Bibliothèque publique Eleanor London Côte Saint-Luc Public Library: General Fiction: December 2025

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Heart the Lover
by Lily King

Like the author’s acclaimed Writers & Lovers (which has ties to this novel), this lyrical story also centers on a love triangle. In a 1980s college literature class, a woman grows close to two best friends, who call her Jordan after a character in The Great Gatsby. She eventually dates one of the men but falls in love with the other. Decades later, they all meet again. Read-alikes: Caroline O’Donoghue’s The Rachel Incident; Marie Rutkoski’s Ordinary Love.

Will There Ever Be Another You
by Patricia Lockwood

As a global pandemic takes hold, a woman falls ill, leading to brain fog, confusion, and obsessions (with Anna Karenina, a particular song, and more). Then she becomes the caregiver when her husband needs emergency surgery. For fans of: unique, introspective, and darkly humorous character-driven novels with non-linear timelines; Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye.

Evensong
by Stewart O'Nan

In Pittsburgh, a group of aging church women who call themselves the Humpty Dumpty Club help others in myriad ways, by baking cookies, taking care of pets, running errands, and sitting with the sick. Then one of their own has a bad fall. This quietly moving character-driven story portrays the importance of community and chosen family. For fans of: Elizabeth Strout.

Mona's Eyes
by Thomas Schlesser

Ten-year-old Mona and her beloved grandfather have only fifty-two Wednesdays to visit fifty-two works of art and commit to memory "all that is beautiful in the world" before Mona loses her sight forever.

The Irish Goodbye
by Heather Aimee O'Neill

After years apart, all three Ryan sisters gather for Thanksgiving at their parents' home on the East End of Long Island. Though each brings her own current issues, it’s the tragic deaths of two young people in the past that cast shadows over all the Ryans. This debut novel and Read with Jenna pick features complex characters who have all sorts of secrets. Read-alikes: J. Courtney Sullivan’s Maine; Christina Clancy’s The Second Home.

The Greatest Possible Good
by Ben Brooks

.A wealthy family is confident in its good intentions -- until the discovery that their patriarch has secretly given all their money to charity ruins their lives.

Pick a Color
by Souvankham Thammavongsa

Ning is a retired boxer, but to customers who visit her nail salon, she is just another worker named Susan. But beneath this superficial veneer, Ning is a woman of rigorous intellect and profound complexity, enthralled by the intricacy and rhythms of her work, but also haunted by memories of paths not taken and opportunities lost. A woman navigating the complex power dynamics among her fellow Susans, whose greatest fears and desires lie just behind the gossip they exchange.

My Other Heart: A Read with Jenna Pick
by Emma Nanami Strenner

In 2000, Mimi Truong’s toddler daughter disappears at the Philadelphia airport. Seventeen years later, best friends Kit and Sabrina graduate high school in Chestnut Hill. Kit, a Japanese American adoptee, travels to Tokyo to explore her roots and identity. Sabrina, the daughter of a strict Chinese immigrant mother, stays home, where a bold new mentor pushes her to face long-buried questions. Meanwhile, Mimi returns to the U.S. with a new lead on her missing child. As the three women's paths converge at summer’s end, each must confront the true meaning of family, identity, and belonging.

The Atlas of Untold Stories
by Sara Brunsvold

With everyone's lives in turmoil, two sisters--who couldn't be more different--and their ever practical mother set off on the literary road trip of a lifetime. Inspired by their favorite books and the lives of the authors, they begin to discover that for all the stories between them, the best ones are yet to be written.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
by Jessica Guerrieri

Swept off her feet by the gentle charm of Lucas O'Connor, Leah's unexpected pregnancy changes the course of her carefree and nomadic existence. Over a decade and three children later, Leah is unraveling. She resents the world in which her artistic aspirations have been sidelined by the overwhelming demands of motherhood, and the ever-present rift between herself and her mother-in-law, Christine, is best dulled by increasingly fuller glasses of wine.

Girls Girls Girls
by Shoshana Von Blanckensee

In the summer of 1996, best friends and secret girlfriends Hannah and Sam escape to San Francisco seeking queer freedom, but financial strain and shifting desires threaten their bond, forcing Hannah to question her identity and where she truly belongs.

The Accidental Favorite
by Fran Littlewood

Gathering to celebrate their mother's 70th birthday at a posh rented house in the English countryside, three middle-aged sisters, each with their own families and issues, are shocked when an unexpected event indicates who their father's favorite child is. Told from multiple points of view over various time periods.

The Grand Paloma Resort
by Cleyvis Natera

As ambitious resort manager Laura nears a career-defining promotion, her troubled sister Elena becomes entangled in a harrowing scandal involving missing children, forcing both women to confront the brutal realities of privilege, exploitation, and sacrifice within a luxury Dominican resort.

Cattail Lane
by Fran Kimmel

Nick Ackerman’s life is stuck on repeat -- dead-end job, nights at the bar -- until a letter reveals he has a 14-year-old son. Suddenly thrust into fatherhood, Nick takes in angry, grieving Billy and places his ailing grandmother in a nearby dementia ward. Struggling to connect, Nick finds unexpected guidance in Sarah, a kind-hearted housekeeper at the facility and single mom to a quirky five-year-old. As summer unfolds, Nick, Billy, and Sarah -- each carrying their own past wounds -- are offered a fragile chance at healing and building something new.

The Dilemmas of Working Women: Stories
by Fumio Yamamoto

A spiky, edgy collection of five sly yet sensitive stories spotlighting clear-eyed and “difficult” women who are navigating their identities as workers and women in contemporary Japan -- a feminist, anti-capitalist modern classic first published in Japan in 2000, and now published outside Asia and in English for the first time.

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