Literary Fiction

These creative, compelling listens reimagine beloved stories from new points of view, offering fresh takes on old favorites.

Celebrate the freshest voices in fiction with our picks of the season's best and buzziest debut novels.

In “Roman Stories,” which she translated from Italian, the writer challenges what it means to be authentically from any place.

The author worked with a voice coach to master the novel's dazzling array of accents, with one possible exception: “I'm sorry Scotland, but it could have been a lot worse.”

With his latest, "Tremor," the author and photographer reveals that he doesn't find writing fiction gets any easier. "But when it works, it is as exciting as ever."

The author of The 12 Tribes of Hattie says she seeks to create characters who can survive the worst without being vectors of suffering.

"This is a book about the stories we believe in and how our worlds come to be defined and sometimes constricted by what we believe about them," the author explains of his latest novel.

Leesa Cross-Smith imagines a powerful revenge story—one in which women protect each other at all costs—in this emotive tale of friendship and resilience.

Steeped in the region's multilayered cultural history, the storytelling tradition of the American South is as rich and lyrical as it is deeply complex.

The award-winning writer of the Murderbot Diaries talks about her new listen, how her childhood inspired her characters, and the importance of injecting humor into the rich, complex worlds she creates.

Abraham Verghese returns with a multigenerational family saga that’s getting plenty of hype. The praise is much deserved.

With a bananas assemblage of vocal talent, the surreal "Black Cat, White Dog" showcases the author's exhilarating mastery of short fiction.