For Fans of Literary Fiction (For Adults)
Looking for something new to read? Check out these
 recommendations curated by our librarians! 
 
The vanishing half
by Brit Bennett

Separated by their embrace of different racial identities, two mixed-race identical twins reevaluate their choices as one raises a black daughter in their southern hometown while the other passes for white with a husband who is unaware of her heritage.
An American marriage
by Tayari Jones

When her new husband is imprisoned for a crime she knows he did not commit, a rising artist takes comfort in a longtime friendship, only to see her husband's sentence is suddenly overturned. By the author of Silver Sparrow. Reprint. AB. K. LJ. NYT. PW. A New York Times best-seller
Neverwhere : Author's Preferred Text
by Neil Gaiman

An author-preferred edition of the story of Richard Mayhew reconciles inconsistencies between the U.S. and U.K. versions, reinstates previously cut scenes, and incorporates the Neverwhere tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back."
Where the crawdads sing
by Delia Owens

Viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a murder, Kya Clark, who has survived alone for years in a marsh near the North Carolina coast, becomes targeted by unthinkable forces
The keeper of lost things : a novel
by Ruth Hogan

Collecting things dropped or left behind by others and writing stories about them as a tribute to the fiancée who died the day he lost one of her keepsakes, a man bequeaths his estate to his unsuspecting assistant, who bonds with new neighbors while attempting to reunite the objects with their owners. A first novel. 50,000 first printing.
The 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
by Stuart Turton

Doomed to repeat the same day over and over, Aiden Bishop must solve the murder of Evelyn Hardcastle in order to escape the curse in a world filled with enemies where nothing and no one are quite what they seem
Commonwealth : a novel
by Ann Patchett

A five-decade saga tracing the impact of an act of infidelity on the parents and children of two Southern California families traces their shared summers in Virginia and the disillusionment that shapes their lasting bond
A column of fire
by Ken Follett

A half-century love affair between a man in service to Elizabeth I and a woman on the opposing side of England's religious divide is challenged by violent ideological power shifts, torn loyalties and the queen's circle of spies, in a latest entry in the best-selling series that includes The Pillars of the Earth. Read by John Lee. Simultaneous.
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