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
Room
Emma Donoghue
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
White Noise
Don DeLillo
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin
Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
Middle Passage
Charles Johnson
A House for Mr Biswas
V. S. Naipaul
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Sixteen Horses
Greg Buchanan
Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia
The City of Tears
Kate Mosse
The Burning Chambers
Kate Mosse
Luster
Raven Leilani
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
Maurice Leblanc
The Silence
Don DeLillo
The Children of Jocasta
Natalie Haynes
Savage Kiss
Roberto Saviano
Mother for Dinner
Shalom Auslander
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Rian Hughes
You Will Never Be Forgotten
Mary South
Dance Prone
David Coventry
The Blind Light
Stuart Evers
Blue in Chicago
Bette Howland
Summerwater
Sarah Moss
The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Prelude & Other Stories
Katherine Mansfield
Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
The Light Years
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Marking Time
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Confusion
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Casting Off
Elizabeth Jane Howard
All Change
Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Harpy
Megan Hunter
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
The Pull of the Stars
Emma Donoghue
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
Alligator and Other Stories
Dima Alzayat