Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) books

The Blood of the Baroness mines the world of the bizarre, tapestried Baroness of Pontalba. A woman grown fierce...  Read More >>

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year ""Riveting. . . . Without ever taking the easy way out, the book explores...  Read More >>

For fans of Kevin Wilson and Andrew Sean Greer, a helper robot and his 35-year-old ward embark on a mad-cap adventure...  Read More >>

Unspoken tensions simmer between two women under the heat of a Catalan summer in this internationally bestselling,...  Read More >>

A grieving widower decides to step back into his lifelong passion one last time as his aging body starts to fail...  Read More >>

Mail. Murder. Repeat. A series of young women each receive five pieces of ""returned to sender"" mail, then are...  Read More >>

When Flight 82 goes down over the Atlantic, forty doctors survive the crash. Unfortunately, they're all chiropractors...  Read More >>

1952. the Cold War. On a quiet Sunday, a half-mad castaway is delivered to the Atomic Energy Commission. Coaxed...  Read More >>

Cecilia Woodward is a researcher stationed along the central Oregon coast where she monitors sea stars for signs...  Read More >>

Blackpool, England. Summer 2010. Back in Blackpool for his mate's thirtieth birthday, Shaun braces for a night...  Read More >>

**In the city of gold, the heaviest weight is a clean name.** In Jouberton, reputation is a birthright inherited...  Read More >>

**In the city of gold, the heaviest weight is a clean name.** In Jouberton, reputation is a birthright inherited...  Read More >>

Tanya Terrill suspects her husband is having an affair, chaos ensues as she tries to prove it. More bedlam follows...  Read More >>

Tanya Terrill suspects her husband is having an affair, chaos ensues as she tries to prove it. After a night on...  Read More >>

What if the moment your world shattered became the one that taught you to live again? Five women didn't plan to...  Read More >>

Published in 1952, John H. Secondari's Coins in the Fountain follows four American women in postwar Rome as they...  Read More >>

A stellar addition to the Amistad list: a beautiful coming-of-age novel from MWA Grand Master and PEN and Edgar...  Read More >>

A Most Anticipated Read: The Millions, them, SheReads, Daily Kos, Debutiful, Mizna, and LGBTQ ReadsA Publishers...  Read More >>

""The Kyiv Mysteries provide timely lessons for anyone living under an oppressive regime."" --The Atlantic ""Though...  Read More >>

""An unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair"" (USA Today), the classic novel by Richard Price, the...  Read More >>

The human race has become sterile, drifting toward extinction. Greg is a maintenance worker in a high-rise. He...  Read More >>

Eleven stories connected by nuanced water motifs explore the ripples and riptides of exquisitely ordinary lives....  Read More >>

Beyond the Sea follows Joe Banks as he tries to clear his name after becoming the prime suspect in his ex-girlfriend's...  Read More >>

A milestone obsessed over-planner relocates to Dublin for a career defining promotion only to fall for a spontaneous...  Read More >>

A milestone obsessed over-planner relocates to Dublin for a career defining promotion only to fall for a spontaneous...  Read More >>