In the new novel from the author of The Memory Keeper's Daughter, a contemporary connects with a female ancestor, erased from the family record.

The new film adaptation of this  mordant Western is an occasion to celebrate the author's neglected storytelling mastery.

Norma Jean's canine companion tells all.

In a prequel to The Heretic's Daughter, a young woman in Colonial Massachusetts vies with beasts of more than one kind.

Our editors choose their ten favorite fiction books of the year.

Frederick Reuss's new novel tracks two men whose daily decisions can bring down innocent bystanders a world away.

The story of an abandoned child and an unlikely rescue is told in the shadow of China's massive Three Gorges Dam project.

A Montana doctor takes the long way home in Thomas McGuane's funny and affecting new novel. Melissa Holbrook Pierson reviews.

In this potent psychological thriller, an infant’s arrival on the doorstep of a remote Spanish convent threatens the foundations of the nuns' cloistered society.

The new novel from the prizewinning writer is a shrewd twist on a Henry James story of the road not taken.

A teenage girl confronts the mysteries of her mother's young life, in a town shadowed by the fear of a monster's rampage.

A searing novel about abandoned homes, broken families, and the never-extinguished urge to connect.

 A plot of French farmland, coveted by old residents and new arrivals, becomes the catalyst for violence.

A precocious boy sets himself against injustice and casts himself as a new Messiah in Adam Levin's darkly comic, epic-length debut.

A South Texas drama of fathers, sons, and horses unfolds with Faulknerian grandeur.