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New Fiction BooksMarch 2026 |
Our Librarians have selected 10 of the newest fiction books in the collection. |
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Evelyn in Transit by David GutersonWhen an independent-minded woman who has spent her life questioning convention learns that her young son is believed to be the reincarnation of a Tibetan lama, her search for meaning takes an unexpected turn, weaving together the landscapes of the American West and the Himalayas in a quietly profound story about belief, identity and the many ways people seek a life that feels true.
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Crucible by John SaylesSet amidst Detroit’s turbulent rise as the heart of American industry, this panoramic novel portrays Henry Ford’s bid to control both his empire and the city around it, tracing a world of striking workers, hired enforcers, migrants and dreamers whose intersecting fates expose the tensions of progress, power and race in an era when modern America was being forged in smoke, sweat and idealism.
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Scavengers by Kathleen BolandWhen a cautious New Yorker impulsively joins her unpredictable mother on a cross-country hunt for buried treasure, their uneasy road trip through the deserts of the American West becomes a search for truth, forgiveness and connection, revealing with humor and tenderness how the ties between parent and child can fray, mend and remake themselves in the most unexpected of places.
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Hyper by Agri IsmaïlSpanning from revolutionary Iran to the luxury malls and trading floors of the modern Middle East and London, the author follows three siblings shaped by exile and ambition as they navigate greed, love and dislocation in a world ruled by algorithms and capital, revealing with wit and poignancy the struggle to find meaning, identity and connection within the fractured promise of modern life.
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The Orchard by Peter HellerLiving off the grid on a Vermont apple orchard, a mother who has fled her past and a daughter growing up in the rhythms of the natural world build a fragile life of solitude and small joys - until an unexpected visitor disrupts their peace and forces them to confront loss, resilience and the quiet strength that binds them to the land and to each other.
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Autobiography of Cotton by Cristina Rivera GarzaWeaving family history with political and environmental upheaval, Garza traces a lineage shaped by the rise of cotton cultivation along the Mexico–U.S. border, following workers, migrants and visionaries whose lives illuminate the entanglement of labor, land and resistance, and revealing how generations of struggle and survival are written into the very soil of the borderlands.
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The School of Night by Karl Ove KnausgaardIn 1980s London, an ambitious photography student drawn into the orbit of a charismatic older artist begins a pursuit of fame that blurs the line between creation and corruption, leading decades later to reckoning at the height of his success - in a haunting exploration of artistic ambition, moral compromise and the cost of trading integrity for brilliance.
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The End of Romance by Lily MeyerAfter freeing herself from an oppressive marriage, a woman determined to live without love builds a life based on pleasure and independence, only to find her hard-won philosophy tested by two very different men - in a witty and tender story that explores the paradox of desire, the legacy of survival and the uneasy balance between freedom and connection.
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Salvation by C. William LangsfeldIn a remote Western town shaken by murder, a grieving pastor, a weary lawman and a fugitive haunted by his past each grapples with guilt, faith and responsibility, their intersecting lives revealing the quiet desperation and fragile redemption that bind a fractured community together in the face of violence and loss.
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Mass Mothering by Sarah BruniIn a city marked by loneliness and economic precarity, a translator haunted by loss becomes obsessed with a book chronicling mothers mourning their vanished sons, a search that leads her across borders into a web of art, violence and remembrance, where private grief becomes entwined with collective witness in a meditation on empathy, resistance and the stories that help us survive what cannot be undone.
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