A New York Times Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable book.Named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist, The New Republic, Bookforum, Baltimore City Paper, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Reader, Cosmopolitan, Elle, and many others.“Nate is almost too real. Mark my words: This b...

From Adelle Waldman, author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., here's New Year's, a story from the point of view of Nate's friend Aurit—as startling, provocative and true-to-life a tale about a young woman's dating life as The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. was about a young man's."She felt some part of herself relax when she was with him. She could shut off the part of her brain that was always monitoring whether she was talking too ...

**One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of the SummerA Best Book of the Year in Vogue, Vulture, Elle, and EconomistA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice“Poignant, funny, stealthily ambitious.” —Michelle Goldberg, New York TimesFrom the best-selling author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. comes a funny, eye-opening tale of work in contemporary America.**Every day at 3:55 a.m., membe...

Elizabeth Gaskell’s beloved Victorian classic examines social class, integrity, and the tensions between solidarity and autonomy, through the lens of England’s Industrial Revolution—freshly presented with an introduction by bestselling author Adelle WaldmanNineteen-year-old Margaret Hale is devastated when her father unexpectedly gives up their family’s financial security and their picturesque country home in southern England for the dingy northern manufacturing ci...

**Northanger Abbey is the story of naïve but sweetly appealing Catherine Morland, a willing victim of the 19th-century craze for Gothic literature who is determined to see herself as the heroine of a dark and thrilling romance.With a new introduction by Adelle Waldman.**Northanger Abbey is both a perfectly aimed literary parody and a withering satire of the commercial aspects of marriage among the English gentry at the turn of the nineteenth century.

From the best-selling author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. comes a funny, eye-opening tale of work in contemporary America.Every day at 3:55 a.m., members of Team Movement clock in for their shift at big-box store Town Square in a small upstate New York town. Under the eyes of a self-absorbed and barely competent boss, they empty the day’s truck of merchandise, stock the shelves, and scatter before the store opens and customers arrive. Their lives follow a familiar if gruelin...

The national bestseller, named a best book of the year by The New Yorker, NPR, Slate, The Economist, The New Republic, Bookforum, Baltimore City Paper, The Daily Beast, National Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Reader, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Buzzfeed and many others. A New York Times Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable book....

**NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSFor readers of Jonathan Franzen and Richard Russo, Jonathan Dee’s novels are masterful works of literary fiction. In this sharply observed tale of self-invention and public scandal, Dee raises a trenchant question: what do we really want when we ask for forgiveness?**Once a privileged and loving couple, the Armsteads have now reached a breaking point. Ben, a partner in a prestigious law firm, has become unp...

The dazzling, fearless debut novel that the New York Times hails as “a future classic”.WINNER: The Bailey Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial PrizeA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Vanity Fair, New York, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Star Tribune, Electric Literature, P...

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis is an event in American letters.Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon) and "one of the quiet giants … of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Now, for the first time, Davis's short stories are collected in one volume, from the groundbreaking Break It Down (1986) t...

From the award-winning Spanish writer Javier Marías comes an extraordinary new book that has been a literary sensation around the world: an immersive, provocative novel propelled by a seemingly random murder that we come to understand—or do we?—through one woman’s ever-unfurling imagination and infatuations.At the Madrid café where she stops for breakfast each day before work, María Dolz finds herself drawn to a couple who is also there every morning. Though she can hardly explain ...

Lost for Words is a witty, fabulously entertaining audiobook satire that cuts to the quick of some of the deepest questions about the place of art in our celebrity-obsessed culture, and asks how we can ever hope to recognize real talent when everyone has an agenda.Edward St. Aubyn is "great at dissecting an entire social world" (Michael Chabon, Los Angeles Times)The Patrick Melrose novels were some of the most celebrated w...