Fiction

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Updated July 23, 2025
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If You Love It, Let It Kill You
Hannah Pittard
Paper Book
Recommended Summer Reading according to The New York Times, Elle, Zibby Owens, and the Minnesota Star Tribune "A dishy work of autofiction that everyone will be talking about." --The New York Times A refreshingly...
The River Is Waiting
Wally Lamb
Paper Book
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK A USA TODAY BESTSELLER #1 New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, celebrated for two prior Oprah Book Club selections, returns with an exceptional third pick, a...
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...
Playground a novel
Powers, Richard
Paper Book
The Emperor of Gladness
Ocean Vuong
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...
These Days
Lucy Caldwell
Paper Book
"Adroit, precise storytelling, atmospheric and satisfying; These Days is a novel of real substance." --Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2023 One of Lit...
The Hounding: A Novel
Xenobe Purvis
Paper Book
The Crucible meets The Virgin Suicides in this haunting debut about five sisters in a small village in eighteenth-century England whose neighbors are convinced they're turning into dogs. Even before the rumors about the Mansfield girls begin, Little Nettlebed is...
Flashlight
Susan Choi
Paper Book
"The first major American novel to be published this year." --Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "Gorgeous . . . Almost impossibly heartbreaking." --Sam Worley, New York Magazine A Must-Read: The New York Times, New York<...
Awake in the Floating City: A Novel
Susanna Kwan
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE * An utterly transporting debut novel about the unexpected relationship between an artist and the 130-year-old woman she cares for--two of the last people living in a flooded San Francisco of the future, the home neither is ready...
The Life Impossible
Matt Haig
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...
Run for the Hills
Kevin Wilson
Paper Book
"A touching and generous romp of a novel . . . Wilson makes a bold and convincing case that every real family is one you have to find and, at some point, choose, even if it's the one you're born into." -- New York Times Book Review An unexpected road trip across America...
Immaculate Conception: A Novel
Ling Ling Huang
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 Doorman
Chris Pavone
Paper Book
A pulse-pounding novel of class, privilege, sex, and murder, from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats. Chicky Diaz is everyone's favorite doorman at the Bohemia, the most famous apartment house in the world, home of...
Colored television
Senna, Danzy
Paper Book
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024 "A laugh-out-loud cultural comedy... This is the New Great American Novel, and Danzy...
Black Woods, Blue Sky
Eowyn Ivey
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Snow Child returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question: Can love save us from ourselves? "No one writes like Eowyn Ivey."--Geraldine Brooks ...
The Poppy Fields
Nikki Erlick
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit The Measure--a runaway bestseller and a Read with Jenna TODAY Show pick--comes a stunning speculative story of healing, self-discovery, forgiveness, and found friendship. "A masterful, tender exploration of love,...
Archive of Unknown Universes
Ruben Reyes Jr.
Paper Book
From the critically acclaimed author of There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, a piercing debut novel following two families in alternative timelines of the Salvadoran civil war--a stunning exploration of the mechanisms of fate, the gravity of the past, and the endurance of love. "Beautiful...
Rabbit Moon: A Novel
Jennifer Haigh
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...
The Homemade God
Rachel Joyce
With sparkling wit and insight, this powerful novel from the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry reminds us that family is everything, even when it falls apart. "The beautiful writing, unforgettable characters, and stunning setting make this a must...
The Correspondent: A Novel
Virginia Evans
Paper Book
"Subtly told and finely made, The Correspondent is a portrait of a small life expanding. Virginia Evans shows how one woman changes at a point when change had seemed impossible. That change, like this novel, turns out to be a cause for celebration."--Ann Patchett ...
The Usual Desire to Kill
Camilla Barnes
Paper Book
A "droll, psychologically astute...unexpected...very funny" (Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air) and moving portrait of a long-married couple, seen through the eyes of their wickedly observant daughter. Miranda's parents live in a dilapidated house in rural France that they...
Time of the child
Williams, Niall
Paper Book
"The writing in this book is lyrical . . . a beautiful book that you will love." -Good Morning America's #1 Favorite Book of the Year "I am utterly obsessed with Niall Williams." -Ann Patchett, New York Times...
Bad Nature: A Novel
Ariel Courage
Paper Book
Armed with a terminal diagnosis, a grudge, and a rental car, Hester sets out to fulfill her lifelong dream of killing her father in this brilliantly subversive and bleakly funny debut novel. "Bad Nature shows we're getting selfishness all wrong. As uproariously funny...
My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Isabel Allende
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...
Friends of the Museum: A Novel
Heather McGowan
Paper Book
Coworkers at a legendary but troubled New York City museum struggle with issues large and small over the course of one extraordinary day in this whip-smart novel that is "satirical and incisive...like nothing you've ready before" (Town & Country). When Diane Schwebe...
The Paris Express
Emma Donoghue
Audiobook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling and "soul-stirring" (Oprah Daily) author of Room, a sweeping historical "nail-biter" (People) of a novel about an infamous 1895 disaster at the Paris Montparnasse train station.Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in...
Big Chief
Jon Hickey
There There meets The Night Watchman in this gripping literary debut about power and corruption, family, and facing the ghosts of the past. Mitch Caddo, a young law school graduate and aspiring political fixer, is an outsider in the homeland of his Anishinaabe...
Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Paper Book
FINALIST FOR THE 2025 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * A Heather's Pick A publishing event ten years in...
O Sinners!: A Novel
Nicole Cuffy
Paper Book
In this "engrossing" (Los Angeles Times) novel that sweeps from present-day California to the Vietnam War and back, a grieving young man is drawn into the orbit of a charismatic cult leader who forces him to reconsider why people give up control--and what it takes, ultimately, to find one...
Long Island compromise : a novel
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<...
Where the Rivers Merge: A Novel
Mary Alice Monroe
Paper Book
USA TODAY BESTSELLER "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 the New York Times bestselling author, the...
Women's hotel : a novel
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 Californians
Brian Castleberry
Paper Book
"The Californians is an absolute pleasure from end to end, a thrilling, century-spanning, wholly American tale of art and money, family and land, treasure and time....A brilliant read for fans of Anthony Doerr, Dana Spiotta, and Don DeLillo." -- Matt Bell, author of Appleseed For fans of...
Death Takes Me
Cristina Rivera-Garza
Paper Book
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice in a world suffused with gendered violence. "Deeply rewarding . . . a dreamscape with a powerful undertow . . . [a]...
A Family Matter
Claire Lynch
Paper Book
A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY * "Burns like a sparkler, quick and mesmerizing." --The New York Times A young wife following her heart. A husband with the law on his side. Their daughter, caught in the middle. Forty years later, a family...
Show Don't Tell
Curtis Sittenfeld
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The bestselling author of Eligible and Romantic Comedy "blends acerbic wit, shrewd insight and sharp-eyed observation [in this] bravura collection" (The Washington Post), including a story that revisits the main character from her iconic novel Prep<...
Sister Europe: A Novel
Nell Zink
Paper Book
An irresistible and poignant novel about the upper echelons of Berlin society, a grand literary celebration, and the after-party that upends the night and carries a group of guests deeper into the city Naema, an elderly princess dedicated to her pet causes, is in a bind: struck...
The Antidote
Karen Russell
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE * 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...
Bitter Texas Honey: A Novel
Ashley Whitaker
Paper Book
The Royal Tenenbaums meets Fleabag in this hilarious and dizzyingly smart debut about an over-the-top evangelical Texan family--and the daughter at its center racing to finish her very important novel before her ex-boyfriend finishes his.   It's 2011, and twenty...
Good dirt : a novel
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...
Mothers and sons : a novel
Haslett, Adam
Paper Book
A mother and son, estranged for years, must grapple with the shared secret that drove their lives apart in this enthralling story about family, forgiveness, and how a fleeting act of violence can change a life forever, by "one of the country's most talented writers" (Wall Street Journal)<...
Heartwood: A Novel
Amity Gaige
Paper Book
"The best thriller of 2025." --The Boston Globe * "Genius." --The Washington Post "A literary thriller of the highest order" (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Couple), Heartwood takes you on a gripping journey as a...
Rooms for Vanishing: A Novel
Stuart Nadler
Paper Book
A prismatic mind-bending epic about the splintering of a family into different worlds Everyone had been survived into different futures and I would never see any of them again. I could sense this. I would hear them in their separate rooms, within their separate lives, but...
Old School Indian: A Novel
Aaron John Curtis
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * INDIE NEXT PICK "[An] entrancing new voice . . . Aaron John Curtis will be your new literary obsession." --Marion Winik, The Boston Globe "An inspired novel by an author whose voice...
The Float Test: A Novel
Lynn Steger Strong
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...
Stop Me If You've Heard This One: A Novel
Kristen Arnett
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mostly Dead Things, a sparkling and funny new novel of entertainment, ambition, art, and love. A TODAY SHOW SPRING PICK "Sweet, sexy, sad, articulate, and funny." - Vogue "As much heart...
What Will People Think?: A Novel
Sara Hamdan
Paper Book
Mia's secret comedy career, forbidden office crush, and a long-guarded family secret take center stage, threatening her newfound confidence and her one shot at fame in this hilarious, heartfelt coming-of-age story perfect for fans of Curtis Sittenfeld and Etaf Rum. Mia Almas...
Three Days in June
Anne Tyler
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,...
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