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New & Notable Fiction December 2025 |
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House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk (release date 12/2)The Nobel Prize-winning Polish author of The Books of Jacob and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead returns with the story of a woman settling in a remote Polish village where she knows no one but gets to know the eccentric local residents.
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The Award by Matthew Pearl (release date 12/2)David Trent is an aspiring novelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts, trying to navigate his ambitions in a place that has writers around every corner. He lives in an apartment above a Very Famous Author named Silas Hale who, beneath his celebrated image, is a bombastic, vindictive monster who refuses to allow his new neighbor even to make eye contact with him--until young David wins a prestigious award for his new book.
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The Heir Apparent by Rebecca Armitage (release date 12/2)The Queen of England's granddaughter, living a secluded life in Tasmania far away from the royal family, must accept the reality that she is suddenly next in line for the throne.
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Winter Stories by Ingvild Rishøi (release date 12/2)The Norwegian author of last year's international holiday hit Brightly Shining returns with a trio of tender, powerful stories of courage and overcoming adversity in the winter season.
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Sharpe's Stormby Bernard Cornwell (release date 12/2)The latest in Cornwell's long-running historical series featuring British soldier Richard Sharpe finds Sharpe involved with the invasion of southern France in 1813 during the Napoleonic wars.
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Before I Forget by Tory Henwood Hoen (release date 12/2)Dealing with her father's Alzheimer's diagnosis, a twenty-something woman returns home to become his caretaker.
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Huguette by Cara Black (release date 12/2)Historical fiction about a young woman's survival in the lawlessness of post-World War II France.
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The Happiness Collector by Crystal King (release date 12/2)A historian's dream job in Italy takes a dark turn when she discovers her employers aren't exactly human, in this urban fantasy by genre-hopping novelist Crystal King.
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The Birdwatcher by Jacquelyn Mitchard (release date 12/9)A bestselling author delivers a page-turning drama that explores the beauty of female friendship; the relationship between money, power, and sex; and the very human desire to protect the ones we love most, focused on a grad student turned call girl who is falsely accused of murder.
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The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits (release date 12/30)This finalist for the 2025 Booker Prize is a road novel about an unhappy family man who ends his loveless marriage after he and his wife become empty-nesters.
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