Top new literary-fiction books out this week: 17 Mar - 23 Mar 2024
Last updated:
March 23, 2024
This week featuring new releases by Lisa Ko, Brianna Labuskes, Natasha Pulley, Téa Obreht, Sulari Gentill, Maggie Thrash, Percival Everett, Liza Palmer, Sarah Braunstein, James Goodhand and many more.
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Memory Piece by Lisa Ko
The award-winning author of The Leavers offers a visionary novel of friendship, art, and ambition that asks: What is the value of a meaningful life?In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different...fiction · historical-fiction · sci-fi · contemporary · literary-fiction · poc-author · friendship · audiobook · lgbtq · female-mc -
![The Lost Book of Bonn by Brianna Labuskes]()
The Lost Book of Bonn by Brianna Labuskes
For fans of The Rose Code and The Librarian Spy comes another literary themed historical novel from the author of The Librarian of Burned Books. Germany, 1946: Emmy Clarke is a librarian not a soldier. But that doesn’t stop the Library of Congress from sending her overseas to Germany to help the Monuments Men retrieve and catalog precious literature that was plundered by the Nazis...historical-fiction · fiction · ww2 · historical · war · lgbtq · new-adult · 20th-century · female-mc · literary-fiction -
![The Mars House by Natasha Pulley]()
The Mars House by Natasha Pulley
A compulsively readable queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee.In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London's Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars...romance · sci-fi · lgbtq · fiction · space · fantasy · mars · dystopia · literary-fiction · colonization -
![The Morningside by Téa Obreht]()
The Morningside by Téa Obreht
From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a magical novel of mothers and daughters, displacement and belonging, and myths both old and new.There’s the world you can see. And then there’s the one you can’t. Welcome to the Morningside...fiction · fantasy · literary-fiction · mystery · post-apocalyptic · family · magical-realism · low-fantasy · book · adult -
![The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill]()
The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill
There's nothing easier to dismiss than a conspiracy theory—until it turns out to be true When Theodosia Benton abandons her career path as an attorney and shows up on her brother's doorstep with two suitcases and an unfinished novel, she expects to face a few challenges...mystery · fiction · suspense · contemporary · crime · murder · killer · family · conspiracies · audiobook -
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![Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash]()
Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash
Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’90s Satanic Panic and spanning 20 years in the life of a young woman pulled into its undertow.Lacey Bond is a thirteen-year-old girl in New Hampshire growing up in the tranquility of her hippie parents’ rural daycare center. Then the Satanic Panic hits...mystery · lgbtq · fiction · historical-fiction · wlw · horror · literary-fiction · historical · spooky · killer -
![James by Percival Everett]()
James by Percival Everett
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of viewWhen the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan...north-america · usa · mississippi · historical-fiction · fiction · retellings · literary-fiction · historical · classics · slavery -
![Family Reservations by Liza Palmer]()
Family Reservations by Liza Palmer
A powerful mother. Three daughters. And a fast-paced, cutthroat culinary legacy up for grabs in a darkly witty novel about a family on the edge by the bestselling author of The Nobodies and The F Word.Maren Winter is a world-renowned restaurateur who has built an empire. No one heeds the whispers of her retirement more closely than her three daughters, all in service to their mother’s legacy...fiction · womens-fiction · family · contemporary · culinary · drama · audiobook · literary-fiction · female-mc · humor -
![Bad Animals by Sarah Braunstein]()
Bad Animals by Sarah Braunstein
A sexy, propulsive novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation through the eyes of a disgraced small-town librarian. Now that her brilliant daughter is off at college, buttoned-up Maeve Cosgrove loves her job at her quiet Maine public library more than anything...fiction · literary-fiction · contemporary · audiobook · female-author · family · female-mc · book · adult -
![The Day Tripper by James Goodhand]()
The Day Tripper by James Goodhand
The right guy, the right place, the wrong time. It’s 1995, and Alex Dean has it a spot at Cambridge University next year, the love of an amazing woman named Holly and all the time in the world ahead of him. That is until a brutal encounter with a ghost from his past sees him beaten, battered and almost drowning in the Thames...romance · time-travel · sci-fi · fantasy · fiction · mystery · audiobook · contemporary · magical-realism · coming-of-age -
![The Terrifying Realm of the Possible: Nearly True Stories by Brett Gelman]()
The Terrifying Realm of the Possible: Nearly True Stories by Brett Gelman
A daring, hilariously neurotic literary debut from the acclaimed actor and comedian Brett Gelman ( Stranger Things, Fleabag ). Enter the wonderfully weird, always uncomfortable, side-splittingly funny world of The Terrifying Realm of the Possible , where your worst fears of who you are or might become are always just around the corner... -
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Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control.Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug...sci-fi · fiction · ai · feminism · contemporary · literary-fiction · dark · dystopia · supernatural · family -
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Flirty Little Secret by Jessica Lepe
For fans of Lynn Painter and Lyssa Kay Adams, You’ve Got Mail goes back to high school in this laugh-out-loud debut rom-com where the anonymous (and anxious) woman behind @TheMissGuidedCounselor must decide if she can take her own advice and reach for the life, and love, she wants.Guidance counselor Lucy Galindo works hard at being Harview High’s Most Likely to Blend In...
