Winner of the 2006 National Book Award for Fiction The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change...

"...Winner of the 2006 National Book Award The Echo Maker is "a remarkable novel, from one of our greatest novelists, and a book that will change all who.... Winner of the 2006 National Book Award..."

A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent...

"...doesn't want to miss any pleasure it might yield." --Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times Book Review..."

Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the...

"...Review "Incandescent . . . magnificent . . . [a] literary miracle."--Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment..."

A New York Times Bestseller A decade after the publication of this hugely popular international bestseller, Picador releases the tenth anniversary...

This brilliant epic novel set in New York and Prague introduces us to two misfit young men who make it big by creating comic-book superheroes. Joe Kavalier, a...

"...and his ambition make this a novel of towering achievement."—The New York Times Book Review "It's absolutely gosh-wow, super-colossal—smart, funny, and a continual pleasure to read."—Washington Post Book..."

Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and...

"...Stretching from the Midwest at midcentury to the Wall Street and Eastern Europe of today, The Corrections brings an old-fashioned world of civic virtue and.... Winner of the National Book Award..."

Julia Lambert, an artist, is spending the summer in her old Maine farmhouse. During a visit from her elderly parents, she hopes to mend complicated...

"...Tribune).. A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A WASHINGTON POST TOP FIVE BOOK OF THE YEAR..."

A daring, deeply affecting third novel by the author of A Home at the End of the World and Flesh and Blood. In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely...

"...and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters struggling..."

What I Loved begins in New York in 1975, when art historian Leo Hertzberg discovers an extraordinary painting by an unknown artist in a SoHo gallery. He buys...

"...Book Review "So richly imagined is the art in her book that it serves not just to illuminate hidden..."

When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note among their late father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. The...

"...in love. . . . This is one of the most profound and absorbing books I’ve read in a long time."--Ron..."

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Year Ann Drayton and Georgette George meet as freshmen...

"...to construct a friendship across an unbridgeable class divide."--The New York Times Book Review..."

An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association From New...

"...An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association From New.... An Agatha Award Best Novel Nominee   Named One of the Century's Best 100 Mysteries by the Independent   Mystery Booksellers Association   From New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King comes the book that introduced us to the ingenious Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mysteries   In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged ..."

When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, planning to enjoy himself and work as little as possible. But one...

"...of a read . . . A story that cooks like a mother."--Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly..."

Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and...

Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is the story of James Sveck, a sophisticated, vulnerable young man with a deep appreciation for the world and no idea...

"..., The New York Times Book Review "James Sveck is a brilliant wit of a character whose voice will echo long..."

A Today Show Summer Reads Pick A Washington Post Book of the Year "We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect, and devastating...

"...A Today Show Summer Reads Pick A Washington Post Book of the Year "We think we know the ones we love." So Pearlie Cook begins her indirect, and devastating.... A Today Show Summer Reads Pick..."

Dancer is the erotically charged story of the Russian dancer Rudolf Nureyev as told through the cast of those who knew him: there is Anna Vasileva, Rudi's...

"...Times Book Review "Exuberant and exhilarating . . . A brilliant leap of imagination."--San Francisco..."

The #1 New York Times Bestseller An Entertainment Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year Now a Major Motion Picture Running with Scissors is the true...

"...brother for demonstrating, by example, the importance of being wholly unique.. “I just finished reading..."