Literary Fiction 2026

Updated December 17, 2025
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Pick a Colour : A Novel
Thammavongsa, Souvankham.
WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE From O. Henry Award winner and two-time Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away...
She's a Lamb! : A Novel
Hambrock, Meredith.
Paper Book
Jessamyn St. Germain is meant to be a star. Not an actor who occasionally books yogurt commercials and certainly not a lowly usher at one of Vancouver's smallest regional theaters. No, she is bound for greatness, and that's why the part of Maria in the theater's upcoming production of The Sound of...
Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny : A Novel
Desai, Kiran.
Paper Book
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 BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The...
Flesh : A Novel
Szalay, David.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE Finalist for the Kirkus Prize | Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence From "the shrewdest writer on contemporary masculinity we have" (Esquire), a "captivating...hypnotic...virtuosic" (The Baffler)...
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 Guardian * Oprah Daily * Financial Times * The Economist...
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 * A 2026...
Cursed Daughters
Braithwaite, Oyinkan.
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 "Lily King has written another masterpiece. This book overflows with her brilliance and her heart. We are so lucky." --Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of This Time Tomorrow From the New York...
We do not part : a novel
Han, Kang
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE...

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