Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) books

Perfect for fans of Ottessa Moshfegh and Sally Rooney, Methuselah offers a raw and haunting glimpse into our collective...  Read More >>

A series of murders along a 50-mile stretch of the rugged northern California coast is being committed by an unknown...  Read More >>

From the author of Cracks comes a novel of the horrors and betrayals of the Holocaust and afterwards as 18-year-old...  Read More >>

A woman returns home to South Africa to mourn her sister's death-only to discover disturbing truths about her brother-in-law...  Read More >>

A novel based on the life of Lucy Dillon, an 18th-century French aristocrat. Her intelligence, beauty, and lack...  Read More >>

Counter Cult follows Jury, a young man obsessed with founding a new religion without rules, restrictions, or a God....  Read More >>

Sicily, 1915: When his middle brother kills the son of the local Mafia don while defending their mother, Petru Donatello...  Read More >>

Jobac prefers life at a distance. Nicknamed ""Jo in the back"" for his habit of observing rather than participating,...  Read More >>

One night ruined everything. One bed might fix what's left. Ten years ago, Clayton Traeger vanished from Leni Kane's...  Read More >>

The nest may be empty, but family problems loom large. And no one is aging gracefully in Prison of Now. Fifty-seven-year-old...  Read More >>

""The short story collection Matter Out of Place answers the question: is being from a place the same as being of...  Read More >>

She found the literary voices that would inspire the world. . . . The extraordinary story of the woman who ignited...  Read More >>

""From Governor General's Award-nominated author Sheung-King comes a novel about a millennial living through the...  Read More >>

An incredibly propulsive and provocative debut novel about the dark underside of gossip - the way it can shape and...  Read More >>

This reissue of National Book Award-winning author Percival Everett and James Kincaid's classic political satire...  Read More >>

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""A woman with a heart transplant develops a dangerous infatuation with her donor's husband--who may have had something...  Read More >>

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A gem of a debut novel by award-winning playwright George Kemp, about small-town lives and the search for genuine...  Read More >>

Stunning speculative fiction from the award-winning author of Firelight  Read More >>

One hotel room. One bed. Zero chance of keeping it professional. Harry When I agreed to chaperone the boys'...  Read More >>

From the cotton mills of Lancashire to the sands of Egypt, Records of a Voyage tells the story of one family's unraveling...  Read More >>

At sixty-four, Brenda Barker's life is anything but over-though someone should tell that to her butcher, who insists...  Read More >>

Why the Secrets? Through Their Eyes is a contemporary family drama that examines the vital role communication plays...  Read More >>