Literary Fiction

Jazz by Toni Morrison Is a Novel That Refuses to Sit Still

Jazz by Toni Morrison does not begin with a plot. It begins with a voice that has already decided what … Read more

Paradise by Toni Morrison is a 1997 novel about nine men from an all-Black Oklahoma town who raid a nearby … Read more

Black Bag by Luke Kennard is the novel everyone on the Booker Prize 2026 shortlist conversation keeps circling back to, … Read more

Friends and Family by Natalie Baszile is a 2026 novel about a single 911 call, three minutes and fifty-eight seconds … Read more

Every Story Is a Love Story by Imbolo Mbue is a novel about a Cameroonian American widower who falls in … Read more

Autobiography of Red is the 1998 verse novel by Anne Carson that turns a forgotten Greek monster into a lonely, … Read more

Life Out of Order is Audrey Niffenegger’s long-delayed sequel to The Time Traveler’s Wife, and the biggest surprise in it … Read more

Peck and Peck is Bonnie Garmus’s eagerly anticipated second novel that follows the story of Batter Gray, a 25-year-old poetry … Read more

Partita by Barbara Kingsolver follows Livia Cable, a piano teacher in rural east Tennessee, after a phone call from a … Read more

Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue is not a romance you read for comfort. It is a hallucination … Read more

Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee is a 2007 novel about a Korean American Princeton graduate who cannot … Read more

American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee is a sweeping family saga that examines education, immigration, ambition, and the painful cost … Read more

Hollywood, Ending by John Green is his first adult novel and first fiction in nine years. It follows two rising … Read more

Stitched: A Novel by Eli McCann (Torrey House Press, September 8, 2026) is a comedic, character-driven debut about the Ogden … Read more

Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson is a masterful blend of historical fiction, dark comedy, and spy thriller set against … Read more

Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult is not just another 9/11 novel. It is a brutal, tender excavation of what happens … Read more

The Stationery Shop of Tehran reveals a moving story about love, political turmoil, separation, and the long shadow of choices … Read more

Pictures of You is Josh Malerman’s 2026 psychological horror thriller that asks a genuinely unsettling question: What if someone decided … Read more

Until August is a posthumous novel by Gabriel García Márquez that follows Ana Magdalena Bach, a married woman who returns … Read more

I finally read Gabriel García Márquez’s Memories of My Melancholy Whores, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. A … Read more

Taipei Story by R.F. Kuang is the novel Chinese-American readers have been waiting for, a razor-sharp, often uncomfortable portrait of … Read more