Anna Morgan, a young West Indian chorus girl in England, is kept by an older man and then abandoned, and drifts into a series of diminishments. Rhys's most autobiographical novel — the closest to her own experience of arriving in England from Dominica — is also her most economical: the prose is stripped to the bone, and the cold English world that Anna cannot navigate is rendered entirely through what it refuses to give her.
Two sisters from a conservative mountain kingdom are sent to the colorful, decadent city of the Gods, where the divine Returned don't believe in their own religion and a war is being engineered by forces neither fully understands.
A detour through rural Nebraska puts Reacher between the Duncan family — a violent local crime dynasty that controls everything for miles — and the frightened community that has lived under their thumb for decades. A stripped-back Reacher story with the feel of a modern western.
Twin sisters Tory and Darcy Vega discover they are Fae royalty and heirs to the throne of Solaria — but they must first survive Zodiac Academy, where the four powerful Heirs will stop at nothing to drive them out.
The conclusion of the original Riftwar Saga — Pug and Jimmy the Hand must stop the Pantathian serpent priests from resurrecting Murmandamus and unleashing a catastrophe that could destroy both worlds. The book that concludes one arc while opening the larger Riftwar Cycle.
Odili, an idealistic young teacher, becomes entangled with the corrupt but charismatic Chief Nanga — a 'man of the people' who embodies the endemic corruption of post-independence African politics. Published in the year of Nigeria's first military coup, which it seemed to predict, the novel is Achebe's darkest and most politically prescient.
Chopin's second collection of Louisiana stories deepens her exploration of desire, independence, and social constraint in the Creole and Cajun communities, with a new boldness in rendering women's inner lives.
An undercover narc in near-future California becomes addicted to the drug he's surveilling, losing his grip on his own identity in this partly autobiographical novel by Philip K. Dick.
Jake Brigance returns to defend Drew Gamble, a sixteen-year-old who killed his mother's abusive boyfriend — a decorated local deputy — in the small town of Clanton, Mississippi. The third Jake Brigance novel is Grisham's richest portrait of the fictional Ford County he has built over three decades.
A German soldier on the Eastern Front is given three weeks' leave, returns to his bombed city, falls in love, marries, and must return to the front. Remarque's most compassionate novel about the Second World War gives a German protagonist genuine humanity in a story almost no fiction had attempted: the ordinary German soldier who is neither hero nor monster, simply a man caught in what his country has done.
A rebellious teenager falls for the quiet minister's daughter in a small North Carolina town — and discovers what it truly means to love someone, and what it costs.
Reacher hitches a ride with three strangers on a Nebraska highway and quickly determines that one of them is a killer. An FBI roadblock, a missing woman, and a trailer full of secrets turn a routine ride into something far more dangerous.
A Tokyo copywriter receives a photograph of a meadow with a strange sheep — one with a star on its back — and is blackmailed by a sinister political operative into finding it. The sheep chase takes him to Hokkaido, to a remote mountain hotel, and into territory that is no longer entirely real. The first major Murakami novel and the beginning of his characteristic blend of the mundane and the uncanny.
David Winkler, a hydrologist who has prophetic dreams, flees his family to prevent a drowning he has dreamed — and spends twenty-five years unable to return. Doerr's debut novel shows the same qualities as his later work: attention to natural science, prose of careful beauty, and concern with memory and guilt.
Eliot's first novel follows a carpenter in rural England, a young woman whose illegitimate child she kills in a moment of terror, and a Methodist preacher who bears witness to both — a profound exploration of how communities judge transgression and how love survives judgment.
A Regency Cinderella: Benedict Bridgerton dances with a mysterious masked woman at a masquerade ball and cannot forget her — but Sophie Beckett is a servant who knows their worlds can never meet.
The sequel to Ancillary Justice: Breq, now a Ship Captain, is sent to a remote station to maintain order while the Radch empire tears itself apart over its ruler's divided consciousness.
Newly married, Anne and Gilbert settle in their dream home by the sea in Four Winds Harbour, where Anne befriends the tragic and beautiful Leslie Moore and the loveable ship's captain Jim Boyd.
An American family on holiday in Petra, Jordan, is controlled by a tyrannical matriarch, Mrs Boynton. When she is found dead at an archaeological dig, Poirot must determine which of her long-oppressed family members finally snapped.
Martin Arrowsmith, a doctor and scientist, moves through the American medical world — country practice, public health, pharmaceutical research — trying to maintain his commitment to pure science against the commercial and social pressures that corrupt everything around him. Lewis's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is his most sympathetic — Arrowsmith is the only Lewis hero who earns genuine admiration — and the most thorough of his institutional satires.
It's 1999 and Lincoln works the night shift reading flagged emails at a newspaper — intercepting private conversations between two friends, Beth and Jennifer, who have no idea anyone is reading. As Lincoln falls in love with Beth through her emails without ever meeting her, Rowell's debut raises uncomfortable questions about connection, voyeurism, and what it means to know someone.
A nameless teenager joins a gang of mercenary scalp-hunters in the 1850s Southwest, entering a world of almost incomprehensible violence presided over by the monstrous Judge Holden.
The Reckoners track the source of Epic powers to Ildithia — the former Atlanta — and David confronts the cosmic force behind Calamity itself, with the future of both Epics and ordinary humans at stake.
Peter Blood, an Irish physician unjustly condemned for treason after the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, is transported to Barbados as a slave and ultimately escapes to become the Caribbean's most celebrated — and principled — pirate captain.
