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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Annihilation
Michel Houellebecq
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Parties and Passions
Elena Richards
The Mystic Masseur
V.S. Naipaul
Our Evenings
Alan Hollinghurst
The Lantern of Lost Memories
Sanaka Hiiragi
The Good Wife
Jacqui Rose
Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis
Rosarita
Anita Desai
Tigers in Red Weather
Liza Klaussmann
Mother's Milk
Edward St Aubyn
Behind Frenemy Lines
Zen Cho
Small Rain
Garth Greenwell
The Ramayana
Valmiki
The Mahabharata
Vyasa
Among Friends
Hal Ebbott
Anyone's Ghost
August Thompson
A Beautiful Family
Jennifer Trevelyan
Bonding
Mariel Franklin
Some Hope
Edward St Aubyn
Long Island
Colm Tóibín
Chéri
Colette
Claudine at School
Colette
From Scenes Like These
Gordon M. Williams
Liars
Sarah Manguso
Mermaids, Sirens and Selkies
Jean Menzies
Fairies, Elves and Sprites
Jean Menzies
Classic Railway Stories
Harriet Sanders
Wife
Charlotte Mendelson
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies
Catherine Mack
The Secret Collector
Abigail Johnson
The Restaurant of Lost Recipes
Hisashi Kashiwai
All That Is
James Salter
Bad News
Edward St Aubyn
Suder
Percival Everett
The Amendments
Niamh Mulvey
My Beloved Life
Amitava Kumar
A House for Mr Biswas
V.S. Naipaul