New & Notable Fiction
July 2025
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Vera, or Faith
by Gary Shteyngart (release date 7/8)

Acclaimed novelist Gary Shteyngart returns with this portrait of a blended family struggling to stay together under the pressures of modern America, as seen through the eyes of the family's 10-year-old daughter.
The View from Lake Como
by Adriana Trigiani (release date 7/8)

A recently divorced New Jersey woman flees to her family's ancestral home in Carrara, Italy to connect with her roots and forge a new future.
Pan
by Michael W. Clune (release date 7/22)

A precociously brilliant but troubled teenager in the Chicago suburbs, after suffering a panic attack, becomes convinced that the Greek god Pan is inhabiting his body in this coming-of-age novel that has literary circles buzzing. By the author of the acclaimed memoir White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin.
Typewriter Beach
by Meg Waite Clayton (release date 7/1)

In 1957 California, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock's next starlet form an unlikely friendship. Sixty years later, the screenwriter's granddaughter (herself a screenwriter) uncovers secrets about the relationship.
The Original
by Nell Stevens (release date 7/1)

Historical fiction about an art forger in 19th-century England who must determine whether or not the man claiming to be her long-lost cousin is an impostor.
An Oral History of Atlantis : Stories
by Ed Park (release date 7/29)

A short story collection by a Pulitzer Prize finalist examines modern life with Ed Park's trademark wit and originality.
Cheesecake
by Mark Kurlansky (release date 7/15)
 
A feel-good novel set in 1970s New York City, focusing on the changes to single block on Manhattan's Upper West Side after a Greek diner adds an ancient cheesecake recipe to its menu and attracts a more upscale clientele.
Archive of Unknown Universes
by Ruben Reyes Jr. (release date 7/1)

The author of the acclaimed story collection There is a Rio Grande in Heaven offers an anticipated debut novel about two families in alternate timelines of the Salvadoran civil war.
Angel Down
by Daniel Kraus (release date 7/29)

The author of Whalefall returns with a novel about five World War I soldiers who stumble upon a fallen angel that could hold the key to ending the war.
These Summer Storms
by Sarah MacLean (release date 7/8)

Bestselling author Sarah MacLean offers a novel about a wealthy New England family's long-overdue reckoning, and the one week that threatens to tear them apart.
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