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Fiction A to Z - May 2026 |
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| Yesteryear by Caro Claire BurkeWith millions of social media followers, Natalie Heller Mills carefully curates her tradwife life featuring a charming Utah ranch, a cowboy/political scion husband, and five children (with one on the way!). What her followers don't know is that she has nannies and plenty of other help. Then one morning, it's somehow 1805, and she's forced to live the tradwife life for real. Anne Hathaway has snagged film rights for this buzzy, twisty debut that's great for book clubs. Try these next: Anna-Marie McLemore's The Influencers; Alli Hoff Kosik's Too Blessed to Stress. |
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Go Gentle
by Maria Semple
The New York Times bestselling author of 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' returns to form in her most exuberant and life-affirming novel yet with the story of one woman's cheerful determination to live a life of the mind only to have the heart force its way in.
Romantic, hilarious, intelligent, and bursting with the stuff of life, Go Gentle is a thrilling story of one woman's mid-life transformation, cementing Maria Semple in the pantheon of our most exciting and important contemporary writers.
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| Laws of Love and Logic by Debra CurtisLily and Jane grow up in 1970s Rhode Island with their feminist mom, who dies when they're teens, and their Catholic boarding-school teacher dad. After Lily falls for the school's star quarterback, a tragedy changes everything, dividing Lily and the boy she loves and sending grief-stricken Jane further off course. Decades later, Lily and her love meet again, and a now-married Lily has to figure out what her future looks like. For fans of: Every Summer After by Carley Fortune; Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors. |
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American Fantasy
by Emma Straub
Set on a cruise ship for middle aged women with a famous boy band from the 90s for entertainment, 'American Fantasy' is an irresistible story about what happens when your teenage fantasy comes true after you’re already an adult.
In a smart and incisive book packed with laugh-out-loud reflections on fame, aging, and marriage, Emma Straub delivers a richly textured story that shows us real passion is never truly lost, that what we love makes us who we are, and that deep meaning can sometimes be found in a sea of screaming fans.
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| You & Me and You & Me and You & Me by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn ReesStuck in a rut after 25 years of marriage, Adam and Jules discover that the old mixtapes they made for each other allow them to travel back in time. Tempted to make changes to their past selves to create a better present, they unintentionally create ripple effects that could tear them apart for good. Co-written by married couple Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees, this affecting romantic time travel novel is perfect for fans of The Second Chance Cinema by Thea Weiss. |
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Ghost Town
by Tom Perrotta
'Ghost Town' is a darkly nostalgic tale about a tumultuous summer in 1970s suburban New Jersey, from the perspective of a middle-aged writer, looking back on a series of events that changed his life - and the story he finally has the courage to tell.
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| Whidbey by T Kira MaddenBirdie Chang travels to Whidbey Island, Washington to escape the massive amounts of publicity surrounding reality star Linzie King's memoir. The bestseller covers Linzie's and others' abuse by pedophile Calvin, who also assaulted a young Birdie. In Florida, Calvin is released from prison and then murdered, but who did it? Focusing on Birdie, Linzie, and Calvin's mom, this multifaceted debut novel by abuse survivor and acclaimed memoirist T Kira Madden (Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls) works great for book clubs. |
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Cherry Beach
by Don Gillmor
When the details of the murder of two girls in a rundown Toronto highrise go public at the start of an excruciatingly hot summer, Jamieson Abel and his partner find themselves thrust into the centre of a headline investigation that will bring to a head the city’s long history of shady real estate deals and racist disenfranchisement.
Don Gillmor lives in Toronto, ON and has won the Governor General award.
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| The Complex by Karan MahajanIn late 20th-century India, a prominent Delhi family inhabit an apartment complex built after Indian independence by their famous politician ancestor. Arguments, affairs, and assaults occur as a young couple return from the United States and an uncle's political star rises. Also, as readers know from the start, one family member murders another. "Beautiful and unforgettable...masterly," raves Kirkus Reviews. For fans of: character-driven stories with messy families and multiple narrators. |
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The Brink of Something Beautiful
by Bobbi French
Set over the course of one winter in 1990s St. John’s, 'The Brink of Something Beautiful' is a hopeful story about female friendship and found family. Ruby Nolan is a new widow and finally free from a marriage she never wanted. An encounter with Maxine, a pregnant teen who reminds Ruby of her own sorry past, sends Ruby on a mission to help Maxine whether she wants it or not. While a friend warns Ruby that you can’t help anyone until you help yourself, it’s a lesson Ruby has to learn the hard way if she’s going to find any real peace.
Born and raised in Newfoundland, Bobbi French now lives in Nova Scotia.
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| A Good Animal by Sara MaurerHigh school senior Everett never wants to leave Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. He embraces tradition and dreams of running the family sheep farm like his father and grandfather. Then he falls hard for newcomer Mary, who's lived all over the country with her Coast Guard dad and plans to attend art school in California. Rooted in its rural locale, this lyrical, bittersweet debut movingly explores first love. Try this next: Donnaldson Brown's Because I Loved You. |
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Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead: A Novel
by Mai Nguyen
'Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead' is a darkly humorous yet uplifting novel about a grieving mother who starts working at a funeral home and discovers that the best way to honour the dead is to live.
Mai Nguyen was raised in Halifax, NS, and currently lives in Toronto, ON.
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Love by the Book
by Jessica George
'Love by the Book' is a moving story about the friendship between two women at a crossroads in their 30s. But as they work towards opening up and renewing their bonds of trust and support for one another, a betrayal threatens their happily every after.
From the author of 'Maame'.
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No Way Home
by T. C. Boyle
'No Way Home' tells the haunting story of Terrence Tully, who finds himself drawn into a love triangle involving Bethany and her ex-boyfriend Jesse. Tully cannot extricate himself from this aimless, post-20-something world where motorcycle races and violent brawls puncture the daily grind of nowhere jobs, aimless sex, and recreational highs. Is retribution a natural human instinct? Can sexual jealousy bring on a level of vengeance that is downright pathological?
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The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances
by Glenn Dixon
In a near future where even the smallest of appliances are sentient, a robotic vacuum sets out to save the humans of her house from a rising technological power.
Glenn Dixon lives in Calgary, AB.
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The Radiant Dark
by Alexandra Oliva
It’s March 1980 when a flickering of light in the sky is determined to be communication from intelligent life on another planet. But these beings are 11 light-years away, and nothing is known about them other than the fact that they seem to know we exist too. And so begins a decades-long exchange of messages with this mysterious, faraway civilization. As humanity reels from a shifting understanding of its place in the universe, we follow the stories of the Girard family over the course of 50 years and how each member navigates their lives with the knowledge that we are not alone.
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The Book Witch
by Meg Shaffer
Rainy March is a Book Witch who can hop into any novel. When her beloved grandfather disappears and a priceless book is stolen, there’s only one person she trusts to help her solve the case: the Duke of Chicago, the dashing British detective who stars in her favourite mystery series. Their quest takes them through the worlds of 'Alice in Wonderland', 'The Great Gatsby', and other classics that will reveal hidden enemies and long-buried family secrets.
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Meet Me in Italy
by Brenda Novak
After a very public divorce, bestselling author Charlotte Williams-Jackson receives some shocking and unexpected news. She was adopted, and her birth mother has just died, leaving custody of a 12-year-old sister to her. Not one to turn her back on family, even one she didn't know existed, Charlotte moves to the Amalfi coast to meet and take care of her sister. Determined to rebuild her life, Charlotte must confront everything she understood about herself and the bonds that shape a family.
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