Literary Fiction

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...

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.

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...

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

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Boy” or Sam “Hell” by his classmates; “God’s will” is what his mother called his ocular albinism....

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

The classic World War II thriller from the acclaimed master of action and suspense....

A favorite of longtime Harry Crews fans, The Knockout Artist (1988) portrays Eugene Talmadge Biggs, a young boxer from rural Georgia whose champion rise is diverted by a vulnerability, or gift, for knocking himself unconscious....

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.

The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow....

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

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes....

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....

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....

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

Percival Everett's The Trees is a must-listen that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi....

One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career....

After a CIA agent mysteriously dies overseas, his top asset surfaces with a startling and terrifying claim. There’s just one problem - no one knows if she can be trusted....

As Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. And then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret that changes the world as she knows it....

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...

Elizabeth Bennet non è il tipo di donna che si piega. Né agli uomini, né a un destino scritto da altri. Non immagina, però, che l'arrivo del ricco e insopportabile signor Darcy sia destinato a mettere in discussione ogni sua certezza. Scoprite il mondo interiore di Elizabeth, dove la ragione duella con il cuore nel tentativo di conciliare l'orgoglio dell'identità con la vulnerabilità del sentimento.

Sie dachte, ihre größte Angst ist es, allein zu sein. Bis sie herausfindet, dass sie es nie war... Wer ist der "Nachbar"? Die Strafverteidigerin Sarah Wolff leidet an Monophobie, der Angst vor Einsamkeit. Was sie nicht weiß: Nachdem sie mit ihrer Tochter an den Stadtrand Berlins gezogen ist, hat sie einen unsichtbaren Nachbarn, der sie keine Sekunde lang allein lassen wird ... Das Unheimliche lauert im engsten Umfeld - der neue nervenzerreißende Psychothriller von #1-Bestseller-Autor Sebastian Fitzek sorgt für garantiert unruhige Nächte!

According to Tatler's Little Black Book, The Honourable Guy Tillingford is Britain's twenty-ninth most eligible bachelor, after the Marquess of Granby and grime artist Tornado. With a seven-year-old daughter, Hatty, to care for, studious divorcee Alice Merrow doesn't have time for celebrity gossip. When Alice and her flamboyant boss, Desmond Kingston-Campbell, realise that everything – and everyone – at Tillingford Hall are not as they seem, their discoveries could tear the Tillingford family apart.

When the fate of Áróra's missing sister, Isafold, is discovered, Áróra is relieved that she can halt a search that has taken over her life, even if the mystery remains unsolved. But when Isafold's boyfriend – chief suspect in her disappearance – is found dead in the same place that Isafold's body was found, Áróra begins to lose her grip on reality. To distract herself, she dives headfirst into a money-laundering case that her friend Daníel is investigating.

When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia had been altered inevitably by the facts of history, Huxley wrote Ape and Essence.

多摩川土手に放置された車両から、血塗（ちまみ）れの左手首が発見された！　近くの工務店のガレージが血の海になっており、手首は工務店の主人のものと判明。死体なき殺人事件として捜査が開始された。遺体はどこに？　なぜ手首だけが残されていたのか？

After Véronique d'Hergemont's father kidnaps her young son as revenge for her choice of husband, and subsequently drowns at sea in their escape, Véronique is left devastated for years. However, since investigating into their disappearance further, she begins receiving clues that her son might still be alive. Led to a mysterious island off the coast of Brittany, shrouded in ominous omens, Véronique comes across a particularly haunting prophecy: 'Four women on the cross, stone of God that gives life or death. Thirty sacrifices for thirty coffins.'

Christophe s'ennuyait tellement dans son travail qu'il décida de troquer son emploi de banquier pour celui d'architecte. À peine son cabinet ouvert, il se trouva très vite prisonnier de cette nouvelle ambition créative et s'enlisa peu à peu, sans que personne ne puisse rien faire pour l'arrêter.

Jojo Moyes schreibt seit über zehn Jahren ihre Erfolgsgeschichte bei argon hörbuch fort: Jedes Werk wird von den Hörer:innen sehnsüchtig erwartet und ausnahmslos jedes ihrer Hörbücher wurde ein Bestseller. Alle bisherigen Kurztexte der Bestsellerautorin in einem Hörbuch versammelt, mit einer bisher nicht veröffentlichten Bonusgeschichte. Kleine Alltagsfluchten. Jojo Moyes ist die Meisterin des Gefühls. In zwölf hinreißenden Geschichten entführt sie uns aus dem Alltag.

「松本先生どうしてここへ？」「陸さんこそ、なぜ」実の妹の臨終を看取り、悲嘆にくれる一心の前に、東洋製鉄の松本耕次が現れた。松本は、娘の消息がわかって駆けつけたのだった。

被害者の死因は、土中での溺死……。思いも寄らぬ方法で人を殺めた犯人は、猟奇的な手段を用いて立て続けに犯行を重ねていく。刑事課の尾崎は、美貌の広瀬とバディを組んで捜査に臨むが、彼女の行動に不審を抱きはじめ……。新シリーズ始動！

初小説にして芥川賞候補作となった『いなくなくならなくならないで』に続く、向坂くじらの小説第二弾！　幼い頃から納得できないことがあると「割れる」アンノは、愛に疑念を抱いていて――

「とにかくヘンな小説をお願いします」そんな型破りな依頼に応えるべく、炒めて煮込んで未知の旨味を引き出した傑作集。

Vanessa Carvin ist auf der Flucht vor ihrem alten Leben. Mit kurz geschorenen Haaren und neuem Namen will sie auf der kleinen Insel vor der irischen Küste noch einmal neu anfangen. Zu Hause in Dublin kannte die Presse über Monate kein anderes Thema als die missbräuchlichen Taten ihres Mannes. Hier, in der Abgeschiedenheit zwischen tosendem Ozean und ihrer einsamen Hütte, drängt sich Vanessa nun die Frage auf, die nur sie beantworten kann – wo liegt die Grenze zwischen Unwissen und Mitschuld?

From the best-selling author of Heartless Heathens, TGSLLPFTM is a killer rom-com, feel-good, magical short story about fated love blooming in the most unexpected of places.