New Fiction Books
October 2026
 
Our Librarians have selected 10 of the newest fiction books in the collection.
Time Travel for Beginners by Jaclyn Moriarty
Time Travel for Beginners
by Jaclyn Moriarty
 
At a Sydney storefront offering trips to the past, single mother Anna takes a job, newly separated Teddy seeks clarity about his marriage, and guarded Jade rejects the promise of revisiting old choices as their lives converge around questions of memory, regret and possibility.
The Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters
The Birthing Tree
by Amanda Peters
 
Raised by her Mi’kmaq grandmother near a Nova Scotia town, Aliet Paul becomes a nurse but retains the traditions she learned at home; after her grandmother’s death, she returns to restore the family house and confronts questions surrounding her mother’s death, her father and the community’s silences.
The Secret Dinner by Raphael Montes
The Secret Dinner
by Raphael Montes
 
When rising rent threatens their Copacabana apartment, four Brazilian students enter the secret dinner-party circuit serving Rio’s wealthy clientele, only to find their plan testing their friendship, their limits and their ability to escape an increasingly dangerous arrangement.
Take What You Can: A GMA Book Club Pick by Naima Coster
Take What You Can
by Naima Coster
 
After reconnecting in their thirties, longtime friends Val and Milly plan to raise their daughters together in New York, but differences in class marriage and ambition reopen tensions linked to their formative study-abroad years in France and an older woman who once guided them.
Crocodilopolis by John Manuel Arias
Crocodilopolis
by John Manuel Arias
 
Living in Washington, DC after a political betrayal, former Costa Rican politician Seth Oreamundo plans to return home and exact revenge on his brother Osario as memories of their upbringing on a coffee estate reveal a family secret and the corruption surrounding their dynasty.
How Can My Manager Be So Stupid by Kazumasa Hayami
How Can My Manager Be So Stupid
by Kazumasa Hayami
 
At the Musashino Bookshop, bookseller Kyoko Tanihara tries to build a career in publishing while clashing with her self-help-obsessed manager, Takeru Yamamoto - until a book prompts her to reconsider his behavior and the stories people tell about one another.
Beyond Honor by K. B. Brodsky
Beyond Honor
by K. B. Brodsky
 
Recruited for a solo extraction mission in Siberia, paramilitary operative Kevin Rhoads becomes entangled in a CIA analyst’s investigation of a Russian-backed bank, while agency leaders’ decisions and a concealed betrayal test loyalties from Damascus and Alaska to Langley and the White House.
Stitched: A Novel (Large Print Edition for Accessibility) by Eli McCann
Stitched
by Eli McCann
 
When a national quilting competition comes to Utah, longtime Ogden Quilters Association member Betty Lou Dearden and her fellow quilters enlist two young gay men to help create an entry, renewing rivalries and forging friendships as they work toward the contest.
Mia by Leslie Bazzett
Mia
by Leslie Bazzett
 
Living temporarily in San Miguel de Allende, American mother Sally becomes close to Louise, an older expatriate who begins calling her Mia and presenting her as a daughter, drawing Sally into a secretive relationship that unsettles her marriage, family life and sense of identity.
The Newer World by Sebastian Barry
The Newer World
by Sebastian Barry
 
After emancipation, Tennyson Bouguereau defends the Tennessee farm where he was enslaved from a gang of former Confederates and is forced to flee, traveling through a changing nineteenth-century America while separated from the land and family he hoped to reclaim.
 
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