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Fiction A to Z January 2026 |
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| Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan BraithwaiteYears ago, a man's first wife cursed a later wife, plus all of the women in her family for generations. Ebbing and and flowing in time, this moving novel follows three of the cursed Nigerian women: Monife, who drowns herself after losing her lover; her cousin, Ebun, who has a child the day of Monife's funeral; and Ebun's child, Eniiyi, who looks and acts like Monife.
Read-alike: Elizabeth Acevedo's Family Lore. |
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A Dog in Georgia
by Lauren Grodstein
With her stepson at college and her husband probably cheating on her again, middle-aged Amy Webb focuses on internet videos of Angel, a dog in Tbilisi, Georgia. When Angel goes missing, Amy heads to Eastern Europe to help find him, and maybe herself too.
For fans of complex characters and geopolitical themes such as Rebecca Serle's One Italian Summer.
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Theo of Golden
by Allen Levi
A story of giving and receiving, of seeing and being seen, Theo of Golden is a beautifully crafted novel about the power of creative generosity, the importance of wonder to a purposeful life, and the invisible threads of kindness that bind us to one another.
Read-alike: The Heartbeat Library by Laura Imai Messina.
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The Land in Winter
by Andrew Miller
December 1962: In a village deep in the English countryside, two couples begin the day. Local doctor Eric Parry commences his rounds in the village while his pregnant wife, Irene mulls over the space that has grown between the two of them. On the farm nearby lives witty but troubled Rita Simmons, who is also expecting. When the ordinary cold of December gives way to a violent blizzard, so do secret resentments.
Try this next: The Most by Jessica Anthony.
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Bog Queen
by Anna North
A strangely well-preserved Iron Age body turns up in an English bog, and the American forensic anthropologist on the case is thrust into an absorbing, complex mystery
You may also enjoy Circle of Days by Ken Follett.
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| The Eleventh Hour by Salman RushdieThis collection of five stories thoughtfully and wittily explores life and death for a variety of characters (older men, a ghost, a musician, and more) who live in various locations (India, England, and the United States).
Try these next: The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories by Denis Johnson; An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories by Ed Park. |
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North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
by Ethan Rutherford
Setting out from New Bedford in 1878, the crew of the Esther is confident the sea will be theirs. But as they sail to their final destination in the Chukchi Sea, their encounters with the natural world become more brutal, harrowing, ghostly, and strange.
You may also enjoy To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
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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. Under the kind and careful tutelage of her grandfather, Mona learns the true meaning of generosity, melancholy, love, loss, and revolution.
For fans of My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Frederik Backman.
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Town & Country
by Brian Schaefer
A big-hearted and true debut novel set in a small rural town amid a congressional race that forces the candidates, their families, and a clique of gay second homeowners to confront lies, betrayals and shifting allegiances. Spanning six months from Memorial Day to Election Day, Town & Country paints a kaleidoscopic portrait of a community in flux.
For readers of Fredrick Backman and Jen Beagin.
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The Ten Year Affair
by Erin Somers
A sliding-doors novel about a chance meeting between two young parents, both happily married (just not to each other) that sparks a will-they-won't-they romance.
For fans of Significant Others by Zoë Eisenberg.
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