Literary Fiction

I had an uncle who left his hometown and the family business there to become a fine actor. His talent was a minor one, but a pretty one. It lasted for 15 years and was gone....

The corridor of the Fine Arts Building was deserted, save for two figures at the far end, two men approaching slowly. Rose was about to go into the classroom, where she'd left her purse....

Chanakya's Chant is a thrilling novel that tells its listeners about a sharp parallel story between two individuals....

Often disguised as something that would help him, evil accompanies Christian on his journey to the Celestial City. As you walk with him, you'll begin to identify today's many religious pitfalls. These are presented by men such as Pliable, who turns back at the Slough of Despond; and Ignorance...

Following the death of her father, Sasha Jean attends a family reunion, after years of estrangement, with the uncomfortable knowledge that she has inherited the estate where her relatives live....

On a snow-bright New Year’s Eve in St. Petersburg, shy clerk Vasya Shumkov becomes engaged—and in the afterglow of love, gratitude, and crushing self-doubt, his fragile mind begins to crack. Fyodor Dostoevsky’s piercing early novella follows the exhilaration and terror of a young man...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008 'A tremendous novel' -Literary Review 'Profoundly moving' - The Times 'Utterly involving and piles on tension until the very last page' -Sunday Times At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slaving-ship, the Ibis. Its...

When J. G. Ballard, our narrator, smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments with a series of autoerotic atrocities, each more sinister than the last. But Vaughan craves the ultimate crash—a head-on collision of blood, semen, engine coolant, and iconic celebrity.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Experience Jane Austen’s timeless classic in a calm, beautifully paced edition from Deep Rest Classics. When the wealthy and eligible Mr. Bingley arrives at Netherfield Park, the Bennet household is immediately thrown into excitement. But for the...

Discover new delicious mysteries in this fourth installment in The Kamogawa Food Detectives series, the beloved Japanese bestseller and celebration of the healing power of food. “Off-beat and charming, [with] more complexity of flavor than you might expect.” – NPR – Fresh Air with Terry...

Read by Georgina Campbell A brilliant new short story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Madeline Miller—her first new work of fiction since the publication of Circe—that vibrantly reimagines the powerful and forgotten myth of Mestra. A cursed father, a gifted daughter Mestra...

A man who has lost his faith in life decides that nothing matters. Convinced that existence has no meaning, he prepares to end his life—but a chance encounter and a strange, unforgettable dream lead him somewhere he never expected to go. In the dream, he discovers a world untouched by the...

For generations, the patriarchy held everyone in a tight fist, but after a mysterious virus devolved society’s worst into literal monsters, women and marginalized communities have been freed of its clutches. This could be a world where people can hold their heads high, speak their minds, wear whatever they want, and most of all, hope for a better future—one where violence is no longer normalized. This could be a world where the infected learn from their actions now that they're wearing the consequences in the curve of their spines, the set of their jaws. But who is Delilah without violence?

#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story about finding someone to trust in an untrustworthy world. For rising talents Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is...

Featuring six new recordings of classic works by Frédéric Chopin, Maurice Ravel, Edvard Grieg, Erik Satie, and Johann Sebastian Bach, recorded by Han Chen. The story of a brief, passionate, life-changing love affair, wrapped up in what might be the greatest romance of all: our eternal human...

From award-winning author Anstey Harris comes an unforgettable story of mothers, daughters and the secrets that can pull a family apart. Olivia has spent thirty years tending the cemetery next to her home, gently caring for the graves. Since her daughter Lizzie stopped speaking to her after a...

Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer.

Enter the haunting, beautiful and provocative world of Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's greatest writers, whose extraordinary life ended as dramatically as his fiction Considered one of the greatest Japanese writers of the twentieth century, Mishima fused traditional Japanese aesthetics with modern...

Since her mother’s death, Jennifer has devoted years of her life to her father, managing the family home and acting as his secretary. After the sudden announcement that he has married again, Jennifer, at 33, seizes her opportunity to lead an independent life. Quickly she secures the lease of Rose Cottage and turns her attention to her own needs and interests.

Featuring dual narration from Deepti Gupta and Vikas Adam A mother returns to her home country of India to bring back her runaway adolescent son and discovers anew the surprise and crises of the place she left behind. Katya Misra leads a carefully constructed academic life in Seattle—until one...

A sweeping historical novel about hidden, forbidden love in the early 1900s by bestselling writer and former poet laureate of Kentucky Silas House. Amos and Tom fall in love while working in the tobacco fields during the hot summers of the early 1900s, yet Tom cannot shake his strict religious...

From American Girl and New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis comes the next chapter of Samantha Parkington's story--now an adult searching for justice after her legacy is stolen in New York City in 1920. It’s 1920, and 25-year-old Samantha Parkington is working hard to educate women in...

KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST A spellbinding tour de force from the bestselling author of The Invisible Bridge—a novel about varieties of infidelity, the provenance of a literary masterpiece, and the power of storytelling to shape identity and destiny. "Luna, Phoenix, Queen reimagined what I...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Written in 1890 by Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a haunting philosophical novel about vanity, corruption, and the consequences of hidden sin. Dorian Gray, a handsome young man in Victorian London, sells his soul so that his portrait ages...

A hilarious journey with Tom Sharpe's characteristic wit, adventure, and outrageous humour. Timothy Brights doesn't exactly live up to his name. Brought up to regard copious flows of money as his birthright, he can't understand why the funds have been cut off, nor why friends he recruited as...

Denis Hillier is an aging British agent on his last assignment. His old school friend Roper defected to the USSR long ago, to become one of the evil empire's great scientific minds. Hillier must persuade, or force, Roper to come back to England or risk losing his retirement fund. However, he...

'A genre-defying, history-smashing novel' - SHAHNAZ HABIB 'Brilliant, and superbly translated' - TANUJ SOLANKI From the JCB Prize-winning author-translator duo of Moustache Perfect for readers of political fiction: Arundhati Roy's A God of Small Things, Perumal Murugan's Poonachi, and Abraham...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 1970 LOST BOOKER PRIZE, INTRODUCED BY TOM HOLLAND THE ANCIENT GREEK STAGE BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE ODYSSEY 'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise...

AN ODYSSEY OF ART AND POWER, BY THE CLASSIC QUEEN OF ANCIENT GREEK RETELLINGS, FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY, SONG OF ACHILLES AND THE ODYSSEY 'Mary Renault is an exceptional storyteller' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON 'A song of praise, a work of love, a serene, deliberate book, full of wisdom, rich in...

THE ANCIENT GREEK STAGE BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE ODYSSEY 'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WATERS The...