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.
More to explore
Lucy Scholes reviews Hanya Yanagihara’s debut novel, The People in the Trees.
Tim Winton discusses The Shepherd’s Hut with Sophie Jonathan.
Jack & Bet
Sarah Butler
Mountain Road, Late at Night
Alan Rossi
Nightshift
Kiare Ladner
Kololo Hill
Neema Shah
The Art of Losing
Alice Zeniter
The Hiding Game
Naomi Wood
Writers & Lovers
Lily King
Mother for Dinner
Shalom Auslander
Amnesty
Aravind Adiga
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
Little Bandaged Days
Kyra Wilder
Luster
Raven Leilani
The City of Tears
Kate Mosse
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Burmese Days
George Orwell
Correspondents
Tim Murphy
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
Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
The Catholic School
Edoardo Albinati
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Akin
Emma Donoghue
Sweet Home
Wendy Erskine
The Ditch
Herman Koch
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
The Doll Factory
Elizabeth Macneal
Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
H. K. Browne
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
Marcus Stone
The Warden
Anthony Trollope
F. C. Tilney