A Novel
by Anna Montague

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by Kiran Desai
Published Sep 2026
A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize–winning author of The Inheritance of Loss.
by Jen Ferguson
Published Oct 2024
In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past tense, the hum of connections that cannot be severed, and one week in a small, snowy town that changes everything.
After the Funeral and Other Stories
by Tessa Hadley
Published Jul 2024
A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tides and hidden undercurrents of ordinary relationships.
The Most Precious Substance on Earth
by Shashi Bhat
Published Jun 2023
Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat's sharp, darkly comic, and poignant story about a high school student's traumatic experience and how it irrevocably alters her life, for fans of 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, Girlhood, and Pen15.
by Diane Les Becquets
Published Feb 2017
In captivating prose, Diane Les Becquets tells the story of one woman missing in the Colorado wilderness and another bent on discovering the missing woman's whereabouts, in an unforgettably moving and thrilling literary debut.
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
by Salman Rushdie
Published Jul 2016
From Salman Rushdie, one of the great writers of our time, comes a spellbinding work of fiction that blends history, mythology, and a timeless love story. A lush, richly layered novel in which our world has been plunged into an age of unreason, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights is a breathtaking achievement and an enduring testament to...
by Kent Haruf
Published Jun 2016
A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, come together to wrestle with the events of their lives and their hopes for the imminent future.
by Lydia Millet
Published Nov 2013
Funny and heartbreaking, Magnificence is the story of a woman emerging from the sudden dissolution of her family.
Massachusetts, California, Timbuktu
by Stephanie Rosenfeld
Published Jun 2004
Smart and poignant, charming and witty this is a wonderful debut novel, a mother-daughter story that proves it's always those who give you the most trouble that end up getting access to the purest part of your heart.
by Alice Sebold
Published Apr 2004
A luminous and astonishing novel that builds out of grief the most hopeful of stories. In the hands of a brilliant new writer, this story of the worst thing a family can face is transformed into a suspenseful and even funny novel about love, memory, joy, heaven, and healing.
Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
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