Pulitzer Prize finalist and Oprah Book Club pick

Told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family to the Belgian Congo in 1959, this ambitious, New York Times-bestselling novel established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers.

“Compelling, lyrical and utterly believable.” —Chicago Tribune

Although we recognize Buddha today as an icon of peace and serenity, his life story was a tumultuous and spellbinding affair filled with love and sex, murder and loss, struggle and surrender. From the rocky terrain of the material world to the summit of the spiritual one, Buddha captivates and inspires—ultimately leading us closer to understanding the true nature of life and ourselves.

"This fast and easy-to-read book teaches without being didactic. Chopra scores a fiction winner." —Publishers Weekly

Opening with the exotic Lady Death entering the gumshoe-writer's seedy office in pursuit of a writer named Celine, this novel demonstrates Charles Bukowski's own brand of humor and realism, opening up a landscape of seamy Los Angeles.

Bukowski’s final novel is a surreal pastiche of the classic Mickey Spillane, Chandleresque private dick novel. Nick Belane, is a lonely, middle-aged, egotistical, alcoholic private detective who is badly in need of some lucrative work, but what he gets is a series of increasingly strange assignments from a bizarre collection of clients.

Best Book of the Year: New York Times Book Review • The New Yorker • Entertainment Weekly • Time • Washington Post

Lit is about getting drunk and getting sober; becoming a mother by letting go of a mother; learning to write by learning to live. Written with Karr's relentless honesty, unflinching self-scrutiny, and irreverent, lacerating humor, it is a truly electrifying story of how to grow up—as only Mary Karr can tell it.

James Hawes wants to tear down the critical walls which generations of gatekeepers—scholars, biographers, and tourist guides—have built up around Franz Kafka, giving us back the real man and the real significance of his splendid works. 

"A magnificent tour de force. Illuminating, irreverent, iconoclastic. Brilliant!" —Dr. Peter Thompson, author of The Crisis of the German Left

His wife is leaving him. He’s just won the lottery. Does she really need to know? A hilarious debut novel of love, luck, and hard-to-keep secrets.

With a cast of characters so vivid they seem to leap from the page, this collection of linked short stories set in a blue-collar town offers a portrait of individuals aching to find their place in an indifferent world and captures the essence of Latino life in Southern California.

“The writing is fluid, the details brisk and vivid as newcomer Jaime-Becerra reveals his characters without judging them harshly." —Kirkus Reviews

National bestseller

Willie Sutton was born in the Irish slums of Brooklyn in 1901, and he came of age at a time when banks were out of control. Sutton saw only one way out and only one way to win the girl of his dreams. So began the career of America's most successful bank robber. 

"Moehringer relays, in electrifying prose, the highs and lows of Sutton's dramatic life ..." —Booklist, starred review

A collection of prophetic, provocative, and dazzlingly written stories by Justin Taylor, an important new voice in literary fiction and "a new literary beast" (Padgett Powell, author of The Interrogative Mood).