New Fiction
September 2025
Recent Releases
People Like Us
by Jason Mott

Jason Mott follows up his National Book Award-winning Hell of a Book with this funny, moving, and surreal tale of two Black writers pondering race, loss, and survival. One of them, who specializes in grief, is at a Minnesota college where a shooting recently occurred, and the other, who just won a big award, is on a book tour in Europe. Try this next: Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour.
Coyote Hills
by Jonathan Kellerman

Now a private investigator, former Alameda County coroner Clay Edison takes a perplexing case of a wealthy couple's son found dead in San Francisco Bay, in the sixth book of the series following The Lost Coast.
Jamaica Road
by Lisa Smith

Beginning in 1981, this evocative coming-of-age novel follows two best friends who become something more. Quiet 12-year-old Daphne is of Jamaican heritage and the only Black girl in her South London class when Jamaican immigrant Cornelius “Connie” Smalls arrives, ready to be seen and heard. Thoughtfully portraying their relationship as it ebbs and flows, this tender debut also spotlights societal issues. For fans of: Sally Rooney’s Normal People; Jacqueline Crooks’ Fire Rush.
The hitchhikers
by Chevy Stevens

On the remote Canadian highways in 1976, Tom and Alice are on an RV road trip to repair their marriage and heal the wounds of recent tragic events, but when they join up with a seemingly friendly young couple, things take an even darker turn.
The Satisfaction Café
by Kathy Wang

Having left Taiwan in the 1970s to attend Stanford graduate school, Joan marries a fellow student, but that lasts mere weeks. She stays in California, unexpectedly drawn to a wealthy, thrice-divorced older man. They marry, and in this quietly powerful portrait, Joan becomes a stepmother, a mother, a widow, and the owner of café designed to combat loneliness. For fans of: The Healing Season of Pottery by Yeon Somin; Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum.
Quicksilver
by Callie Hart

"Twenty-four-year-old Saeris Fane is good at keeping secrets. No one knows about the strange powers she possesses, or the fact that she has been picking pockets and stealing from the Undying Queen's reservoirs for as long as she can remember. But a secret is like a knot. Sooner or later, it is bound to come undone. When Saeris comes face-to-face with Death himself, she inadvertently reopens a gateway between realms and is transported to a land of ice and snow. The Faehave always been the stuff of myth, of legend, of nightmares...but it turns out they're real, and Saeris has landed herself right in the middle of a centuries-long conflict that might just get her killed. The first of her kind to tread the frozen mountains of Yvelia in over a thousand years,Saeris mistakenly binds herself to Kingfisher,a handsome Fae warrior, who has secrets and nefarious agendas of his own. He will use her Alchemist's magic to protect his people, no matter what it costs him...or her. Death has a name. It is Kingfisher of the Ajun Gate. His past is murky. His attitude stinks. And he'sthe only way Saeris is going to make it home"
Storybook ending : a novel
by Moira Macdonald

In a Seattle bookstore, a misinterpreted note sparks a tangled web of mistaken identities as tech worker April and single mom Laura form an unexpected connection, all while oblivious Westley becomes the unintentional center of their romantic hopes.
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