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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Cities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthy
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
The Road
Cormac McCarthy
Complications
Danielle Steel
Objects of Desire
Clare Sestanovich
Last Summer in the City
Gianfranco Calligarich
Annie John
Jamaica Kincaid
The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim
Magma
Thora Hjörleifsdóttir
A Shock
Keith Ridgway
Nevada
Imogen Binnie
The Streets
Jacqui Rose
Saint X
Alexis Schaitkin
The Red Tent
Anita Diamant
The Melting
Lize Spit
Heaven
Mieko Kawakami
Brood
Jackie Polzin
The Painter's Friend
Howard Cunnell
The Ophelia Girls
Jane Healey
Funeral Readings and Poems
Becky Brown
The Art of Losing
Alice Zeniter
The Blue Bedspread
Raj Kamal Jha
The Talk of Pram Town
Joanna Nadin
Standing Her Ground
Harriet Sanders
Room
Emma Donoghue
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
The Line of Beauty
Alan Hollinghurst
White Noise
Don DeLillo
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
A Manual for Cleaning Women
Lucia Berlin
Of Women and Salt
Gabriela Garcia
Fragile
Sarah Hilary
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
James Weldon Johnson
Luster
Raven Leilani
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
Neighbours
Danielle Steel
Christmas Poems
Carol Ann Duffy
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
Maurice Leblanc
Sleepily Ever After
Zachary Seager
The Strays of Paris
Jane Smiley