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Fiction A to Z February 2026 |
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A Calamity of Souls
by David Baldacci
In 1968 Virginia, Jack Lee, a white lawyer who has never challenged racism, agrees to defend Jerome Washington, a Black man accused of murdering a wealthy white couple. Facing impossible odds, Lee teams up with Desiree DuBose, a fearless Black civil rights lawyer from Chicago. Though deeply different, they must work together to fight a stacked system and seek justice in a case that threatens far more than one man’s life.
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A Certain Kind of Starlight
by Heather Webber
Addie Fullbright has never been good at keeping secrets, except for the one that drove her away from her hometown of Starlight, Alabama. When her beloved aunt’s illness calls her back to help run the family bakery, Addie must finally face the past she left behind. At the same time, Tessa Jane Wingrove-Fullbright is struggling with heartbreak, family expectations, and her aunt’s failing health. As both women return to Starlight, they discover that even in life’s darkest moments, there is still room for healing, hope, and starting over.
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A Council of Dolls
by Mona Susan Power
Born in 1888, 1925, and 1961, three Native American girls each have a cherished doll that comforts them in this haunting novel that examines the trauma inflicted by Indian boarding schools. Author of the acclaimed 1994 novel The Grass Dancer, Mona Susan Power is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
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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; Rebecca Serle's One Italian Summer.
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A Guardian and a Thief
by Megha Majumdar
In a near-future Kolkata, India, climate change causes flooding and famine. Ma, her elderly father, and her young daughter have precious visas to join Ma’s scientist husband in Michigan. But a desperate resident of the shelter where Ma works follows her, convinced she’s skimming resources, and steals the documents. For seven days, Ma looks for the thief in this moving story that’s a National Book Award finalist. Try these next: Susanna Kwan’s Awake in the Floating City; Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind.
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A Reason to See You Again : A Novel
by Jami Attenberg
After the death of their patriarch, the women of the Cohen family are thrown into crisis. Shelly flees west to chase opportunity in the rising tech world, Nancy marries young to a man with a shadowy life, and their mother, Frieda, escapes to Miami, hoping to outrun the past. As the decades unfold, each woman learns that running away is not enough and must decide what family, love, and moving forward truly mean.
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All Fours
by Miranda July
Stopping a solo cross-country road trip after 30 miles, a 45-year-old semi-famous California artist rethinks her life and marriage as she develops a connection with a younger man and remodels her motel room before heading home in this witty, weird, and sexy novel. Read-alikes: Milk Fed by Melissa Broder; The Dog of the North by Elizabeth McKenzie; Clover Hendry's Day Off by Beth Morrey.
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