Shirley Jackson’s beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family’s dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.

Renata Adler’s Speedboat for the TikTok generation, Flat Earth follows a young woman struggling with the artistic success of her more privileged, beautiful best friend, while trying to make her own art and find fulfillment under late capitalism in AmericaAvery is a young woman attending grad school in New York, working on a collection of cultural reports and flailing financially and emotionally. Having grown up in a dysfunctional family, in which she was made to take care of her parents, she now seeks to be taken care of—and even infantilized—which she plays out by dating older men for money, and others for the oblivion their egos offer. In an act of desperation (and possibly hallucination—she had taken a fair amount of Ambien that night) Avery applies for and secures a job at a right wing dating app. The "reports" she is tasked to write for the startup eventually merge with her dissertation, resulting in a metafictional text that reveals itself on these very pages.Meanwhile, Avery's best friend Frances, an effortlessly chic emerging filmmaker from a wealthy family in the South, drops out of grad school, gets married, and somehow still manages to finish her first feature Flat Earth. Frances' triumphant return to New York as the toast of the art world and literati sends Avery on a final tailspin, pushing her to make some of her most devastating decisions, but also ultimately bringing her back to her authentic self. Flat Earth is a coming-of-age story about America and about New York, a metafictional novel about transactionality, conspiracy theories, mimetic desire, and the difficulties of female friendship that’s as sharp and ironic as it is sneakily heartbreaking. As Leslie Jamison says, "I read this book in a night, breathless and enraptured; wanting to save everyone in it, and wanting to watch them burn forever.”

Renata Adler’s Speedboat for the TikTok generation, Flat Earth follows a young woman struggling with the artistic success of her more privileged, beautiful best friend, while trying to make her own art and find fulfillment under late capitalism in AmericaAvery is a young woman attending grad school in New York, working on a collection of cultural reports and flailing financially and emotionally. Having grown up in a dysfunctional family, in which she was made to take care of her parents, she now seeks to be taken care of—and even infantilized—which she plays out by dating older men for money, and others for the oblivion their egos offer. In an act of desperation (and possibly hallucination—she had taken a fair amount of Ambien that night) Avery applies for and secures a job at a right wing dating app. The "reports" she is tasked to write for the startup eventually merge with her dissertation, resulting in a metafictional text that reveals itself on these very pages.Meanwhile, Avery's best friend Frances, an effortlessly chic emerging filmmaker from a wealthy family in the South, drops out of grad school, gets married, and somehow still manages to finish her first feature Flat Earth. Frances' triumphant return to New York as the toast of the art world and literati sends Avery on a final tailspin, pushing her to make some of her most devastating decisions, but also ultimately bringing her back to her authentic self. Flat Earth is a coming-of-age story about America and about New York, a metafictional novel about transactionality, conspiracy theories, mimetic desire, and the difficulties of female friendship that’s as sharp and ironic as it is sneakily heartbreaking. As Leslie Jamison says, "I read this book in a night, breathless and enraptured; wanting to save everyone in it, and wanting to watch them burn forever.”

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as she learns that she's stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself—and that now, her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even riskier than the first.

Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it. All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company. His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species. And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone. Or does he?

Piranesi’s house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.

Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future. Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves. When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves. When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.

My name is Katniss Everdeen. Why am I not dead? I should be dead. Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding. It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without knowing it. District 13 has come out of the shadows and is plotting to overthrow the Capitol. Everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans—except Katniss. The success of the rebellion hinges on Katniss's willingness to be a pawn, to accept responsibility for countless lives, and to change the course of the future of Panem. To do this, she must put aside her feelings of anger and distrust. She must become the rebels' Mockingjay—no matter what the personal cost.

Sparks are igniting. Flames are spreading. And the Capitol wants revenge. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol—a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create. Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying. In Catching Fire, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before . . . and surprising readers at every turn.