Literary Fiction 2026

Updated December 17, 2025
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Pick a Colour : A Novel
Thammavongsa, Souvankham.
Paper Book
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2025 GILLER PRIZE Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail * The New Yorker * CBC * Indigo * TIME * Kirkus * Publishers Weekly * Real Simple * The Boston Globe From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham...
She's a Lamb! : A Novel
Hambrock, Meredith.
Paper Book
A darkly comic suspense in the vein of All's Well and Yellowface, She's a Lamb! is an edgy and incisive novel that marches toward showtime with a growing unease about the dangers of magical thinking and the depths of delusion Jessamyn St. Germain is meant to...
Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny : A Novel
Desai, Kiran.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE * 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of Barack Obama's Favourite Books of 2025 * ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR * ONE OF PEOPLE'S TOP 5 BOOKS OF THE YEAR ...
Flesh : A Novel
Szalay, David.
Paper Book
From Booker Prize-winning author David Szalay, comes a propulsive, hypnotic novel about a man who is unravelled by a series of events beyond his grasp. Fifteen-year-old István lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar...
Flashlight : A Novel
Choi, Susan.
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker * Time * New York * The Washington Post * NPR * Los Angeles Times * The Boston Globe * The Guardian * Vanity Fair * Elle *...
Denison Avenue : a novel
Wong, Christina
Paper Book
A story told in two parts as a graphic novel and novella, about elderly Wong Cho Sum's attempt to cope with the death of her husband by taking up bottle and can collecting. Denison Avenue explores the price of progress in cities like Toronto and those it leaves behind. A moving story told in visual...
Emperor of Gladness : A Novel
Vuong, Ocean.
Paper Book
The instant New York Times bestseller * Oprah's Book Club Pick * Named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME, The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, USA Today, NPR, People, Christian Science Monitor, Scientific American, and Kirkus Reviews *...
Cursed Daughters
Braithwaite, Oyinkan.
Paper Book
A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK * A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive novel about love, female rivalry, and superstition from the...
Heart the Lover : A Novel
King, Lily.
Paper Book
Instant New York Times bestseller | Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction | Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction | Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize | A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Harper's Baazar, NPR...
We do not part : a novel
Han, Kang
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD IN FICTION NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF THE...

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