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An odyssey through the mind and memory of a washed-up writer, from one of Europe’s most provocative novelists, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke.

The acclaimed author of *Jesus' Son* and *Already Dead* returns with a beautiful, haunting, and darkly comic novel.

The Road to Lichfield is the Booker Prize shortlisted first novel by Penelope Lively.

With an introduction by Stephen Medcalf.

In the English town of Ennistone, hot springs bubble up from deep beneath the earth. In these healing waters the townspeople seek health and regeneration, righteousness and ritual cleansing.

A story about a nineteenth-century woman's search for a meaningful life through work outside the family sphere, Work is at once Alcott's exploration of her personal challenges and a socia

Montague Small, an obsessive writer of detective thrillers, mourns his lately dead wife, who may or may not have been unfaithful to him. His attempts at meditation are a failure.

New York Times Bestseller - A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick - Longlisted for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction - A Finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction "A sweeping, tender-hearted

New York Times bestseller • Read with Jenna Book Club pick as featured on Today • Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister’s death in this “deeply

A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia.

Dakota Johnson's Teatime Pictures December Book Club Pick -- One of NPR's "Books We Love" 2024 -- "One of the most nuanced, astute critiques of America now I've read i

National Bestseller -- Named a Best Book by People and Parade -- The New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had ("wonderfully immersive…deliciously absorbing"-NPR) retu

*New York Times* Bestseller • Oprah’s Book Club Pick • From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a “stunner” (*People*) of a novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very hum

A new English translation of one of the most important, controversial Iranian novels of the twentieth century. Winner of the 2023 Lois Roth Persian Translation Award. A Penguin Classic.

A New York Times bestseller. “A powerful coming-of-age story that looks at ambition, friendship, identity, desire, and power from the much-needed female lens.”—Bustle. “Ultra-readable.”—Vogue.