Absurdist
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The Sunken, the Adored
$19.99 Read moreA chilling Lovecraftian horror story from the author of Midnight Rooms, in which a recently freed slave from America making a new life for herself in 1800 Venice finds the mysterious plague that kille
- Author: Coles, Donyae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 0063458624
- Language: English
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The Castle
$11.00 Read moreTrapped in a bureaucratic quagmire, K., a land surveyor, struggles to gain access to the mysterious, impenetrable Castle, a symbol of unassailable authority. His attempts are met with inexplicable de
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Fiction
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0486855392
- Language: English
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ADA
$18.00 Read moreFrom “one of the most rigorous and serious–and anachronistic–novelists working today” (The Washington Post) comes a raucous new tale plumbing the depths of ego and ardor.
In a remote country in Euro- Author: Haber, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1566897599
- Language: English
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The Trial: Introduction by George Steiner
$26.00 Add to cartThe story of the mysterious indictment, trial, and reckoning forced upon Joseph K–one of the twentieth century’s master parables from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author … [more below]
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: June 30 1992
- ISBN10: 0679409947
- Language: English
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Endling
$18.00 Add to cartLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE – WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE – WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE – WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE – SHORTLISTED FOR THE CLIMATE FI… [more below]
- Author: Reva, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1984897594
- Language: English
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Baby In the Night
$20.00 Add to cartTony isn’t afraid of the dark. In fact, he’s drawn to the nighttime because he believes that the glowing moon is his father. Baby in the Night is a quietly moving novel that follows our narrator, Tony
- Author: Sampsell, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1967136009
- Language: English
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Pale Fire: Introduction by Richard Rorty
$32.00 Add to cartOne of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amusement he cultivated in response to- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 10 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410775
- Language: English
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Seven
$24.95 Read moreTimely and timeless, a literary quest novel about trying to stay hopeful in hopeless times.
“To surrender yourself to the revelations of life and then to come back with the assertions of prose: that is
- Author: Kavenna, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0571338151
- Language: English
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An Author’s Dozen: Thirteen Short Stories
$16.95 Add to cart“Wry, wise, and full of heart. Amato’s collection is a master class in short story fiction.” -Niamh McAnally, author of Following Sunshine
When ordinary lives meet extraordinary moments, magic happens.
- Author: Amato, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: April 23 2026
- ISBN10: 1685137415
- Language: English
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As If
$18.00 Add to cart“A surreal existential caper exploring identity and performance, midlife purpose and regret, and the difficulty of finding–and escaping–yourself. Sly, absurd and poignant, it is a triumph of narrati
- Author: Waidner, Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0374620334
- Language: English
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Vanishing World
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the bestselling literary sensations Convenience Store Woman and Earthlings comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couple
- Author: Murata, Sayaka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0802167527
- Language: English
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Of Seven Fir Trees and the Snow: Early Stories
$25.00 Add to cartThese newly translated stories chart the making of a literary provocateur, one experiment and ethical dilemma at a time.
Before Thomas Bernhard became one of the most provocative voices in modern lit- Series: German List
- Author: Bernhard, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1803095458
- Language: English
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Five
$23.95 Read moreFive , selected from over 100 untranslated novels and stories by “the Duchamp of Latin America” (Natasha Wimmer), brings together–each an astonishing work–Margarita: A Memory, The Dream, Musical B
- Author: Aira, César
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 30 2026
- ISBN10: 0811232360
- Language: English
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Smash & Grab
$16.95 Add to cart“A Canadian master of the form.”–Gregory Cowles, New York Times
A former military policeman, a veterinarian, and a French poet walk into a bar and debate the Vietnam war. A couple of men who are part
- Author: Jarman, Mark Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1771966947
- Language: English
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Dean’s List
$18.99 Add to cartA sharp, satirical romp through the absurdities of academia, where ambition knows no bounds and rankings rule all.
When Charles Ogden Dean III-better known (to his chagrin) as “Dean Dean”-takes charge
- Author: Orey, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 9798901741184
- Language: English
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Chasing Homer
$16.95 Add to cartIn this thrilling chase narrative, a hunted being escapes certain death at breakneck speed–careening through Europe, heading blindly South. Faster and faster, escaping the assassins, our protagonist
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0811240908
- Language: English
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200 Monas
$31.00 Add to cartFor fans of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Miranda July comes a whip-smart, irresistible novel about a college senior who has 48 hours to sell her recently deceased mother’s surprise stash of rare pills, or… [more below]
- Author: Saenz, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 031660772X
- Language: English
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A Void
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of the Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation
A mind-bending and mysterious comedy from the author of Life A User’s Manual. A Void is a great linguistic adventure and a metaphysical whodunit, ch- Author: Perec, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1567928226
- Language: English
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Hexes of the Deadwood Forest
$28.00 Add to cartAn explosive, jaw-dropping debut about a woman who loses her job as an oil company CEO after she’s filmed having sex with a tree in her sleep, a calamity that unravels her mind, spiraling her through … [more below]
- Author: Szpila, Agnieszka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0593700899
- Language: English
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Afternoon Hours of a Hermit
$27.99 Add to cartA darkly funny and profoundly moving new novel by award-winning author Patrick Cottrell.
And who did I think I was, trying to teach the troubled youth how to write?…
I would say I was Dan Moran, a Ko
- Author: Cottrell, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0063435063
- Language: English
