Top new literary-fiction books out this week: 24 Mar - 30 Mar 2024
Last updated:
March 30, 2024
This week featuring new releases by Kate Clayborn, Garrard Conley, Shilpi Somaya Gowda, Alexandra Tanner, Glenn R. Miller, Rachel Stark and many more.
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The Other Side of Disappearing by Kate Clayborn
Accompanied by two documentary podcasters, two sisters drive across the country to unravel the mystery of a notorious con man who ran away with their mother in this timely, moving, modern love story about intimacy and truth-telling in the digital age, from the acclaimed author of Georgie, All Along and Love Lettering...romance · fiction · contemporary · crime · literary-fiction · family · humor · female-mc · book · adult -
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All the World Beside by Garrard Conley
An electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New EnglandCana, a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold...romance · historical-fiction · lgbtq · fiction · historical · literary-fiction · audiobook · mlm · social-commentary · religion -
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A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires Everywhere, exploring the ties and fractures of a close-knit Indian-American family in the aftermath of a violent encounter with the police.Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family...north-america · usa · california · fiction · literary-fiction · contemporary · family · book · adult -
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Worry by Alexandra Tanner
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings-turned-roommates navigating an absurd world about to suffer great change—a Seinfeldian novel of existentialism and sisterhood...fiction · contemporary · literary-fiction · humor · mental-illness · audiobook · family · lgbtq · season-spring · satire -
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Doorman Wanted by Glenn R. Miller
Henry Franken has a problem with money-he has too much of it. When his unprincipled father dies, thirty-three-year-old Henry inherits a massive estate, including an Upper East Side residential building. He must confront the reality of his new financial status, directly conflicting with his well-honed identity as a "progressive liberal... -
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Perris, California by Rachel Stark
In this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law’s property, encounters the woman she used to love—leading Tessa to question the very foundations of the life she’s builtAbandoned by first her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother...fiction · contemporary · literary-fiction · lgbtq · realistic · family · drama · female-mc · friendship · book
