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New & Notable Fiction August 2025 |
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People Like Usby Jason Mott (release date 8/5)In the follow-up to Jason Mott's National Book Award winner Hell of a Book, two Black writers are trying to find peace and belonging in a world that is riven with gun violence. One is on a global book tour after a big prize win; the other is set to give a speech at a school that has suffered a shooting. And as their two storylines merge, truths and antics abound in equal measure.
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The Houndingby Xenobe Purvis (release date 8/5)The Crucible meets The Virgin Suicides in this haunting debut about five sisters in a small village in 18th century England whose neighbors are convinced they're turning into dogs.
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Leverage by Amran Gowani (release date 8/19)Ali "Al" Jafar is a rising star at notorious hedge fund Prism Capital, but fortunes change fast on Wall Street. When his biggest investment goes up in smoke, Al loses $300 million--and his fragile sense of self-worth--in a single afternoon. He's certain he'll be fired, but Prism's obscenely rich and politically connected founder isn't that merciful. Instead, he gives Al an impossible ultimatum: recover the lost money in three months or become the fall guy for the government's insider-trading investigation into the firm.
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The El by Theodore C. Van Alst (release date 8/12)A semi-autobiographical novel that follows a group of teenage gang members as they trek across 1970s-era Chicago to a momentous meeting, inspired by the cult classic The Warriors.
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From the author of Boy Snow Bird, a novel about a woman with a different personality for each day of the week. Her multiple personalities include a professional matchmaker, a scent-crazed perfumer, and a window cleaner, all with varying degrees of apathy, anger, introversion, and bossiness. When Kinga-A discovers a man tied up in their apartment, the Kingas have to reckon with the possibility that one of them might be planning to destroy them all. |
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Something To Look Forward Toby Fannie Flagg (release date 8/19)A tapestry of joyful and startling interconnected stories that celebrate how people from all across America cope with adversity and unexpected changes in a confusing world -- from the beloved bestselling author of Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.
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Goldengrove by Patrick McCabe (release date 8/26)From twice Booker-shortlisted Irish author Patrick McCabe comes a dark comedy about a theatrical agency acting as a front for British counter-terrorism in 1960s Dublin.
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Vulture by Phoebe Greenwood (release date 8/12)Catch-22 on speed and set in the Middle East, Vulture is a fast-paced satire of the war news industry and a tragicomic coming-of-age novel. In November 2012, Sara Byrne, an ambitious young journalist, is sent to Gaza to cover a war. At the four-star hotel, staff work tirelessly to provide safety, comfort and generator-powered internet for the world's media, even as their own homes and families are under threat. Sara is determined to use this war to launch her stalling career and win back her lover.
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Moderation by Elaine Castillo (release date 8/5)A satire of the tech industry as well as a romantic story about finding love in the modern workplace, from an author named one of "30 of the Planet's Most Exciting Young People" by the Financial Times.
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Katabasis by R. F. Kuang (release date 8/26)Dante's Inferno meets Susanna Clarke's Piranesi in this dark-academia fantasy from R. F. Kuang, the bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface, in which two graduate students must put aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor's soul—perhaps at the cost of their own.
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