Set in ancient Israel after the fall of Jerusalem, Hoffman's enchanting new novel follows four extraordinary women who come to Masada, the mountaintop stronghold where the Jews held out for months against the Roman army.

In this darkly funny comedy of manners, Hal Linley, an IRS bureaucrat in a crumbling marriage volunteers to fly to Belize to search for his wife's recently-vanished employer, T (the protagonist from Millet's novel How the Dead Dream), who disappeared deep in the tropical jungle.

"So you see, none of this was planned. This is the kind of unforeseeable map that arises one bright little city at a time. It's about letting go of the clench in your forehead and letting your heart steer," says the narrator in Nadzam's beautifully written new novel about an unlikely pair of roadtrippers: a middle-aged man and the awkward 11-year-old girl he berfriends after his marriage crumbles.

A young man known as the Kid must craft a life for himself after serving time for a liaison with an underage girl in Banks' riveting, morally complex new novel.

In his sparkling new novel, Ha Jin pays homage to the Westerners, many of them American missionaries, who helped save Chinese civilians during the Rape of Nanjing. At the center of this story is Minnie Vautrin, known in Nanjing as the Goddess of Mercy, who "ruined herself by helping others."

"At least her story has moved me to write a novel about her," Ha Jin notes in a letter to the reader. "If I succeed, my book might put her soul at peace."

Ghosh is back with the second book of his Ibis trilogy, an epic tale about the Opium Wars.

The Deep End of the Ocean author returns with a dramatic story about a disfigured young woman and the radical new surgery that may give her back her life.

In this seafaring tale from the author of The English Patient, a young boy from Colombo boards a ship bound for England and discovers a world of adventure on the water.

A knife thrower, ghosts and a cartoon cat and mouse are just a few of the wide-ranging characters in this stunning story collection.