Literary Fiction

'Wildly entertaining. A rollicking saga about one of America's earliest abolitionists' People 'Just so brilliant' John Green Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856....

 'A complex, ever-tightening, increasingly suspenseful web' Washington Post 'Gripping' New York Times In the days before the Civil War, an enslaved woman named Liz Spocott escapes from her captors into...

Over a hot summer in New York a painter falls for a priest, in this captivating modern love story from the Booker-Prize shortlisted Brandon Taylor'One of the most accomplished, important...

From the author of the Booker nominated, international bestseller Nightcrawling - a novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a Florida beach town When...

The highly anticipated second novel from the author of the Booker-longlisted THE SWEETNESS OF WATER 'Amity is deeply adventurous and astonishingly beautiful' Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets 'A writer of...

Two Black writers - with stories to tell, and some they'd rather forget. One wins the big prize, gets the book tour, walks into the spotlight of global success. The...

In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of “biographical fiction” that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of...

A breathtaking and ambitious debut novel that chronicles the journey of multiple generations of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to...

Three people―two enslaved, one indentured―live beside each other, fighting, and sometimes failing, to be more than their pasts say they should be. 1690s, Tidewater, Virginia. Bless, born into slavery and...

‘American literature’s philosopher king – and its sharpest satirist’ – The New Yorker Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a slump. His batting average is shocking, his...

‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy’ – The New York Times David Larson can never go home. His parents are dead. His sister and her...

Sharp and funny, brilliant and prescient: a new collection of short stories that offer a dazzling insight into the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. Danielle Evans is...

'It's time we name our kingdom!' he shouted over the wind. 'I say we call this place Happy Land. If this ain't the land of happy people, then where is...

Could you put your life on hold for twelve years?  A stunning love story about family, injustice and marriage, and three people at once bound and separated by forces beyond...

*A New York Times Bestseller* My goal is to teach you how to sell. And if I'm half the salesman every newspaper, blog, and hustler in New York City says...

From the time she was born, she had been hemmed into an ever-narrowing space, until now she was very nearly walled in . . . New York City, 1940s. In...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake comes a stunningly beautiful tale about love, family and seeking a new life in the aftermath of tragedy Ebby Freeman's life has always been marked...

The epic, compelling and powerful never before published historical novel by the bestselling author of Their Eyes Were Watching God In the 1950s Zora Neale Hurston penned a historical novel...

From RuPaul’s Drag Race winner and host of HBO’s We’re Here comes an inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about...

What is motherhood in the midst of uncertainty, buried trauma, and an unraveling America? What it’s always been—a love song. Our narrator is a gifted photographer, an uncertain wife, an...

Critically acclaimed, for readers of Paul Beatty's The Sellout and Jennifer Egan's The Candy House, a moving and darkly funny novel about an attempt to found an underground Utopia. An...

With a new introduction by Robert Jones, Jr, author of The New York Times bestselling novel, The Prophets 'Gloria Naylor is a brilliant word-worker and a breathtaking story-teller. Mama Day is her masterpiece' Tayari Jones...

Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes Jadine. Then there's Son.Jadine is sophisticated, beautiful, a black American graduate of the Sorbonne. Son is a black fugitive from small-town Florida who...

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.Four young women are brutally attacked near an all-black town in rural Oklahoma.The inevitability of this...

In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged daughter Sidney, setting off a...

'A magical, magnificent novel, that amounts to a secret history of an America we think we know, but never really knew' Marlon James The people of Salt Point are afraid...

** Winner of the 2025 ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION | Finalist for the 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION | Longlisted for the 2025 JOYCE CAROL OATES LITERARY PRIZE, the 2024 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FICTION...

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK A 'nuanced, brilliant' (Essence) debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family and its youngest daughter's coming of age in the 1990s.'A triumph . . . Redwood...

'A literary giant' TAYARI JONES A richly imaginative and moving new novel from the Pulitzer finalist and acclaimed author of Corregidora A cook and tractor repairman, Buddy was known as Budweiser...

What if the price of moving forward is losing the only family you've ever known? Summer, 1987. On the sweltering streets of the dying New England mill town of Swift...

Ordinary New Yorkers are brought together in a story of betrayal, race, what connects us to each other - and what sets us apart***A ROXANE GAY BOOK CLUB 2024 SELECTION***'A...

Rediscover the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postwar Black intellectuals and artists, with a foreword by Ishmael Reed and a new introduction by Merve Emre...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION The acclaimed author of The Serpent’s Gift returns with this “deep and beautiful” (Jaqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling...

A searing novel about a mother and son's fight for survival from the New York Times bestselling author'A powerful book' Marilynne Robinson'A book to be read and re-read' Jesmyn Ward'Poetic and fierce'...

Finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area – the geological history of a cave forty-four metres...

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction A man visits his ageing father in a nursing home, where his father...

Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman’s murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading...

From the bestselling, Dylan Thomas Prize-winning author of Memorial and Lot, a novel about two young men who grew up together, fell away from each other, and then collide again...

The stellar debut novel of two young men falling in and out of love, from the winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize 2020. 'This feels like a vision for the...

In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers—one white, one Black—living in a "perfect" suburb that explores motherhood, friendship, and...

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 rising stars. I'd seen the...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024 From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Trees comes a heartbreaking and powerful retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s friend, the...

The 25th anniversary hardback edition of the stylish debut novel by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad that wowed critics and readers and marked the emergence of...

A searing work of modern fiction tracing a man's decline into the depths of addiction Taking the form of a diary, Iced charts the life of forty-four-year-old Cornelius Washington. Initially brimming with...

It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor...

'There's no one quite like Carlotta Mercedes, the transgender Black Colombian heroine - no, star - of the second novel by Hannaham.' -THE OBSERVERWhen Carlotta Mercedes was pulled into a...

Named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Center For Fiction First Novel Prize Named a Booklist Best Book of the YearA mesmerizing, indelible coming-of-age...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, The Mothers is a dazzling debut about young love, a big secret in a small community and the moments that...

BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products,...

‘Chip told us not to go out. Said, don't you boys tempt the devil. But it been one brawl of a night, I tell you.’ The aftermath of the fall...