General & literary fiction Books

Forgetting is a brief but searing sojourn inside the mind of Alma as she navigates the complexity of the past and future within her identity.On her nighttime wanderings through a Paris saturated with cultural and historical meaning, she begins the slow...

What if everything they've told us about the Garden of Eden was wrong? Faced with what appears to be an apocryphal manuscript containing ten books and 91 chapters, Eve decides to tell her version of the story of Genesis: she was not created from Adam's...

From political fictionalist Alisa Ganieva: a neo-noir portrait of a legal system in which everything is broken and no one is innocent.Offended Sensibilities chronicles a series of sudden deaths that occur among officials of a provincial Russian town. The...

The tale of a stone-cold frontiersman blasting across his beloved Texas highways attempting to retain his sense of daring and independence among friends, family, bookies and under-reported enemies.Beneath the Sands of Monahans introduces Archie...

**Winner, Albertine Prize 2018****Finalist, Lamba Literary Awards 2018****Finalist, French American Foundation Translation Prize 2018**Available in a new edition, Anne Garrta's sensual portrayal of trysts past.Not One Day begins with a maxim:...

The pioneering debut novel by one of Turkey's most radical authors, originally published in the 1970s, tells the story of an aspiring intellectual in a complex, modernizing country. Erbil's groundbreaking coming-of-age novel, nominated for the Nobel...

After publishing four of his prior titles, Deep Vellum's translations of Sergio Pitol have garnered a strong reputation among American readers of translations. This an as-of-yet untranslated early novel.

This up-and-coming author speaks to the experience of Americans with a foot in two countries, to the refugee and immigrant experience. Will appeal to seekers of Own Voices narratives.

'One of Russia's best living writers . . . Her tales inhabit a borderline between this world and the next.' -The New York TimesAt first glance, the stories in The New Adventures of Helen seems simple, even child-like, but a deep reading...

Mario Bellatin's complex dreamscape, offered here in a brand-new translation, presents a timely allegorical portrait of the body and society in decay, victim to inscrutable pandemic.In a large, unnamed city, a strange, highly infectious disease begins to...

Anne Garrta has come into the English-speaking world with high acclaim. Her book Sphinx (also translated by Emma Ramadan) is our best seller ever. She has big fans among LGBTQ+ readers, translation fans (of course), fans of experimental writing...

"Indigo Field brims with multigenerational drama, earthy spirituality, and deeply imagined characters you are unlikely to forget." -Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Invention of Wings, The Book of Longings, and The Secret Life of BeesIn the rural South, a...

"What exquisite stories these are, each of them immaculately composed, each of them powerfully transporting... This book deserves prizes." -Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They CarriedEach of the ten stories in Have Mercy on Us is an illuminating...

It is 1925 when a love affair between enchantress Maggie Westinghouse and con man July Pennybaker upends the small town of Miagrammesto Station, tumbles it about, and sets it back down as Delphic Oracle, Nebraska. Will their love fulfill its destiny? The...

"When Dennis died, I heard a sound, and then in a matter of seconds shit hit the fan, but then I heard it again, and for the first time I heard the sky talking to me. Floating in the middle of it, wrapped in the center of it, I learned that the sky not...

"...a dazzling portrait of a man who lives up to his name, and of those who love him. A wonderful novel." -Margot Livesey, author of The Boy in The FieldMirth chronicles the struggles of a writer, Harrison Mirth, a romantic man who writes about love and...

Twelve-year-old Frankie Walker's whole world is baseball, Daddy, and foxhunting. Daddy's stroke forces Frankie to learn to survive on his own-or become a permanent resident of the Missouri Orphan's School and Residence. With the help of a fellow orphan,...

In this " bittersweet fantastical " must-read debut (Publishers Weekly) a freak car crash in 1960s rural North Carolina puts in motion moments of grace that bring redemption to two generations of women and the lives they touch. " There' s more than one...

You think you know your father-but what if he kept secrets until the day he died? Just hours after delivering his father's eulogy, Ken Weintraub learns that this hard-working, unassuming man spent three years in prison. Consumed by the astonishing news,...

Out Front the Following Sea is a historical epic of one woman's survival in a time when the wilderness is still wild, heresy is publicly punishable, and being independent is worse than scorned-it is a death sentence. At the onset of King William's War...

Trent Wolfer has blown it, in every possible way, over and over and over. And now he's blowing it again. Fresh out of rehab, he's back in his hometown working a dead-end job at a fast food joint and cutting out on his breaks to sneak airplane bottles of...

From F. Scott Fitzgerald to John Cheever, the swimming pool has long held a unique place in the mythos of the American idyll, by turns status symbol and respite. The fourteen stories that comprise NO DIVING ALLOWED fearlessly plunge the depths of the...

A young kindergarten teacher from Hong Kong and an American expat meet serendipitously on China's southernmost island of Hainan, a paradise where the boundless sea meets the wide sky. Soon after, young Vivi and Matthew marry and set off to live out their...

Punk rock legend Blag Dahlia returns with his third transgressive novel Highland FallsNina West is a deceptively petite young trickster who works at a funeral home in the suburban Illinois town of Highland Falls. Her short-term boyfriend Ace fronts the...

"I write stories that are only one sentence long," I explain to you as I plant this book like a time-bomb in your public library, "because imperfection is easier to tolerate in small doses." With unparalleled wit and wisdom, Gary Lippman'sWe Loved the...

It's the dawn of 1980 in Los Angeles and everything's changing.Punks, dopers and assorted miscreants play in the decaying homes of Hollywood golden era stars. The playfully decadent, diverse LA punk scene is under threat from the violent, misogynistic...

In January 1995, a promising young musician was found murdered in her apartment in West Los Angeles. There were no eyewitnesses to the crime, but someone saw her arguing with her ex-boyfriend, an African American man, the day before she was found dead...

Big Wednesday, based on the cult 1978 film by the same name, follows three California beach buddies begin to realize there is more to life than waxing down their surfboards as they ditch their alcoholic and unruly ways to go fight in the Vietnam War...

Named a must read book of 2023 by Nylon, BookRiot,Vulture, The Millions, and Ms. Magazine!A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman's interdimensional search for beauty and embodiment, through kaleidoscopic renderings of hospital corridors,...

Fowl Eulogiesis an absurd fairy tale for the ethical carnivore, fiction of perfect madness, of brutal and unprecedented humour. From the meadow to the supermarket, this dazzling first novel of mischief and feathers, brings to life the singular poetry of...

The narrator's long-term girlfriend has just broken things off, forcing her to move back in with her father, a Pink Floydloving priest. While she desperately tries to convince her girlfriend to reconsider, the rest of the world bombards her with advice:...

A novel about a marriage torn apart by a violent secret for fans of Lauren Groff's Fates and FuriesEmilia has it all: a rewarding career as a statistician, a wonderful husband, two healthy young sons, and a house in the countryside. But when a...

For readers of The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse comes a beautifully illustrated philosophical book on the value of friendship and life, told from the perspective of a fly, and a gift book for all ages.What if you were thrown into existence in the...

By the Colombian author of The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and PEN Awards Winner.Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around her. But her hardworking father hardly...

By the author of the international bestseller Evening Is The Whole Day, this novel set in Malaysia will appeal to readers of Arundhati Roy and Kiran DesaiIn what was once a Scottish tea planter's mansion in the highlands of Peninsular Malaysia, all...

**Shortlisted, International Booker Prize 2023**A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumoured to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbean author Maryse Cond follows his journey in search of his origins and mission.One Easter Sunday, Madame...

A powerful novel about the LGBTQ rights movement and gay love in Japan and Taiwan, from the most important queer voice of East Asia's millennial generation.Cho Norie, twenty-seven and originally from Taiwan, is working an office job in Tokyo...

The story of a love triangle played out through mutual manipulation.Giorgia was a talented actress before she abandoned her stage career and fell in love with Filippo. She settles into a life of quiet compromise - until one day she bumps into her old...

A young mother follows her partner to a rural community in West Jutland, Denmark, where he teaches at the local school for adult education. Isolated, she is forced to find her way in a bewildering community and in the inscrutable conversational forms of...

24 MUST-READ 2022 BOOKS IN TRANSLATION as selected by BOOK RIOT"Lebanese German author Jarawan (The Storyteller) movingly evokes life in Lebanon in his affecting and complex latest. This is a gripping, human look at a tragedy that still haunts an entire...

Cheng Gong and Li Jiaqi go way back. Both hailing from dysfunctional families, they grew up together in a Chinese provincial capital in the 1980s. Now, many years later, the childhood friends reunite and discover how much they still have in common. Both...

For fans of Marriage Story and Elena Ferrante's Days of AbandonmentTerri runs off with a lover, abandoning her children and her marriage of twenty-five years. Her husband, David, is left to take care of their two daughters, one of whom is...

Rima, a young girl from Damascus, longs to walk, to be free to follow the will of her feet, but instead is perpetually constrained. Rima finds refuge in a fantasy world full of coloured crayons, secret planets, and The Little Prince, reciting passages of...

In this utopia, the feminist Movement has been successful and women rule the world. Men are trained at reeducation facilities to accept the new normal in this futuristic satire challenging our sexual norms.The Movement's founding ideology emphasises that...

2022 PEN Translation Award FINALISTIn this masterful novel, author Juli Zeh skillfully shifts away from the conventional tale of a middle-aged, middle-class father out for a New Year's Day bike ride to an unexpectedly dark, psychological family drama...

Babakar is an African doctor living alone until the child Anas comes into his life. Forced to abandon his solitude, he takes her to Haiti in search of her family.Babakar is a doctor living alone, with only the memories of his childhood in Mali. In his...

LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2021In this honest, tender account of brotherly love, thirteen-year-old Brian is tasked with caring for his disabled older brotherThirteen-year-old Brian lives in a trailer on a forgotten patch of land with...

Just shy of his fiftieth birthday, bestselling French author Frederic and his ten-year-old daughter travel the globe in search of immortality.What does the man who has everything fame, fortune, a new love, and a new baby want for his fiftieth birthday?...