Top new literary-fiction books out this week: 7 Apr - 13 Apr 2024
Last updated:
April 13, 2024
This week featuring new releases by Lionel Shriver, Kerry Fisher, Sarah Langan, Nell Freudenberger, Scarlett Thomas, Megan Campisi, Jen Silverman, Clare Beams, Jonathan Dunsky, Heather Frese and many more.
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Mania by Lionel Shriver
Set in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel from the New York Times bestselling author about a lifelong friendship threatened by the Culture Wars. In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence...fiction · dystopia · politics · literary-fiction · audiobook · sci-fi · humor · contemporary · satire · alternate-history -
![Escape to the Rome Apartment by Kerry Fisher]()
Escape to the Rome Apartment by Kerry Fisher
Sara’s eyes fill with tears as she reads the letter, her last words from her dearest ‘I’m buying you your freedom. You don’t need to ask your husband’s permission and you have to put yourself first for once. Have an incredible adventure before it’s too late for both of us…’Sara has lost her zest for life...romance · humor · womens-fiction · second-chances · fiction · literary-fiction · female-mc · contemporary · epic · family -
![A Better World by Sarah Langan]()
A Better World by Sarah Langan
The author of Good Neighbors , “one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American suburbia” (NPR), returns with a provocative and disconcerting novel about a woman questioning her new home in an exclusive company town after a night out goes terribly wrong.Welcome to Plymouth Valley...mystery · fiction · horror · dystopia · sci-fi · suspense · audiobook · contemporary · literary-fiction · psychological -
![The Limits by Nell Freudenberger]()
The Limits by Nell Freudenberger
The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost and Wanted , a stunning new novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single year... -
![The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas]()
The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas
From “one of the UK’s most interesting authors” (Kirkus Reviews), Patricia Highsmith meets White Lotus in this surprising and suspenseful modern gothic story following a couple running from both secretive pasts and very present dangers while honeymooning on a Greek island.Still reeling from the chaos of their wedding, Evelyn and Richard arrive on a tiny Greek island for their honeymoon...fiction · suspense · audiobook · gothic · epistolary · thriller · family · literary-fiction · psychological · book -
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![The Widow Spy by Megan Campisi]()
The Widow Spy by Megan Campisi
The author of the “magnificent…complex, vivid” (New York Journal of Books) Sin Eater returns with a rousing and propulsive novel based on the astonishing true story of the first female Pinkerton detective whose next assignment could end the Civil War.Kate Warne is many the country’s first female detective, a Pinkerton agent, and a union spy... -
![There's Going to Be Trouble by Jen Silverman]()
There's Going to Be Trouble by Jen Silverman
A woman is pulled into a love affair with a radical activist, unknowingly echoing her family's dangerous past and risking the foundations of her future in this electrifying novel.The course of your life can change with one split-second decision.Minnow has always tried to lead the life her single father modeled—private, quiet, hardworking, apolitical...fiction · historical · historical-fiction · literary-fiction · lgbtq · audiobook · action-adventure · politics · family · book -
![The Garden by Clare Beams]()
The Garden by Clare Beams
The discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page-turning and psychologically thrilling tale of women desperate to become mothers and the ways the female body has always been policed and manipulated, from the award-winning author of The Illness Lesson (“A masterpiece” – Elizabeth Gilbert)In 1948, Irene Willard, who’s had five previous miscarriages in a quest to give her...horror · historical-fiction · fiction · historical · fantasy · gothic · literary-fiction · mystery · audiobook · spooky -
![In That Sleep of Death by Jonathan Dunsky]()
In That Sleep of Death by Jonathan Dunsky
Not even murder can keep this secret buried. Israel, 1952 – A man lies dead in a city park, his head bashed in. No witnesses. No clues.It seems like an impossible case. The police have given up. But private investigator Adam Lapid is determined to catch the killer. Hired to investigate the murder, Adam begins digging into the victim’s life...christian · mystery · fiction · murder · literary-fiction · noir · historical · crime · spirituality · book -
![The Saddest Girl on the Beach by Heather Frese]()
The Saddest Girl on the Beach by Heather Frese
Grieving after her father’s death, a young woman seeks solace in an Outer Banks beach town of North Carolina where her best friend’s family runs a small inn. The family welcomes Charlotte with chowder dinners and a cozy room, but her friend Evie has a looming life change of her own, and soon Charlotte seeks other attractions to navigate her grief... -
![Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco]()
Rough Trade by Katrina Carrasco
Alma Rosales is back and trouble is hot on her heels in this sexy queer historical thriller from the critically acclaimed author of The Best Bad Things.After destroying all evidence of their opium-smuggling operation in Port Townsend, Alma Rosales and Delphine Beaumond have set up shop in Tacoma, where the risk is high but the profits are higher...historical-fiction · fiction · historical · lgbtq · audiobook · mystery · crime · literary-fiction · murder · book -
![Yoni ki Baat: Musings and Monologues on Identity by South Asian Women by Sharmilla Ganesan, Sheba Karim, Vandana Makker, Anjali Maven]()
Yoni ki Baat: Musings and Monologues on Identity by South Asian Women by Sharmilla Ganesan, Sheba Karim, Vandana Makker, Anjali Maven
If your yoni could talk, what would it say?In 2003, South Asian Sisters created Yoni ki Baat, a stage performance in Berkeley, California, written and performed by South Asian and South Asian American women... -
![Dead Animals by Phoebe Stuckes]()
Dead Animals by Phoebe Stuckes
There is something creeping at the edge of your vision, lingering somewhere just out of focus. All it would take is to let your mind wander, to let it come into view.A young woman wakes after a house party with scratches and bruises - and a gap in her memory.As the violent truth comes back to her - a series of events she struggles to name - her anger grows...horror · audiobook · fiction · lgbtq · contemporary · literary-fiction · mental-illness · dark · gothic · mystery -
![Around the World in Eighty Days : The Classic Edition with Original Illustrations by Jules Verne, George M. Towle, Catherine Miles]()
Around the World in Eighty Days : The Classic Edition with Original Illustrations by Jules Verne, George M. Towle, Catherine Miles
Jump on a daring adventure against time and see the wonders of the world in Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days, unabridged and illustrated in this special edition.Mr. Phileas Fogg is not your typical Englishman... -
![The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston]()
The Borrowed Hills by Scott Preston
"Viscerally vivid . . . a sucker-punch of a novel, edged with knife-sharp black humour and shot through with moments of startling beauty . . . half Tarantino and half pitch-black northern realism" —Guardian (book of the day)"Precisely focused with flavour, intensity, and oodles of character' —The Times"Arrives like a punch to the gut . .fiction · historical-fiction · contemporary · literary-fiction · western · season-spring · myths · drama · industrial-era · book -
![Off-White by Astrid Roemer]()
Off-White by Astrid Roemer
It’s 1966 in Suriname, on the Caribbean coast of South America, and the long shadow of colonialism still hangs over the country. Grandma Bee is the proud, cigar-smoking matriarch of the Vanta family, which is an intricate mix of Creole, Maroon, French, Indian, Indigenous, British, and Jewish backgrounds. But Grandma Bee is dying, a cough has settled deep in her lungs...fiction · historical-fiction · female-author · literary-fiction · family · black-mc · female-mc · poc-mc · book · adult -
![Short War by Lily Meyer]()
Short War by Lily Meyer
Told in three distinct voices, Short War brings together a rapturous teenage love story set in Chile, the hunt for the author of an eye-opening literary detective story, and a complex reckoning with American political intervention in South America. When sixteen-year-old Gabriel Lazris―an American in Santiago, Chile―meets Caro Ravest, something clicks...fiction · literary-fiction · contemporary · mystery · latinx-mc · politics · coming-of-age · poc-mc · book · adult -
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![Shattered Glitter: A Sprinkling of Unhinged Sparkle by Cheyenne Blaze]()
Shattered Glitter: A Sprinkling of Unhinged Sparkle by Cheyenne Blaze
"Shattered Glitter" unveils the complex life of a young woman grappling with bipolar disorder. To the outside world, she projects an image of success and stability, meticulously maintaining a facade that masks the inner turmoil she faces daily... -
![Losing What I Never Had: Uncovering My Authentic Self by Raphael Heaggans]()
Losing What I Never Had: Uncovering My Authentic Self by Raphael Heaggans
A young man must learn to love himself and fight for a better existence despite his religious father’s beliefs and sins in this LGBTQ read where suffering makes you know yourself.Booker is a church leader whose double life includes preaching the Bible and abusing his family, especially his son, Bart...
