Literature & Fiction

Four Friends, Recent College Graduates, Caught In A Terrible Job Market, Joke About Turning To Kidnapping To Survive. And Then, Suddenly, It's No Joke. For ...

Two Decades Into The Future Humans Are Battling For Their Very Survival When A Powerful Ai Computer Goes Rogue, And All The Machines On Earth Rebel Against ...

Here Are Two Sisters: One Trades Self-respect For A Wealthy Husband While The Other Finds In The Pages Of A Book A Kindred Spirit Who Changes Her Life. The ...

Product Description \A collection of the year’s best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn WardIn her introductio...

A National Book Critics Circle Finalist for Criticism A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics. Janet Malcolm's In the F...

From An Award-acceptance Speech At A New England Liberal Arts College To A Lecture On Evil In Amsterdam, Elizabeth Costello Is A Distinguished And Aging Aus...

"A stellar debut . . . about an unconventional family, fear, hatred, violence, chasing love, losing it and finding it again just when we need it most."--The...

Shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize London, 1857: meet Jaf, a young street urchin who survives an encounter with an escaped tiger in the city’s Eas...

Kevin Wilson's Best Book Yet--a Moving And Uproarious Novel About A Woman Who Finds Meaning In Her Life When She Begins Caring For Two Children With Remarka...

Literary critic, cultural commentator, TV personality, journalist, poet, political analyst, satirist and Formula One fan: Clive James is a man (and master) ...

"This remarkable best-seller," wrote The Economist, "is France's biggest literary sensation since Françoise Sagan, people are saying, or since Albert Camus...

Best-selling, Award-winning, Pop Culture Powerhouse Roxane Gay Guest Edits This Year's Best American Short Stories, The Premier Annual Showcase For The Coun...

This Third Collection Of Short Fiction By Gaiman Includes Previously Published Pieces Of Short Fiction--stories, Verse, And A Doctor Who Story Written For T...

FROM THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD–WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ECHO MAKER, A PLAYFUL AND PROVOCATIVE NOVEL ABOUT THE DISCOVERY OF THE HAPPINESS GENE When Chicagoan ...

The new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dark Room and A Boy in Winter 'Complex, intelligent, deeply compassionate . . . A brilliant ...

It is 1790. After ten years’ training in the great medical schools of Europe, Alec Gordon has returned to Scotland to take up the post of physician in th...

Pussy Is The Story Of Prince Fracassus, Heir Presumptive To The Duchy Of Origen, Famed For Its Golden-gated Skyscrapers And Casinos, Who Passes His Boyhood ...

An essential collection from one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters. The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of I...

A Collection Of Darkly Comic Stories United By Their Obsession With Obsession. Cat 'n' Mouse -- The Disappearance Of Elaine Coleman -- The Room In The Attic...

from The Winner Of The First Lannan Prize For Cultural Freedom, A Bitingly Funny, Kaleidoscopic Vision Of The First World Through The Eyes Of The Third ed...

The Enchanting Tale Of An Elephant, His Keeper, And Their Journey Through Sixteenth-century Europe, Based On A True Story. (from The Back Cover). José Sara...

Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa First Novel Award and winner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award - this is a cool, comic, violent and lyrical debut n...

Dreaming Of Life In The City While Caring For Her Alcoholic Father And Working In A 1960s Boys' Prison, A Disturbed Young Woman Is Manipulated Into Committi...

A dazzling, multilayered novel that not only encompasses a searing love story but, with its epic reach, encapsulates the fate of the world. Mumbai has emp...

when The Vision Came, He Was In The Bathtub. So Begins The Madness Of Louis Daguerre. In 1847, After A Decade Of Using Poisonous Mercury Vapors To Cure Hi...

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Galore comes another unforgettable novel. By turns darkly comic and heartbreakingly sad, Sweetland is a deepl...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZEA Globe and Mail Best BookA New York Times Notable Book of the YearFrom the internationally celebrated author of T...

A Collection Of The Year's Best Essays Selected By Robert Atwan And Guest Editor Rebecca Solnit. Award-winning Writer, Cultural Critic, And Activist, Rebecc...

A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man's life in the highly anticipated debut novel from one of The New Yorker's risin...

Kazuo Ishiguro.Categories: Literature & Fiction World LiteratureCanadian

From One Of His Generation's Most Inventive And Gifted Writers (the New York Times), Intimate And Sharply Observed Commentary On Life, Art, Politics, And Th...

With this outrageous new novel, China Miéville has written one of the strangest, funniest, and flat-out scariest books you will read this—or any other—yea...

A Debut Collection Of Stories Which Illuminates The Complexity Of Human Behavior, As Seen Through The Lens Of The Natural World. These Stories Expose Unsusp...

A son receives an inheritance from his father and tries to dispose of it before it destroys him. Inherited Disorderstells this elemental story in over 100 ...

Science writers get into the game with all kinds of noble, high-minded ambitions. We want to educate. To enlighten,” notes guest editor Amy Stewart in her...

Deep In Provence, A Century Ago, Four Stone Houses Perch On A Hillside. Wildness Presses In From All Sides. Beyond A Patchwork Of Fields, A Mass Of Green Th...

This Is The First Systematic Critique Of Edward Said's Influential Work Orientalism, A Book That For Almost Three Decades Has Received Wide Acclaim In Both ...

A Chilling Novel About A Free-thinking Bookseller Who Sacrifices Everything To Resist A Fundamentalist Regime. The Last Summer Of Reason, Found Among Assass...

Villains Have All The Fun--everyone Knows That--and This Anthology Takes You On A Wild Ride Through The Dark Side! The Top Villains From Seventeen Urban Fan...

In This Autobiographical Novel, A Young English Biographer Is Researching A Book About The Late South African Writer John Coetzee, Focusing On Coetzee In Hi...

From Legendary Science Fiction Author Kim Stanley Robinson Comes A Vision Of Climate Change Unlike Any Ever Imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson Is One Of Contemp...

The Soldier's Return Bragg, MelvynCategories: Literature & FictionContemporary

Enter the continuing story of double agent Paul Stepola as he works to protect his fellow believers from the government that is trying to eliminate Christia...

The Incomparable Booker Prize Winner's Next Great Crime Novel--the Story Of A Family Whose Secrets Resurface When A Parish Priest Is Found Murdered In Their...

From One Of Our Most Ceaselessly Provocative Literary Talents, A Novel Of Haunting Metaphysical Suspense About An Elderly Widow Whose Life Is Upturned When ...

Military Fiction That Imagines A Geopolitical Conflict In The Year 2054-- Provided By Publisher.Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Thrillers &...

The Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz refashions the classic tales of Scheherazade into a novel written in his own imaginative, spellbindin...

Recently rediscovered by art historians, and one of the few female post-Renaissance painters to achieve fame during her own era, Artemisia Gentileschi led...