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.
Shop with us in person or visit our Online Bookstore to order items for pick-up and delivery. Your purchases provide essential support for The Center for Fiction’s public events, educational programming, Emerging Writer Fellowships, and more. Members of The Center for Fiction receive 10% off.
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The Center for Fiction Bookstore
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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 -
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Natural Selection
Let’s be thankful this November for these five extraordinary writers with new works of fiction. We have a master of prose returning... -
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Only Connect
To take the sting out of the end of Daylight Saving Time, we’ve started compiling your cold weather reading lists, including... -
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How Spooky
As we approach Halloween it seems timely to read fiction that is in some way ghostly. This week each book has disturbing aspects... -
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Take the Journey
These five books are examples of what reading pleasures still await in the fall season. An extraordinary portrait of an enslaved... -
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Dénouement
This week we have murder in Bordeaux, as well as in British Malaya (by an author we have the pleasure of hosting); a rumination... -
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Stories to Tell
Four striking collections of stories, and the most recent novel by a prize-winning queer Black writer who is launching his book... -
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How We Live
This week we have two powerful memoirs from writers who came to the U.S. after difficult childhoods; the funniest novel you’ll... -
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Places Between
An Italian dystopian future; an epic novel about the natural world through the lens of a single dwelling; a South African writer’s... -
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What’s Going On
With September in full swing there are many events to celebrate. We mark the beginning of National Hispanic Literature Month... -
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Getting By
Characters, real and imagined, deal with the hands they were dealt—whether it is surviving the contemporary pandemic, hunger... -
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Looking Forward, Looking Back
Whether it’s due to growing up celebrating the Jewish New Year or from living in New York where September brings a deluge... -
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Search and You Will Find
This week look for a Korean American father who goes missing; a harrowing novel about survival in the sea; a portrait of a 19th... -
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Emotional Disturbances
This week’s characters are often on the brink: a housewife dangerously weary of her life; a Dublin family hanging by a thread... -
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Style and Substance
This week there is a plethora of styles and genres: a dystopian pandemic novel; an old-school fictional biography; a tale of... -
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Under Pressure
Three tension-filled works of fiction by highly acclaimed authors present characters and plots driven in part by racial differences... -
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Artistic License
From the Harlem Renaissance to Midwestern nostalgia, the facade of perfection, interracial romance, and a Pakistani character’s... -
First Novel Prize
2023 First Novel Prize
The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize was awarded to Tyriek White for his debut novel We Are a Haunting...
