Karl Ove Knausgard At twenty, Karl Ove moves to Bergen. As the youngest student to be admitted to the prestigious Writing Academy, he arrives full of excitement and writerly aspirations.Soon...

Ellen Gilchrist With tender humor, brilliant insight, and an unmistakable narrative voice, National Book Award-winner Ellen Gilchrist returns to the celebrated Hand family and explores the world of complicated, simmering...

Kiley Reid Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. A mother to two small...

Jonis Agee Confronting the dark legacies of her past, a young woman finds self-fulfillment in this resounding and critically acclaimed debut novel. January 1, 1992 by Perennial

Saul Bellow Augie comes on stage with one of literature’s most famous opening lines. “I am an American, Chicago born, and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style,...

Zoe Heller “[Zoe Heller] is an extraordinarily entertaining writer, and this novel showcases her copious gifts, including a scathing, Waugh-like wit.”— New York Times Best-selling author Zoe Heller has followed...

David Foster Wallace The publication of his virtuoso novel Infinite Jest confirmed David Foster Wallace as "one of the big talents of his generation" (The New York Times). Readers who...

Elizabeth Strout Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York...

Dawn O'Porter Fearlessly frank and funny, the debut adult novel from Dawn O’Porter is the book that everybody needs to read right now.Three women. A whole world of judgement.Tara, Cam...

Miriam Toews " Min was stranded in her bed, hooked on the blue torpedoes and convinced that a million silver cars were closing in on her (I didn't know what...

Bruce Holsinger   Smart and juicy, a compulsively readable novel about a group of friends and families that is nearly destroyed by their own competitiveness when an exclusive school for...

Doris Lessing A hugely significant political novel for the late twentieth century from one of the outstanding writers of the modern era In a London squat a band of bourgeois...