Heart of Palm

by Laura Lee Smith

The debut novel from a writer of wry humor and warm humanity, Heart of Palm is an indelible portrait of a town and one…

Happy Family

by Wendy Lee

“Rich and multilayered, Lee’s novel explores what it means to be a part of something, whether it’s a family or a culture. Told in…

Harbor Lights

by Theodore Weesner

“Sensitively and intelligently composed . . . [Harbor Lights] sings with a poetic simplicity that recalls Russell Banks or Carolyn Chute.” –Publishers Weekly

Hardboiled & Hard Luck

by Banana Yoshimoto

“Banana Yoshimoto is doing her part to keep the novella tradition alive. . . . Exciting . . . Despite the somber nature of…

The Harder They Come

by Michael Thelwell

“The most authentic and evocative portrait of the Jamaican poor–the rich and sustaining vernacular of their culture, the sheer heroism of their economic existence–that…

The Harrows of Spring

by James Howard Kunstler

The Harrows of Spring is the fourth and final novel in James Howard Kunstler’s epic World Made by Hand series, set in a not-so-far-off…

Halfway House

by Katharine Noel

“Arresting debut novel . . . an eloquent literary performance . . . A richly imagined and deeply felt portrait . . . Tremendous subtlety . . . Noel’s finely wrought world of loneliness and fear, the pleasures of connection and the ferocity and unpredictability of mental illness, has its…

Guide

by Dennis Cooper

“The most seductively frightening, best written novel of contemporary urban life that anyone has attempted in a long time; it’s the funniest, too, and…

The Greatcoat

by Helen Dunmore

“A perfect ghost story” (The Independent) by the Orange Prize–winning author of The Siege and The Betrayal.

Green River Daydreams

by Liu Heng

“Liu Heng’s novel, part of a burst of contemporary Chinese literary genius, speaks for many. . . . Filled with light and fresh vision,…

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