Category
Magical Realism
1Q84 2011
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that...
The Age of Magic 2024
Eight weary filmmakers, traveling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three days and two nights, the travelers will find themselves drawn...
The Anatomy of Magic 2025
A young woman learns to embrace all the messy imperfections of life and love with some help from her magical family.
Lilian Estrada seemingly has it all: an ob-gyn star on the rise, a master at balancing work with whirlwind romances, and part of a family of fiercely loyal and exceptional women, all...
Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disappeared without a trace. But then she gets a call—there is a man on the porch of her childhood home, and he’s asking for her. This man isn’t the Ba Qianze remembers: he is...
The Book of Thorns 2024
Penniless and stranded in France after a bid to escape her cruel uncle goes awry, Cornelia Shaw is far from the Parisian life of leisure she imagined. Desperate and out of options, she allows herself to be recruited to Napoleon’s Grande Armée. As a naturalist, her mysterious ability to heal any...
When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he becomes convinced that she has gone to a strange, imagined city she once described—a walled place where shadows are separated from their owners and unicorns roam its quiet streets. Unable to let go, he begins a search that gradually extends...
The City of Mist 2021
Bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón conceived of this collection of stories as an appreciation to the countless readers who joined him on the extraordinary journey that began with The Shadow of the Wind. Comprising eleven stories, most of them never before published in English, The City of Mist...
In high school, Tsukuru Tazaki belonged to an extremely tight-knit group of friends who pledged to stay together forever. But when Tsukuru returns home from his first year of college in Tokyo, he finds that they want nothing to do with him. Something has changed, but nobody will tell him what—and he...
Dance Dance Dance 1994
Haunted by the disappearance of a woman he once knew, an unnamed narrator returns to the Dolphin Hotel, only to find it transformed into a sleek, impersonal space that seems to conceal more than it reveals. Drawn back by a vague sense of unease, he begins to investigate what happened—both to the...
The Night Library is no ordinary library. Within it are found the rarest and most unusual collections – the books of deceased famous writers:
the books they wrote;
the books that inspired them;
the books they loved.
All Otaha Higuchi wants to do is work with books. However, the exhausting...
The Girl I Was 2025
“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.” Alexis Spencer will use any inspirational quote to rationalize her failures and shortcomings. Her closest friends are a distant memory, and her college debt is still as high as the day she left. But that’s all fine and dandy, because “whatever will...
The novel unfolds across two parallel narratives that gradually begin to mirror and inform one another. In one, a data processor living in a futuristic Tokyo works as a “Calcutec,” using his mind to encrypt information in a world of competing shadowy organizations. When he is drawn into a strange...
Hear the Wind Sing 1987
The Rat, Book 1
During a quiet summer in a seaside Japanese town, an unnamed narrator passes his days in idle conversation, drinking, and drifting through routines that feel both familiar and detached. Much of his time is spent with his friend known as “the Rat,” whose restless dissatisfaction contrasts with the...
In this bold hybrid collection of poetry, flash fiction, and Afrofuturism sci-fi, the award-winning interdisciplinary writer and author of *Side Notes from the Archivist* explores what happens when god is a Black woman in a town. What happens when there are multiple universes in the middle of...
In the Hour of Crows 2024
In a small town in Appalachia, people paint their doorways blue to keep spirits away. Black ferns grow where death will follow. And Weatherly Opal Wilder is a Death Talker. When called upon, she can talk the death out of the dying and save their lives—only once, never twice. But this truly unique...
Strange, almost magical, things are afoot in Lviv. Seagulls circle overhead while the passing breeze carries a briny whiff, even though the coast is far away. A ragtag group of aging hippies gather around a mysterious grave in Lychakiv Cemetery. Among them are an ex-KGB officer and the old...
Kafka on the Shore 2005
Fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura runs away from home, driven by a dark prophecy and a desire to escape his past. He finds refuge in a quiet private library, where he forms connections with its caretakers and begins to carve out a life of his own. As he navigates solitude, memory, and identity, he...
Killing Commendatore 2018
When a portrait painter in his thirties is abruptly abandoned by his wife, he withdraws from his life in Tokyo and takes refuge in a secluded mountain home once owned by a celebrated artist, Tomohiko Amada. Living in isolation, he resumes painting and drifts through his days—until a hidden painting...
By a riverbank in Africa, two lovers meet for the first time. They make a promise to meet again the next day, same time, same place, but only one of them shows up. This sounds like the beginning of a love story, but it's more than that, for this breath-taking tale takes the reader into the heart of...
Pinball, 1973 1987
The Rat, Book 2
Set a few years after Hear the Wind Sing, the novel follows the unnamed narrator as he settles into a quiet life in Tokyo, working at a translation company and sharing his apartment with twin sisters whose presence is as enigmatic as it is routine. Despite the outward stability, he remains...
The Poppy Fields 2025
What if there were a cure for grief?
Welcome to the Poppy Fields, where there’s hope for even the most battered hearts to heal. Here, in a remote stretch of the California desert, lies an experimental and controversial treatment center that allows those suffering from the heartache of loss to...
The Satanic Verses 2008
Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in...
The Silence Factory 2025
1820: Sophia Ashmore-Percy reluctantly accompanies her husband James to a remote Greek island, where he searches for rare biological specimens. Once there, however, she sets on her own voyage of discovery—stumbling across the very creature he is looking for, making an unexpected connection with a...
The Strange Library 2014
A young boy stops by his local library to return some books, only to be drawn into a request that leads him deep beneath the building into a hidden, labyrinthine archive. There, he is confronted by a strange old man who insists he must stay and memorize a collection of obscure texts—a task enforced...
When a storm unlike any other descends upon New York City, it marks the beginning of a strange and transformative era. The boundary between the human world and the realm of the jinn—supernatural beings of fire and smoke—begins to collapse, unleashing chaos, wonder, and unexpected powers.
At the...
Vanishing World 2026
As a girl, Amane realizes with horror that her parents “copulated” in order to bring her into the world, rather than using artificial insemination, which became the norm in the mid-twentieth century. Amane strives to get away from what she considers an indoctrination in this strange “system” by her...
A Wild Sheep Chase 1989
The Rat, Book 3
An advertising copywriter living a quiet, detached life in Tokyo becomes entangled in a strange and dangerous search after using a photograph in an ad that draws the attention of a powerful and shadowy figure. The image features a peculiar sheep marked with a star on its back, and he is given an...
Toru Okada leads a quiet, uneventful life in Tokyo until his cat disappears—and soon after, his wife vanishes as well. What begins as a simple search quickly draws him into a series of increasingly strange encounters, from cryptic phone calls to unsettling strangers who seem to know more about his...
The novel unfolds across two parallel narratives that gradually begin to mirror and inform one another. In one, a data processor living in a futuristic Tokyo works as a “Calcutec,” using his mind to encrypt information in a world of competing shadowy organizations. When he is drawn into a strange...
1Q84 2011
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that...
Toru Okada leads a quiet, uneventful life in Tokyo until his cat disappears—and soon after, his wife vanishes as well. What begins as a simple search quickly draws him into a series of increasingly strange encounters, from cryptic phone calls to unsettling strangers who seem to know more about his...
A Wild Sheep Chase 1989
The Rat, Book 3
An advertising copywriter living a quiet, detached life in Tokyo becomes entangled in a strange and dangerous search after using a photograph in an ad that draws the attention of a powerful and shadowy figure. The image features a peculiar sheep marked with a star on its back, and he is given an...
Kafka on the Shore 2005
Fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura runs away from home, driven by a dark prophecy and a desire to escape his past. He finds refuge in a quiet private library, where he forms connections with its caretakers and begins to carve out a life of his own. As he navigates solitude, memory, and identity, he...
The Night Library is no ordinary library. Within it are found the rarest and most unusual collections – the books of deceased famous writers:
the books they wrote;
the books that inspired them;
the books they loved.
All Otaha Higuchi wants to do is work with books. However, the exhausting...
Hear the Wind Sing 1987
The Rat, Book 1
During a quiet summer in a seaside Japanese town, an unnamed narrator passes his days in idle conversation, drinking, and drifting through routines that feel both familiar and detached. Much of his time is spent with his friend known as “the Rat,” whose restless dissatisfaction contrasts with the...
Pinball, 1973 1987
The Rat, Book 2
Set a few years after Hear the Wind Sing, the novel follows the unnamed narrator as he settles into a quiet life in Tokyo, working at a translation company and sharing his apartment with twin sisters whose presence is as enigmatic as it is routine. Despite the outward stability, he remains...
Vanishing World April 14, 2026
As a girl, Amane realizes with horror that her parents “copulated” in order to bring her into the world, rather than using artificial insemination, which became the norm in the mid-twentieth century. Amane strives to get away from what she considers an indoctrination in this strange “system” by her...
A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing January 27, 2026
Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disappeared without a trace. But then she gets a call—there is a man on the porch of her childhood home, and he’s asking for her. This man isn’t the Ba Qianze remembers: he is...
Dinner at the Night Library September 30, 2025
The Night Library is no ordinary library. Within it are found the rarest and most unusual collections – the books of deceased famous writers:
the books they wrote;
the books that inspired them;
the books they loved.
All Otaha Higuchi wants to do is work with books. However, the exhausting...
The Silence Factory August 19, 2025
1820: Sophia Ashmore-Percy reluctantly accompanies her husband James to a remote Greek island, where he searches for rare biological specimens. Once there, however, she sets on her own voyage of discovery—stumbling across the very creature he is looking for, making an unexpected connection with a...
The Girl I Was July 15, 2025
“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.” Alexis Spencer will use any inspirational quote to rationalize her failures and shortcomings. Her closest friends are a distant memory, and her college debt is still as high as the day she left. But that’s all fine and dandy, because “whatever will...
The Poppy Fields June 17, 2025
What if there were a cure for grief?
Welcome to the Poppy Fields, where there’s hope for even the most battered hearts to heal. Here, in a remote stretch of the California desert, lies an experimental and controversial treatment center that allows those suffering from the heartache of loss to...
The Anatomy of Magic March 11, 2025
A young woman learns to embrace all the messy imperfections of life and love with some help from her magical family.
Lilian Estrada seemingly has it all: an ob-gyn star on the rise, a master at balancing work with whirlwind romances, and part of a family of fiercely loyal and exceptional women, all...
The City and Its Uncertain Walls November 19, 2024
When a young man’s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he becomes convinced that she has gone to a strange, imagined city she once described—a walled place where shadows are separated from their owners and unicorns roam its quiet streets. Unable to let go, he begins a search that gradually extends...
Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv August 13, 2024
Strange, almost magical, things are afoot in Lviv. Seagulls circle overhead while the passing breeze carries a briny whiff, even though the coast is far away. A ragtag group of aging hippies gather around a mysterious grave in Lychakiv Cemetery. Among them are an ex-KGB officer and the old...
In the Hour of Crows June 4, 2024
In a small town in Appalachia, people paint their doorways blue to keep spirits away. Black ferns grow where death will follow. And Weatherly Opal Wilder is a Death Talker. When called upon, she can talk the death out of the dying and save their lives—only once, never twice. But this truly unique...
The Book of Thorns April 2, 2024
Penniless and stranded in France after a bid to escape her cruel uncle goes awry, Cornelia Shaw is far from the Parisian life of leisure she imagined. Desperate and out of options, she allows herself to be recruited to Napoleon’s Grande Armée. As a naturalist, her mysterious ability to heal any...
Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere March 12, 2024
In this bold hybrid collection of poetry, flash fiction, and Afrofuturism sci-fi, the award-winning interdisciplinary writer and author of *Side Notes from the Archivist* explores what happens when god is a Black woman in a town. What happens when there are multiple universes in the middle of...
The Age of Magic February 13, 2024
Eight weary filmmakers, traveling from Paris to Basel, arrive at a small Swiss hotel on the shores of a luminous lake. Above them, strewn with lights that twinkle in the darkness, looms the towering Rigi mountain. Over the course of three days and two nights, the travelers will find themselves drawn...
The Last Gift of the Master Artists August 4, 2022
By a riverbank in Africa, two lovers meet for the first time. They make a promise to meet again the next day, same time, same place, but only one of them shows up. This sounds like the beginning of a love story, but it's more than that, for this breath-taking tale takes the reader into the heart of...
The City of Mist November 23, 2021
Bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón conceived of this collection of stories as an appreciation to the countless readers who joined him on the extraordinary journey that began with The Shadow of the Wind. Comprising eleven stories, most of them never before published in English, The City of Mist...
Killing Commendatore October 9, 2018
When a portrait painter in his thirties is abruptly abandoned by his wife, he withdraws from his life in Tokyo and takes refuge in a secluded mountain home once owned by a celebrated artist, Tomohiko Amada. Living in isolation, he resumes painting and drifts through his days—until a hidden painting...
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights May 5, 2016
When a storm unlike any other descends upon New York City, it marks the beginning of a strange and transformative era. The boundary between the human world and the realm of the jinn—supernatural beings of fire and smoke—begins to collapse, unleashing chaos, wonder, and unexpected powers.
At the...
The Strange Library December 2, 2014
A young boy stops by his local library to return some books, only to be drawn into a request that leads him deep beneath the building into a hidden, labyrinthine archive. There, he is confronted by a strange old man who insists he must stay and memorize a collection of obscure texts—a task enforced...
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage August 12, 2014
In high school, Tsukuru Tazaki belonged to an extremely tight-knit group of friends who pledged to stay together forever. But when Tsukuru returns home from his first year of college in Tokyo, he finds that they want nothing to do with him. Something has changed, but nobody will tell him what—and he...
1Q84 October 25, 2011
The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.
A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that...
The Satanic Verses March 11, 2008
Set in a modern world filled with both mayhem and miracles, the story begins with a bang: the terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil. This is just the initial act in...
Kafka on the Shore January 18, 2005
Fifteen-year-old Kafka Tamura runs away from home, driven by a dark prophecy and a desire to escape his past. He finds refuge in a quiet private library, where he forms connections with its caretakers and begins to carve out a life of his own. As he navigates solitude, memory, and identity, he...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle October 21, 1997
Toru Okada leads a quiet, uneventful life in Tokyo until his cat disappears—and soon after, his wife vanishes as well. What begins as a simple search quickly draws him into a series of increasingly strange encounters, from cryptic phone calls to unsettling strangers who seem to know more about his...
Dance Dance Dance January 1, 1994
Haunted by the disappearance of a woman he once knew, an unnamed narrator returns to the Dolphin Hotel, only to find it transformed into a sleek, impersonal space that seems to conceal more than it reveals. Drawn back by a vague sense of unease, he begins to investigate what happened—both to the...
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World September 1, 1991
The novel unfolds across two parallel narratives that gradually begin to mirror and inform one another. In one, a data processor living in a futuristic Tokyo works as a “Calcutec,” using his mind to encrypt information in a world of competing shadowy organizations. When he is drawn into a strange...
A Wild Sheep Chase January 1, 1989
The Rat, Book 3
An advertising copywriter living a quiet, detached life in Tokyo becomes entangled in a strange and dangerous search after using a photograph in an ad that draws the attention of a powerful and shadowy figure. The image features a peculiar sheep marked with a star on its back, and he is given an...
Pinball, 1973 March 1, 1987
The Rat, Book 2
Set a few years after Hear the Wind Sing, the novel follows the unnamed narrator as he settles into a quiet life in Tokyo, working at a translation company and sharing his apartment with twin sisters whose presence is as enigmatic as it is routine. Despite the outward stability, he remains...
Hear the Wind Sing February 1, 1987
The Rat, Book 1
During a quiet summer in a seaside Japanese town, an unnamed narrator passes his days in idle conversation, drinking, and drifting through routines that feel both familiar and detached. Much of his time is spent with his friend known as “the Rat,” whose restless dissatisfaction contrasts with the...