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American Library Association Notable Fiction Books - The 2025 List |
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Anita de Monte Laughs Last
by Xochitl Gonzalez
A first-generation Ivy League student uncovers the genius work of a female artist decades after her suspicious death.
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Fire Exit: A Novel
by Morgan Talty
Consumed by a long-held secret about his daughter across the river on the Penobscot Reservation, Charles Lamosway grapples with his past, a lost love, and the burdens of family as he searches for redemption.
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Ghostroots: Stories
by 'Pemi Aguda
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom from ancestral ties
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James: A Novel
by Percival Everett
Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.
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In Memoriam
by Alice Winn
Henry Gaunt, a student at an idyllic boarding school in the English countryside is relieved to escape his feelings for Sidney Ellwood when he enlists to fight in World War I, but is horrified when all his classmates join him.
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Martyr!
by Kaveh Akbar
An alcoholic, addict, and poet, Cyrus Shams, the orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, finds his obsession with martyrs leading him to examine the mysteries of his past and to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.
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Sipsworth: A Novel
by Simon Van Booy
Moving back to the English village of her childhood after the loss of her husband and son, reclusive widow Helen Cartwright, whose only wish is to die quickly and without fuss, becomes a creature of habit until a chance encounter with a mouse sets her on an unexpected journey.
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The History of Sound: Stories
by Ben Shattuck
A collection of 12 stories set across three centuries, from 1700s Nantucket to the contemporary woods of New Hampshire and beyond, examines the unexpected ways the past returns to us and how love and loss are entwined and transformed for generations.
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Two-Step Devil: A Novel
by Jamie Quatro
Two societal outsiders find their lives converging in the contemporary American South, in a novel by the author of Fire Sermon.
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Wandering Stars
by Tommy Orange
Tracing the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 to the aftermath of Orvil Red Feather's shooting, Opal tries to hold her family together while Orvil becomes emotionally reliant on prescription medications, and his younger brother, suffering from PTSD, secretly enacts blood rituals to connect to his Cheyenne heritage.
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Whale Fall
by Elizabeth O'Connor
In 1938, when a dead whale washes up on the shores of a remote Welsh island, Manon, seeing this as a sign of things to come, is drawn to two English ethnographers who are studying their cultures, reckoning with a sensual awakening inside herself, despite her misgivings that her community is being misconstrued.
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Wolf at the Table: A Novel
by Adam Rapp
A Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-finalist playwright presents a harrowing multigenerational saga about a family harboring a serial killer in their midst.
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