The Center for Fiction Bookstore
Open daily from 11am to 8pm, our Bookstore carries fiction and nonfiction for all ages, featuring bestsellers, imports, and rare finds alike. Browse the floor-to-ceiling shelves to discover your next favorite read then relax at our Café & Bar with coffee or a cocktail.
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Out There
A much-anticipated memoir from Salman Rushdie leads the selection this week. Two others are story collections that bust their genres -
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From One Extreme to Another
This week we have novels brimming with hilarity and heartbreak, farce and catastrophe. Each extreme is hard to pull off, but... -
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Fountain of Youth
Several selections this week feature young protagonists as we explore past and present: in a Polish Gothic novel; with a closeted... -
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The Heart’s Desire
This week we cover stories about family, love, and characters who are haunted by their pasts and potential futures -
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Arts & Letters
In this week’s selection we recommend a stunning debut from a veritable polymath; two books about ’80s artists in Soho—a... -
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Crimes and Passion
Though we get an extra day this month (thanks to the leap year), folklore suggests February 29th is bad luck -
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Life Stories
This week we dig deep into lives real and imagined, past and present: three memoirs, one in verse; a posthumous essay collection... -
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Hearts and Flowers?
This Valentine’s issue of our newsletter presents two books about love in its various iterations, both happy and sad, always complicated -
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Out of the Shadows
If the groundhog’s prediction is to be believed, we can look forward to an early spring, but in the meantime, there are... -
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Thrilling
These five novels are all suspenseful in their own ways—not just because there are three gripping crime stories (including... -
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Mind Over Matter
Books that are informed by the cultures of Iran, Vietnam, Denmark, and Ukraine will take you to faraway places this week, and... -
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Varieties of Exile
Several disparate yet extraordinary voices this week are linked by themes of heritage and displacement—from North Africa to... -
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Women's Intuition
A selection of five new novels with page-turning plots by women start off our reading in the new year. Here we have a novelist... -
The Literarians
The Literarians: 2023 Selections
Featuring titles by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tess Gunty, Percival Everett, Salman Rushdie, Rebecca Makkai, Eleanor Catton, Alba de... -
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Joy to the World
This roundup of our 25 bestselling books from 2023 can act as a last-minute holiday gift guide for your family and friends—or... -
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Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
This week bookseller extraordinaire Leah Bronstein guest-edits the newsletter to share some of her favorite books for young readers from 2023 -
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May We Recommend...
My esteemed colleagues at The Center for Fiction are avid and passionate readers. In the Bookstore we get to recommend titles... -
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Cultural Concoctions
Here is a selection of work from writers around the world that reminds us, as Virginia Woolf wrote, “Literature is open to everybody -
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Cooking Up a Storm
The holiday season is often a time for gathering in the kitchen or entertaining friends and family. This week we have a roundup... -
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Late Editions
As we approach the holiday season, there are some stellar books still to come. This week, two novels tackle a group effort to save the world
