Lombardo...

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....

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...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE The beloved first novel featuring Olive Kitteridge, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Lucy Barton and the Oprah’s Book Club pick Olive, Again “Fiction lovers, remember this name: Olive Kitteridge. . . . You’ll never forget her...

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.

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...

The energetic and bitingly satirical novel from author Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7! The End of Ordinary is a riveting near-future thriller that asks an important question: if we can’t get along when our differences are barely skin deep, what happens when they run all the way down to the...

'One of our very best authors ... Very funny, very moving novel' The New World 'Charming portrait of friendship and loneliness' Daily Mail 'Deeply comforting' Guardian 'Funny, inventive and beautifully heart-breaking' Irish Times Have you ever been curious about how people live when nobody is...

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.

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In this 1919 collection, Wodehouse introduces readers to the iconic duo of Bertie Wooster, an affable but hapless English gentleman, and Jeeves, his brilliant and resourceful valet. From social blunders, hopeless romances and family mishaps, Bertie is saved by Jeeves’s calm intellect time and time again. Also featured in this collection is the wealthy yet helpless Reggie Pepper, a character often considered an early prototype of Bertie.

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.

In 1950, the Buttonbush Museum is circling the financial drain, and Irene Pickett—a sassy farmer's wife from rural California—is determined to stop the flush. Tired of being typecast as the housewife queen of pickling and laundry, Irene has something to prove. Enter The Four Queens: Irene and three other firebrand women ready to take on the museum's bottomless budget issues.

'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.

1934年上海。「魔都」と呼ばれるほど繁栄と悪徳を誇るこの地に成功を夢見て渡ってきた日本人の青年・吾郷次郎。租界で商売をする彼のもとへ、原田ユキヱという謎めいた女から極上の阿片と芥子の種が持ち込まれる。

特養老人ホーム「敬徳苑」で入所者が何者かに殺害された。第一発見者の介護員・清水穂香はストーカー被害に悩むシングルマザー。

父・秋山史親を火災で失った雅彦と太一、母・景子。止むを得ず史親の実家の工務店に身を寄せるが、彼らは昔気質の祖父・善吉が苦手。それでも新生活を始めた3人は、数々の思いがけない問題に直面する。

Canción de Navidad narra la transformación de Ebenezer Scrooge, un avaro hombre de negocios. En la víspera de Navidad, Scrooge recibe la visita de tres espíritus: los Fantasmas de las Navidades Pasadas, Presentes y Futuras. Estos viajes sobrenaturales lo llevan a través de sus propias experiencias de vida, mostrándole la alegría y el sufrimiento que su tacañería ha causado a otros.

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...

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.

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.

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.

Anna Karenina remains one of the most profound and human stories ever written, a sweeping portrait of desire, duty, sacrifice, and the quiet storms of the heart. In this definitive presentation of Leo Tolstoy’s original masterpiece, listeners are drawn into a world where the glitter of Imperial Russia hides wounds that only love—and its consequences—can reveal.

「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，

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）。

Italy, 1943. The girl rushes down the winding streets, tucking the handwritten menu into the wicker basket and thinking only of the code hidden on the delicate paper. Present day. Arriving in Caccipulia, Callie grips the faded restaurant menu. Found hidden in her family home, she is certain it will lead her to the truth about her grandmother's life in Italy during World War II. Local café owner Oliver's eyes light up when he sees the menu. During the war, one brave family secretly fed desperate Jewish families. Callie's heart soars at the thought that her grandmother was involved.

»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.

製薬会社のMR・友永孝は、電車内で見知らぬ男女に痴漢の疑いをかけられ駅から逃走、新人巡査の新田真人に逮捕された。友永は無罪を訴えるが、留置場に収監されてしまう。