Staff Favorites: Fiction

Updated November 26, 2025
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My friends : a novel
Backman, Fredrik
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! A Most Anticipated Book of 2025: Goodreads * USA TODAY * Marie Claire * BookPage * Literary Lifestyle * Book Riot * ...
Flashlight : a novel
Choi, Susan
Paper Book
Short-listed for the Booker Prize Long-listed for the National Book Award "The first major American novel to be published this year." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "Gorgeous . . . Almost impossibly heartbreaking." --Sam...
The bog wife : a novel /
Chronister, Kay,
" A "haunting, brilliant" Appalachian folktale evoking the Southern gothic suspense of Sharp Objects and the eco spine-tinglers of Jeff Vandermeer (Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts) Five siblings in West Virginia unearth long-buried...
Eddie Winston is looking for love : a novel
Cronin, Marianne
Paper Book
The author of the beloved international hit The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot returns with a funny, uplifting story about the power of friendship and finding love in unexpected places. Eddie Winston is 90 years old. He has lived and he has loved, but he has never been kissed. ...
Orbital : a novel
Harvey, Samantha
Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, a group of astronauts and cosmonauts--from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan--have left their lives behind to travel through space at over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels...
The angel of Indian Lake /
Jones, Stephen Graham,
Paper Book
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...
Angel down /
Kraus, Daniel,
"A thunderous gallop of a war novel, a new classic, a best-in-class example of speculative fiction." --The New York Times Book Review The critically acclaimed author of the "crazily enjoyable" (The New York Times) Whalefall returns with an immersive...
Cosmic love at the multiverse hair salon
Mare, Annie
Paper Book
Tressa Fay Robeson has never been shy, which is how she's made a name for herself as an in-demand hairstylist and social media star. So she can admit that spending her days at her hair salon and her nights with her tight-knit group of friends (and one grumpy cat) is not the kind of exciting life she...
THE GIRLS OF GOOD FORTUNE
McMorris, Kristina
Paper Book
Declared a must-read by The Washington Post, USA Today, New York Post, She Reads, BookBub, and Book Riot The New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday and The Ways We Hide shines a light on shocking events surrounding Portland's dark history in this gripping novel of love, lore...
The girls who grew big
Mottley, Leila
Paper Book
From the author of Oprah's Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller Nightcrawling, here is an astonishing new novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a small town on the Florida panhandle. Adela Woods is sixteen...
Atmosphere : a love story
Reid, Taylor Jenkins
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK * From the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go...
How to be both
Smith, Ali
Paper Book
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION WINNER OF THE 2014 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD  WINNER OF THE SALTIRE LITERARY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD A Best Book of the Year: NPR, Financial...
Notes on infinity : a novel
Taylor, Austin
Paper Book
A Zibby Owens "Summer Read" * A Jordy's Book Club "Most Anticipated Book of 2025" * An Oprah Daily "Best Summer Reads" "It stole my breath and my heart. It's a grand story of science and startups, and a simple story of first love and belonging." ―Chris Whitaker,...
The lilac people : a novel
Todd, Milo
Paper Book
Finalist for the New England Book Award "Reminiscent of Anthony Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See . . . Heart-stopping in its suspense and dramatic reveals." --The Boston Globe A moving and deeply humane story about a trans man who must relinquish the...
The echoes
Wyld, Evie
Paper Book
From the award-winning novelist, a ravishing new novel set between London and rural Australia, both a love story and a ghost story Max didn't believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he is still here, he watches his girlfriend,...

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