The Lonely Hearts Book Club

Atwood, Margaret

Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine—explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood's characteristic insight, wit and intellect. The two intrepid...

Ernaux, Annie

The diary of one of France's most important, award-winning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Russian diplomat.Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is imm...

Mottley, Leila

BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK - A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system--the debut of a blazingly original voice and a soul-searching portrait of survival and hope (Oprah Winfrey)"Nightcrawling bursts at the seams of every page and swallo...

Cleyvis Natera

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE • An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification"Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an unforgettable debut!"—Tayari Jones, ...

Grace D. Li

"The thefts are engaging and surprising, and the narrative brims with international intrigue. Li, however, has delivered more than a straight thriller here, especially in the parts that depict the despair Will and his pals feel at being displaced, overlooked, underestimated and discriminated against. This is as much a novel as a reckoning."—New York Times Book ReviewOcean's Ele...

Gina Apostol

Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought down a dictatorshipGina Apostol's debut novel, available for the first time in the US, tells of a young woman caught between a lifelong desire to escape into books and a real-world ...

Lucy Gilmore

"Una carta de amor al libro para cualquiera que haya encontrado consuelo entre sus páginas." Library JournalLa bibliotecaria Chloe Sampson lleva tiempo luchando por cuidar de sus tres hermanos menores desde que su madre se fue y los dejó solos. Está a punto de llegar al límite de sus fuerzas cuando se topa con una edición rara de un libro de los años sesenta. Intrigada, Chloe e...

Lucy Gilmore

A.J. Fikry meets The Bookish Life of Nina Hill in this charming, hilarious, and moving novel about the way books bring lonely souls together. Two young lovers. Sixty long years. One bookish mystery worth solving. Librarian Chloe Sampson has been struggling: to take care of her three younger siblings, to find herself, to make ends meet. She's just about at the end of her rope wh...