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New Fiction BooksNovember 2026 |
Our Librarians have selected 10 of the newest fiction books in the collection. |
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The Shadow of the Object
by Chloe Aridjis
The Shadow of the Object follows Flora, a London-based silver polisher hospitalized after a dog bite in Mexico City, where she befriends an older woman whose stories of antique optical toys and a vanished collection draw her into an unsettling world. Blending everyday life with the uncanny, the novel explores loneliness, grief, and the ways people project memories and desires onto objects and one another.
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Superstars
by Ann Scott
Ann Scott’s Superstars follows Louise, a former rock musician navigating Paris’s 1990s queer rave scene, whose chance to become a successful techno producer collides with a tangled web of lovers, exes, and drug-fueled nights. Raw and darkly funny, the novel explores identity, ambition, and belonging as Louise struggles to separate what she wants from the people and subcultures that have shaped her.
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Kitchen Venom
by Philip Hensher
Behind the polished rituals of Parliament, a respected clerk’s secret encounters with male sex workers threaten to destroy his carefully maintained career and family life. With an all-knowing Margaret Thatcher as narrator, Philip Hensher’s Kitchen Venom turns the waning days of her premiership into a darkly comic study of desire, hypocrisy, and the cost of keeping up appearances.
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Blow Yourself Up
by Ankur Thakkar
A literary reckoning with the creator economy, Blow Yourself Up is a moving portrayal of love across cities and screens, mapping the distance between the selves we curate for others and our own ambitious dreams.
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Fair Ones: A Double Novel
by Lydia Millet
After their longtime friend Claire is killed at a Brooklyn bus stop, Mara and Jen stumble through grief, questionable coping strategies, and troubling questions about what really happened. Told in two linked halves, first by Mara and then by Jen a year later, Lydia Millet’s Fair Ones blends dark humor with an exploration of friendship, loss, and the ways people rebuild their lives without leaving the dead behind.
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Solace House
by Will MacLean
A summer job clearing out a Victorian mansion takes a sinister turn when a group of university students discovers its former owner’s journals, which contain coded instructions for reaching a parallel world. Set in 1993, Will Maclean’s Solace House blends coming-of-age tensions with supernatural obsession, as curiosity about the house’s secrets divides the friends and threatens their grasp on reality.
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Goodbye, Ramona
by Montserrat Roig
Three generations of women—all named Ramona—search for love and independence in a Barcelona transformed by civil war, dictatorship, and the student rebellions of the 1960s. Weaving together their private desires and disappointments, Montserrat Roig’s Goodbye, Ramona explores the silence imposed on women and a granddaughter’s struggle to escape the compromises that shaped her mother’s and grandmother’s lives.
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Soldiers & Sailors
by Terrence Holt
At a veterans’ home in a decaying Illinois town, Dr. Hal Adams listens to patients whose harrowing war stories blur the boundary between memory and haunting, even as he struggles to confront his own family’s violent past. Terrence Holt’s Soldiers & Sailors combines a Gothic ghost story with a meditation on trauma, exploring how war’s damage passes between generations and whether telling its stories can offer a way back to life.
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Our Cut of Salt
by Deena Helm
A family home in Haifa has never stopped mourning the Palestinian women forced to leave it—and when Marina arrives to uncover her late grandmother’s history, its haunting begins to make her ill. Deena Helm’s Our Cut of Salt brings three generations of women together in a ghost story about displacement, inherited grief, and the dangerous pull of a home that refuses to forget.
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The Tarot Trials
by Katee Robert
Winning a deadly competition could give Kestrel the power to help her impoverished community—and uncover why her mother, a previous victor, was executed for treason. In Katee Robert’s The Tarot Trials, she enters as the Moon’s champion, wielding shadow and illusion while navigating dangerous attractions, shifting alliances, and a ruling order built on betrayal.
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