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by Elif Shafak
Published Jul 2025
Read ReviewsIn the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign.
by Olivia Wolfgang-Smith
Published Feb 2025
Read ReviewsA gorgeously written and irresistibly intimate queer novel that follows one family across four generations to explore legacy and identity in all its forms.
by Ray Nayler
Published May 2023
Read ReviewsHumankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future.
by Anthony Doerr
Published Sep 2022
Read ReviewsFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time, comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story.
by Sandra Newman
Published Nov 2019
Read ReviewsTransporting the reader between a richly detailed past and a frighteningly possible future, The Heavens is a powerful reminder of the consequences of our actions, a poignant testament to how the people we love are destined to change, and a masterful exploration of the power of dreams.
by Mike McCormack
Published Aug 2018
Read ReviewsSolar Bones is a masterwork that builds its own style and language one broken line at a time; the result is a visionary accounting of the now.
by George Saunders
Published Feb 2018
Read ReviewsIn his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet.
by David Mitchell
Published Jun 2015
Read ReviewsAn elegant conjurer of interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and master prose stylist, David Mitchell's new novel, The Bone Clocks, crackles with invention and wit.
by Ofir Touche Gafla
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsDeath, romance, the afterlife and fantasy combine in the cult novel.
by Jason Mott
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsIn a spellbinding and stunning debut, award-winning poet Jason Mott explores timeless questions of faith and morality, love and responsibility.
by Sebastian Faulks
Published Nov 2013
Read ReviewsFrom the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of Birdsong, new fiction about love and war—five transporting stories and five unforgettable lives, linked across centuries.
by Felix J. Palma
Published Jun 2012
Read ReviewsA skeptical H. G. Wells investigates time-travel mysteries including an aristocrat's love affair with a murdered prostitute from the past, a Victorian woman's escape to the future, and a plot to murder celebrated authors to steal their written works.
by John Crowley
Published May 2008
Read ReviewsCrowley draws us into a cosmic tug-of-war between familiarity and strangeness. Dæmonomania is a journey into the very mystery of existence: what is, what went before, and what could break through at any moment in our lives.
by Dan Simmons
Published Dec 2007
Read ReviewsThe men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph; part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, they set out in the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage. Years later, trapped in a landscape of encroaching ice and darkness, endlessly cold, and with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive as an ...
by Salman Rushdie
Published Oct 2006
Read ReviewsFrom one of the leading literary figures of our time, a gripping international tale of love and revenge, and the ancient and modern conflicts from which they spring.
by Michael Cunningham
Published Apr 2006
Read Reviews"A smashing literary tour de force and an utterly invigorating reading experience. If this book does not make you jump up from the sofa, looking at life and literature in new ways, check to see if you have a pulse." --USA Today.
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