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New Fiction, Mystery & Science Fiction October 2025 |
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Tom's crossing : a western by Mark Z. DanielewskiA boy and girl journey through the icy mountains of Utah to lead two horses to freedom, in an astonishing adventure where the dead rise, a mountain falls, and a staggering act of courage forever marks the Katanogos massif and Pillars Meadow in legend. By the author of House of Leaves. |
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This Is the Only Kingdom by Jaquira DíazAn epic novel of a mother and daughter wrestling with the aftermath of a murder, set against the backdrop of a tight-knit, working-class barrio in Puerto Rico. By the award-winning author of the memoir, Ordinary Girls.
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The Wayfinder by Adam JohnsonIn the Polynesian islands during the height of the Tu’i Tonga Empire, Korero, a young girl chosen to save her people from the brink of starvation, sets out on a quest that takes her from her remote island on a daring seafaring journey across an ocean empire built on power, consumption, and bloodshed. By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master's Son.
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My beloved : a Mitford novel
by Jan Karon
Father Tim's love letter to his wife Cynthia goes missing and makes its way into the hands of each of the townsfolk of Mitford -- the Kavanaugh family, Esther Cunningham, Miss Pringle, Puny, and others -- bringing healing, hope, and a touch of Christmas magic to the people who need it most.
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A guardian and a thief by Megha MajumdarIn a near-future Kolkata, India, which has been ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, two families seeking to protect their children must battle each other.
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Wreck by Catherine NewmanIn Western Massachusetts, Rocky juggles family life with her husband, adult children and aging father, until her fixation on a local accident and an ominous medical concern stirs up anxieties that threaten to upend her fragile sense of normalcy. By the author of Sandwich.
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Bog Queen by Anna NorthThe monumental discovery of a perfectly preserved body in a bog in northwest England, buried over 2,000 years ago, sets off a clash of worlds, past and present, over the fate of the land that holds us.
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Shadow Ticket by Thomas PynchonIn 1932 Milwaukee, private eye Hicks McTaggart searches for a Wisconsin cheese fortune heiress, but he's shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner to Hungary; and before he finds her he will be entangled with Nazis, Soviet agents, British counterspies, swing musicians, practitioners of the paranormal and outlaw motorcyclists.
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Cry Havoc by Jack CarrAmidst the turbulent backdrop of 1968, Navy SEAL Tom Reece navigates a clandestine mission across Vietnam and beyond, uncovering a Soviet plot that threatens to reshape global power in a high-stakes tale of espionage, betrayal and brutal realism.
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The Proving Ground by Michael ConnellyThe Lincoln Lawyer is back with a case against an AI company whose product may have been responsible for the murder of a young girl.
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The tin men by Nelson DeMilleArmy CID Special Agents Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor are sent to the isolated Camp Hayden to investigate a major's death amid secret war games pitting Rangers against autonomous weapons, where the truth is obscured amidst desert isolation, internal rivalries and hidden agendas.
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The widow by John GrishamAlready struggling at work and at home, rural Virginia attorney Simon Latch finds himself accused of her murder after he secures wealthy widow Eleanor Barnett's secret inheritance only to see her fortunes unravel in the wake of a car crash.
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Coyote Hills by Jonathan KellermanNow a private investigator, former Alameda County coroner Clay Edison takes a perplexing case of a wealthy couple's son found dead in San Francisco Bay, in the sixth book of the series following The Lost Coast.
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The black wolf by Louise PennyWeeks after foiling an attack in Montreal and arresting the so-called Black Wolf, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, confined by his injuries to Three Pines, quietly leads a covert investigation with agents Beauvoir and Lacoste, fearing the conspiracy he uncovered is only a deliberate misdirection.
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The Tourists by Christopher ReichRetired special agent Mac Dekker races through Paris's brightest and darkest places to find his vanished lover, former Mossad assassin Ava Attal, uncovering a deadly plot involving a ruthless prince, enigmatic assassins, and a terrifying act of violence that could kill thousands.
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Gone Before Goodbye by Reese WitherspoonWhen disgraced combat surgeon Maggie McCabe takes a secretive job treating a powerful man overseas, his sudden disappearance pulls her into a deadly conspiracy forcing her on the run to uncover the truth and clear her name.
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New Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Red city
by Marie Lu
In an alternate Los Angeles, two children are scouted as promising prospects for opposing magical syndicates that use alchemy to produce sand, a drug derived from the philosopher's stone, which enhances a person's attributes. By the author of the Legends series.
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Conform by Ariel SullivanCenturies after a catastrophic world war nearly decimated the human population, outcast Emeline is thrust into a dangerous courtship for a procreation contract with an enigmatic ruler, while secretly drawn to a rebel leader, forcing her to choose sides in a brewing rebellion.
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The witching moon manorby Stacy SivinskiReturning home to the Crescent Moon Tearoom in Chicago, three sisters who are witches must complete the life task of another witch who has passed away in order to stop his magic from causing strange happenings around the city and exposing the magic world.
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