Thoughtful Gifts for Fiction Readers

#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story about finding someone to trust in an untrustworthy world. Tender, heartbreaking, and shrewdly funny, this is a story as only Green can tell it. Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and the audacity to pursue the kind of love we all deserve.

New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood’s intoxicating paranormal romance novella duology — together for the first time in print and ebook! Read the captivating dark academia romance in Bound where a reluctant con artist and a professor with too many secrets are bound by an arcane text — in more ways than one. Then flip your book over to unleash the dangers of forbidden love in Unbound which follows a 5,000-year-old woman who has outlived empires and a doctor who has spent his life fighting death, whose fates collide in a blood game of vengeance.

In this highly anticipated sequel, Liane Moriarty examines the complexities of modern women’s lives, shining light on family dynamics and long-hidden truths with wit and compassion. Whether you’ve read Big Little Lies or not, this is the perfect novel for longtime fans and new readers alike.

When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you stop? No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there. The chance to re-live the moments that meant most. To see what kind of person you really were … A magical, time-traveling love story, from the world of The Midnight Library.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead, an exuberantly entertaining novel that brings to life 1980s New York in the magnificent final volume of his Harlem Trilogy.

The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman — a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State — searches for answers.

A sweeping historical adventure inspired by the life of Grace O’Malley, the legendary Irish folk heroine who risked everything to defend her people. Venture onto the high seas with the thrilling latest from the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River and I Was Anastasia.

Turns out, the apocalypse will be televised! Survival is optional. Keeping the viewers entertained is not … The first novel in Matt Dinniman’s smash-hit Dungeon Crawler Carl series, now in a brand-new, deluxe hardcover collector’s edition!

Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner — of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed … A gorgeous deluxe edition of the iconic #1 New York Times bestselling dark fantasy, dividing the novel into three hardcover volumes in a stunning boxed set.

In this “profound, resplendent novel” (Financial Times) from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout, a chance incident sparks a powerful realization in a beloved teacher’s life. Strout, as we have come to expect, delivers a moving exploration of the human condition — one that brims with compassion for each and every one of her indelible characters. With exquisite prose and profound insight, The Things We Never Say takes one man’s fears and loneliness and makes them universal. And in the same breath, captures the abiding love that sustains and holds us all.

The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other Name comes a riveting novel about the risks we take to protect the ones we love in a world where crisis is always just around the corner.

A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage — Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.

A kaleidoscopic portrait of a modern American family — steadfast, complicated, begrudging, and loving — from the bestselling author of Isola. Sharply observed and laced with humor, This Is Not About Us is a story of growing up and growing old, the weight of parental expectations, and the complex connection between sisters — a big-hearted book about the love that binds a family across generations.

When the American Fantasy cruise ship sets sail for a four-day themed voyage, aboard are all five members of a famous, 90s-era boy band and 3,000 screaming women who have worshipped them since childhood … In a smart and incisive book packed with laugh-out-loud reflections on fame, aging, and marriage, Emma Straub delivers a richly textured story that shows us real passion is never truly lost, that what we love makes us who we are, and that deep meaning can sometimes be found in a sea of screaming fans.

An intense, atmospheric novel about the devastating power of friendship, set against the backdrop of two cataclysmic events.

A gripping novel about two trailblazing women on opposite sides of the law — a prosecutor and a madam — who team up to bring down notorious Mob boss Lucky Luciano in 1930s New York, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the million-copy bestseller The Personal Librarian.

A spellbinding and heartwarming Japanese bestseller about a young woman who inherits a stationery store from her late grandmother and becomes the trusted scribe of the town. Set to the rhythm of the four seasons and the Japanese rituals and festivities that come with them, Tsubaki Stationery Store is a charming story about the importance of community and the reconciliatory power of the written word.

Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less, showcases his wit, sophistication, and deep knowledge of focaccia in this tale of a young man who takes an unspecified job with a charismatic elderly Baronessa at her crumbling villa in the Tuscan hills.

Five lives. Five stories. Four will live — one will die. Who will it be? In this slow-burn masterpiece of psychological fiction, the choice is all yours … An incredibly original novel that breaks the fourth wall and asks the reader to be judge, jury, and executioner, Five looks at some of the most complicated issues of contemporary life: Motherhood, disability, addiction. Every stranger has a story. And in Ilona Bannister’s skillful hands, five people’s stories come together to create an unforgettable novel.

A glittering, gothic page-turner about power, control, and the price women pay when they demand to be seen, rich with Gatsby vibes and twisty family drama, from the beloved author of Salt to the Sea.

Sandwich meets The Wedding People in this irresistible comedy of manners as three generations of a family — a snail scientist, a soon-to-be divorcée, her teenage daughter, a hapless con man, and their feckless patriarch — descend on a ritzy Lake Michigan vacation island. In a story that is as sneakily wise as it is absurdly funny, Ryan Effgen’s debut shows how sometimes the people who bring out your worst — your family — can also be the ones to bring you out of your shell.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant: When a young woman, a golf prodigy, kills a caddy with a stray ball at the country club, the investigation of this freak accident reveals a dark and shocking tale of secret affairs, predatory men, and a teenager on trial.

At sunrise, high in the Italian hills, a body is found on the steps of a beautiful private villa. On the body is a threatening note, signed by a mystery man. Can the team catch an elusive killer who knows EXACTLY where to hide? #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Osman’s globe-trotting series We Solve Murders returns with a thrilling new mystery!

An unsuspecting heiress with a target on her back must enlist the protection of a vampire whose wealth and secrets rival her own, in a brand-new paranormal romance series from New York Times bestselling author Elena Armas.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Rebel Blue Ranch series returns to the haunted town of Sweetwater Peak for another love story, this one featuring an antiques shop owner and a farmer who fake a relationship to save their legacies … but will they be able to fool the ghosts of their past?

A mesmerizing portrait of an aging man’s last pilgrimage, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest. Hypnotic and startlingly original, Switzy probes the depths of human consciousness, revealing what a man is left with when the accomplishments and compromises that have defined him, and the illusions he’s relied on, vanish.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust turns to the future with a novel that examines the place of technology in the American imagination. Combining Dickensian odyssey, family drama, and scientific thriller, Ply poignantly charts the tenuous boundaries of selfhood and the distance that inevitably stands between us and those we love.

From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, 20 years in the making — a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of personal grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy.

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a magnificent novel about the wondrous, mysterious nature of the human heart. A thrilling feat of world-building and a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, one that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore the fundamental question: What does it mean to love? Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Taika Waititi and starring Jenna Ortega!

From Marlon James, author of the Booker Prize-winning A Brief History of Seven Killings: A propulsive novel about the murder of a gay man in 1980s Jamaica and its tragic consequences.

When two young men meet during a tech internship, it sparks an intense friendship — and even more intense competition — in this sweeping novel of privilege, identity, and ambition from the acclaimed author of What We Were Promised. Nostalgic, heart-wrenching, and propulsive, Tiger’s Mouth is a nuanced portrait of complex friendship, family dynamics, and love in its most unexpected forms.

The bestselling Indigenous dark fiction anthology returns with a new selection of even more daring and sinister stories. Featuring stories of unspeakable yet satisfying terror, from twisted psychological tales to gore-filled monster hunts, this new selection of sinister stories will sate your darkest appetites and leave you slavering for more.

The next book in the Fated for Hael series is “a dazzling fantasy adventure that will make you want to grab your own sword and fight. De la Force wraps a spell around your heart and squeezes” (Kristen Vale, bestselling author of A Tale of Mirth and Magic). As Cahra’s power grows, so do the threats against her …

The debut novel by one of the bestselling Never Whistle at Night’s most memorable contributors, in which, after a young Anishinaabe woman vanishes, her sister tries to pick up the pieces of her broken family, even as her investigations put her at risk of suffering a similar fate.

Babs and Nora became friends thanks to their kids. Now, the desire to protect their children might tear them apart. From the author of Queen Sugar, a piercing examination of friendship and loyalty as two best friends find themselves at odds over their beliefs on race, identity and allyship, especially when it comes to their teenage children.