Vintage Contemporaries
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The Secret History
$21.00 Add to cartA READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK – ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME – INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A contemporary literary classic and “an accomplished psychologica
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Tartt, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 13, 2004
- ISBN10: 1400031702
- Language: English
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Fifteen One-Act Plays: An Expanded Edition of the Collection the Unseen Hand and Other Plays
$17.00 Add to cartFilled with wry, dark humor, unparalleled imagination, unforgettable characters, and exquisitely crafted storytelling, Sam Shepard’s plays have earned him enormous acclaim over the past five decades. … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Shepard, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 14 2012
- ISBN10: 0345802764
- Language: English
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Dept. of Speculation
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Weather comes a slim, stunning portrait of a marriage–a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwre… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Offill, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0345806875
- Language: English
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The Queen’s Gambit
$17.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four. Now a highl… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Tevis, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 11 2003
- ISBN10: 1400030609
- Language: English
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The Dog Stars
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the author of The River In this “end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning” (San Francisco Chronicle), Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyo… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Heller, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0307950476
- Language: English
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The River
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the author of The Guide and The Dog Stars comes the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip–a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, an… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Heller, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0525563539
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Geisha
$19.00 Add to cartA literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan’s most celebrated geisha.
Nominated- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Golden, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 18 1999
- ISBN10: 0679781587
- Language: English
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
$16.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A modern classic–both poignant and funny–about a boy with autism who sets out to solve the murder of a neighbor’s dog and discovers unexpected truths about himself and the worl
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Haddon, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 18, 2004
- ISBN10: 1400032717
- Language: English
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Bark: Stories
$21.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A collection of stories by one of America’s most beloved and admired short-story writers that explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pit… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Moore, Lorrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0307740862
- Language: English
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Property
$19.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE – Set in 1828 on a Louisiana sugar plantation, this novel from the bestselling author of Mary Reilly presents a “fresh, unsentimental look at what slave-owning does to (and … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Martin, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0375713301
- Language: English
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The Brief History of the Dead
$20.00 Add to cartFrom Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation’s most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between.
The City is inhabited by those who have
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Brockmeier, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1400095956
- Language: English
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There’s Something I Want You to Do: Stories
$19.00 Add to cart“There’s something I want you to do.” This request–sometimes simple, sometimes not–forms the basis for the ten interrelated short stories that comprise this latest penetrating and prophetic collecti
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Baxter, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0804172730
- Language: English
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The Dog Stars (Movie Tie-In Edition)
$19.00 Add to cartSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – From the author of The River In this “end-of-the-world novel more like a rapturous beginning” (San Francisco Chronicle), Hig somehow survived… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Heller, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217009312
- Language: English
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Mona in the Promised Land
$21.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed, award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon comes a “hilariously funny and seriously important” novel (Amy Tan) about American multiculturalism and a Chinese American teenager doi… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Jen, Gish
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0679776508
- Language: English
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A Fan’s Notes
$17.00 Add to cartRejacketed, the first volume in Fred Exley’s autobiographical trilogy is reissued to coincide with the publication of the third new volume, Last Notes From Home.
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Exley, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 12 1988
- ISBN10: 0679720766
- Language: English
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St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories
$18.00 Add to cartHere is the debut short story collection from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Swamplandia and the New York Times bestselling Vampires in the Lemon Grove.
In these ten glittering stories, th- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Russell, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 14 2007
- ISBN10: 0307276678
- Language: English
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Mile Zero
$26.00 Add to cart“Mile zero” marks the location of Key West–the island that defines the end of the American road, the cultural junction where Anglo-Saxon, Latin, and Afro worlds collide. Here lives St. Cloud, and Ame… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries #0000
- Author: Sanchez, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 03 1990
- ISBN10: 0679732608
- Language: English
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The Good Life
$20.00 Add to cartIn this bestselling novel, the author of Bright Lights, Big City unveils a story of love, family, conflicting desires, and catastrophic loss in a powerfully searing work of fiction.
Clinging to a semi
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: McInerney, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0375725458
- Language: English
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Playworld
$20.00 Add to cart“Starting off 2025 with a novel this terrific gives me hope for the whole year.” –Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“A gorgeous cat’s cradle of a book . . . The swirling vapors of Holden Caulfield are … [more below]- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Ross, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0345807006
- Language: English
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Bringing Out the Dead
$19.00 Add to cartPerhaps only someone who has worked for almost a decade as a medic in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen–as Joe Connelly has–could write a novel as riveting and fiercely authentic as Bringing Out the De… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Connelly, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 30 1999
- ISBN10: 0375700293
- Language: English
