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 Girl Who Reads on the Métro
Christine Féret-Fleury
Candide, or The Optimist
Voltaire
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Lampedusa
Steven Price
Tales from the Cafe
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Confession
Jessie Burton
A House for Mr Biswas
V. S. Naipaul
The Enigma of Arrival
V. S. Naipaul
In a Free State
V. S. Naipaul
The Catholic School
Edoardo Albinati
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart
Lovecraft Country
Matt Ruff
You Will Never Be Forgotten
Mary South
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
Akin
Emma Donoghue
Blue in Chicago
Bette Howland
Sweet Home
Wendy Erskine
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
The Ditch
Herman Koch
Alligator and Other Stories
Dima Alzayat
A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth
Daniel Mason
Cleanness
Garth Greenwell
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
Salt Slow
Julia Armfield
Gingerbread
Helen Oyeyemi
The Braid
Laetitia Colombani
The Doll Factory
Elizabeth Macneal
Amnesty
Aravind Adiga
In a Free State
V. S. Naipaul
The Enigma of Arrival
V. S. Naipaul
A Bend in the River
V. S. Naipaul
Bleak House
Charles Dickens
H. K. Browne
Our Mutual Friend
Charles Dickens
Marcus Stone
The Warden
Anthony Trollope
F. C. Tilney
The Distance Home
Paula Saunders