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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Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart
Concerning My Daughter
Kim Hye-jin
The Colony of Good Hope
Kim Leine
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
Maddie Mortimer
The Exhibitionist
Charlotte Mendelson
Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter
Lizzie Pook
White Noise
Don DeLillo
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
A House for Mr Biswas
V. S. Naipaul
Room
Emma Donoghue
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
Kololo Hill
Neema Shah
New Animal
Ella Baxter
Dance Move
Wendy Erskine
Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia
Devotion
Hannah Kent
Sixteen Horses
Greg Buchanan
Five Tuesdays in Winter
Lily King
The City of Tears
Kate Mosse
The Burning Chambers
Kate Mosse
The God of that Summer
Ralf Rothmann
To Paradise
Hanya Yanagihara
A Time Outside This Time
Amitava Kumar
Hare House
Sally Hinchcliffe
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Luster
Raven Leilani
The Fell
Sarah Moss
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
Maurice Leblanc
The Silence
Don DeLillo
Mother for Dinner
Shalom Auslander
Savage Kiss
Roberto Saviano
The Cat Who Saved Books
Sosuke Natsukawa
XX
Rian Hughes
Emily Noble's Disgrace
Mary Paulson-Ellis
Last Summer in the City
Gianfranco Calligarich
What Strange Paradise
Omar El Akkad
You Will Never Be Forgotten
Mary South