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New Fiction BooksJuly 2026 |
Our Librarians have selected 10 of the newest fiction books in the collection. |
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Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead by Mai Nguyen After going into labor on the same day as her pregnant best friend, Cleo Dang returns home without the baby she long imagined while Paloma brings hers home, a loss that drives Cleo into isolation until she leaves her demanding actuarial career for a job at a funeral home, where listening to other mourners and tending to their rituals slowly forces her to face her own grief and consider how to live alongside it.
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She Waits Where Shadows Gather by Michelle Tang When skeptical TV host Carlos Tam brings his partner Avery to his family’s uneasy estate in the Philippines, a shrouded house full of unspoken tragedies turns menacing after a car accident leaves him conscious yet unable to move or speak, hearing only the house’s coaxing voice, while Avery’s care for him slowly exposes buried family secrets that blur the line between inherited trauma and something far more sinister.
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Homeboundby Portia Elan In 1983 Cincinnati, nineteen‑year‑old Becks, grieving the uncle who truly understood her, throws herself into finishing the computer game he left incomplete, unaware that the story she codes onto a floppy disk will surface centuries later in the lives of a driven scientist, a self‑aware automaton, a hard‑edged sea captain and a traveler crossing deep space, each of them reaching for connection in a world reshaped by her work.
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Questions 27 & 28 by Karen Tei Yamashita Moving between the early years of Japanese immigration to the U.S., the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, and the activism that followed, this novel centers on the infamous loyalty questionnaire’s Questions 27 and 28 - about military service and allegiance - using a mix of archival detail, imagined voices, pop‑culture pastiche and oral‑history style to show how those forced choices fractured families yet helped shape a community across three generations.
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The Dead Ringer by Dane Bahr In 1935 Montana, Benjamin Kilt - left for dead by his bank‑robbing half brother and improbably returned to the living - sets out on a violent trek to confront his past, joined by Bonnie, a thirteen‑year‑old Indigenous girl he rescues from an abusive keeper, and as she recalls his long, harsh ride toward a final reckoning on the brothers’ childhood ranch, questions of justice, loyalty and the possibility of decency shadow every choice.
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Tarantula by Eduardo Halfon In 1984, Eduardo and his younger brother return from exile in the United States to a remote Jewish children’s camp in the Guatemalan highlands, where a promised wilderness adventure turns into a coercive “game” that leaves a mark he only begins to confront decades later as a father in Berlin, when a chance encounter in Paris leads him back to the unrepentant counselor whose harsh lessons still unsettle him.
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The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee On a brutal, icebound world where corporations hire sword-wielding enforcers to keep rivals in line, veteran blade Isako, poised to end her career on her own terms, accepts one last contract that draws her into high-stakes intrigue surrounding Martim, a former apprentice turned powerful executive, forcing her to navigate shifting loyalties, buried secrets and the limits of her own code as she weighs what, and for whom, it is still worth fighting.
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Bertie's Theory of Ice Cream by Alexander McCall Smith As summer settles over 44 Scotland Street, Bertie endures new schemes from his formidable mother, an unwanted school book group and an unexpected wedding invitation with his friend Ranald, while elsewhere Bruce’s latest property project goes awry, Matthew and the triplets attempt to live with a reluctant vegan dog at Nine Mile Burn, and Sister Maria-Fiori dei Fiore Montagna stumbles on a long-lost fragment of the Stone of Scone in Drummond Place Gardens.
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The Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed Aboard the Safina, a vast generation ship midway through its four-hundred-year journey from a ruined Earth to a distant colony, the descendants tasked with tending machinery and guarding ancestors in cryosleep begin to question why they should sacrifice for an empire they no longer remember, and as power blackouts spread and quiet refusals turn into coordinated resistance, a hidden plot forces crew and command alike to decide what kind of future this traveling city will claim.
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Shaken by the news that her lifelong friend Hazel has only months to live, eighty‑something Joy Bridport, long a rule‑following pillar of her Hudson Valley town, begins testing small rebellions that soon slide into petty crime, and as the two women spend their remaining time together, Joy weighs the thrill of late‑found freedom against the risk of upending the family, community ties and steady self she has built over decades. |
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