Fiction

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Updated June 3, 2025
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Powers, Richard
Paper Book
Four lives are drawn together in a sweeping, panoramic new novel from Richard Powers, showcasing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world's first...
Creation lake : a novel
Kushner, Rachel
Paper Book
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD* *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 PEN FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION* *AN INSTANTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BYTHE NEW YORK TIMES, THE ATLANTIC, VULTURE, VOGUE, THE...
The emperor of Gladness : a novel
Vuong, Ocean
Paper Book
The instant New York Times bestseller * Oprah's Book Club Pick * Ocean Vuong returns with a bighearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive "Stunning . . . A heartfelt and powerful examination of those...
The River Is Waiting
Lamb, Wally.
Paper Book
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks--She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True--Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable...
The antidote
Russell, Karen
Paper Book
From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town
The original daughter : a novel
Wei, Jemimah
Paper Book
In this dazzling debut, Stegner Fellow Jemimah Wei explores the formation and dissolution of family bonds in a story of ambition and sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore. Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single...
Rabbit moon : a novel
Haigh, Jennifer
Paper Book
A tense, propulsive drama set in Shanghai, about a fractured American family, secret lives, and the unbreakable bond between two sisters, from the New York Times bestselling author of Mercy Street   Four years after...
Awake in the Floating City
Kwan, Susanna.
Paper Book
For fans of Station Eleven, Birnam Wood and Migrations, an astonishingly beautiful literary dystopia about care and compassion in times of devastation.   In a future San Francisco transformed by years of rain, Bo, a 40-year-old lapsed...
The usual desire to kill : a novel
Barnes, Camilla
Paper Book
" An often hilarious, surprisingly moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter--for fans of A Man Called Ove and The Royal Tenenbaums. Miranda's parents live in a dilapidated house in...
Run for the Hills
Wilson, Kevin.
Paper Book
Ever since her dad left them twenty years ago, it's just been Madeline Hill and her mother on their Tennessee farm. It's mostly okay. Maybe sometimes a bit lonely... Then one day a stranger pulls up in a rental car and informs Madeline that he's her half brother, Reuben, abandoned by their dad...
Black Woods Blue Sky
Ivey, Eowyn.
Paper Book
The life impossible
Haig, Matt
Paper Book
The New York Times Bestseller "An odyssey of action and awe." --The New York Times "A wry and tender love-letter to the best of being human." --Benedict Cumberbatch The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times...
Bad Nature
Courage, Ariel.
Paper Book
What would killing him accomplish? Nothing, mostly. Then again, neither would letting him live. When Hester is diagnosed with cancer on her fortieth birthday, she knows immediately what she must do- abandon her possessions and drive to California to...
Immaculate Conception: A Novel
Huang, Ling Ling.
Paper Book
"A superb work of fiction."--New York Times Book Review What if you could enter the mind of the person you love the most? Enka meets Mathilde in art school and is instantly drawn to her. Mathilde makes art that feels truly original, and Enka--trying hard to...
The homemade god
Joyce, Rachel
Paper Book
Family is everything, even when it falls apart. There is a heatwave across Europe. Goose and his three sisters gather at the family's house by Lake Orta in Piedmont, Italy. Their father, a famous artist, has recently remarried a much younger woman and decamped to Italy to finish...
The Paris express
Donoghue, Emma
Paper Book
Emma Donoghue, the "soul-stirring" (Oprah Daily) nationally bestselling author of Room, returns with a sweeping historical novel about an infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station. Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was...
Dream count : a novel
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
Paper Book
'Reads like a feminist War and Peace. A magnificent novel' SUNDAY TIMES 'A complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. Extraordinary' NEW STATESMAN THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER; LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 A publishing event...
Colored television
Senna, Danzy
Paper Book
Finalist for the 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION and the ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD IN FICTION. Longlisted for the 2025 JOYCE CAROL OATES LITERARY PRIZE, the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FICTION PRIZE and the CARNEGIE MEDAL 2025. Named a Best...
The float test : a novel
Strong, Lynn Steger
Paper Book
"What I loved most about The Float Test is the sense of place, and how the sticky, dense heat of Florida, the relentless sun, the flat roads ending at the ocean, is woven into the Kenner family's DNA. The adult children of the family--all at crisis points in their own lives--gather on the hot...
Time of the Child
Williams, Niall.
Paper Book
My Name Is Emilia del Valle: A Novel
Allende, Isabel.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In this "stunning" (People), "riveting" (Entertainment Weekly) historical novel, a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth about her father--and herself. "All of Allende's books, My Name Is Emilia del Valle...
Show don't tell
Sittenfeld, Curtis
Paper Book
YOUR NEXT READ FROM THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR of ROMANTIC COMEDY, PREP and AMERICAN WIFE 'Messy and delicious' New York Times 'Sittenfeld is in a league of her own' Guardian 'One of my...
All That Life Can Afford
Everett, Emily.
Paper Book
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "An effervescent debut chock full of Austenian nods. Swoonworthy!" --Sarah McCoy, New York Times bestselling author of Mustique Island "All That Life Can Afford is about love, ambition, and the cost of belonging, and I cannot...
Heartlamp: Selected Stories
Mushtaq, Banu.
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize Winner of the PEN Translates Award A monumental first collection in English from Banu Mushtaq: lawyer, activist, champion of Muslim women, and winner of India's highest literary honors. In...
Mothers and sons : a novel
Haslett, Adam
Paper Book
At forty, Peter, an asylum lawyer in New York City, is overworked and isolated. He spends his days immersed in the struggles of immigrants only to return to an empty apartment and occasional hook-ups with a man who wants more than Peter can give. But when the asylum case of a young gay man...
Good Dirt
Wilkerson, Charmaine.
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick "Engrossing . . . Wilkerson...
Where the Rivers Merge
Monroe, Mary Alice.
Paper Book
"Wade into the Lowcountry of South Carolina with Mary Alice Monroe's sweeping Southern epic."--People "This is book club fiction at its finest!" --Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author From New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe comes her highly...
The boy from the sea
Carr, Garrett
Paper Book
Incredibly moving, witty and warm, The Boy from the Sea is a story of a family and a town, and the difference the arrival of one child can make. For fans of Kate Atkinson, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Keegan and Jon McGregor. 1973. A baby is found on the beach of a close-knit...
Dream State
Puchner, Eric.
Paper Book
"Dream State is a delight...An exquisitely rendered novel about the vagaries of fate, and friendship, and love." --Alice McDermott, National Book Award winner and author of Absolution Cece is in love. She has arrived early at her future in-laws' lake house in...
Women's Hotel
Lavery, Daniel M.
Paper Book
National Bestseller ONE OF FALL'S MOST ANTICIPATED READS--New York Times, Vulture, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, and more From the New York Times bestselling author and advice columnist, a poignant and funny debut novel about the residents of a women's hotel in 1960s New York City. ...
The wildelings : a novel
Harding, Lisa
Paper Book
A vivid and compulsive story of obsession, control and guilt, set in Nineties Dublin - perfect for fans of dark academia and Donna Tartt's The Secret History Jessica and Linda have been best friends since the first day of school. Both girls are from very different broken homes - and...
Long Island compromise
Brodesser-Akner, Taffy
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * An exhilarating novel about one American family and the dark moment that shatters their suburban paradise, from the New York Times bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * New York<...
Three days in June
Tyler, Anne
Paper Book
A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant classic: a socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding. Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job--or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter,...
Notes on surviving the fire
Murphy, Christine
Paper Book
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