C.J. Box has carved out a singular place in contemporary American fiction, blending mystery and the mythic landscapes of the West with characters rooted in moral complexity. His latest novel ‘The Crossroads,’ game warden Joe Pickett is discovered shot and near death while his family seeks justice.

Journalist Eugene Robinson has spent decades chronicling American democracy. In his new book, 'Freedom Lost, Freedom Won,' Robinson blends sweeping history with personal narrative, grounding the national struggle for civil rights in his own family’s story.

Journalist Eugene Robinson has spent decades chronicling American democracy. In his new book, 'Freedom Lost, Freedom Won,' Robinson blends sweeping history with personal narrative, grounding the national struggle for civil rights in his own family’s story.

Few contemporary writers have examined the inner life with the intensity and candor of Karl Ove Knausgaard. His latest is 'The School of Night.' In it, he interrogates memory, identity, art, and the meaning we try to impose on our lives.

Hailed by The Booker Prize judges as a 'fierce and philosophical interrogation of human existence,' Charlotte Wood’s 'Stone Yard Devotional' chronicles 'one woman’s inward journey to make sense of the world and her life when conflicts and chaos are abundant in both realms.'

George Saunders is one of the most original voices in American fiction. His new novel, 'Vigil,' follows Jill 'Doll' Blaine, an afterlife usher summoned to guide an unrepentant oil tycoon toward death. Over one wild night, Saunders confronts power, greed, climate reckoning, and mercy itself.

Northern Irish novelist Maggie O’Farrell has long been admired for fiction that blends emotional intimacy with sweeping historical scope, and her work has found devoted readers on both sides of the Atlantic. She is the author of several acclaimed novels, including 'After You’d Gone,' 'The Hand That First Held Mine,' and 'The Marriage Portrait,' books that circle questions of love, loss, memory, and the hidden lives that shape history.Her 2020 novel 'Hamnet;' a reimagining of Shakespeare’s family life through the eyes of his wife and son; became a global bestseller and won the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Now O’Farrell has entered the film world with remarkable success.'Hamnet,' directed by Chloé Zhao, has won the Golden Globe for Best Drama and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Matthew Pearl, the bestselling author of "The Dante Club" returns to fiction with a sharp, darkly comic novel, "The Award," that peels back the layers of literary ambition. It is about an earnest young writer trying to find his footing in a world teeming with literary aspiration, one where ambition can warp judgment, and where a single moment of recognition can tip a life off its axis.

Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall’s journey in the sequel to her best-seller “The Last Thing He Told Me.” The latest, “The First Time I Saw Him,” explores not what someone else has hidden – but what the narrator herself may have misunderstood about the story she’s been telling herself for years.

In his newest novel, "Buckeye," Patrick Ryan explores the ways families hold together even as the past threatens to pull them apart. Moving between generations, Ryan explores how we inherit not just our parents’ habits and hopes, but their unfinished business.