Critics' Picks - Now in Paperback

"Gripping... Araujo's accretion of detail has a powerful effect, demonstrating how deeply the culture of violence has seeped into the social fabric of Amazonia – and how hard it will be to eradicate." – Joshua Hammer, The New York Times

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this riveting novel elegantly skips between the roaring 20’s and the Great Depression to deliver an exploration of family, ambition, power and money in the country where capitalism is king.

This book won last year’s National Book Award for Fiction. The judges hailed this debut novel about the residents of a decaying Midwestern apartment complex as "beautiful, biting, darkly comic, and provocative."

Few fiction books spawned more debate last year than this gruesome fantasy about a motherless shepherd boy confronting plague and class tensions in a medieval village. Interspersed with vignettes of cannibalism, murder and other horrors, this one’s not for the faint of heart.

The bestselling author of Quiet, which spawned a movement to empower and celebrate introverts, came out with another transformative book last year. Bittersweet is a guide for how to harness the power of sadness to build a happier life.

When a marine biologist experiences a life-changing submarine accident, her wife becomes determined to unravel her mysterious transformation. This critically-adored debut novel takes readers on a transformative, unnerving plunge into the depths of a complex relationship.

This widely–praised historical novel from a National Book Critics Circle winner tells the story of a brilliant Italian immigrant who reinvents herself in Hollywood during World War II, as her homeland descends into fascism and war.

This TIME best book of the year (and editor's choice from The New York Times), follows a Korean American family's travails after a viral video surfaces of their son running across the Demilitarized Zone into North Korea.

This heartfelt follow up to the 2018 Pulitzer prize winning Less finds its beloved protagonist, the fictitious novelist Arthur Less, on an aimless road trip through the US as he grapples with a recent loss.

A darkly comedic workplace novel about a fierce young woman climbing Hollywood’s corporate ladder (with a little help from her well-connected mother). This hilarious debut is sprinkled with insider tidbits from an author who was born and raised in Los Angeles.