Top new literary-fiction books in November 2023
Last updated:
November 29, 2023
November 2023 featuring new releases by Sophie Cousens, John Boyne, Nita Prose, Anna Pitoniak, Naomi Alderman, Elizabeth Crook, Caroline Scott, Ed Park, Helena Greer, Rosemary Hennigan and many more.
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The Good Part by Sophie Cousens
By the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven't Met You Yet, a downtrodden twenty-six-year-old wakes up to the life she's always wanted, but is it really a dream come true?At twenty-six, Lucy Young is tired. Tired of fetching coffees for senior TV producers, tired of going on disastrous dates, and definitely tired of living in a damp flat share with flatmates who never buy toilet roll...romance · contemporary · fiction · time-travel · magical-realism · womens-fiction · fantasy · sci-fi · literary-fiction · humor -
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Water by John Boyne
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past.But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer...fiction · contemporary · literary-fiction · domestic-drama · psychological · thriller · book · adult -
![The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose]()
The Mystery Guest by Nita Prose
When an acclaimed author dies at the Regency Grand Hotel, it's up to a fastidious maid to uncover the truth, no matter how dirty—in a standalone novel featuring Molly Gray, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maid, a Good Morning America Book Club Pick.Molly Gray is not like anyone else...mystery · fiction · contemporary · cozy · crime · suspense · thriller · killer · murder · literary-fiction -
![The Helsinki Affair by Anna Pitoniak]()
The Helsinki Affair by Anna Pitoniak
CIA agent Amanda Cole is thrust into an international conspiracy involving high-profile assassinations and Russian blackmail. It ’ s the case of her lifetime, but solving it might require her to betray another spy—who just so happens to be her father. Amanda Cole is a brilliant young CIA agent, following in the footsteps of her father Charlie. But Amanda’s posting in Rome is a sleepy one...mystery · fiction · espionage · historical-fiction · suspense · politics · cold-war · crime · political-intrigue · female-mc -
![The Future by Naomi Alderman]()
The Future by Naomi Alderman
From the award-winning, bestselling author of The Power comes a white-knuckle tour de force and dazzling exploration of the world we have made and where we are going.The Future—as the richest people on the planet have discovered—is where the money is. The Future is a few billionaires leading the world to destruction while safeguarding their own survival with secret lavish bunkers...sci-fi · fiction · dystopia · lgbtq · literary-fiction · female-author · romance · crime · vigilante · justice -
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![The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook]()
The Madstone by Elizabeth Crook
With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, her child, and the frontier tradesman who helps them flee across Texas from outlaws bent on revenge, even as an unlikely love blossoms.Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he witnesses a stagecoach strand a passenger... -
![Good Taste: A Novel in Search of Great Food by Caroline Scott]()
Good Taste: A Novel in Search of Great Food by Caroline Scott
With delectable prose, a sharp heroine ahead of her time, and an adventure across the English countryside in search of great food, Good Taste is the perfect historical novel for fans of Dear Mrs. Bird and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society . You can tell a lot about a person from what they like to eat… England in 1932 is in the grip of the Great Depression...historical-fiction · fiction · historical · audiobook · romantic-love · female-mc · literary-fiction · book · adult -
![Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park]()
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves on the present—loaded with assassins and mad poets, RPGs and slasher films, K-pop bands and the perils of social media.In 1919, far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country...fiction · historical-fiction · sci-fi · historical · fantasy · alternate-history · poc-author · literary-fiction · humor · satire -
![For Never & Always by Helena Greer]()
For Never & Always by Helena Greer
One surprise inheritance, two best friends (now bitter exes), and three months to prove he loves her, forever and always , in this swoony second-chance romance for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur and Ashley Herring Blake. Hannah Rosenstein should be after a lonely childhood of traipsing all over the world, she finally has a home as the co-owner of destination inn Carrigan’s All Year...romance · contemporary · lgbtq · fiction · friends-to-lovers · forced-proximity · humor · holidays · literary-fiction · book -
![The Favorites by Rosemary Hennigan]()
The Favorites by Rosemary Hennigan
An edgy, feminist campus novel about justice, gender, and power, following a woman who enrolls in law school and competes her way into an elite "Law and Literature" cohort to get revenge on the charismatic professor who wronged her sisterMost students would kill to be accepted into the prestigious Law and Literature cohort at Franklin University...fiction · contemporary · suspense · dark-academia · mystery · family · secrets · realistic · feminism · literary-fiction -
![Working For A Billionaire by Erica Frost]()
Working For A Billionaire by Erica Frost
Fate is a cruel mistress, something I learned after a one-night stand in Vegas.The same week I discovered I was pregnant; I landed this new job that was supposed to change my life.To my horror, the man I slept with that night was my boss, a grump named Harrison Rutherford.Harrison is hot with the body of a Greek God but we have nothing in common...romance · literary-fiction · medical · fiction · action-adventure · female-mc · billionaire · new-adult · humor · contemporary -
![Today Tonight Forever by Madeline Kay Sneed]()
Today Tonight Forever by Madeline Kay Sneed
One wedding weekend means one dramatic reunion for two families in this bighearted ensemble cast novel about love and forgiveness“A page-turner with heart.” —Alison Wisdom, author of We Can Only Save Ourselves“Dazzling! Readers will love these flawed, tender characters...romance · contemporary · fiction · lgbtq · wlw · family · season-summer · literary-fiction · friendship · book
