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New & Notable Fiction October 2025 |
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Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon (release date 10/7)Thomas Pynchon, legendary author of Gravity's Rainbow, presents his first novel in 12 years -- and only his ninth overall since his debut in 1963. In Milwaukee circa 1932, private eye Hicks McTaggart searches for a Wisconsin cheese fortune heiress, but he's shanghaied onto a transoceanic liner to Hungary; 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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Wreckby Catherine Newman (release date 10/28)The follow-up to Catherine Newman's hit 2024 novel Sandwich. In 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.
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The Wayfinder by Adam Johnson (release date 10/14)The author of the Pulitzer Prize winner The Orphan Master's Son returns with a historical epic about a girl from a remote Tongan island who becomes her people's queen.
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Bad Bad Girlby Gish Jen (release date 10/21)Spanning continents and generations, the latest novel from the author of The Resisters traces the turbulent bond between a brilliant Chinese immigrant mother and her headstrong American daughter, as they navigate a lifetime of love, ambition and aching misunderstanding.
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Minor Black Figures by Brandon Taylor (release date 10/14)From a bestselling Booker Prize finalist comes a novel about a gay Black painter navigating the worlds of art, desire and creativity.
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Bog Queen by Anna North (release date 10/14)From the bestselling author of Outlawed comes a novel about an anthropologist's monumental discovery that sets off a clash of worlds, past and present, over the fate of the land that holds us.
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The Devil is a Southpaw by Brandon Hobson (release date 10/28)Haunted by jealousy and past trauma, Milton Muleborn recounts his volatile friendship with gifted Cherokee artist Matthew Echota, blending dark humor, unreliable memory, and surreal reflections on their shared time in a brutal juvenile detention center and the enduring scars it left behind.
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Workhorseby Caroline Palmer (release date 10/14)A story of envy and ambition set against the glamor and privilege of media and high society in New York City at its height, by a former editor of Vogue.
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A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar (release date 10/14)In 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. A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, by the bestselling author of A Burning, which appeared on many best-of lists in 2020.
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Tom's Crossingby Mark Z. Danielewski (release date 10/28)In the fall of 1982, the Utah town of Orvop witnessed not just shocking crimes but an astonishing adventure beyond its borders, where the dead rose, a mountain fell, and a staggering act of courage forever marked the landscape. By the author of the cult classic House of Leaves.
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