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Fiction A to Z November 2025 |
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59 Minutes
by Holly Seddon
Follows the suspense as three women cope with the 59 minutes before a nuclear attack strikes England-the chaos of panic and fear runs alongside their quests to find and protect their loved ones.
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The Amberglow Candy Store
by Hiyoko Kurisu
A fox spirit sells magical confections to troubled humans, only for them to get a little more than they bargained for.
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And Then There Was You
by Sophie Cousens
At thirty-one, Chloe Fairway isn't where she wants to be in life. Stuck in a PA job for a boss who barely notices her and back home with her parents after a painful breakup, she feels like a failure. So, when she's invited to her college's ten-year reunion, the last thing she needs is to face the people who once voted her "most likely to succeed." She definitely doesn't want to see her former best friend Sean Adler, now a hotshot film director living the life Chloe dreamed of. Desperate to make a splash--and to save face in front of the man who might be the one that got away--she turns to a mysterious dating service.
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Best Offer Wins
by Marisa Kashino
Eighteen months and eleven lost bidding wars into house-hunting in the overheated Washington, DC, suburbs, 37-year-old publicist Margo Miyake is desperate to escape the cramped apartment she shares with her husband--and, in turn, fix their marriage, have a baby, and get their life started. With some (harmless!) stalking and a bit of (very light!) trespassing, she worms her way into the lives of her dream homeowners. But just when she believes she's won them over, they find her out. Undeterred, Margo will prove again and again that there's nothing she won't try--no tactic too unhinged--to finally kickstart the dream life she's worked so hard to achieve.
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The Burning Library
by Gilly MacMillan
On a frigid, windswept day in Scotland’s Western Hebrides, Eleanor Bruton’s body is discovered on the shore. To her family Eleanor was an ordinary middle-aged woman. Little did they know she was harboring a dark and all-consuming secret. For over a century, two rival organizations of women--the Order of St. Katherine and the Fellowship of the Larks--have gone to deadly lengths to secure the valuable artifact in the hopes of finding the original medieval manuscript from which it was torn. Meanwhile, translator Anya Bowen has been handpicked at great personal danger to translate ancient texts that the Fellowship believes critical to their mission.
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The Christmas Stranger 🎄
by Richard Paul Evans
Three years after losing his family in a Christmas Eve accident, grieving Paul Wanlass hasn’t just given up on Christmas, he’s given up on life. He can’t imagine anything to keep him here—not his work as a computer repairman, not the residents in his Salt Lake City neighborhood, and certainly not the idea of connecting with someone new. When a stranger knocks on his door, claiming to be picking up a laptop, Paul allows him in—but discovers the man has a very different mission in mind. A powerful and thought-provoking holiday story about love, loss, and the mysterious workings of heaven.
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The Color of Hope
by Danielle Steel
Following the unexpected death of her beloved husband, art gallery owner Samantha Thompson finds herself adrift in their Malibu beach house. Her three adult children--scattered from New York to London to Milan--are concerned for her well-being and encourage her to take a trip to Paris.
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Cursed Daughters
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Three generations of women must contend with their family curse and the question of reincarnation.
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Daddy Issues
by Kate Goldbeck
A jaded twentysomething is stuck living at home, her life on pause, when a single dad becomes her new neighbor and unexpectedly sets her life—and her heart—into motion.
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The Eleventh Hour: A Quintet of Stories
by Salman Rushdie
Rushdie turns his extraordinary imagination to life's final act with a quintet of stories that span the three countries in which he has made his work--India, England, and America--and feature an unforgettable cast of characters.
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Ember Eternal
by Chloe Neill
Fox, an indentured thief with a moral code, saves Prince Cayden from an assassin and finds herself entangled in politics, danger and a romance that may be its own kind of prison.
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The Emergency
by George Packer
An empire has collapsed from boredom and loss of faith in itself. In the Emergency that follows, youth rebellions of urban Burghers and rural Yeomen embrace radical new ideas of humanity. Doctor Hugo Rustin, chief surgeon at the Imperial College Hospital, is increasingly estranged from his city and his family―from his wife, Annabelle, who finds fulfillment in their changed community; and especially from his teenage daughter, Selva, who has turned against her father’s values. When an incident at the hospital leads to Rustin’s disgrace, he seeks redemption in a quixotic and dangerous journey into the countryside, with Selva as his companion, just as the conflict between Burghers and Yeomen is reaching a crisis.
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Fallen City
by Adrienne Young
In the great walled city of Isara, political turmoil ignites a rebellion one hundred years in the making. But when a legionnaire falls in love with a Magistrate's daughter, their love will threaten the fate of the city and the will of the gods.
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False Witness
by Phillip Margolin
A lawyer who was set-up, imprisoned, and disbarred, only to be vindicated and reinstated, is determined to find out who set her up and cover their tracks with a trail of dead bodies.
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Haven't Killed in Years
by Amy K. Green
No one is supposed to know harmless office worker Gwen Tanner is the vanished daughter of serial killer Abel Haggerty. But a low profile and a new name aren’t going to cut it when an obsessive new killer starts targeting her, in this lively and propulsive thriller with a standout voice.
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Her One Regret
by Donna Freitas
When successful Rhode Island real estate agent Lucy Mendoza vanishes, leaving her baby behind in a grocery store parking lot, the news quickly makes national headlines. Lucy's best friend, Michelle, is devastated, and terrified that Lucy's life is at stake. But she knows something that could complicate the police investigation. Lucy had confessed something unspeakable: She regretted becoming a mother, so much that she'd fantasized about faking her own kidnapping. If the police and media were to find out, Lucy would become a monster in public opinion. Michelle is sure Lucy would never abandon her daughter. But could she be wrong? Could Lucy have been so desperate she chose to escape her life?
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I, Medusa
by Ayana Gray
Meddy has spent her whole life as a footnote in someone else’s story. Out of place next to her beautiful, immortal sisters and her parents—both gods, albeit minor ones—she dreams of leaving her family’s island for a life of adventure. So when she catches the eye of the goddess Athena, who invites her to train as an esteemed priestess in her temple, Meddy leaps at the chance to see the world beyond her home.
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The Land in Winter
by Andrew Miller
In the darkness of an old asylum, a young man unscrews the lid from a bottle of sleeping pills. In the nearby village, two couples begin their day. Local doctor, Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, in a farmhouse, Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband ignores. There is affection, if not always love, in both homes: these marriages still hold some promise. But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards, the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel.
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Like Family
by Erin O. White
After a near-stranger dies in their small town, a tightknit group of friends can no longer ignore their long-dormant desires and unfulfilled dreams—a moving debut about the complicated joys of chosen family.
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The Merge
by Grace Walker
Laurie, 65, has Alzheimer’s. Her daughter Amelia, a former activist, can’t bear losing her and signs them up for an experimental merging process—Laurie’s mind will be transferred into Amelia’s body, blending their consciousness. They join others: Lucas merging with his dying brother, Ben with his pregnant fiancée, and Jay with his addict daughter. As they move to The Village, a rehab center for merged pairs, they begin to question what’s really going on.
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Nash Falls
by David Baldacci
Nash is smart, tough, and fair. He has a wife, daughter, and a top job at Sybaritic Investments, earned through skill and grit. Though he’s never had grand adventures and works long hours, his life is happy and upscale. After his estranged father’s funeral, the FBI contacts Nash with a request: infiltrate Sybaritic to expose a money-laundering ring led by criminal mastermind Victoria Steers. Nash agrees, but when Steers discovers his role, she turns the tables. To survive and get revenge, Nash must become someone he’s never been—and even that may not be enough.
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Next Time Will Be Our Turn
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
At a family celebration, when Izzy Chen's 73-year-old grandmother shows up with a stunning woman on her arm and kisses her in front of everyone, it shakes Izzy to her core. She’d always considered herself the black sheep of the family for harboring similar feelings. Seeing herself in her granddaughter, Magnolia Chen tells Izzy her own story, of how as a teen she was sent by her parents to Los Angeles for her education and fell in love with someone completely forbidden to her by both culture and gender norms. Stretching across decades and continents, Magnolia's star-crossed love story reveals how life can take unexpected turns but ultimately lead you to exactly who you're meant to be.
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Otherwise Engaged
by Susan Mallery
When Shannon gets engaged, she wants to tell her mom Cindy—who’s also engaged—but dreads a double wedding. She keeps it secret until Cindy’s vows are done. Victoria, a stuntwoman, has never fit her mother Ava’s mold. A mishap brings her home, and Ava hopes to connect. The four women meet at a wedding venue, where a secret surfaces: Cindy once chose Ava to adopt her baby—then backed out. The loss shaped Ava’s bond with Victoria. Now Shannon and Victoria must face who they are—and who they might’ve been.
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Palaver
by Bryan Washington
The story of a mother and a son, estranged for ten years, reconnecting in the son's chosen city of Tokyo in the weeks leading up to Christmas.
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The Perfect Hosts
by Heather Gudenkauf
Madeline and Wes Drake have invited two hundred of their closest friends and family to their sprawling horse ranch for the most anticipated event of the year: a “pistols and pearls” gender reveal party so sensational it is sure to make headlines. But the party descends into chaos when the celebratory explosive misfires, leaving one woman dead and a trail of secrets.
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Queen Esther
by John Irving
John Irving returns to the world of his classic novel, The Cider House Rules, revisiting the orphanage in St. Cloud’s, Maine, where Dr. Wilbur Larch takes in Esther Nacht - a Viennese-born Jew whose life is shaped by anti-Semitism. Orphaned after arriving in Maine, Dr. Larch knows it won’t be easy to find a Jewish family to adopt Esther. When she is 14, soon to be a ward of the state, Dr. Larch meets the Winslows, a New England family with a history of providing foster care for unadopted orphans. Thought not Jewish, they despise anti-Semitism. Esther’s gratitude for the Winslows is unending; even as she retraces her roots back to Vienna, she never stops loving and protecting the Winslows.
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Ship of Spells
by H. Leighton Dickson
When Ensign Bluemage Honor Renn is rescued from the wreckage of her first naval post, she expects death or disgrace. Instead, she wakes aboard the Touchstone, a mythic vessel whispered of in dockside ballads and royal war rooms alike. With a crew of misfits. A mysterious, elven captain. And a mission tied to the Dreadwall, the crumbling barrier that has kept the Overland and Nethersea from open war for a hundred years. But the tragedy that sank her last ship didn’t just take lives—it left something behind.
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Some Bright Nowhere
by Ann Packer
As Eliot is confronted with this profound turning point in his marriage and his life, he grapples with the man and husband he’s been, and with the great unknowns of Claire’s last days.
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Star Wars: Master of Evil
by Adam Christopher
After Revenge of the Sith, a newly forged Darth Vader hunts for the secrets of life and death under the watchful eye of Emperor Palpatine.
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That's Not How It Happened
by Craig Thomas
From the Emmy-nominated co-creator and Executive Producer of How I Met Your Mother, this smart, funny, bighearted novel for fans of Kevin Wilson and Monica Heisey, follows a family turned upside down after Hollywood decides to make a movie version of their lives.
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Turns of Fate
by Anne Bishop
After Beth is assigned to Penwych’s 13th precinct special investigations team, she's tapped for an case involving a magical gun. The inquiry sends her across the Fate River to the Isle of Wyrd to search for answers with the Arcana, fae-like inhabitants who believe that bargains are sacrosanct, intentions have power, and nothing comes free.
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The White Hot
by Quiara AlegrĂa Hudes
April is a young mother raising her daughter in an intergenerational house of unspoken secrets and loud arguments. Her only refuge is to hide away in a locked bathroom. That is, until one day, as she finds herself spiraling toward the volcanic rage she calls the white hot, a voice inside her tells her to just walk away. She wanders to a bus station and asks for a one-way ticket to the furthest destination. That ticket takes her from her Philly home to the threshold of a wilderness and the beginning of a nameless quest - an accidental journey that shakes her awake, almost kills her, and brings her to the brink of an impossible choice.
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Wild Instinct
by T. Jefferson Parker
The hunt for the truth is the deadliest game. Lew Gale, a former Marine sniper, now an Orange County California Sheriff's detective, is assigned to track and shoot a mountain lion that has killed a man in Caspers Park, located in the rugged country east of Laguna Beach, California. The victim is Bennet Tarlow, a rich developer and man-about-town in upscale coastal Orange County. The investigation takes a chilling turn when Lew and his new partner, Daniela Mendez, discover that Bennet was dead long before the lion got to him. And while Bennet might have been the first to die, he certainly will not be the last.
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The Wolf King
by Lauren Palphreyman
Princess Aurora longs to escape the castle and the marriage that has been arranged for her. But on the night before her wedding, at a dog fight where captured werewolves are made to fight for sport, she spares the life of a young wolf. It puts her on the radar of the powerful alpha who was going to kill him. And it changes everything. That night, when the alpha escapes, he kidnaps her and takes her to the rugged lands north of the border—where the once warring werewolf clans are beginning to unite. He thinks that she is the key to winning the war against the humans. Only, as they spend time around one another, forbidden attraction starts to grow. And as Aurora learns that not all wolves are bad, the alpha discovers that she is in danger from both his enemies, and those he once considered friends. With monsters on both sides, a bloodthirsty war between humans and wolves raging, and undeniable passion growing between them—will their story end in love? Or tragedy? And will Aurora ever get home? Does she even want to?
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Clive Cussler Quantum Tempest
by Mike Maden
Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face a ghost ship, deadly assassins and a threat from Cabrillo’s own past in their race to stop the launch of the world’s deadliest machine.
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Death and Dinuguan
by Mia P. Manansala
Things are looking up for the Brew-ha Cafe, and for Lila Macapagal, who can't wait to celebrate Valentine's Day with her boyfriend, Jae Park. Adding to the lovey-dovey atmosphere is Hana Lee, Shady Palms's newest resident, Jae's beloved cousin, and chocolatier at Choco Noir, the latest addition to the town's culinary offerings. Unfortunately, beneath the sweet surface of Shady Palms runs a bitter undercurrent, as a series of attacks against women-owned businesses in the area escalates from petty theft to assault and murder when Hana is found knocked unconscious inside Choco Noir, and the chocolate shop owner is put out of business-for good.
Book 6 in the Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery series.
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Empire of the Dawn
by Jay Kristoff
Gabriel de León has lost everything—family, faith, and the Holy Grail, Dior. Driven only by vengeance, he and his brothers journey into the war-torn Augustin Empire to kill the Forever King. Unbeknownst to Gabriel, Dior still lives, racing toward the besieged capital to end Daysdeath. But treachery festers in the halls of power, and the Forever King’s legions close in. As the final battle looms, Gabriel and Dior must face a fate that could end the Empire—and leave them with no one to trust.
Book 3 of the Empire of the Vampire series.
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Evil Bones
by Kathy Reichs
Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan finds herself enmeshed in a series of grisly animal killings. She acquires an ally in semi-retired homicide detective "Skinny" Slidell, and needing a better understanding of possible motives, seeks input from a forensic psychologist, who warns that the escalating pattern of aggression may escalate to humans. And then a woman is found disfigured and posed in a manner that mimics the animal killings. Subsequently, people Tempe cares about begin to go missing until it becomes clear she is being taunted, the target in a sick game that has her and Slidell racing against a ticking clock and facing a terrifying question: "What is pure evil?"
Book 24 of the Temperance Brennan series.
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Exit Strategy
by Lee Child
Reacher makes his way towards the entrance of a coffee shop. A young, stressed-looking guy in a suit brushes against him. Instinctively Reacher checks the pocket holding his cash and passport. There's no problem. Nothing is missing. But later in the day he finds something new has appeared in another pocket. A cryptic note. Reacher figures the guy in the suit must have planted it during their brief contact. Impressed by the guy's technique and intrigued by the message, he decides to find out more...
Book 30 of the Jack Reacher series.
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Gull & Bones
by Sally Goldenbaum
The sugar maples are beginning to turn, and the seasonal visitors have closed up their cottages—one more summer has been thoroughly packed away. But the residents of Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, have a celebration to look forward to, until a killer calls sudden death...
Book 8 in the Seaside Knitters Society series.
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The King's Ransom
by Janet Evanovich
Gabriela Rose returns in the sequel to the best-selling The Recovery Agent. Gabriela's hot, infuriating ex-husband, Rafer, needs help. His bank president cousin invested a massive amount of money insuring some priceless works of art that have now gone missing, launching Gabriela and Rafer on a dangerous global hunt for the stolen artworks.
Book 2 in the Gabriela Rose series.
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The Queen Who Came in from the Cold
by S. J. Bennett
1961, England. The Queen is spending a night on board the royal train with her entourage and her sister, Princess Margaret. But before they reach their destination, an unreliable witness claims to have seen a brutal murder from one of the carriages. The Queen and her assistant private secretary, Joan McGraw, get to work on their second joint investigation. No one else saw the crime. If there is a victim, could he be the missing photographer friend of Margaret's new husband, Tony Armstrong Jones? This time, the Cold War threatens to undermine the Queen's upcoming visit to Italy. She and Joan must tackle dark forces that follow them all the way, in a tale of spies, lies, and treachery.
Book 5 in the Her Majesty, The Queen, Investigates series.
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Return of the Spider
by James Patterson
The suspense classic Along Came a Spider introduced an unsurpassed rivalry: Detective Alex Cross; the human superhero versus Gary SonejI. But that wasn't their first meeting... Police discover that Soneji kept a murder book, Profiles in Homicidal Genius, detailing his transformation from substitute teacher to hardened serial killer--including clues that imply missteps that Alex Cross may have made a rookie homicide detective. Now, Alex must retrace the steps of that long-ago investigation and face...the Return of the Spider.
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The Seven Rings
by Nora Roberts
A dark-hearted witch wants to be mistress of the house on the Maine clifftop called Poole Manor, but Sonya MacTavish who lives in the house will need to fight a battle across two realms to finally break the curse and take possession the house -- and of her own future.
Book 3 in the Lost Bride trilogy.
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