Riverhead Books

All the World Beside

By Garrard Conley - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

Conley’s debut novel brings us to a small Massachusetts town—the symbolically-named Cana—while dramatizing an affair between two married Puritan men ...Read Review

Edith Holler

By Edward Carey - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

This fascinating, dreamlike novel is hard to categorize. Set in 1901 Norwich, England, this penny-dreadful-inspired tale of haunted theaters, murderous stepmothers, cannibalism, ghosts, and ...Read Review

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By James McBride - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

Chicken Hill, Pottstown, Pennsylvania. The 1930s. The world of Moshe and Chona Ludlow. Moshe is a Jewish immigrant, a theater owner and entrepreneur. ...Read Review

The Vaster Wilds

By Lauren Groff - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

This devastatingly beautiful meditation on nature, divinity, and survival is the second volume of a planned triptych begun last year with Groff’s ...Read Review

The Great Reclamation

By Rachel Heng - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

1941, Singapore: As British imperialism declines and WWII looms, seven-year-old Ah Boon and the Lee family struggle to survive in their southeastern coastal fishing ...Read Review

Ada’s Realm (UK) / Ada’s Room (US)

By Jon Cho-Polizzi (trans.) - By Sharon Dodua Otoo - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

This is one of those novels which may be termed experimental, in that the non-linear plot is challenging to describe in a pithy ...Read Review

Afterlives

By Abdulrazak Gurnah - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

Afterlives provides a view of the culture and world of early-20th-century Eastern Africa. Abdulrazak Gurnah, a Tanzanian author, won the 2021 Nobel Prize ...Read Review

Trust

By Hernan Diaz - Published 2022

Genres:

EpicLiterary

Pulitzer finalist Diaz’s brilliantly layered epic unfolds through a quartet of accounts, each of which adds new meaning to the ones that ...Read Review

The Stars Are Not Yet Bells

By Hannah Lillith Assadi - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

Unreliable narrators are a tricky device. In The Stars Are Not Yet Bells, the protagonist, Elle Ranier, tells her story of moving from ...Read Review

When We Lost Our Heads

By Heather O’Neill - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

In late 19th-century Montreal, girls and women are filled with rage in Heather O’Neill’s When We Lost Our Heads. The story ...Read Review