LibraryAware September 2024- Adult

Fiction Books for Adults

Emily Wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries
by Heather Fawcett

A Cambridge professor, scholar and researcher on the study of faeries visits the hardscrabble village of Hransvik where she gets closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones and resists her insufferably handsome academic rival.

The spellshop
by Sarah Beth Durst

When the Great Library of Alyssium goes up in flames, introverted librarian Kiela and her sentient spider plant flee to the faraway island of her childhood where she opens a spell shop to restore the island's power, coming out of her shell to make a new life for herself.

The ornithologist's field guide to love
by India Holton

When a competition to become Birder of the Year by capturing an endangered caladrius bird is announced, rival ornithologists Beth Pickering and Devon Lockley are forced to team up to have any chance of winning, in this race that results in“fowl play,” ruffled feathers and love. Original.

A letter to the luminous deep
by Sylvie Cathrall

"A beautiful discovery outside the window of her underwater home prompts the reclusive E. to begin a correspondence with renowned scholar Henerey Clel. The letters they share are filled with passion, at first for their mutual interests, and then, inevitably, for each other. Together, they uncover a mystery from the unknown depths, destined to transform the underwater world they both equally fear and love. But by no mere coincidence, a seaquake destroys E.'s home, and she and Henerey vanish. A year later, E.'s sister Sophy, and Henerey's brother Vyerin, are left to solve the mystery"

Book lovers
by Emily Henry

Agreeing to a holiday escape to the country, literary agent Nora keeps running into a bookish, hardheaded, arrogant editor she knows from Manhattan, and wishes she didn't, even as she discovers they have more in common than previously thought.

The love hypothesis
by Ali Hazelwood

To convince her best friend that she is on her way to a happily ever after, third-year Ph.D. candidate Olive Smith, who doesn't believe in long-lasting romance, forms a fake relationship with Stanford's reigning lab tyrant and soon finds their experiment putting her own heart under the microscope. Original.

The midnight library
by Matt Haig

"Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have livedif you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig's enchanting blockbuster novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place

The invisible life of Addie LaRue
by Victoria Schwab

Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name

The dictionary of lost words : a novel
by Pip Williams

Deciding to create her own dictionary— the Dictionary of Lost Words— Esme, who has collected“objectionable” words a team of male scholars omit from the first Oxford English Dictionary, leaves her sheltered world behind to meet the people whose words will fill those pages. Maps.

The goldfinch
by Donna Tartt

Taken in by a wealthy family friend after surviving an accident that killed his mother, 13-year-old Theo Decker tries to adjust to life on Park Avenue, in a novel by the author of The Secret History. Reprint. A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.