Adult Fiction

A semi-autobiographical work of fiction, We the Animals: A novel tells the history of a family and the Boy Who Left.

How one feels about depression being personified by a large black dog that plagues Winston Churchill is likely dependent on how one feels about depression, dogs and the famous Prime Minister.

Commencement Commencement (Vintage Contemporaries) is an enjoyable jaunt through life in a women’s college and the years afterwards, until it goes completely off the rails.

A pseudo-academic treatise disguised as a conversation between a man and his long-time mistress, The Mistress Contract is a book you'll either love, hate or go "what IS this?"

Take two sisters, the setting of Silicon Valley, a handkerchief-twisting “will they or won’t they romance?” and the mystery of a collection of cookbooks. Add a heaping cup of literary references and a dash of Judaism, and you have The Cookbook Collector: A Novel . 

There’s something for both mothers and children in Please Look After Mom : mothers will feel grateful they don’t have selfish children and children will be glad to not have a martyr for a mother.

Friendships are always a balancing act—each person has a role, whether it’s providing a shoulder to cry on, remembering your past romantic mistakes, or being up for your latest harebrained activity. Sometimes you’re lucky enough to find a friend who fulfills all of these. In the The Art of Forgetting , Marisa and Julia are longtime soulmates.

Despite the gag-worthy sentence “Sometimes love does conquer all” on the jacket flap of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand: A Novel , don’t be alarmed: Helen Simonson’s first novel is a no-nonsense, non-traditional British romance that will delight the reader.

While The Weird Sisters follows three sisters, deep down it’s a book about being a parent.