A story shaped by mourning — what death leaves behind and how we carry it.
Ove is a curmudgeon with a strict moral code and a profound sense of loss — whose plan to die is repeatedly interrupted by the noisy, needy neighbors who need him to live.
Narrated by Death, this is the story of Liesel Meminger, who steals books in Nazi Germany and shares them with her foster father and the Jewish man hiding in their basement — a love letter to words an…
Hazel Grace Lancaster, a sixteen-year-old cancer patient, falls in love with Gus Waters at a support group. Together they travel to Amsterdam to meet a reclusive author — and reckon with what it means…
Four college friends arrive in New York, and over decades the bonds between them are tested by love, success, and the escalating private horrors of Jude St. Francis — a man whose trauma runs so deep t…
A father's memoir of watching his son fall into meth addiction — written with the painful clarity of someone who loved deeply and was powerless to save him, until his son chose to save himself.
Eleanor Oliphant leads a rigid, solitary life governed by routines she cannot explain — until a small act of kindness begins to unravel the trauma she has been holding at arm's length for years.
Mia is a 17-year-old classical music prodigy. After a car accident that kills her family, she hovers between consciousness and death — watching the hospital waiting room fill with everyone who loves h…
Abraham Lincoln''s son Willie dies in 1862 Washington, and the president visits the cemetery in secret — while in the bardo (the Buddhist space between death and rebirth), a group of restless spirits …
Lou Clark becomes caregiver to Will Traynor, a wealthy quadriplegic who has decided to end his life — and the six months that follow change everything either of them believed about living.
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan — from a pastor's daughter who becomes pregnant by a married man to her great-grandson navigating identity in 1980s Tokyo. An epic about survival, shame, a…
Tova Sullivan volunteers at the Sowell Bay Aquarium and strikes up an unlikely friendship with Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus. Together they untangle the mystery of what happened to her son.
Thirteen-year-old Theo Decker survives a bombing at a New York museum and walks away with a small, famous painting — a secret that shapes the next thirty years of his life.
Stevens, an aging English butler, takes a road trip across the countryside to visit a former colleague — and slowly, carefully, admits to himself what he gave up in the service of dignity.
Tara Westover grew up in the mountains of Idaho, never attending school, shaped by a survivalist father and a mother who followed. At seventeen she entered a classroom for the first time — and couldn'…
Lily falls for a surgeon with a complicated past — and must make the hardest decision of her life.
A 15-year-old boy takes an elevator ride down from his brother's murder — at each floor, a ghost appears with a piece of the truth about how this happened. Verse novel about gun violence, grief, and t…
A high school freshman stops speaking after a trauma she can't name. Slowly, through art class and a few terrifying allies, she finds her voice again. Raw, vital, and unflinching — the verse format ma…
A girl travels to Taiwan after her mother's suicide and discovers a world of impossible color, grief made beautiful, and ancestors who won't let go. Lyrical, heart-shattering, and full of the kind of …
A memoir of a childhood spent in the desert and in poverty with brilliant, alcoholic, charismatic parents who believed they were giving their children freedom — and what it cost.
Amir grows up privileged in Kabul with Hassan, the son of his family's servant. A moment of cowardice in 1975 haunts him for decades — and sends him back to a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to right a…
Based on her grandfather''s experience as a Chippewa tribal police officer in North Dakota, Erdrich tells the story of Thomas Wazhashk — who fights to protect his community when the US government begi…
The Vignes twin sisters escape their small Southern Black hometown and swear to never return. One returns years later with her Black daughter. The other lives as a white woman in Virginia with her whi…
In a world where a service alerts you the day you''re going to die, two strangers meet on that day — Mateo and Rufus, both marked, both scared, both determined to make their last day matter. A story a…
Kya Clark is raised alone in the marshes of North Carolina after her family abandons her one by one — growing up wild, learning to read late, and falling under suspicion when a local man is found dead…
A Black teen gets into a prestigious mostly-white school, writes letters to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. about navigating systemic racism, and finds his idealism tested when he becomes the victim of a v…
When Alix Chamberlain''s Black babysitter, Emira, is confronted by a security guard at a high-end grocery store while watching the Chamberlain toddler, the incident triggers a chain of events that wil…
In 1990s LA, a Black teenager with a wealthy white best friend navigates the aftermath of the Rodney King verdict. A coming-of-age story about race, class, complicity, and the summer that breaks every…
Twin brothers who are basketball phenoms — until one falls in love and the other falls apart. Told in verse that moves like a crossover dribble: fast, fierce, and devastating. A novel in poems about b…
Nine-year-old Rose discovers she can taste the emotions of whoever cooked her food — and the ability turns every meal into an unwanted glimpse into the secret lives of the people she loves.
A boy with depression discovers the world's going to end in six months — and no one believes him. He's also deciding whether he even wants to stop it. Haunting, humane, and deeply strange.
A nerd who writes love letters for other students meets the girl of their dreams — and ends up helping her fall in love with someone else. Thoughtful, queer, and about the kind of love that's always s…