Touchstone / Literary / English literature

I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You

by Courtney Maum – Touchstone (June 10, 2014)

In this reverse love story set in Paris and London, which The Wall Street Journal hailed as “funny and soulful…immediately appealing,” a failed monogamist attempts to woo his wife back and to answer the...

Landing Gear: A Novel

by Kate Pullinger – Touchstone (May 20, 2014)

From the award-winning author of The Mistress of Nothing comes a highly imaginative story of colliding worlds and extraordinary connections, revealing the tenuous, often unexpected ties that bind us together....

Magnificent Vibration: A Novel

by Rick Springfield – Touchstone (May 06, 2014)

After making an unexpected connection with God via his cell phone, one man embarks on an unlikely spiritual quest in this smart, savvy, rambunctious debut from Grammy Award-winning musician and New York Times...

Snow White

by Donald Barthelme – Touchstone (January 29, 2013)

“Eccentric, dazzling…the literary conversation piece of the year.” –San Francisco Chronicle

An American short story writer and novelist acclaimed for his playful, postmodern style of short fiction, Barthelme’s...

Truth in Advertising: A Novel

by John Kenney – Touchstone (January 22, 2013)

“F. Scott Fitzgerald said that there are no second acts in American lives. I have no idea what that means but I believe that in quoting him I appear far more intelligent than I am. I don’t know about second...

The History of Us: A Novel

by Leah Stewart – Touchstone (January 08, 2013)

From the critically acclaimed author of The Myth of You and Me, The History of Us is a heartrending story of love, loss, family, and the life you make in the path not taken.

Sometimes home is the hardest place...

Ghosts of Manhattan: A Novel

by Douglas Brunt – Touchstone (October 02, 2012)

This instant New York Times bestseller offers a withering view of life on Wall Street from the perspective of an unhappy insider who is too hooked on the money to find a way out, even as his career is ruining...

The Color of Bee Larkham's Murder

by Sarah J. Harris – Touchstone (June 12, 2018)

A boy with synesthesia—a condition that causes him to see colors when he hears sounds—tries to uncover what happened to his beautiful new neighbor—and if he was ultimately responsible in this “compelling...

Gods of Wood and Stone

by Mark Di Ionno – Touchstone (July 17, 2018)

Two men from disparate worlds search for what constitutes a meaningful life in a searing portrait of honor and masculinity, sport and celebrity, marriage and parenthood in this “rough, tough, and thoughtful”...

The Life List of Adrian Mandrick

by Chris White – Touchstone (April 17, 2018)

“With a birder’s eye for detail, White takes us on [Adrian Mandrick’s] painful, near death descent…[her] life-affirming conclusion reminds us that endangered species aren’t the only ones that need...

What Happened to Anna K.: A Novel

by Irina Reyn – Touchstone (August 12, 2008)

A mesmerizing debut novel that reimagines Tolstoy's classic tragedy, Anna Karenina, for our time

Vivacious thirty-seven-year-old Anna K. is comfortably married to Alex, an older, prominent businessman from...

George and Lizzie: A Novel

by Nancy Pearl – Touchstone (September 05, 2017)

From “America’s librarian” and NPR books commentator Nancy Pearl comes an emotional, “Anne-Tyler-esque” (Library Journal) debut novel about an unlikely marriage at a crossroads.

George and Lizzie are...

This Was Not the Plan: A Novel

by Cristina Alger – Touchstone (February 02, 2016)

From the New York Times bestselling author of Girls Like Us comes a “funny, bittersweet, and ultimately uplifting look” (Sarah Pekkanen) at fatherhood, love, and family life.

Charlie Goldwyn’s life hasn’t...

The Incarnations: A Novel

by Susan Barker – Touchstone (August 18, 2015)

New York Times Notable Book of 2015

Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2015

Finalist for the 2015 Kirkus Prize for Fiction

Winner of a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize

Hailed by The New York Times for its “wildly...

Thank You, Goodnight: A Novel

by Andy Abramowitz – Touchstone (June 02, 2015)

In Thank You, Goodnight, hailed by Billboard as “High Fidelity and About a Boy with a dose of Music & Lyrics thrown in,” the lead singer of a one-hit wonder 90s band tries for one more swing at the fence....