A vibrant novel detailing life in the South and the backbreaking, brutal, yet rewarding life that is sugarcane farming today.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

A 19th-century Frenchman flees himself in this intelligent, superb tale.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

A Mexican village of women struggles to survive the devastation wrought by drug trafficking and abandonment.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

In a tale set in post-Tiananmen Square China, characters struggle with emptiness and solitude.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

Haunted by slavery, two unforgettable American women form a complex relationship as each strives to make a life of her own in this lyrical and edifying tale.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

A revealing look at the flip-side of the "safari and wildlife" Kenya with which most Americans are familiar.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

A woman, defined as useless, struggles for dignity alone in her Beirut apartment, equipped only with books, memories — and an unforgettable voice.

• Fiction,
• Literary,

The bestselling French author transports readers to 12th-century France, while still providing hard-hitting social commentary.

• Fiction,
• Literary,