đ Where past meets powerful storytelling.
Richly detailed and vividly imagined, these novels bring bygone eras to lifeâilluminating the people, events, and moments that shaped the world.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize Named a Best Book of the Century by The New York Times Book Review International Bestseller From acclaimed author Alan Hollinghurst, a sweeping novel about class, sex, and money during four extraordinary years of change and tragedy. In...
New York Times Bestseller ⢠Pulitzer Prize Finalist ⢠An Oprah's Book Club Selection âPowerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.â âLos Angeles...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic book is generally regarded as the finest novel ever written on American politics. It describes the career of Willie Stark, a back-country lawyer whose idealism is overcome by his lust for power.
NOW A NETFLIX SERIES ⢠In this powerful novel, an aristocratic family grapples with societal upheaval and personal struggles against the backdrop of sweeping historical change."A majestic, melancholy, and beautiful novel."âThe New Yorker ⢠"A masterwork . . . A superb...
BeautifulâŚTessa Harris has made me appreciate historical novels in a way that I haven't in quite some time' âââââ'Oh my goodnessâŚthis book was so unputdownableâŚwill never be forgotten' âââââ'A suspenseful novel of bravery and determinationâŚhighly recommended'...
This vivid New York Times bestseller about 1950s America from a Pulitzer Prizeâwinning journalist is âan engrossing sail across a pivotal decadeâ (Time). Joe McCarthy. Marilyn Monroe. The H-bomb. Ozzie and Harriet. Elvis. Civil rights. Itâs undeniable: The fifties...
âCraig wields powerful and vivid prose to illuminate a country and a family trapped not only by war and revolution, but also by desire and loss.â âViet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prizeâwinning author  Miss Burma tells the story of modern-day Burma through the eyes of...
Pulitzer Prize finalist: âA soaring literary epic about the forces that have driven us to the 9/11 age . . . relentlessly captivatingâ (Ron Charles, The Washington Post).  When humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of a...
A thrilling tale of intrigue and civil war in twelfthâcentury England, by the New York Timesâbestselling author of the Mistress of the Art of Death series.England, 1141. The countryside is devastated by a long civil war as the English king, Stephen, and his cousin,...
A twenty-firstâcentury twelve-year-old seeks the truth behind his grandmotherâs trauma in this moving novel of family, love, memory, and the toll of war.Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only...