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Fiction A to Z - July 2025 |
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| Flashlight by Susan ChoiFlashlight follows American Louisa Kang and her family across locations and years, but focuses on the night young Louisa and her ethnically Korean father walk on a beach in Japan. Later, she washes ashore, amnesiac and clinging to life, but her dad can't be found. Covering family relationships and geopolitics, this slow burn novel is "never sentimental, never predictable" (Kirkus Reviews). Try this next: Kyung-Sook Shin's I Went to See My Father. |
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Fox : A novel
by Joyce Carol Oates
After the vehicle belonging to the enigmatic new teacher at a boarding school is discovered submerged in the woods near a dead body, the community begins to unravel in the new novel by the author of We Were the Mulvaneys.
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| Great Black Hope by Rob FranklinAmid the glitz and glamour of New York, a 20-something gay Black man from a well-to-do Atlanta family flounders after the mysterious death of his roommate, the daughter of a famous singer. Grief-stricken, he's soon arrested for cocaine possession and caught between the worlds of race and class in this debut that's perfect for book clubs. For fans of: Rumaan Alam's Entitlement; Vinson Cunningham's Great Expectations. |
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The Accidental Favorite : A novel
by Fran Littlewood
A moving family dramedy investigates the question so many of us have asked ourselves: do my parents have a favorite?
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| The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie HartnettPJ Halliday is a 63-year-old hoarder who drinks too much. When he learns his old high school girlfriend is newly single, he sets out on a cross-country road trip from Massachusetts to Arizona, bringing along his newly orphaned grandniece and grandnephew, his 26-year-old daughter, and Pancakes, a death-predicting cat. Funny and bittersweet, this novel works for fans of Steven Rowley's The Guncle and Kevin Wilson's Run for the Hills. |
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Notes on Infinity : A novel
by Austin Taylor
Zoe and Jack are Harvard students who find themselves propelled into the intoxicating biotech startup world when they announce they've discovered the cure for aging.
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| Open, Heaven by Seán HewittIn this lyrical and poignant first novel by a poet and memoirist, librarian James looks back on his youth as a shy, gay 16-year-old. Growing up in a remote northern English village in 2002, James feels isolated from most people, except his ill younger brother, but he soon develops a friendship and consuming crush on the troubled new boy in town. For fans of: Douglas Stuart. |
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The Compound : A novel
by Aisling Rawle
Lily, a disillusioned young woman, competes in a high-stakes reality show on a desert compound where personal bonds, hidden desperation, and escalating challenges blur the lines between game strategy and survival amidst a crumbling outside world.
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| Big Chief by Jon HickeyHaving moved around a lot, 30-year-old lawyer Mitch Caddo is an outsider at his Wisconsin reservation. But with his old friend Mack up for reelection as tribal president, political fixer Mitch works hard to defeat a nationally known activist, whose young aide is Mack's sister and Mitch's old flame. Jon Hickey, a member of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, debuts with a timely, thought-provoking novel. For fans of: David Heska Wanbli Weiden's Winter Counts. |
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Sunny Side Up : A novel
by Katie Sturino
Sunny Greene is thirty-five, recently divorced, and about to have a meltdown in the Bergdorf Goodman swimsuit department dressing room; but isn't rock bottom the perfect place to start a climb?
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| Awake in the Floating City by Susanna KwanIn a flooded near-future San Francisco, grieving artist Bo lives in a high rise and hopes for the return of her mother, missing for two years. On the verge of finally leaving the city, she instead stays to help her 130-year-old neighbor, whose stories inspire Bo's creativity. Exploring grief, art, memory, climate change, and multi-generational friendships, this is a "marvelously graceful debut" (Kirkus Reviews). Read-alike: Eiren Caffall's All the Water in the World. |
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I'll be right here : a novel
by Amy Bloom
After immigrating to New York alone after World War II, Gazala builds an unbreakable bond with her brother and two spirited sisters, forming a fiercely loyal found family whose love, desires and unorthodox connections shape generations to come.
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| Food Person by Adam RobertsUncomfortable on camera, digital cooking magazine writer Isabella Pasternack is forced to go live on Instagram, which results in her firing. Desperate for a job, she's soon ghostwriting a cookbook for a scandal-plagued actress who's not interested in food. This fun debut combines the culinary world with friendship, ambition, and romance to create a great summer read. Try this next: Beth Harbison's The Cookbook Club. |
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The Girls Who Grew Big
by Leila Mottley
Banished to her grandmother's small Florida town after becoming pregnant at sixteen, Adela finds an unlikely sisterhood among a group of young mothers who, despite societal judgment, support each other through friendship, love, and the complexities of motherhood and adolescence.
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| So Far Gone by Jess WalterIn a divided 2016 America, retired Rhys Kinnick decks his son-in-law Shane at Thanksgiving and then goes off-grid in Washington State. A few years later, his grandkids show up, brought by a neighbor at the request of Rhys' daughter. But then Shane sends members of his church militia after the kids, leading Rhys to team up with an eccentric group of old friends. Read-alike: The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem. |
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Albion : A novel
by Anna Hope
A story of family, inheritance and accountability shakes the country house novel to its foundations. By the internationally acclaimed author of Expectation.
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