Grove Press

Author Information
Grove Press's Latest Book

Newest Release

  • Bibliography:
    108 Books
  • First Book:
    October 1980
  • Latest Book:
    September 2025
  • Author Rating:
  • Share:

Book List in Order: 108 titles

  • Boudoir: A Journal of Voluptuous Victorian Reading

  • Sign of the Scorpion

  • Pleasure Bound: 3 Erotic Novels

  • Astrid Cane

    Coming-of-age tale about a young girl who is slowly but surely (and lingeringly) initiated into the world of womanhood, and dominatrix-dom. First trained by Lady Julia Tingle, Astrid becomes a feared and desired mistress in her own right, leading us ...

  • The Days at Florville

  • Elizabeth

  • Lascivious Scenes from the Convent

  • Aphrodizzia

    Wealth has its privileges, as the group of hapless young women entrusted to rich libertines Dolly and Jack soon discover. The discipline-minded duo gleefully describe the seduction of and erotic punishments they inflict on their innocent charges in a...

  • Jennie



  • Contemporary American Erotic Photography

  • Julie

  • Augustus and Lady Maude: A Victorian Novel

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • Natasha: Anonymous

  • Caroline

  • Blind Lust

    A young and impressionable French maiden, witness to the finest--and lustiest manifestations of physical passion, now finds herself locked in a loveless marriage. Can there be a worse fate than this for a passionate woman? Surely there must be a way ...

  • Muriel, Juliette and Cecil Prendergast: Grove Press Victorian Library

  • Miss Martin

  • Nymph in Paris

  • The Adventures of Julian Robinson



  • Vanessa; A Victorian Novel

  • Amorous Adventures of a Japanese Gentleman

    Three fortunate young sailors on leave in Japan are the guests of a virile and generous merchant. On offer is the kind of sensual entertainment traditionally enjoyed by the sophisticated palates of the East; dancing girls and geishas, actresses and m...

  • Harriet Marwood, Governess: A Victorian Novel

  • Edith's Strange Desire

  • Shogun's Agents

  • Fit for a King: Grove Press Victorian Library

  • Ellen's Story: Grove Press Victorian Library

  • Romance of Lust: Or Early Experiences

  • Suburban Souls: The Erotic Psychology of a Man and a Maid

  • New Epicurean and Adventures of a Schoolboy



  • Stories from a Ming Collection

    The popularity of the Chinese storyteller goes back to the marketplace of the T'ang dynasty, but the familiar figure came into its own in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This selection of stories from Feng Menglong's collection, Stories Old and...

  • Bongwater

    Bongwater is a novel that wavers along the solar eclipse of the American Dream, a neo-Beat, grungeoisie love story that has all the authenticity and none of the pretension of its forerunners, a book that will be for the slacker generation of the nine...

  • Stealing Beauty; Screenplay

    From the acclaimed writer Susan Minot, author of Monkeys, Lust & Other Stories, and Folly, and the legendary filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, director of Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor (winner of nine Academy Awards, including Best Director and ...

  • Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band

    Alex D. is on the verge of just about everything and consumed by a restless, unanswered longing that rebels against jumping through the hoops of school. Staring down the tunnel to a mundane adulthood, he is appalled by the banality and overwhelming p...

  • Crush

  • Bewitched

    The most important new literary journal to emerge since Granta, Open City has published some of the best work by major writers and artists such as Mary Gaitskill, Denis Johnson, Jeff Koons, David Foster Wallace, Irvine Welsh, Terry Southern, Patrick ...

  • On the Water

    A powerful tale of romantic regret (The Seattle Post-Intelligencer), On the Water tells the poignant story of Anton and David, two oarsmen trained by a mysterious German coach in the golden Amsterdam summer of 1939. Anton stands on the banks of his b...

  • Granta The Magazine of New Writing / 78

    Published in the U.S. since 1979, Granta is a handsomely illustrated paperback featuring outstanding articles. Â"Granta’s contributors constitute an impossibly distinguished list.† -- The Washington Post...

  • Dumped

    Literature is full of lyrical odes to the glory of falling in love. But what of its opposite -- the moment when it becomes clear that things are indisputably over? Dumped is a survey of every type of romantic crack-up, a group of stories full of the ...

  • Miracle

    In a pitch-perfect, deeply satisfying work of fiction selected as a New York Times Notable Book, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, and recipient of the gold Medal for Fiction from the Commonwealth Club of California, master storyteller L'Heureux enters ...



  • The Last Crossing

  • Last Night of a Damned Soul

    Chapter 1 (noon prayer)The story opens with the main character, Raouf, on his way to celebrate the Muslim feast of the Sacrifice Eid-al Adha with a fellow computer designer named Athmane. An only child, Raouf was raised by immigrant parents (Egyptian...

  • The Almond

  • Sabine

    “This book is The Secret History meets Interview with the Vampire. It’s campy, creepy, sensational fun that’s hardly life-sucking†(Daily Candy).   A sensual and Gothic tale of obsession and sexual awakening, Sabine “was deemed so scan...

  • Dancer from Khiva

  • Difficult Women

    A national bestseller from the “prolific and exceptionally insightful†(Globe and Mail) Roxane Gay, DIFFICULT WOMEN is a collection of stories of rare force that paints a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America. DIFFICULT WOMEN tells...

  • The End We Start from

    Preempted by publishers around the world within days of the 2016 London Book Fair, THE END WE START FROM heralds the arrival of Megan Hunter, a dazzling and unique literary talent. Hunter's debut is a searing original, a modern-day parable of rebirth...

  • History of Wolves

    Teenage Linda lives with her parents in the austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world. Isolated at home and an outsider at school, Linda is drawn to the enigmati...

  • The Trophy Child

    Paula Daly is acclaimed for her distinctive voice, masterful plotting, and terrifying depictions of ordinary people whose everyday lives are turned upside down through deception and murder. In her unsettling new domestic thriller, THE TROPHY CHILD, D...

  • The Age of Perpetual Light

    “A storyteller of the first order.â€â€•Joshua Ferris

    “Josh Weil is a spectacular talent.â€â€•Lauren Groff

    Following his debut Dayton Literary Peace Prize-winning novel, The Great Glass Sea, Sue Kaufman Prize winner and National...



  • John Woman

    A convention-defying novel by bestselling writer Walter Mosley, JOHN WOMAN recounts the transformation of an unassuming boy named Cornelius Jones into John Woman, an unconventional history professor―while the legacy of a hideous crime lurks in the ...

  • Paris in the Dark

    With PARIS IN THE DARK, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler returns to his lauded Christopher Marlowe Cobb series and proves once again that he can craft “a ripping good yarn†(Wall Street Journal) with unmistakably literary underpinnings. ...

  • The Prague Sonata

    Music and war, war and music―these are the twin motifs around which Bradford Morrow, recipient of the Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, has composed his magnum opus, THE PRAGUE SONATA, a novel more than a dozen...

  • Birdcage Walk

    It is 1792 and Europe is seized by political turmoil and violence. Lizzie Fawkes has grown up in Radical circles where each step of the French Revolution is followed with eager idealism. But she has recently married John Diner Tredevant, a property d...

  • Fever

    Nico Storm and his father, Willem, drive a truck filled with essential supplies through a desolate land. A devastating virus has swept over the planet, and they are among its few survivors. Nico―although he is still only a boy―is gifted with supe...

  • Friends and Traitors

    London, 1958. Chief Superintendent Frederick Troy of Scotland Yard―newly promoted after good service during Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to Britain―is not looking forward to a European trip with his older brother, Rod. Rod has decided to take his ...

  • Great Expectations

    Kathy Acker’s practice of literary appropriation and pastiche made her notorious―as a rebel and a groundbreaker―when GREAT EXPECTATIONS was first published in 1982. Here, she begins rewriting Charles Dickens’s classic―splicing it with passa...

  • One Part Woman

    Selling over 100,000 copies in India, where it was published first in the original Tamil and then in a celebrated translation by Penguin India, Perumal Murugan’s ONE PART WOMAN has become a cult phenomenon in the subcontinent, captivating Indian re...

  • Open Your Eyes

    Haven’t we all wanted to pretend everything’s perfectly fine? Jane Campbell avoids confrontation at all costs. Given the choice, she’ll always let her husband, Leon―a bestselling thriller author―fight their battles. She’d prefer to focus ...

  • The Projectionist

    The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging ...

  • The Ways of Wolfe

    Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner James Carlos Blake delves back into the dark realms of the Wolfe family, a clan whose roots run deep on both sides of the United States-Mexico border, and whose prevailing interests straddle both sides of the law. ...

  • Wolf's Revenge

    Leo Maxwell is no ordinary attorney. He spends as much time tracking corrupt politicians and gangland leaders across the Bay area to piece together the facts of a crime as he does crafting courtroom rhetoric. But Leo has never quite recovered from di...

  • Insidious Intent

    The latest installment in Val McDermid’s popular series featuring psychologist Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan In the north of England, single women are beginning to disappear from weddings. A wedding crasher is luring the women away―only...

  • Lea

    Pascal Mercier’s NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON mesmerized readers around the world, and went on to become an international bestseller, establishing Mercier as a breakthrough European literary talent. Now, in LEA, he returns with a tender, impassioned, and ...

  • Western Wind

    An extraordinary new novel by Samantha Harvey―whose books have been nominated for the Man Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize), and the Guardian First Book Award―THE WESTERN WIND is a riveting story of faith, ...

  • The Perv

  • Sisters

    Lily Tuck’s critically-lauded, bestselling I MARRIED YOU FOR HAPPINESS was hailed by the Boston Globe as “an artfully crafted still life of one couple’s marriage.†In her singular new novel SISTERS, Tuck gives a very different portrait of mar...

  • Freeman's

    Featuring new work from Mieko Kawakami, Martín Espada, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Arthur Sze, Camonghne Felix, and more, the latest installment of the acclaimed literary journal Freeman’s explores the irrevocably intertwined lives of animals and the hu...

  • Moscow Exile

    From “quite possibly the best historical novelist we have” (Philadelphia Inquirer), the fourth Joe Wilderness spy thriller, moving from Red Scare-era Washington, D.C. to a KGB prison near Moscow’s Kremlin In Moscow Exile, John Lawto...

  • Land Between the Rivers

  • Frighten the Horses

  • Tom Thorne Novel

    This is one case Detective Miller won't want to open . . . The second rip-roaring mystery from multi-award-winning international bestseller Mark Billingham starring Detective Miller: unique, unconventional, and criminally underestimated... Unconv...

  • Charity

    'The master of espionage writing at his brilliant best.” – Mail on Sunday Bernard Samson is still tormented by the mystery surrounding the cold-blooded murder of his sister-in-law, Tessa, on the streets of Berlin. With his wife Fiona back...

  • Elaine

    The Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella writes his most American novel yet—a brilliant portrait of a 1950s housewife, based on the life of the author’s mother, and an exploration of sexual freedom and sublimated desireWill Self is one o...

  • Faith

    “Masterly ... absolute bliss.” – Sunday Telegraph Bernard Samson is tormented. After years on the “other side,” his wife, Fiona, is finally back in his life. Cool and sophisticated, Fiona doesn’t know that she find...

  • Goodbye Mickey Mouse

    Norfolk, December, 1943. A group of US fighter pilots is camped at an air base; their job is to escort bombers over Germany. Each mission could be their last. Goodbye Mickey Mouse is a vivid evocation of wartime England and a brilliant, multi-dimensi...

  • Hope

    “As fresh and brisk as ever . . . a feast to be wallowed in.”— Sunday Express In Len Deighton’s second novel of the classic spy trilogy, Faith, Hope, Charity, Bernard Samson is trying to readjust his life after his wife, Fiona...

  • Recognizing the Stranger

  • Two-Step Devil

    “Jamie Quatro is a writer of sinuous, muscular power and grace. Two-Step Devil is a starkly gorgeous story of God and loss and art and love, and her best book yet.” —Lauren Groff From a New York Times Notable “writer of great ...

  • Xpd

    “A stunning spy story… incomparable.” – The Guardian It’s 1979, and a group of former SS officers are devising a plan to seize power in West Germany. XPD is a brilliant novel constructed around a supposition that Churchi...

  • 1999

  • The Treasure Hunters Club

    Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone meets The Goonies in The Treasure Hunters Club—a rollicking murder mystery set in a seaside town filled with pirate lore, family secrets, unforgiveable grudges, secret societies, and of course,...

  • Cassino '44

  • The Ceaseless Way Wandering

    Not all who wander are lost. And some lose their way but find something better. Join fourteen wanderers on journeys through space, time, understanding, and love… A sasquatch quests for her name while a hunter stalks her. A time traveler fi...

  • Harbor Lights

    A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from “America’s best novelist” (Denver Post), the New York Times bestselling James Lee Burke Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons...

  • City of Laughter

    A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 yearsAn ambitious, delirious novel that tangle...

  • The Forger's Requiem

    “Like the love child of Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle . . . delightful to read.”—NPR.org, on The Forgers A gripping literary thriller that brings readers inside the world of expert forgery, rivalrous fury, and generations o...

  • Invisible Woman

    Other people kill their husbands. Not her. “A darkly clever thriller about women’s thwarted ambitions, celebrity, the Time’s Up movement and revenge.”—People (Book of the Week) In Invisible Woman, a dangerous secret held...

  • The New Internationals

    A stunning novel of post-war Paris that interweaves a coming-of-age story, a cross-cultural romance, and a portrait of the international youth at a definitive moment in contemporary history Paris, 1947. The city, recovering from the Nazi occupation, ...

  • A Perfect Frenzy

  • Wild Houses

    The riotous, raucous and deeply resonant debut novel from “one of the best story writers in the English language today” (Financial Times) Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone a...

  • Casualties of Truth

    From the author of Book of the Little Axe, nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the critically acclaimed 'Til the Well Runs Dry, a riveting literary novel with the sharp edges of a thriller about the abuses of history and the costs of r...

  • Language City

  • Leo

    “Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters.”—Michael Connelly “Deon Meyer’s name on the cover is a guarantee of crime writing at its best.”—Tess Gerritsen In a corrupt South Africa, the criminals are as likely ...

  • The Mountain Shadow

  • Neighbors and Other Stories

    A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature, with an introducti...

  • 33 Place Brugmann

    "Alice Austen uses her considerable gifts to remind us that the past and the present are more connected than we wish to believe, and that vigilance, loyalty and art hold the key to survival. This is a beautiful and deeply engaging novel." ...

  • The Blues Brothers

  • The Dredge

    "Flaherty writes with stealthy acuity, his prose seemingly simple yet full of coiled power. . . . Multiple hauntings emerge in 'The Dredge,' and you’ll be contemplating them after the last page."—Sarah Weinman, The New York Times ...

  • Kingpin

    The latest pulse-pounding thriller from Edgar and Barry Award finalist Mike Lawson starring his beloved Washington DC “troubleshooter” Joe DeMarco. Carson Newman doesn’t think of himself as a gangster. He doesn’t have a consig...

  • The Reluctant Sheriff

    Master storyteller Chris Offutt’s acclaimed crime series has been praised by Ian Rankin as “righteous Kentucky noir with top notes of Daniel Woodrell and S. A. Cosby,” and in this breakneck new novel, sheriff Mick Hardin navigates t...

  • Silent Bones

  • Untouchable

    In the latest pulse-pounding thriller from Edgar and Barry Award finalist Mike Lawson, beloved Washington DC “troubleshooter” Joe DeMarco finds himself assigned an impossible case: help take down the President of the United States. Br...

  • The Fact Checker

    Mirthful, laugh-out-loud funny, and surprisingly philosophical, The Fact Checker is a brilliant debut novel featuring a missing woman who might be perfectly fine, and a single-minded investigator yearning for meaning, morality, and accuracy in an inc...

  • The Impossible Thing

    “One of the most enjoyable novels I’ve read in ages . . . utterly distinctive and totally addictive.”—Paula Hawkins“The gift of The Impossible Thing is the pure joy of reading.”—Val McDermidFrom the exception...

  • The Inheritance of Loss

    Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, Kiran Desai’s extraordinary novel of love and loss, now reissued with a new introduction by the authorPublished to astonishing acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss h...

  • My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

    Amos Tutuola’s second novel recounting the fate of mortals who stray into the world of ghosts, now available in a standalone volumeFirst published in 1954, now acclaimed as a modern classic, and named one of TIME’s “100 Best Fantasy...

  • The Palm-Wine Drinkard

    Amos Tutuola’s masterful first novel of a nightmarish quest into the land of the dead, now available in a standalone volume with an introduction by Wole SoyinkaWidely considered to be his masterpiece, Amos Tutuola’s debut novel The Palm-W...

  • The Gathering

    From one our most singular and dazzling writers, and the winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, Anne Enright’s The Gathering is a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family haunted by the pastWinner of the Man Booker Prize, The Gathering ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Grove Press has published 108 books.

The next book by Grove Press, The Gathering, will be published in September 2025.

The first book by Grove Press, Boudoir: A Journal of Voluptuous Victorian Reading, was published in October 1980.

No. Grove Press does not write books in series.
RomanceFDB
Top Authors in Fantasy
No ads, please...

$20 / year

FictionDB Premium Membership

Subscribe