Mexican author Carlos Fuentes died a year ago, on May 15th. For this occasion, publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux released more than fifteen works of the author in ebooks, for less than $8.
Most titles are available in the US and in Canada.

The biggest event in the literary world this week was obviously the release of Inferno, the fourth book in the series created by Dan Brown. This time, in Florence, “Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante’s Inferno.”.
If you want to discover books from the same genre, take a look at the Esoteric Thriller category.

On the side of literary fiction, several great novels were released this week, praised by newspapers, blogs and magazines. Here are the novels we recommend.
And if this is not enough for you, you can browse the literary fiction category.

Sometimes it takes time for a book to get the recognition it deserves. Do you know John Edward Williams? He was an American author mostly famous for his novels Augustus, which shared the National Book Award in 1973 with John Barth’s Chimera; and Stoner, which “tells of the conflicts, defeats and victories of the human race that pass unrecorded by history, and reclaims the significance of an individual life.”  The novel was released in 1965 and gained new recognition in 2006 when it was reedited by New York Review Books. The book is actually experiencing another recent wave of success since its publication by Random House Vintage in 2012, which gives the chance to a whole new generation of readers to discover this gem. If you want to give this novel a chance, you’re in for a treat.
Please note that this book is only available in Europe.

You can view all the latest literary awards on our dedicated page.

Icelandic author Sjón created a cult historical saga praised by artists such as Björk and translated in numerous languages all over the world. His three most famous works were just released this week in the US, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

If you are a contemporary romance enthusiast, you have probably read Colleen Hoover’s novel Slammed, the first book of an eponymous series which had a lot of success. The third book was just released this week and it is called This Girl.

Do not hesitate to browse our dedicated category if you like contemporary romance.

The work of Spanish writer Javier Marías is known far beyond the country’s frontiers, and has incidentally received the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1997 for his novel A Heart So White. Although his works have been widely translated and published, they have just recently been released in ebook.

On Feedbooks, you can sort the latest releases and bestsellers by origin, you can for example navigate through Hispanophone literature.

Putting yourself  ”out there” is not an easy task, and yet some personal accounts are beautifully written and read like a novel. Funny, informative, heartfelt, thought-provoking… That’s what memoirs can be – but also much, much more.

For more information, you can browse our Personal Memoirs category.

You have probably heard of David Sedaris for his famous collection of essays Me Talk Pretty One Day. His new collection of essays released this week is called Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, and is “the bold, funny, and mildly offensive return to the Sedaris for which most have long waited” (The Picky Girl), and we could not recommend it any better.

This week, we interviewed American author Alice La Plante. She teaches Creative Writing at Stanford University and San Francisco and lives in Palo Alto, California, with her daughter and her partner. Turn of Mind is her first novel and received multiple literary awards.

“I wanted to explore what Alzheimer’s does to people, relationships, and families”

Read our interview of Alice LaPlante

Spring is coming, trees are blooming… If the weather makes you want to lie down with a light-hearted comedy, you will probably enjoy Sophie Kinsella’s latest novel Wedding Night.

Kirkus Reviews: Bright, bouncy, engaging and perfect for filming.

World famous master of espionage John le Carré is back with a new novel called A Delicate Truth. If you are in Europe, all of his former novels are under £4.99 or €6.49.

Our weekly selection covers such diverse topics as the transformation of food, a crime novel about a crime novelist, and two Young Adult novels taking place in a world which is definitely not ours… Happy reading!

Scott Hutchins teaches Creative Writing at Stanford University. A Working Theory of Love is his first novel.

“I consider A Working Theory of Love to be a love letter–not without criticism–to San Francisco”

Read our interview of Scott Hutchins about A Working Theory of Love

Noah Hawley is a TV and movie producer and writer, a composer and a novelist. The Good Father is his first novel.

“Medical mysteries are nothing like the mysteries of human behavior”

Read our interview of Noah Hawley about The Good Father

Last Monday, the Pulitzer Board announced the winners and finalists of the most coveted literary prize in the US. This year, the Fiction Prize was awarded, unlike last year when they chose not to pick a winner between the three finalists Dennis Johnson, David Foster Wallace and Karen Russell.

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to Adam Johnson for his novel The Orphan Master’s Son.

The New York Times: Mr. Johnson has written a daring and remarkable novel, a novel that not only opens a frightening window on the mysterious kingdom of North Korea, but one that also excavates the very meaning of love and sacrifice.

The finalists in this category were Eowyn Ivey for The Snow Child and Nathan Englander for his short story collection What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.

The Pulitzer Prize for Biography went to The Black Count by Tom Reiss, a biography of Alexandre Dumas’s father, the real count of Monte Cristo.

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry was awarded to Sharon Olds for her poetry collection Stag’s Leap.

Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam by Fredrik Logevall received the Pulitzer Prize for History.

It’s not an award, but it lasts a long time: this week, British literary magazine Granta published its list of twenty Best of Young British Novelists. Started three decades ago and published every ten years, Granta has foreseen with this list the success of literary icons such as Salman Rushdie or Jeanette Winterson. You can see the full list on their website, and if you want to read them right now, you can refer to the list of those available in ebook on our platform.
Jenni Fagan, whom we had interviewed a few months ago, is in this list! You can read our interview of Jenni Fagan about her novel The Panopticon.

We selected four books of genre fiction among the latest releases: if you like epic fantasy, Promise of Blood is right up your alley! If you have a thing for hard-boiled characters, Bernie Gunther should satisfy your literary cravings in A Man Without Breath, the ninth book of the series written by Philip Kerr. Save the game and save your life: discover the thrilling story of videogame makers in You by Austin Grossman. Would you like to wander through the streets of London in springtime? The characters of London Falling by Paul Cornell do not. Why is that? Because they are otherworldly creatures, and they prefer prowling.

Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died this week, aged 87. Before the release of the authorized biography after her funeral to be held on the 17th April, the biography written by John Campbell is already available.

The cult epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time written by Robert Jordan has finally come to an end. The final installment had a hardcover release in January, but was released in ebook last Tuesday.

If you want to catch up on the series or missed one of the fourteen novels, that is not a problem: the whole series is available on our platform, DRM-free.

British author Anne Perry is famous for her Victorian mysteries featuring Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, “luring us into the multilayered richness of London, from the great mansions and secluded drawing rooms to the city’s festering slums”. If you’re a fan of historical mysteries, don’t hesitate to browse our dedicated category.

And if don’t know what to read this weekend, we strongly recommend Meg Wolitzer’s latest novel The Interestings. According to NPR, “the book is juicy, perceptive and vividly written”.

A lot of books dealing with food and agriculture were released in the recent years. Do you feel this is a long-term education, that people need to be prepared to accept those facts in order to change their behaviour also in the long term?

When I first started covering the food industry I was stunned by just how technical and complex so many of the foods we eat have become, and how little we know of this as a society. I wrote this book because I wanted to take people into the fascinating and sometimes scary world of food science and industrial processing, showing them how far removed so many of our favorite foods are from their natural state. Hopefully this book is one among many telling the story of where our food comes from and how our food systems operate. This knowledge is essential for people who want to have a more conscious, and ultimately healthier, approach to eating. Overall, I think it’s a slow process because changing the way you eat isn’t easy, but there’s evidence that so many Americans are now waking up the idea that we can’t blindly trust giant food corporations to do our cooking.

Read our interview of Melanie Warner

This week, we learned that Scottish science-fiction author Iain M. Banks was struggling with terminal gall bladder cancer. He will however release a new novel in the forthcoming months, and in the meantime, you can catch on the Culture cycle with several titles available on our platform.

Last week, the winner of the Philip K. Dick award was announced: Brian Francis Slattery for his post-apocalyptic novel Lost Everything. The Philip K. Dick Award rewards the best original paperback published each year in the US.

The rest of our weekly picks include four very different titles, with a memoir “from the Middle East to the Lower East Side”, the third book in the Glamourist Histories written by Mary Robinette Kowal, the 2nd adventure of Frieda Klein in the eponymous series written by Nicci French, and the latest beautiful novel by American author James Salter.

A lot of movies released are based or inspired on previously famous novels or non-fiction. Two movies recently made the news: Admission, based on the novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz, and The Host, based on the paranormal romance written by Stephenie Meyer. Discover our dedicated category in the Media Tie-In section.

Leaving Everything Most Loved, the tenth book of the Maisie Dobbs series written by Jacqueline Winspear, was released this week. Discover the latest novels in this series featuring a psychologist and private investigator in 1920′s London.

We definitely haven’t finished talking about the Fitzgeralds. Without mentioning the upcoming movie The Great Gatsby adapted from the eponymous novel, Francis Scott Fitzgerald is not the only one under the spotlights. His wife Zelda is currently the focus of a semi-biographical novel written by Therese Anne Fowler, plainly entitled Z, who is said to be “a lovely, sad and compulsively readable book” (Kirkus Reviews).

Urban fantasy fans were spoiled this week, with no less than three new releases. To keep up with the latest releases in this category, you can browse our category Contemporary & Supernatural Fantasy, or even subscribe to RSS feed for this category (see the icon at the top of the page).

Benjamin Alire Saenz is the latest recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award for his short story collection Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club. See the latest recipients of the PEN/Faulkner Award, and browse our page dedicated to the latest literary awards.

The Curve of the Earth is the latest novel published by Simon Morden, in which the reader is welcomed in a “post-apocalyptic London of the Future, full of homeless refugees, street gangs, crooked cops and mad cults.” If this rings a bell, you are probably already familiar with Morden’s previous work The Petrovitch Trilogy, for which he won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2011. In The Curve of the Earth, meet Petrovitch… Ten years later.

African writer Chinua Achebe died today, aged 82. He had recently published a memoir entitled There Was A Country in which he depicted his own experience in Biafra, a former secessionist Nigerian state. Writer of both fiction and non-fiction, addressing adults as well as a younger audience, he was one of the most important contemporary African writers.
Most of his major works are available for download.

“Amuses, informs and inspires—then, finally, rips open the heart”: this is the final sentence of the review published on Kirkus Reviews about Aleksandar Hemon’s memoir The Book of My Lives. It is a collection of previously published essays, from his childhood in Sarajevo to the death of his infant daughter, which had been the subject of an essay in the New Yorker, and it rightly accounts for the immense talent of his author.

Gavin Corbett was born in the west of Ireland and grew up in Dublin, where he studied History at Trinity College. This is the Way is his second novel.

“Home is any place where peace of mind comes easily”

Read our interview of Gavin Corbett

Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai in 1953. During the Cultural Revolution, his father was the target of revolutionaries and he was forbidden to go to class.
He is the author of the famous detective series featuring Inspector Chen, as well as the Red Dust Lane cycle.

“I have a mixed feeling about the transformation of the materialist era”

Read our interview of Qiu Xiaolong

New additions this week in the Thriller category: whether you’re a fan of the classic and solid Nordic literature or willing to set foot in the middle of Tasmania, there is a novel for everyone in the latest releases.

Three other interesting releases this week include Jonathan Dee’s new novel, A Thousand Pardons, an author we already interviewed for the release of his novel Palladio. If you’re familiar with the New York punk scene, the album Blank Generation will probably ring a bell: and even if you’re not, you can discover the and edgy and rock’n'roll memoir of writer and musician Richard Hell. If you prefer when a book has good reviews, discover this week’s favourite A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki, which, according to Kirkus Reviews, is “a masterpiece, pure and simple”.

This year is the 150th birthday of the London Underground. For this occasion, Penguin UK launched a special collection of twelve titles written by twelve different authors such as Leanne Shapton and John Lanchester, and each one of those short essays and memoirs is inspired by one the famous Tube lines. Please note that those titles are only available in Europe.

Jenni Fagan is a Scottish writer and poet based in Edinburgh who received numerous literary awards for her fiction.

“The dehumanising effects of institutionalisation are evident in the lives of all the characters in this book”

Read our interview of Jenni Fagan

Gerbrand Bakker is a Dutch writer. He won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2010 for his novel The Twin. Ten White Geese is his second novel.

“A lot of background information is sometimes just noise; it’s immaterial for the unfolding of the story”

Read our interview of Gerbrand Bakker

Today is International Women’s Day. For this occasion, we made a little selection of eight books we particularly like, both fiction and non-fiction, classic (such as Betty Friedman’s The Feminine Mystique) or contemporary (such as Caitlin Moran’s How To Be a Woman). You can discover the full list here.

In our weekly picks, you’ll find the beautiful debut novel of Irish author Gavin Corbett, This is The Way, said to be “a memorable work from a gifted writer whose next moves we should await with very keen interest”, according to The Guardian. You’ll also find in our selection what could be a self-help book but actually is not: How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, the second novel of Mohsin Hamid, an “astonishing and riveting tale of a man’s journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon”. Finally, if there is a special place in your bookshelf for Joyce Carol Oates, you’ll be delighted to know that she delivered another masterwork on the verge of a supernatural tale, The Accursed.

In the Non-Fiction department, we suggest these three very different releases: How I Became Latina, the memoir of Dominican writer Raquel Cepeda about her origins and what it means to be a Latina nowadays in America; Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court by Sandra Day O’Connor, whose goal is to give you a different outlook on the mighty Supreme Court; and Cheers, America: How an Englishman Learned to Love America by Justin Webb, a humorous account of an British BBC editor in the United States.