Literary Fiction 2026

Updated December 17, 2025
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Pick a Colour : A Novel
Thammavongsa, Souvankham.
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE 2025 GILLER PRIZE * TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 * Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail * The New Yorker * CBC * Indigo * Kirkus * Publishers Weekly * Real Simple From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award...
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.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE * 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025 * Named a Best Book of 2025 by The Globe and Mail * New York Times * The New Yorker * The Washington Post * Financial Times * Barnes & Noble * Amazon...
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 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 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 author of the smash hit My Sister, the Serial Killer ("A...
Heart the Lover : A Novel
King, Lily.
"Lily King is one of our great literary treasures."--Madeline Miller From the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers comes an intimate and sweeping new novel of love and friendship--a journey into the heart of youth and middle age, desire and loss, and...
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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