Literary Fiction
Acclaimed works from prize-winning Picador authors, including Edward St Aubyn and Alan Hollinghurst. From must-read literary sensations like A Little Life to timeless classics like Plainsong, these are books that challenge conventions, spark debates and feed imaginations.
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Kololo Hill
Neema Shah
Nightshift
Kiare Ladner
The Art of Losing
Alice Zeniter
Mother for Dinner
Shalom Auslander
Luster
Raven Leilani
The City of Tears
Kate Mosse
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Burmese Days
George Orwell
La Vita Nuova
Dante Alighieri
The Silence
Don DeLillo
The Girl Who Reads on the Métro
Christine Féret-Fleury
Candide, or The Optimist
Voltaire
Tales from the Cafe
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Confession
Jessie Burton
The Harpy
Megan Hunter
Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
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Rian Hughes
Summerwater
Sarah Moss
The Catholic School
Edoardo Albinati
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Dance Prone
David Coventry
Akin
Emma Donoghue
The Pull of the Stars
Emma Donoghue
Sweet Home
Wendy Erskine
The Ditch
Herman Koch
The Blind Light
Stuart Evers
Alligator and Other Stories
Dima Alzayat
Writers & Lovers
Lily King
A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth
Daniel Mason
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
My House Is Falling Down
Mary Loudon
From The Wreck
Jane Rawson
The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing
Mary Paulson-Ellis
Homeland
Fernando Aramburu
The Age of Light
Whitney Scharer
Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi
Jack & Bet
Sarah Butler