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Three families — the cultivated Schlegels, the commercial Wilcoxes, and the struggling Basts — collide and connect in Edwardian England around the meaning of a country house and the possibilities of human connection.

Not Sidney Poitier — named at birth for the actor by his eccentric mother — grows up in the care of Ted Turner after inheriting a fortune, and survives a series of misadventures that mirror famous Sidney Poitier films, encountering racism, absurdity, and a world that insists on seeing him as someone else.

Italo Calvino's dazzling experimental novel about reading itself. Addressed to 'you,' the Reader, it offers the openings of ten different novels — each broken off at a moment of suspense — woven into a playful, profound meditation on books, readers, and the act of reading.

A barnstorming pilot meets a modern-day messiah who has quit saving people and just wants to fly, sparking a philosophical journey about belief, reality, and personal freedom. Through their conversations and a mysterious Messiah's Handbook, Bach weaves a fable about the unlimited potential of the human spirit.

Beginning with a woman's gesture in a swimming pool — a wave that contains an entire personality — Kundera meditates on the desire for immortality, the nature of fame, and the difference between the person and their image. Characters from the present alternate with Goethe and Bettina von Arnim from the nineteenth century, and the narrator himself appears as a character.

Stories including 'I CAN SPEAK!™' and 'Jon' take Saunders's corporate satire to its extreme: fiction that uses the language and logic of advertising to anatomise what advertising has done to human interiority. The most formally experimental of his collections.

In a world where humans have nearly vanished, a young man named Vic lives in a forest with his found family of robots. When Vic's mechanical father is taken by the Authority — the machine system that controls what remains of civilisation — Vic and his companions must venture into a world of metal and memory to bring him home. Klune's retelling of Pinocchio.

Julia Alvarez's acclaimed novel of the Mirabal sisters, who resisted the Dominican dictator Trujillo and were murdered in 1960. Told in their four distinct voices, it transforms real-life martyrs into vivid, fallible women, and bears witness to courage, sisterhood, and the human cost of tyranny.

Martin Amis's final novel blurs autobiography and fiction — following a character named Martin through decades of friendship with Christopher Hitchens, Saul Bellow, Philip Larkin, and other literary giants, interwoven with craft lessons on how to write fiction, in what the author calls 'a novelised autobiography or an autobiographical novel.'

During the sweltering London summer of 1976, Robert Riordan walks out to buy a newspaper and disappears — prompting his wife and three adult children to converge on the family home and confront the secrets they have all been keeping.

Nine stories about Indians and Indian-Americans navigating displacement, longing, and the distances between people. Pulitzer Prize winner.

Cincinnatus C. is condemned to death for 'gnostical turpitude' — the crime of being opaque in a world where everyone is transparent. A surreal novel of imprisonment and execution that is also a meditation on consciousness, totalitarianism, and the artist's isolation.

In a world inspired by Tang Dynasty China, giant mechas called Chrysalises are piloted by male pilots who drain the life force of their female co-pilots — until Wu Zetian engineers her own revenge from the inside.

The goddess Hera narrates the years Penelope spent waiting in Ithaca for Odysseus's return, watching a queen manage suitors, politics, and survival with fierce intelligence while the world assumes she is merely waiting.

A long-sunk island rises from the sea, and Ankh-Morpork and Klatch both claim it — and stumble toward war. Commander Sam Vimes drags the City Watch into the conflict, determined to police a battlefield and arrest two armies, in Pratchett's blistering satire of patriotism and jingoism.

Baldwin's final novel follows gospel singer Arthur Montana through the civil rights era as narrated by his brother Hall, years after Arthur's death. It is Baldwin's most ambitious attempt to hold the full weight of Black American life — religion, sexuality, music, family, political violence — in a single narrative, and the most direct summation of everything he had written before it.

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure. After being cheated and kidnapped by a treacherous uncle, young David Balfour is shipwrecked and thrown together with the dashing Jacobite rebel Alan Breck Stewart, embarking on a perilous flight across the Scottish Highlands.

Rudyard Kipling's masterpiece, set in British India. Kim, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, grows up on the streets of Lahore and is drawn into both a Tibetan lama's spiritual quest and the espionage of the 'Great Game' between empires, in a rich, vivid portrait of a vast and varied land.

Alex Cross races to find a serial kidnapper called Casanova who keeps intelligent, accomplished women as captives in an underground harem — while simultaneously discovering that his own niece Naomi has become one of Casanova's victims.

Constance Chatterley, married to a paralysed, emotionally remote aristocrat, begins an affair with Mellors, the estate's gamekeeper. Lawrence's most notorious novel was banned for obscenity in Britain until 1960, but beneath the explicit content is a serious argument about industrialism, class, and the body's need for genuine tenderness.

A selection of Sylvia Plath's correspondence with her mother Aurelia from 1950 to 1963, edited by Aurelia Plath — a complex document that reveals the public face Plath maintained for her mother and the gap between that performance and the inner life she described elsewhere.

Bee Königswasser, a neuroengineer, is forced to collaborate with Levi Ward — her academic nemesis and the man she is convinced hates her — on a NASA-funded brain-helmet project. Two STEM rivals in close proximity with too many sleepless nights and a deadline that won't move.

A kitchen boy named Pug is apprenticed to the court magician and discovers he has an unusual gift for magic — a discovery that will change his life as the Kingdom of the Isles faces invasion from another world. The first half of the original Magician novel, and the foundation of the Riftwar Saga.

Bill Gray, a reclusive novelist who has not published in decades, is drawn into a situation involving a poet held hostage by a terrorist group in Beirut. DeLillo's meditation on the relationship between writers and terrorists — both of whom claim the power to change how people see the world — is his most concentrated statement of his themes: the crowd, the image, the person who withdraws from visibility and the person who seeks it at any cost.