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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The Silence
Don DeLillo
Candide, or The Optimist
Voltaire
The Confession
Jessie Burton
The Harpy
Megan Hunter
Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
XX
Rian Hughes
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
My House Is Falling Down
Mary Loudon
From The Wreck
Jane Rawson
The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing
Mary Paulson-Ellis
The Age of Light
Whitney Scharer
Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi
The Doll Factory
Elizabeth Macneal
Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
H. K. Browne
Mountain Road, Late at Night
Alan Rossi
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
Marcus Stone
The Warden
Anthony Trollope
F. C. Tilney
The Distance Home
Paula Saunders
I Want To Show You More
Jamie Quatro
Diary of a Somebody
Brian Bilston
King Zeno
Nathaniel Rich
The Order of the Day
Eric Vuillard
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Evening in Paradise
Lucia Berlin
In the Ravine & Other Stories
Anton Chekhov
How to Love a Jamaican
Alexia Arthurs
Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine
Kevin Wilson
Far From the Madding Crowd
Thomas Hardy
Helen Allingham