In his latest novel, Jonathan Franzen returns to fiction with a comic and tragic epic of contemporary love and marriage.

Gary Shteyngart's postapocalyptic black comedy, Super Sad True Love Story, poses the question: Can two people come together as the world is falling apart?

Helen Simonson's delightful debut novel, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, is as much a gently p.c. look at the British class system tucked inside a sly comedy of manners as it is a love story.

Learn more about the book and the author.

Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad is a wildly ambitious novel about the music business, media technology and culture.

Learn more about the book and the author.

Learn more about the book and the author.

In The Warmth of Other Suns, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson illustrates how the early-20th-century migration of blacks to northern cities precipitated the civil rights movement and created our cities and art forms.

Learn more about the book and the author.

Learn more about the book and the author.