Back Literary Fiction | Book List

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  Literary Fiction  
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

Danielle Evans - Riverhead Books
Format: Book

Introducing a new star of her generation, an electric debut story collection about young African-American and mixed-race teens, women, and men struggling to find a place in their families and communities. When Danielle Evans's short story "Virgins" was published in The Paris...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Salvage the Bones: A Novel

Jesmyn Ward - Bloomsbury
Format: Book

A big-hearted novel about familial love and community against all odds and a wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, "Salvage the Bones" is revelatory, real, and muscled with poetry.
Read More check catalog
 
 
White Teeth: A Novel

Zadie Smith - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback

Zadie Smith's dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis. But the truth is that Zadie Smith's voice is remarkably, fluently, and altogether wonderfully her own.At the center of this...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Franny and Zooey

J. D. Salinger - Little
Format: Print book

The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Eileen: A Novel

Ottessa Moshfegh - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Goldfinch: A Novel

Donna Tartt - ‎Little, Brown and Company; Large type / Large print edition
Format: Hardcover

A young New Yorker grieving his mothers death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King,
Read More check catalog